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Hannah HoweWhile wandering through the 1960s, I discovered this series - Walter and Connie: English by Television. For English learners, the series ran from 1963 to 1967. Walter and Connie - Brian McDermott and Anne Lawson - were HUGE. They went on European tours to promote the series and were mobbed like the Beatles. Does anyone here remember Walter and Connie?<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_and_Connie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_and_Connie</a><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SocialHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialHistory</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/1960s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1960s</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/WalterandConnie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WalterandConnie</a>

Adrianna TanI have a whole bunch of marine puns in a different language that I doubt more than 1 other person at work would understand. In Taiwanese / Hokkien, ‘Hae’ means shrimp ‘Heh’ means fishSo since I was a child my cousins and I have always been saying shrimp shrimp shrimp or fish fish fish for ‘hehehehe’ laughing It was meant to be<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Marine</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Puns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Puns</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Hokkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hokkien</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Taiwanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taiwanese</a>

Ari ¡No pasarán! JacksonI switched over to studying <a href="https://beige.party/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#French</a> this last week because I'm a sucker for that <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Duolingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Duolingo</a> friend streak (don't wanna let the BFF down!) and I was getting tired of practicing Spanish. In Spanish, the odious "A (person)" phrasing finally sunk in, though. As in: "A mi, me gusta..." it was a shock when I found myself thinking like that, but I was actually happy that I was thinking in Spanish without first thinking in English. That's progress!I have a serious worry about learning the French language that I hope is not insulting and is simply based in my own complete ignorance: it seems like almost every single vowel/combination is pronounced almost the same, no matter how it's spelled. Sort of a gutteral-nasal grunt and a little "ah" sound. Well, except for when it's "ooh", which is also confusing.Next time I notice this, I'm going to note the vowel combinations that seem to be pronounced the same. I need to be taking notes anyway. I took notes when I was studying Japanese, but I gave up on Japanese quite a while ago in favor of Scots Gaelic (which I've let slide, too).Duolingo isn't that great at teaching languages as far as "I'd like to chat with my pocket friends who use this language" goes, but it's all I've got right now. Earlier today, I commented on somebody's post and then made sure that I also posted a translation of what I wrote in French, because the OP was in French. I hope I didn't insult them! It helped me learn the phrasing of the simple thing that I said. I really do want to learn the language. I find it more fun and challenging than Spanish right now. I am starting to be able to look at something on the screen and translate it to English in my head without looking at the answer, though. That's progress! <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AmLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmLearning</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayIf the UK is to wean itself off exporting to the USA, which would seem to be a good idea right now, then despite our historic mono-lingualism, many firms will be needing to think about the sorts of non-English language resources & staff they will need to compete effectively in foreign markets.Many firms manage it but too often the US market has been seen as an easy place to sell due to a common language.Time to recruit multi-linguists (and by extension, teach them)!<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trade</a>

The Language GarageGuardiamo il film a casa. Let’s watch the movie at home. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#movies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#films</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Italian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Italian</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#languages</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ItalianLessons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ItalianLessons</a>: <a href="https://thelanguagegarage.com/movies-in-italian/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thelanguagegarage.com/movies-in-italian/</a>

Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾It still blows my mind that I can read Chinese, even if a little bit. You see, I have this part of me that understands Chinese words but can't put them down in writing. Now I can match these floating meanings to characters and it's so awesome 🥲<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Mandarin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mandarin</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinese</a>

Adrianna TanI’ve been thinking lately about how I grew up very strictly Anglophone in an Asian society, when my parents barely spoke English (not the same way my brother and I do). Like when we speak, we sound like we are speaking different languages (even in English). Depending on where I am, I can sound like the local native English speaker.Many of my compatriots do not sound like me. There’s Singlish, which is a type of creole combining English, Hokkien, Mandarin, Malay and some Tamil. But that’s not quite it either: there is a ‘basolectal English’, the one that is grammatically ‘correct’ but unmistakeably places the English speaker in the location they come from (Singaporean, Aussie, Kiwi basolectal are very obvious). It is usually a function of class and society and privilege that a person in a colonial society speaks English a certain way. In my parents’ time, our English teachers and newscasters spoke with a ‘stiff upper lip’. Maybe that was class, then. When I was a teenager, upper middle class people spoke like the BBC newscasters. But not stiff upper lip. Today, we sound.. American or some form of British. And I don’t know how I started to speak like that. I went to an elite school, but my family barely spoke English. My language at home was not even Mandarin, the language of the upper class Sinophones, it was Teochew and Hokkien; the language of the pasar (the wet market). In formal situations in Singapore, I can code switch into basolectal English, kind of less American sounding formal English, so more older professional people understand me. In the cab, I can curse in Singlish at taxi drivers who ask me if I’m American. In this video; I sound ‘generic American’, maybe Californian: <a href="https://youtu.be/I6m82wB2qhY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/I6m82wB2qhY</a>When I speak with people from ‘back home’ I sound completely different. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TootSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TootSea</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Singapore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Singapore</a>

André PolykanineNight linguistic thought: <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Finnish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Finnish</a> language is so fascinating, as are Finnish people, but gosh, how complicated it is for a foreigner! Estonian is a close relative of Finnish, and one of my Estonian friends once said: Estonian? Oh, that's dead simple, Russian, that is complicated! I literally couldn't stop laughing and I still count this as one of the best jokes I've ever heard (but he was serious). <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a>

