Language Profiles
Dabbling diary: Iranian interests (Kurdish, Persian, etc.)
Dabbling diary: Iranian interests (Kurdish, Persian, etc.)
As I’ve tried to stick to a regular schedule for my blog posts over the years, one problem has come up again and again: my language…
Dabbling diary: Aramaic — the first “world language”?
Dabbling diary: Aramaic — the first “world language”?
About a decade after Marco Polo set out on his journey along the Silk Road to China in the late 13th century, a monk from Beijing (then…
Dabbling diary #2: Albanian — a “half-Romance” language?
Dabbling diary #2: Albanian — a “half-Romance” language?
Ever since I taught myself Serbo-Croatian back in 2012, I’ve figured I’d eventually like to learn Albanian at some point too —in part to…
Dabbling diary #1: Learning Neapolitan from 30+ hours of TV
Dabbling diary #1: Learning Neapolitan from 30+ hours of TV
On top of the hundreds of hours of Netflix in a dozen languages I watched last year, I also recently watched four full seasons of one show…
Character study: An excursion into the East Asian linguistic zone
Character study: An excursion into the East Asian linguistic zone
Since I got back from the Polyglot Conference in Fukuoka last fall and re-shuffled my language study priorities again, the main languages…
Introduction to Uyghur — slides from Polyglot Conference Fukuoka 2019, with commentary
Introduction to Uyghur — slides from Polyglot Conference Fukuoka 2019, with commentary
Last month, I attended the 2019 edition of the Polyglot Conference™ in Fukuoka, Japan, which was reportedly attended by as many as 400…
Hey, Check Out This Language!—#1, Sranan Tongo, a.k.a. Surinamese Creole
Hey, Check Out This Language!—#1, Sranan Tongo, a.k.a. Surinamese Creole
Trying out a new format for my next series of posts.