My former PhD sister, Anna Fankhauser, and I are organising a one-day symposium on "The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works" on Friday 7 November in Osnabrück. If you want to join us, we are doing a last call for posters: https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/textbooklanguage2025.

We have a great programme of exciting talks and a promising podium discussion featuring a textbook author, a schoolteacher, an English language teaching professor, and two textbook editors.

#LanguageTeaching #textbook #LanguageLearning #EFL #TEFL #TESOL #Romanistik #DAZ #DAF

Driving to the school football game.

Wife: So the spoken directions on your phone are in Chinese.

Me: Yes.

Wife: But the text is in French.

Me: Yes.

Wife: Jesus Christ you’re a nerd.

#languageLearning

My former PhD sister, Anna Fankhauser, and I are organising a one-day symposium on "The Language of Foreign Language Teaching Materials and Reference Works" on Friday 7 November in Osnabrück. If you want to join us, we are doing a last call for posters: https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/textbooklanguage2025.

We have a great programme of exciting talks and a promising podium discussion featuring a textbook author, a schoolteacher, an English language teaching professor, and two textbook editors.

#LanguageTeaching #textbook #LanguageLearning #EFL #TEFL #TESOL #Romanistik #DAZ #DAF

Driving to the school football game.

Wife: So the spoken directions on your phone are in Chinese.

Me: Yes.

Wife: But the text is in French.

Me: Yes.

Wife: Jesus Christ you’re a nerd.

#languageLearning

Language learners! I need your help!

I’m going into the classroom this week with 8 year olds to introduce them to French and want to impart some wisdom from all of us who have learned more than one language (all languages matter - also open to programming languages!)

What is something you’ve learned through learning a language - that is not about the language itself, but about learning it?

An example follows! 🧵

#askfedi #languages #language #languagelearning

Can anyone recommend good online tools, ideally free or affordable, for learning Danish?

A friend has offered to help me learn and I want to take advantage of the opportunity!

*Not Duolingo, obviously. I'm not interested in their AI slop.

**I don't need lectures from language study purists about using online tools. I am asking for what I want for my own reasons. Bullies and scolds will be blocked.

#Danish#Dansk#Language#LanguageStudy#LanguageLearning#LanguageApps.

Can anyone recommend good online tools, ideally free or affordable, for learning Danish?

A friend has offered to help me learn and I want to take advantage of the opportunity!

*Not Duolingo, obviously. I'm not interested in their AI slop.

**I don't need lectures from language study purists about using online tools. I am asking for what I want for my own reasons. Bullies and scolds will be blocked.

#Danish#Dansk#Language#LanguageStudy#LanguageLearning#LanguageApps.

Happiness is watching #babylon5 in your #TargetLanguage

#languagelearning#MakeItFun

Happiness is watching #babylon5 in your #TargetLanguage

#languagelearning#MakeItFun

Hey Mastodon, I need your help! Any #arabic or #polish learners who would be interested in testing out my new #languagelearning app? You'd get a lifetime access, and if you want, you let me know if you have any suggestions or see any bugs. The content is 100% human-made. The app has vocabulary, easy stories and SRS-based reviews (for all the #Anki fans out there). I programmed it myself, and I put my heart (and savings ;)) into it. Any help would go a long way.
Thank you so much! :)
#fedihelp

Husband: do you know what 사라다 means?

I didn’t know, but it sounded like a verb. A flow of unrelated verbs start popping into my head: 사다, 살다, 살리다, 사라지다…

Husband: it comes from Japanese.

さらだ? All of a sudden, this word sounded more like a loanword than a verb! サラダ = salada (from Portuguese).

So in Korean there are two words: 샐러드 is the general word for “salad” and 사라다 refers to “Japanese style salad” with fruits, vegetables, nuts and mayonnaise.

#Japanese#Korean#LanguageLearning

Hey Mastodon, I need your help! Any #arabic or #polish learners who would be interested in testing out my new #languagelearning app? You'd get a lifetime access, and if you want, you let me know if you have any suggestions or see any bugs. The content is 100% human-made. The app has vocabulary, easy stories and SRS-based reviews (for all the #Anki fans out there). I programmed it myself, and I put my heart (and savings ;)) into it. Any help would go a long way.
Thank you so much! :)
#fedihelp

I know there are plenty of languages/vocabulary learning apps around, but are there any (I could use) for short trips? So focusing on things like ordering a beer or a coffee, asking for the bill, buying a bus ticket to somewhere, basics like “hello” and “thank you”…
Specifically looking for Hungarian and Romanian, from English or Dutch.
#LanguageLearning #iOS #app

I know there are plenty of languages/vocabulary learning apps around, but are there any (I could use) for short trips? So focusing on things like ordering a beer or a coffee, asking for the bill, buying a bus ticket to somewhere, basics like “hello” and “thank you”…
Specifically looking for Hungarian and Romanian, from English or Dutch.
#LanguageLearning #iOS #app

Something that should have occurred to me before I signed up for a 4 week intensive language course...

I don't actually know how to study?

More specifically, I don't really know how to memorize things. My two degrees were all about concepts and big picture ideas... theories and such. (yay science)

This has definitely been the struggle with learning Japanese. I don't really know HOW to memorize specific things.

I have been doing digital flashcards a bit.

#study#LanguageLearning

The language brain matters more for learning programming than the math brain

https://massivesci.com/articles/programming-math-language-python-women-in-science/

#HackerNews #languagelearning #programming #neuroscience#womeninSTEM#learningtoCode

Genuine question:

How does one go about learning to speak Cantonese?

I can find Mandarin resources all over the place but Cantonese resources seem to be libraries of dictionaries. My knowledge of the language (0%) means these aren't accessible to me yet.
#cantonese#LanguageLearning #languages#UK

Your personality changes when you speak another language, but that’s not always a bad thing / The Conversation

Un bell'aticolo sul Principio di Relatività Linguistica, formulato da Whorf negli anni '30.

Languages don’t just allow us to communicate – they also shape our perception of what surrounds us, and ourselves.

https://theconversation.com/your-personality-changes-when-you-speak-another-language-but-thats-not-always-a-bad-thing-245079

#Whorf#Sapir
#languages #linguistics #sociolinguistics #pragmatics#languageLearning