BlintWell done Duolingo 👏 Why should I learn about ghosts before I can rent a car, or the hotel room? 🙃<a href="https://tutter.org/tags/Duolingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Duolingo</a> <a href="https://tutter.org/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#learning</a> <a href="https://tutter.org/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#languages</a>

Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾It still blows my mind that I can read <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinese</a> and when I go to xiaohongshu I can read about 30% of the text. From illiterate to semi illiterate! It's a kind of joy <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LanguageLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguageLearning</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a>

Adrianna TanGood post on moving to Taiwan to study Chinese on a student visa: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/1j736ja/my_experience_moving_to_taiwan_to_study_chinese/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/1j736ja/my_experience_moving_to_taiwan_to_study_chinese/</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Taiwan</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinese</a>

Solarpunk Presents PodcastI love looking through <a href="https://native-land.ca" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://native-land.ca</a>. I learn something new every time I go, usually by just clicking on one of the random articles on the side. It's pretty clear that it's a small team behind it, and I wish they had more resources to be able to put more indigenous languages on the map (literally!).If you have some time on your hands and a passion for language, I'd highly suggest checking out their Volunteer page: <a href="https://native-land.ca/how-to-contribute/volunteer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://native-land.ca/how-to-contribute/volunteer</a> It's a lovely way to contribute to/learn about global Indigenous sovereignty and lift up marginalized voices. Each language is a worldview; we can learn so much if only we look for it!Also this is Ariel; I'd post this on my profile but wandering.shop has a very small character allowance and I am way too long-winded for it, I have found :P<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/IndigenousLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousLanguage</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/IndigenousSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousSovereignty</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandBack</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/NativeLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NativeLand</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/LanguageRevitalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguageRevitalization</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maps</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mapping</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/@arielkroon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@arielkroon</a>

Petra van Cronenburg'Times may be getting tougher, but a hell of a lot of people are committed to doing good. And the best of the good is the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> that makes up our planet.' ▶️ <a href="https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/718b5dba-b9d3-448b-96a7-38e99d4ef017" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/718b5dba-b9d3-448b-96a7-38e99d4ef017</a>My new blog post about <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> in hard times, developing a story, messy mind palace rooms, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/accents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accents</a>, and the sweet poison of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/passion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#passion</a>. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@writers</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@writing</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/storytelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#storytelling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/podcasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#podcasting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blog</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/naturelovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#naturelovers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/accent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/interviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interviews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/moreThanHuman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#moreThanHuman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/creativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#creativity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solarpunk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/hopepunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hopepunk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a>

Adrianna TanWhat I really like about meeting other southern Chinese people in the diaspora around the world is sometimes Mandarin is all of our shared language and we love to speak it badly to each other. Speaking Mandarin as far away from the Beijing / northern accent is an act of pride for me<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinese</a>

Tarren (They/Them)Question for my fellow <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/AuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AuDHD</a> folx: Has anyone found a good anguage learning method you've been able to stick with? I seriously need to re-up and improve my <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Spanish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spanish</a> skills as sometimes I get folded into work conversations that started out in Spanish, and I'd like to be able to understand them better. I also feel like learning Spanish better would help me to understand the challenges my students face with English. Boosts welcome and appreciated. @ActuallyAutistic @ActuallyADHD***Hashtags Here*** <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/LanguageLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguageLearning</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Actuallyautistic</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/ActuallyAdhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ActuallyAdhd</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/actuallyAuDHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#actuallyAuDHD</a>

Adrianna TanTo a southerner like me, dongbeihua might as well be a Celtic language to an English speaker, or really to be more linguistically correct more like Portuguese to German, but some of this stuff is pretty funny <a href="https://mstdn.social/@globalvoices/114102216592504099" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mstdn.social/@globalvoices/114102216592504099</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinese</a>

Asakiyume... here is one on emphasis on colonialist languages driving out local ones:<a href="https://globalvoices.org/2025/02/28/emphasis-on-french-and-english-accelerates-decline-of-local-language-in-benin/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://globalvoices.org/2025/02/28/emphasis-on-french-and-english-accelerates-decline-of-local-language-in-benin/</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/MotherTongues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MotherTongues</a><a href="https://wandering.shop/@older" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@older</a>

AsakiyumeSome of <a href="https://wandering.shop/@older" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@older</a> 's recent Global Posts have been language related, which is great in the month (about to end...) that celebrates mother tongues. Here is one on Aramaic, annnnd (1/2) <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/MotherTongues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MotherTongues</a><a href="https://globalvoices.org/2025/02/26/for-how-long-aramaic-language-and-its-enduring-legacy-in-syria/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://globalvoices.org/2025/02/26/for-how-long-aramaic-language-and-its-enduring-legacy-in-syria/</a>

Adrianna TanOk, Seattle had the worst sounding Mandarin city name of all major U.S. cities (xi1 ya3 tu2)<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seattle</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinese</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a>

Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Currently going through the list of nouns in Chinese <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/HSK3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HSK3</a> and marking unfamiliar vocab. Happy to report I know most of the vocab up to that level, say 90%. It's when I reach HSK4 that I start marking more vocab. Part of the reason is also because Malaysian Mandarin uses different words, I suspect. For one, I hardly hear anyone call public busses 公共汽车 here. We just call it... bus. 😆 Malaysians have a tendency to use other languages to replace certain words.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinese</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Mandarin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mandarin</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a>

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