SILICON Digitally Disadvantaged Languages Fellowship Program: Call for Proposals.
SILICON invites applications from keyboard designers, app designers, type designers, Large Language Model designers, language ethnographers, OCR/ML experts, and digital typographic experts for inaugural SILICON Fellowship Program. Awards of up to $7,000 to be granted.
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@liztai “sei pat poh” is too dramatic and “puk gai” (bastard) is more common in daily life :blobfoxlul: it can even be used in jokes between fds to mock each other
Since it came up several times at #pyconus, I thought I’d post here. The method I’ve been using to learn Spanish (and liking quite a bit), is Comprehensible Input.
A good starting point for finding information about CI, and finding materials in your target language is Compehensible Input Wiki
The current frequency of language usage on the Web (e.g. 52% of websites in English) doesn't reflect the diverse cultural and linguistic needs essential for global access, highlighting the importance of internationalization (i18n).
Fuqiao Xue, @w3c i18n activity lead, gave a comprehensive report of past and future @webi18n work, collaborating with spec and #browser#developers to address gaps, particularly for endangered scripts and #languages.
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“You can’t learn new phonemes as an adult” is a lie.
I mean, I was already sure of that, because my Spanish pronunciation wasn’t always this good, but I couldn’t say for absolute certain which sounds in Spanish and Japanese I didn’t have as a child. (Some sounds that are in Spanish but not English are in Rusyn, which was occasionally spoken in my house.)
But I DEFINITELY could not make a uvular trill a week ago.
@maco in that case I should have never been able to learn the English th sound, or the English l in kill, or the Japanese l/r sound. Yes, there are sounds that are difficult to master and some are probably impossible, also depending on genetics (my sister can’t do the Spanish rrrr with her tongue at all), but to say it’s impossible to learn new phonemes as an adult doesn’t seem right to me at all. Where does this come from?
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.
@lazerdude I have recently re-learned German, a lot of which I forgot since my childhood (although, based on what you describe in the other posts, I was able to passively use it much more than you in the meantime). I haven’t done much specific to do that, the most important thing was just using it, which was easy, since I moved to a German speaking region. It felt mostly as if the knowledge was in my brain, just very hard to access, which is definitely a different experience than learning from scratch.
One thing that helped in the initial phases was watching a couple documentaries and a TV series. Kinda obvious advice, so this post is mostly about encouragement – it definitely can be done and good luck!