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Pamiętnik po polsku — probably a process that progresses and pushes my Polish.
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F**k it, I’m getting ONE LANGUAGE to an advanced C1 level this year
What language would I speak to my children?
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English subtitles + 粵文字幕。
1-hour extended version available on Patreon, including how linguistics helped her learn, learning French, Yale VS Jyutping, and other little jokes and details!
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Subtitles in English.
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Video in Polish, subtitles in Polish and English. Polish transcript below.
Prepared for the 7th Asian Studies Festival, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
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Hello everyone, welcome back to the channel, and I’m Israel. And surprise, surprise: this is actually my first video that is mainly in English.
So, today we’re going to have a slightly different kind of video, because I want to do a sort of live demonstration of my own language studying method.
Recently I saw that Easy Polish made a new video about winter in Poland. I love winters, and I love Poland, so I’m really excited to watch this video.
If you don’t know Easy Languages, they are a group of very amazing channels that make videos for people to practise listening to everyday language.
They used to do a lot of street interviews, but of course, because of the pandemic, they can’t do that now, so currently they just mostly film themselves talking about various topics about different areas of vocabulary, and most importantly, they always have bilingual subtitles in the target language and in English.
I absolutely love these channels and I recommend you check them out. They have a large variety of languages.
Throughout this video, you’re going to see how I watch their videos, what I naturally do when I watch them, in order to teach myself efficiently.
Continue readingIch bin heute auf eine deutsche Seite gestoßen, die versucht, die Beziehung zwischen Kantonesisch und Mandarin, oder dem Begriff Chinesisch, zu erklären. Spoiler Alert: diesen Artikel finde ich total Quatsch. Er behauptet, Kantonesisch sei ein Dialekt von Chinesisch, und Mandarin sei Hochchinesisch.Diese Art Kategorisierung ist ganz politisch motiviert, und von einem rein sprachwissenschaftlichen Standpunkt ist sie sehr problematisch.
In diesem Video werde ich versuchen, als ein Sprachenliebhaber, ein Amateursprachwissenschaftler und ein Sprecher von drei sinitischen bzw. chinesischen Sprachen, zu erklären, was ein Dialekt in diesem Zusammenhang wirklich bedeutet, und abgesehen von der Politik, was Kantonesisch eigentlich ist, und wie man überhaupt diese Sprachen betrachten soll.
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