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‘Huckleberry Finn’ – An Unusual Attitude to Linguistic Diversity | I wish to be a polyglot!

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I wish to be a polyglot! The world through the eyes of an 18-year-old language addict. 8216;Huckleberry Finn’ – An Unusual Attitude to Linguistic Diversity. I remember hearing my grandparents talking in Greek and not being aware that they were conversing with each other the way I did in Hungarian. In other words, I saw foreign languages as gibberish. Have I got evidence for this? Of course I do! Leave my parents astonished, there’s no doubt about that. 8216;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’. Refuses to bel...

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Afrikaans, or South Africa’s Dutch? | I wish to be a polyglot!

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I wish to be a polyglot! The world through the eyes of an 18-year-old language addict. Afrikaans, or South Africa’s Dutch? And what makes it so unique? I am sure that whoever has read the above introduction has at least one question regarding the similarity of Afrikaans and Dutch on their mind. It is even more certain that whoever has read it thinks I am the most boring person ever to have been born, but let’s concentrate on these two languages for now! Enough about words, especially because this article...

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Last Name First, First Name Last! | I wish to be a polyglot!

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I wish to be a polyglot! The world through the eyes of an 18-year-old language addict. Last Name First, First Name Last! Finishing this post brought me so much satisfaction that I decided to have it proofread by a friend of mine immediately. He looked at me with a rather cold smile and said, “Yeah, it’s alright, but it’s. Similar to one of your older posts. In fact, it’s exactly the same! Posted by Bálint N. B. My name in 43 scripts – Exploring the world’s writing systems: Level 1. They SHOULD give the c...

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Guest Post: Learn like a Boss with Your Own Resources | I wish to be a polyglot!

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I wish to be a polyglot! The world through the eyes of an 18-year-old language addict. Guest Post: Learn like a Boss with Your Own Resources. Create your own vocabulary list and dialogues. We all know that there is abundant of language learning material available either in the bookstore or on the internet. However, the question is Which learning material suits your learning style and your necessity? Or if you use Facebook, you can even find them in Facebook groups, such as Omniglot Fan Club. However, you...

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Best of 2013 – The 15 Most Popular Articles of the Year | I wish to be a polyglot!

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I wish to be a polyglot! The world through the eyes of an 18-year-old language addict. Best of 2013 – The 15 Most Popular Articles of the Year. First of all, I wish you all a New Year that brings luck and prosperity, fills your home with joy and spirit, and gives you new confidence and courage for a fresh start. Let me re-introduce the 15 most visited posts of 2013 on. 8216;I wish to be a polyglot! A propos, I am aware of the issue with the comments and promise to answer them all as soon as possible.

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Czech This out, Everyone! | I wish to be a polyglot!

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I wish to be a polyglot! The world through the eyes of an 18-year-old language addict. Czech This out, Everyone! If anything truly shows the gravity of my ten-month absense from the world of blogging, it must be the fact that I’ve only just come across my first (and, so far, my last) encounter with a Slavic language: a paragraph in Czech. I guess declining Czech adjectives works out cheaper than a trip to Olomouc… (Source: Palacký University). The concepts of declension and the case system had already be...

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“Oι Γκρίκοι”, the Grecanici of Southern Italy | I wish to be a polyglot!

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I wish to be a polyglot! The world through the eyes of an 18-year-old language addict. 8220;Oι Γκρίκοι”, the Grecanici of Southern Italy. In Greece, this unusual dialect is often referred to as ‘Κατωιταλιώτικα’ (. Or ‘Southern Italian’). As we would expect, Griko has been influenced by Italian, although its impact on the vocabulary is more or less insignificant. In other words, it is mutually intelligible with Modern Greek – to some extent! Can this amazing phenomenon be prevented from vanishing? I don&#...

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My name in 43 scripts – Exploring the world’s writing systems: Level 1 | I wish to be a polyglot!

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I wish to be a polyglot! The world through the eyes of an 18-year-old language addict. My name in 43 scripts – Exploring the world’s writing systems: Level 1. You must have put a lot of effort into that! 8221; Indeed, thank you! Let this be my excuse for delaying my. New series of articles. As much as I possibly could. So, let’s talk about the series. The next 7 articles, this one included, will consist of me going on about my experiences with writing my given name (. So, this is. Are you with me? Or the...

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“The Epitome of Nonchalance and Cynicism” – Hungary’s Jewry Outraged by Flagrant Mistranslations | I wish to be a polyglot!

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I wish to be a polyglot! The world through the eyes of an 18-year-old language addict. 8220;The Epitome of Nonchalance and Cynicism” – Hungary’s Jewry Outraged by Flagrant Mistranslations. Ladies and Gents, you are about to be introduced to the funniest, yet perhaps the most serious translation scandal of the year! I remember how hard it would have been to ignore the enormous media coverage received by the fake sign language interpreter. 8221; (Source: VS.hu). How It Became a Linguist’s Nighmare. First o...