The fascinating and frustrating English language
English is a very weird language. It had its start in Germany many many centuries ago. People from Northern Germany made their way to Great Britain and settled in what is now England. Over time, Vikings and Normans invaded, -leaving their mark on the land and the language.
What do the different dialects of Chinese sound like?
I love looking into dialectal variation. Languages can be so varied and it is awesome to see all the different ways they can do things. Tonal languages are quite interesting in that they all developed from non tonal languages. At one point, Chinese languages lost final consonants, so the only way to distinguish syllables was […]
Learn Hungarian
Here is a fun chat about Hungarian. The man on the right in this video comes from Hungary. As I think I have mentioned in other posts, Hungarian is a Uralic language, which means it is related to Finnish and Estonian. It is also agglutinative which means that it makes meaning by putting pieces together […]
An awesome song in Hungarian
Boggie has been around since 2013. She is a singer and a song writer. She is best known for the song I have added to this post. Her song hit number one in her home country, Hungary. Hungarian is a Uralic language related to Finnish, Estonian and the Sami languages. But because it is physically far […]
What 24 Ancient Languages Sound Like
This is such a cool video! I love hearing what older languages sounded like. I find language change fascinating. All the different languages we have today is because of how languages have changed over time. Languages don’t only change over time, they also split up and become different languages, like Latin becoming Spanish, French, Italian […]
A song in Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a very cool language. It is descended from Dutch which was spoken by Dutch and Flemish immigrants to South Africa. Many of these people started in the Cape, but would then move on to other areas of South Africa. One province in South Africa known now as Free State, was once an independent […]
