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The Thinking of Speaking
Issue #22 July / August 2016
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Learning A Language Is Learning Its Culture
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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
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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!
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Guest writer Teddy Nee talks about the endangered language of Medan Hokkien and it's importance to him personally.
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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
The Secret Life of Diacritics
Ever look at a word and see little marks about certain letters, like a squiggly line or a pair of dots? Ever wonder what they are and why they are there? Welcome to the s...
Language Learning Methods
Classes
The third in our series of articles about language learning methods is about the oldest and most widely accepted: classes.
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...
Review of Polyglot Workshops: Brazil
Guest writer Patrick Lencastre gives us his thoughts and experience, as well as sharing some tips he learned, at the Polyglot Workshop in Brazil.
Lasciare Andare –
Learning Italian And The Art Of Letting Go
Some people were born in the wrong country and life finds a way to correct this. Author Melissa Muldoon tells how she has adopted Italy.
Otto Dempwolff
Islands of Language
Doctor, soldier, linguist and anthropologist. Otto Dempwolff was all of these during his work with the people and languages of Austronesia.
A User-Friendly Introduction to the Tuvaluan Language
On what was formerly known as the Ellice Islands lives the Polynesian language Tuvaluan. Ulufale mai! Learn some of it yourself with this look at the language.
Rongorongo
Island Chants
Rongorongo is a strange writing system used in numerous texts on Easter Island which even the natives have forgotten how to read.
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