Whew, there are always challenges in learning a new language, but c'mon! Just learned that in #Japanese the word for 'painting' is the very short, and almost un-hearable micro-syllable 'e.' It totally disappears when used in a sentence.
I'll have to be sure to avoid art galleries when visiting Japan 'cuz I'll never know what people are talking about.
Recently I have been playing with various GUI's for the Whisper transcription software. Buzz has definitely won the showdown. Almost completely keyboard accessible, give or take the toolbar which needs exploring through object navigation of NVDA or an equivallent in your screen reader of choice; handles the downloading of models, FFMPEG conversion and everything that otherwise would have required operation in the command line, works with Whisper.CPP as far as I can tell and can be localized to other languages.
Now I can finally listen to podcasts in all the languages I can't speak. I love it when technology enhances my access to knowledge and helps me do my work even better for those who benefit from it. https://github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz #Accessibility#Audio#Languages#OpenSource
Random thought - my Chinese surname is kinda rare. So rare that people think I mistakenly misspelled my name so they always helpfully change it to Tan. ☠️
Worse, a Chinese teacher (who didn't teach Chinese) once wrote 陳 as my surname. No, not because he didn't believe I was a Tai, but couldn't write it so thought it's OK I become Chen in the meantime 🤣
See that's why it's good to use Chinese writing sometimes. That mix ups not gonna happen with Chinese 🤣
Shit didn't realise my Penang accent so strong also 😅
Ps: I only speak like this with my parents, and when speaking Hokkien, but when speaking English in a neutral accent I always use the KL way of pronunciation 😉
While I have a workable grasp of #German these days (despite still not being friends with certain parts of the grammar), the biggest problem is that I still can't be as expressive in the language as I can be in my native languages.
The end result of this, is that I can handle myself perfectly well in bureaucracy, medical situations, etc, but when it comes to more "free form" conversations, I get frustrated pretty quickly. Oddly enough, it's a lot easier when I've had a drink or two.
I'm now expanding my collection of bilingual #dictionaries by including (for the first time) some #conlangs . Any recommendations on which other (printed) dictionaries I should add?
I've always felt that I was terrible at languages because I couldn't master more than 2 Chinese dialects, forgetting that I could speak 4 languages! Many Malaysians are like this - unaware of their multilingual superpower.
Can anyone recommend me a good #XLIFF#editor for #macOS? I'm just having a hard time importing the #Klaro default labels from 23 #languages for my EXT:klaro_consent_manager in #crowdin. Error is missing "source" tags. #ChatGPT makes too many errors merging "source" and "target".
I'm looking for recent books that give a good overview of the evolution of all languages / language families. Something between a textbook and a large-audience essay.
What's the best way to learn languages casually and socially? (as much as I hate being social...)
I've been seriously neglecting my Japanese practice :neocat_laugh_sweat:
I'm interested in lots of other languages too, currently Chinese (mandarin)
It would be so cool to be able to speak every language in the world tbh #languages#languagelearning#japanese#chinese
If there's no stronger argument for the need to learn how to read Chinese, it is this! Two characters can have the same pronunciation and tone but mean slightly different things. I learned the character for person (rén) 人 and its radical version 亻as a kid, and now I know 仁 which means "humane", and the way the components fit together is rather poetic.
What’s a word or phrase in a language you speak that describes someone who is nervous? Not just nervous about an exam or something but like, you’re at an airport and the person next to you is shuffling anxiously not wanting to miss the boarding announcement even though it’s at least an hour away, and they just can’t stop shuffling? More a way of being.
People that have experienced language attrition of their native language, how difficult was it to relearn your language? And do you have any tips on how to overcome mental blocks and other challenges with it?
If you are learning a new language in general, which techniques work best for you that I can try?
Currently I speak my native language very poorly (about A2 level), but English pretty much fluently. I'm taking lessons and I know native fluent speakers IRL, but it really is a struggle.
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an American computer programmer, adopted the @ symbol for the brand-new “e-mail” to separate the username from the host computer is located at.
Did he invent a new symbol? The answer here: https://mapologies.com/symbols/