Parrot Time Magazine
Parrot Time
The Thinking of Speaking
Issue #22 July / August 2016
Home
Editorials
Featured
Artifacts
Book Reviews
Movie Reviews
Interviews
Languages in Peril
Culture
Search
Archives
Scriveremo
Home
Editorials
Featured
Artifacts
Book Reviews
Movie Reviews
Interviews
Languages in Peril
Culture
Search
Archives
FEATURED
Learning A Language Is Learning Its Culture
~~~
Many people learn a language as part of a learning a country's culture. Guest writer Lucia Leite explains how language and culture are tied even more directly than we think.
Revisited
Early Bardic Literature in Ireland
~~~
The literature of a country is often founded firmly in the history and even the land of the country itself. In Ireland, the richness of the recorded history acutely mingles with the myths, as Standish O'Grady describes in this exerpt.
Languages in Peril
Save Medan Hokkien!
~~~
Guest writer Teddy Nee talks about the endangered language of Medan Hokkien and it's importance to him personally.
1
2
3
Read PDF online here
Learning A Language Is Learning Its Culture
Many people learn a language as part of a learning a country's culture. Guest writer Lucia Leite explains how language and culture are tied even more directly than we think.
Revisited
Early Bardic Literature in Ireland
The literature of a country is often founded firmly in the history and even the land of the country itself. In Ireland, the richness of the recorded history acutely mingles with the myths, as Standish O'Grady describes in this exerpt.
Languages in Peril
Save Medan Hokkien!
Guest writer Teddy Nee talks about the endangered language of Medan Hokkien and it's importance to him personally.
COLUMNS
Letter From The Editor
Culture and Language, Again
Languages and culture, culture and languages. Two great things that go great together. Which is a good thing, since it seems impossible to separate them.
In Others' Words
Ulrike and Peter Rettig
In this issue, we interview Ulrike and Peter Rettig, owners of "Games for Languages". They talk about their personal backgrounds which brought them to languages, why they...
At the Cinema
Monster Hunt
China's most successful film comes from an unlikely place: a story about the hunt for a baby monster by both monsters and humans in the distant past.
Where Are You?
Guess the city and country from the article and picture.
Book Look
Language Alter Ego
A review of Ekaterina Matveeva's book "Language Alter Ego".
Basic Guide to Italian
Italian is a Romance language, spoken mostly in Italy. Here are some beginner words and phrases in Italian for a basic introduction to it.
At A Glance
Quick look at various language websites and resources
IN OTHER ISSUES
Language Learning and Translation
It isn't always beneficial to be thinking in you target language as you learn. Sometimes, translating between your native language and the new one can give you more insig...
The Indigenous Languages of the UK
Indigenous languages are everywhere and they aren't always obscure. Trisha Dunbar writes about those of the UK and why they need protection.
Revisited
Words Which Have Changed Their Meaning
Languages are constantly changing. Even while they adopt words from other languages or create new ones, some words also change their meanings.
Revisited
Slang
English slang develops in many ways, even adopting and distorting words from other languages. We look back to an article from almost one hundred years ago to see how accu...
Danish and Faroese: A Biography
The primary language of a country is not always easily decided upon; sometimes, two languages compete for dominance. In the Faroe Islands, historically under Danish rule,...
A History of Research in Study Abroad
Olivier Elzingre gives us an indepth history on Study Abroad programs and their development on two continents.
Can a Language Die?
We talk about languages dying and becoming extinct, as if they were creatures. While that is a romantic notion, a language is not really alive, so how can it die?
Language Learning is for everyone!
You can't learn a language without resources. More importantly, you need resources that others have found useful. So how do you find them? Welcome to the Language Learnin...
Google
