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English must be so confusing to ESL people - where is the 'g' in anxiety? 28 bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 Mar 2021 2 6043
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We're running out of time to preserve endangered Jewish languages. 0 Behind the Aegis Feb 2021 Feb 2021 1 2678
Can any suggest American TV shows that I can watch which are 3 phylny Jan 2021 Jan 2021 0 6170
American Boys Pretending to Not Speak Korean ( Actually Fluent ) - Prank - [ Sean Pablo ] 8 yuiyoshida Dec 2020 Dec 2020 1 7863
Understand NATIVE Japanese Conversations 0 yuiyoshida Dec 2020 Dec 2020 1 2289
350 Phrases Every Japanese Beginner Must Know 5 yuiyoshida Dec 2020 Dec 2020 0 4117
Surprising Strangers Switching from Chinese to Japanese: Yokohama Chinatown #3 0 yuiyoshida Dec 2020 Dec 2020 0 3753
Early recording of Korean from the Sorbonne 2 soryang Dec 2020 Dec 2020 2 3662
The Translator Relay: Don Mee Choi 1 soryang Sep 2020 Sep 2020 2 3196
DuoLingo app! 3 yuiyoshida May 2020 Sep 2020 0 3420
What's "Daze" in "Yare Yare Daze"? (And "Dawa"?") 0 yuiyoshida Sep 2020 Sep 2020 0 1911
Why Google Translate FAILS at Japanese 1 yuiyoshida Aug 2020 Aug 2020 1 1734
Would love to learn Mandarin online need suggestions 5 TuxedoKat Aug 2020 Aug 2020 0 4058
A question about the ellipsis 13 PJMcK Aug 2020 Aug 2020 2 3929
Any recommendations for jump starting French 9 bucolic_frolic Apr 2020 Jun 2020 0 5691
I learned something new today.... 3 yuiyoshida Jun 2020 Jun 2020 4 3066
Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages 4 Behind the Aegis May 2020 Jun 2020 1 3834
A neat site for translations 4 Behind the Aegis Jul 2013 May 2020 1 5083
Interesting twitter thread on "translation talk" 1 soryang May 2020 May 2020 3 2434
I was looking at taking Spanish at our community college. I was wondering about online 4 brewens Apr 2020 Apr 2020 0 2959
1400 Japanese Vocab & Phrase 3 hr Audiobook (BasicIntermediate) 0 yuiyoshida Apr 2020 Apr 2020 1 1814
Yandere (ヤンデレ) 1 yuiyoshida Mar 2020 Mar 2020 4 1705
PARASITE-Jessica song(Parody)full version-Korea song(독도는 우리 땅) 0 soryang Feb 2020 Feb 2020 0 2085
Korea Sijo (시조) in English -- by translation and original poems 0 soryang Feb 2020 Feb 2020 2 2079
How I Learnt JAPANESE (Mikan) 3 yuiyoshida Jan 2020 Feb 2020 0 2109
DO NOT SAY 'I think...' - say THIS instead - 21 more advanced alternative phrases 6 yuiyoshida Jan 2020 Jan 2020 4 2571
Hwang Jini's riddle is a play on Hanja 0 soryang Jan 2020 Jan 2020 1 5304
What does the Korean word "Arirang" ( 아리랑 ) mean? 0 soryang Nov 2019 Nov 2019 1 2877
Ten Useful Korean Slang Terms X 2 2 soryang Oct 2019 Oct 2019 3 2063

Languages and Linguistics Continued...

