How languages sound to others
We grow up with our native languages so we don’t really know what they sound like. Well, wonder no more as this guy does an impression of what he thinks various languages sound like 🙂 We don’t know what our language sound like because we are used to their sound. When you hear your native […]
Phoreus – A typeface family for the Cherokee language
I love this. It’s a whole language font family called Phoreus for a Native American language. Cherokee has it’s own script and there were some fonts available for it, but there was never an italic version. The creator of this font went through old documents written with the Cherokee script and came up with an […]
The Night’s Watch Pledge in High Atlantean
High Atlantean was the language of the Atlantean Empire on the planet of Erd. Over time High Atlantean transitioned into Middle Atlantean. That too changed into Harbour Atlantean, spoken in the northern harbour cities of Atlantis. Eventually this language would become many others. One of them became what is now called Atlaans (which is the […]
A swedish girl and a flemish girl try to speak each other’s languages
How good are you at languages? How good are you at pronouncing a language you have never heard? Well, neither Flemish nor Swedish are too difficult for English native speakers, I don’t think, but something like Georgian or Arabic might pose some problems 😀
A Dane and a Swede try to speak each other’s languages
Danish and Swedish are really similar. Denmark even ruled Sweden until the 1500s. When you look at them just from a writing point of view, they are really similar. The biggest difference betweren the two is that they have very different pronunciations. Swedish uses a pitch accent, where as Danish uses what is called stød […]
I am learning Swedish :)
Listening to native speakers is a good way to learn a language. They speak at a speed which is normal for native speakers and they speak with a normal accent. This is good for your learning as you are listening to the type of language that you would hear if you went to go live […]
