Yesterday was St David’s Day, in self-imposed Finnish exile I’ll have to buy, not pick daffodils and sing the national anthem alone. It includes the immortal line: “O bydded i’r hen iaith barhau” (may the language endure for ever). Welsh…
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A language is a dialect with an army
Tagged with: Basque, dialect continuum, Herodotus, language continuum, language learning, Leonard Bloomfield, Max Weinreich, Translation, Welsh, Welsh Language Society, Yiddish
Posted in language, translation
Posted in language, translation
moral language?
If you speak a language well enough to get along, but not really well, it’s an effort. You need time to think and process and a lot of energy can go into making sure you get the grammar right. As…
Tagged with: Albert Costa, English, French, international, Korean, language learning, moral language, Spanish, Translation
Posted in international, language, translation
Posted in international, language, translation
¡habla conmigo! – talk with me!
If you want someone’s mind to grow, you have to start a conversation with them as soon as they’re born. It’s not enough for them to hear language around them, adults talking to each other, people talking on TV or…
Tagged with: bilingualism, conversation, English, language learning, Languages, linguistics, Polish, Spanish, Welsh, words
Posted in Illustration, language, words
Posted in Illustration, language, words
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