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Japanese phrases you can use (Phrases I have accumulated over the years.) 1 yuiyoshida Oct 2019 Oct 2019 3 7715
Why Is Korean So Hard? 1 soryang Sep 2019 Sep 2019 4 2213
WHY Japanese is the HARDEST Language 4 yuiyoshida Sep 2019 Sep 2019 1 1909
Agnotology 4 littlemissmartypants Sep 2019 Sep 2019 8 2059
Japanese guy reacts to Foreigner's Tattoos 1 yuiyoshida Aug 2019 Aug 2019 3 2017
the persistence of syntax 3 Lionel Mandrake Aug 2019 Aug 2019 3 2117
My 1950s miseducation in English. 13 Lionel Mandrake Jul 2019 Aug 2019 2 3206
A Brief History of British and Irish Languages 4 ashling Mar 2019 Jul 2019 19 2985
expressing feelings in Japanese 7 yuiyoshida Jun 2019 Jul 2019 1 2366
These are the hardest-to-spell words in the English language, CNN: 3 Stuart G May 2019 May 2019 2 2129
What's in a name? Japan puzzles over 'Reiwa' 2 soryang Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1863
Does redundancy constitute bad grammar? 38 Lionel Mandrake Jul 2017 Apr 2019 0 8684
Crossing Divides: Two Koreas divided by a fractured language 5 soryang Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 4364
South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation Invites Applicants for Summer Institute 1 Behind the Aegis Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 2053
How to Upgrade your Speech by Not Saying "Like" 9 littlemissmartypants Nov 2018 Jan 2019 3 3411
The 10 Oldest Languages Still Spoken In The World Today 11 elleng Mar 2017 Dec 2018 6 4871
Morphology of "antidisestablishmentarianism", 2 Lionel Mandrake Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 7334
Has anyone gone to an immersion school? 10 Manifestor_of_Light Feb 2012 Sep 2018 1 5396
Questions about the word pendejo 11 47of74 Sep 2017 Jul 2018 0 4650
Items on the menu at a Mexican restaurant. 2 Lionel Mandrake Nov 2017 Jul 2018 0 3499
Wiktionary IPA symbol R is messed up. 3 Lionel Mandrake Feb 2017 Feb 2018 0 2643
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 left-of-center2012 Jul 2017 Jul 2017 0 1810
What native English speakers instinctively know. 4 PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2016 May 2017 5 3079
Calling Yourself Humbled Doesnt Sound as Humble as It Used To 2 Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 Feb 2017 4 3209
Learning a language for business 1 KatyMan Dec 2016 Dec 2016 0 2393
pronunciation of poly- 4 Lionel Mandrake Aug 2016 Sep 2016 0 2694
The cult of the hyperpolyglot 3 Starboard Tack Feb 2012 Aug 2016 1 3707
new documentary "Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues" (reddit AMA w/ exec producers) 0 eShirl Aug 2016 Aug 2016 0 2143
Ninilchik Russian: A Dialect of Russian Spoken in Alaska... 0 xocet Jul 2016 Jul 2016 1 2178
A comprehensive website of cliches (though I prefer to call them idioms) 1 ailsagirl Jun 2016 Jun 2016 2 2559

Languages and Linguistics Continued...

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I have a question: What is your opinion of learning two different languages at once? 36 whathehell Dec 2014 May 2016 0 10019
Languages you didn't know you borrow words from (1) 30 Betty Karlson Dec 2011 Mar 2016 4 11188
"Thank you" in more than 465 languages 0 vkkv Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 2556
Sapir-Whorf 1 aswanson Feb 2016 Feb 2016 0 2940
Question about IM/Twitter short-cut spellings 3 Tab Dec 2015 Dec 2015 0 2441
Universal Grammar, parameters, and all that. 1 Lionel Mandrake Dec 2015 Dec 2015 2 2472
Linguist explains secret language of Gulliver's Travels 1 Panich52 Aug 2015 Oct 2015 2 2791
'hijastro' & 'filiaster' 1 Lionel Mandrake Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 2506
Whistled Turkish challenges notions about language and the brain 0 Panich52 Aug 2015 Aug 2015 0 2217
Want to write in the ogham alphabet? 0 geardaddy Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 2125
New emotion recognition model: Humans perceive feelings of others via pattern recognition 1 Panich52 Apr 2015 Jun 2015 0 2418
Jamaica's patois Bible: The word of God in creole 1 Starboard Tack Dec 2011 Mar 2015 2 3489
F-bombs notwithstanding, all languages skew toward happiness: Universal human bias f/ positive words 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 2029
Why I like some dictionaries more than others 4 Lionel Mandrake Nov 2014 Dec 2014 0 2872
Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B 3 geardaddy Jul 2014 Dec 2014 8 2829
Pronunciation of articles in English 11 Lionel Mandrake Nov 2014 Nov 2014 0 3892
vestiges of gender and case in English 10 Lionel Mandrake Aug 2014 Nov 2014 2 5039
Alaska's indigenous languages now official along with English 3 geardaddy Oct 2014 Oct 2014 11 2906
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