Musician and artist. Here to do the language learning thing. 🏳️🌈
Current Target Languages: Spanish, Japanese, American Sign Language
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Future Target Languages: Arabic (MSA), French, Creole, Navajo (Diné Bizaad)
Aspiring literary translator in addition to current artist career
My tags: #langtoot #refold #languagelearning #languagelab
| Podcast | https://thelanguagelab.transistor.fm |
| Blog | https://thelanguagelab.pika.page |
It's that time of year, folks... Time to do some planning for the coming year and make your New Year's resolutions!
In the following post, I offer some advice for language learners: how to define your personal resolutions and use them as an effective learning tool.
https://grammaticus.blog/2022/01/05/new-years-resolutions-for-language-learners/
#newyear #resolutions #languagelearning #languageteacher #motivation
@futurebird Northern Illinois University has some free, online resources for studying Southeast Asian languages: https://www.niu.edu/clas/cseas/resources/seasite.shtml
One of CSEAS’s unique resources, SEAsite, is a comprehensive set of free interactive learning resources for studying Southeast Asian languages, literatures and cultures online, all developed by NIU faculty and students and used by thousands of language-learners and instructors worldwide.
U.T. Austin's Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) has a lot of good free resources for learning different languages.
For each language, there are various interactive programs to focus on reading, writing, listening AND speaking.
The US State Department says Japanese is the hardest language to learn. I could go on for hours why the difficulty of Japanese is bottomless, linguistically, metalinguistically, and paralinguistically. The whole role of words and language is different, less important than for Westerners. Furthermore, the context and connotations of words make dictionary definitions inadequate. Unspoken structures underlie what should be said or not said, who has the floor or who has to be heard. What is appropriate to say is no less nor more than the minimum necessary for the time, place, occasion, and the relationships among everyone involved. There are all the things in books like the Intercultural Communication textbooks I use at the university, but I'm thinking of the many other dimensions I've never read about. Did I mention that the Japanese language can serve as a fortress impenetrable to nearly all foreigners when your interlocutors want to clam up? Welcome to Japan.
Number of syllables per language:
Japanese: 643
Korean: 1104
Mandarin: 1274 (403 ignoring tones)
Cantonese: 1298
Basque: 2082
Thai: 2438
Italian: 2729
Spanish: 2778
French: 2949
Turkish: 3260
Catalan: 3600
Serbian: 3831
Finnish: 3844
Hungarian: 4325
German: 5100
Vietnamese: 5156
English: 6949
Note: I am not a linguist, please provide any corrections for terminology. I would like to find some approximate data (if it exists) comparing several languages with the number of different syllabl...
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