(YouTube link) You may have heard of Pronunciation Book, a YouTube channel in which English words and names are pronounced for the purpose of helping non-English speakers. Videos have been added steadily for over a ye...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/21/pronunciation-manual/Pony is an ESL (English as a Second Language ) teacher, and "A" is her student in Japan. They d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/29/pony-and-a-take-over-the-world/There are certain words that only exist in one language , evolved from one culture and do not translate in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/22/awesomely-untranslatable-words-from-around-the-world/The BBC News Magazine recently posted an article a... ...le about "Americanisms" creeping into the English language (meaning British English in this case). That arti... ...British readers shared their pet peeves about the language as spoken by Americans. Some are just examples of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/20/50-disliked-americanisms/To be or not to be ... is not a question... ...r not to be ... is not a question in the invented language of E-Prime. TopTenz explains: An... ...Prime. TopTenz explains: Another language constructed to make a philosophical point, E-Prim... ...According to Alfred Kor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/15/e-prime-the-invented-language-that-has-no-verb-to-be/For years scientists have known that each parrot has a unique call that other birds use to address them, but now they've discovered that the parents of the species are responsible for naming their chicks. They observ...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/15/parrot-parents-name-their-kids/Here is something that none of us probably thi... ...hing that none of us probably think about. If the language you speak does not accommodate words for certain... ...y you see the world. In one interesting example a language that had no number words made it hard for its spe... ...we are old enough to play hi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/15/does-language-shape-what-we-think/There are some words in foreign languages that just don’t have a direct translation to En... ...hat a word cannot somehow be explained in another language , but that part of the essence of the word is lost... ...ssence of the word is lost as it crosses from one language...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/20/20-awesomely-untranslatable-words-from-around-the-world/Morse Code used to be used (and to some extent still is) during war time to communicate in the field, in the air and to report that the Titanic was sinking. It used to be a highly specialized technical skill that too...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/03/text-to-morse-code/Alexia Sloane is only ten years old, but she got t... ...he started talking and communicating in all three languages before she lost her sight but adapted quickly to... ...portfolio. She will soon be sitting a GCSE in the language having achieved an A* in French and Spanish last...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/17/ten-year-old-translator/
