Word of the day: Tsunami
Tsunami derives from the Japanese words meaning “wave in a harbour”, and describes a wave that exerts its full destructive force when reaching land. The earthquake and tsunami which devastated Japan in...
View ArticleIf Anime Is Bad For Your Japanese, Then Nursery Rhymes Are Bad For Your English
This entry is part 13 of 14 in the series Secrets of SpeakingIf anime is bad for you, then so are nursery rhymes. What is a “tuffett” anyway? When was the last time you even saw a live sheep, let alone...
View ArticleRussian Phrase of the Day – Bells and Whistles
Let’s try to switch gears a bit. Some of you have recently asked for advice on moving to the next level of fluency in Russian as well as for tips on building словарный запас (vocabulary). So I decided...
View ArticleLexiophiles TGIF “The musical” No. 228
Hello again, Friday! We've missed you! As we promised on the last TGIF Music, this week's TGIF has a special theme: songs about summer! Because we need no more reasons to be happy about it, so let's...
View Article#93 Boletim do Fórum de Inglês
Howdy English Experts readers! Você se perde em meio aos milhares de tópicos do fórum? Sim? Tenho uma novidade, ficou mais fácil marcar os seus tópicos favoritos para ler depois. Agora, quando você...
View ArticleAugust Linkfest
“The Man Who Has Stolen the Straw” (Armenian), “Way of the Birds” (Estonian), and other cultures’ names for what we call the Milky Way. In Sanskrit, the galaxy is called “Mandakini,” which translates...
View ArticleOf toads, modernization, and simplified characters
Considering the fact that we've had a lot of traffic on spelling bees, character amnesia, simplified characters, and whatnot on Language Log recently, it's not surprising that the following article by...
View ArticleGerman Food And Drink Vocabulary: Essential Terms For A Proper Deutsch Meal –...
Traditional German cuisine is based on hearty, larger portions of meat or fish, plus a side dish of potatoes or potato products, as well as a vegetable side dish. The typical plate consists of those...
View ArticleBiology, sex, culture, and pitch
Human secondary sexual characteristics include a large difference in the pitch* of the voice, caused by a large difference in the average size of the larynx. This larynx-size difference is about five...
View ArticleTHE DAME OF DICTIONARIES.
Daniel Krieger has a wonderful piece at narrative.ly about Madeline Kripke, who has 20,000 books in her West Village apartment, most of them dictionaries:Kripke, who is sixty-nine, grew up in Omaha,...
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Conceptual artist Micah Lexier uses language as his medium. The...
Conceptual artist Micah Lexier uses language as his medium. The pieces above from his “Letters and Words” exhibit focus on repetition, logic, and an economy of words. Take a look at more of Lexier’s...
View Article[SilverSpoon] Join Neutrino Now (Spaces Permitting)
Thank you for your interest in the SilverSpoon/Neutrino program. Neutrino is now temporarily opening up for new enrollment into the program. However, right of entry is restricted to people on the VIP...
View ArticleThese fun videos can get you motivated to start learning a language
There's some poetry in advertising, isn't there? It tries to tell us about what our most burning desires are, and what the world would look like if we satisfied them. Or, well, some adverts take the...
View ArticleToxic grammar advice on Australian radio
Toxic grammar alert for Australians: Rodney Huddleston informs me that the ABC Radio breakfast show celebrated International Apostrophe Day on 16 August 2013 with disastrous results. Huddleston...
View ArticleSmashing through Language Learning Plateaus
One night not so long ago, a man met a woman at a party. They hit it off immediately, spending as much time as possible with each other. And the whole time they shared all their hopes and dreams with...
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HUMMEL, HUMMEL!
I'm most of the way through Dennis Showalter's Tannenberg: Clash of Empires 1914, one of those military history books that are way too detailed unless you happen to have an endless appetite for details...
View ArticleAbout learning Russian
My own personal perspective on Russian, the language, learning it, and to some extent the country and the people.
View ArticleЕхо Москвы (Echo Moskvi) at LingQ!
LingQ has obtained permission to use content from Echo Moskvi in our Russian Library. We will be adding lots of their lively interviews to LingQ. They are great for learning Russian and will be...
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