threedaymonk + languages   23

Why Arabic is Terrific
‘This idea is so cool that you'd think it came from a constructed language, and yet Arabic has actual native speakers who live completely normal lives and will not try to talk to you about Runescape.’
linguistics  languages  arabic 
august 2011 by threedaymonk
Lang-8
‘Write in the language that you are learning. Native speakers correct your writing for you. Help others learn your native language!’
languages  education  writing 
july 2010 by threedaymonk
Across cultures, English is the word
‘It is the common language in almost every endeavor, from science to air traffic control to the global jihad, where it is apparently the means of communication between speakers of Arabic and other languages.’
languages  english  linguistics 
april 2007 by threedaymonk
‘Mr Ocalan’ conviction in Turkey
Six months for calling someone ‘Mr’; eighteen for writing campaign materials in Kurdish … I guess they've given up on that whole EU ambition.
news  turkey  politics  languages  kurdish  eu 
march 2007 by threedaymonk
The Qu programming language
An OO language with a JIT compiler; seems to resemble Python.
languages  programming  qu  ruby  python 
august 2006 by threedaymonk
Afrikaans
Possibly the world's youngest language.
languages  linguistics  afrikaans 
june 2006 by threedaymonk
French phrases
‘Would you stop spitting on me while you're talking!’
humour  languages  french 
april 2006 by threedaymonk
CLEF and Multilingual information retrieval
Stopword lists and stemming algorithms for a variety of natural languages.
languages  software 
march 2006 by threedaymonk
A Language is a Dialect with an Army
Or, in the original Yiddish: ‘A shprakh iz a diyalekt mit an armey un a flot.’
languages  yiddish 
february 2006 by threedaymonk
Shanghainese Introduction
‘This site aims to fill the void created by the lack of formal education in and on Shanghainese.’
languages  shanghainese  shanghai  china 
february 2006 by threedaymonk
Uniting China to Speak Mandarin
China: one country, two systems, and hundreds of languages!
china  languages  chinese 
july 2005 by threedaymonk
Language Guesser
Statistical identification of languages
languages 
may 2005 by threedaymonk
POPjisyo.com
Dictionary Translation Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Kanji/Hanzi
languages  dictionary  japanese  chinese  korean 
march 2005 by threedaymonk
pulmonic consonants
Flash app demonstrating the range of consonants
languages 
january 2005 by threedaymonk

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