He gets some of these hilariously wrong :D
How well would you do if you had to guess what a phrase means even if you know nothing about the language? You would probably not do that well just because of how much variation there is in world languages. And languages are used to communicate about all facets of human life, so the sentence […]
Language challenge
Swedish and Finnish are both really cool languages! But interestingly, Swedish is more closely related to Hindi than it is to Finnish thanks to language history. Swedish and Hindi are both Indo European languages, which means that they are descended from Proto Indo European, whereas Finnish is a Uralic language.
Google Translate
Why Google believes nothing will be lost in translation – BBC News Neural networks are set to give Google Translate a better understanding of languages Source: www.bbc.com/news/technology-33481535 Google Translate is an awesome tool for learning languages. It is good at picking up conjugations and syntax, so even if you can’t decode a word or […]
How Iggy Azalea mastered AAVE
How Iggy Azalea mastered her ‘blaccent’ – The Washington Post Iggy Azalea may be an imitator — but she’s a skilled one. Source: www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/04/how-a-white-australian-rapper-mastered-her-blaccent/?tid=sm_tw AAVE (African American Vernacular English), also known as “Black English” is a dialect of English spoken in America by most Black people. It has a lot in common with dialect […]
A fascinating look at a deaf person’s struggles with life in a hearing world
This is What It’s Really Like to Lip Read | Mental Floss Rachel Kolb, who has been deaf since birth, explains just how hard it is to communicate in a world without sound. Source: mentalfloss.com/article/72800/what-its-really-lip-read We live in a world set up for hearing people. How do you make sense of something if you […]
Let it Go in Icelandic
Frozen is a cool movie from a language point of view because it has been translated into so many different languages. Disney has translated the movie into over 40 languages. Right now you can find versions of Frozen in English, German, French, Spanish (both European and Latin American), Catalan, Thai, Icelandic and many more!
