Goran
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🌍Polyglot 📍Barcelona 👨🎓Engineer 💻 Digital Marketer since 2006 Love 🏊♂️⛷️🏓🚴♂️ Native level: HR, ES, CA C1: EN B1-B2: DE, FR, SV, IT, PT B1: PL, RU, NL, MK A2: ZH, RO A1: FI, HU, EU Posting only about languages. #LangSky
The 11 Countries Where English Is Spoken Better Than in Some English-Speaking Nations #LangSky share.google/lnDi4XwOI4XO...
The 11 Countries Where English Is Spoken Better Than in Some English-Speaking Nations
Image credits: Unsplash English has become the planet’s default second language, spoken in boardrooms from Amsterdam to Abuja and taught in classrooms from Zagreb to Lagos. Yet fluency doesn’t always ...
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3Cat presenta "Català fàcil", una nova aposta audiovisual per impulsar l'ús real del català entre nouparlants. #langsky
Com començar a parlar català en el dia a dia: la nova aposta de 3Cat per a nouparlants
El projecte dona el tret de sortida a 3CatCampus, un espai de formació digital adreçat al públic adolescent i adult
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When you've been studying Hungarian and you see the locative case everywhere. 😜 Finally I found eye drops that respect vowel harmony. If it were "Optiban" it wouldn't feel right, but Optiben? It's perfect! 👍 #Magyar #LanguageLearning #Polyglot #Hungarian
I saw a sign saying <-C1 / C2-> and my language-nerd brain was like: "Ah yes, advanced language learners only.” 🤓 Nope. Just a hallway telling me where to walk... #Langsky
I've been using HANLY lately and it’s honestly the best free app I’ve found for learning Chinese characters. It breaks down each Hanzi into components, shows stroke order, evolution and super helpful mnemonics. If you’re learning Chinese characters, this app is free and really good. #LangSky
The German word ‘Pferd’ and its Dutch cognate ‘paard’ are horses of mixed breed parentage. Their common ancestor came from Latin ‘paraverēdus’ (substitute post-horse), a word composed of an Ancient Greek element and a Gaulish one. Zoom in on my new infographic to learn everything about it:
People freak out when they see German like: neunzehnhundertneunundneunzig 😱 But imagine English smashed together: onethousandninehundredandninetynine Or Spanish: milnovecientosnoventaynueve Any language looks confusing written like this. German just looks scary at first, but it's not! 😉 #LangSky
It’s funny how some people hate the sound of the Spanish “Z” and “C” (before E or I)… but “think” or “thin” in English? No problem. 😏 #LangSky
Polish is tough… unless it’s not your first Slavic rodeo. 😜 #LangSky
The University of Minnesota’s Open Textbook Library offers free language textbooks in French, Spanish, German, Chinese & more. Perfect for students, teachers or anyone curious about languages! 👍 open.umn.edu/opentextbook... #LangSky
C2 Proficiency English Test – Spain #LangSky
C2 Proficiency Manuel, Jules and Thiago
YouTube video by English with Cambridge
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Listening to the TeaTime Chinese Podcast. The transcripts are available for free on their website in traditional characters. With Google AI Studio, I created a format that displays the content sentence by sentence: Sentence in simplified characters [bold] Pinyin [bold] English #LangSky
![The transcripts are available for free on their website in traditional Chinese characters.
Using Google AI, I created a format that displays the content sentence by sentence:
Sentence in Simplified Characters [bold]
Pinyin [bold]
English Translation](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nfkmrmazzfakv3rxxk2owkkn/bafkreided6c5sliio2p5yx75rfki5mhnvntl36znhzz7qoxlz7nszf6vki)
![The transcripts are available for free on their website in traditional Chinese characters.
Using Google AI, I created a format that displays the content sentence by sentence:
Sentence in Simplified Characters [bold]
Pinyin [bold]
English Translation](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nfkmrmazzfakv3rxxk2owkkn/bafkreiepl6xcwoprfr2adwkjiqyzfyexxoz3qqigbsai7ef3n7h5egvmou)
Normal people: Just a random license plate. 🚘 Me: Let’s see how many words I can make from these three letters in the languages I know. 🤓 #LangSky
Language Preference Challenge! Pick 1 from each pair: 1. Early-morning study or late-night study? 2. Perfect pronunciation or flawless grammar? 3. Focus on 1 language at a time or juggle 3 at once? 4. Study on a phone or on a laptop? 5. Speak from day one or wait until you're ready? #LangSky
The Spanish word for 'film' is 'película'. As different as they are, these words derive from the same Proto-Indo-European root. They originally only meant "thin layer" but they came to denote film tapes as well when these were invented. My new graphics shows more words belonging to this family:
The entire history of English in 22 minutes. #LangSky
The entire history of English in 22 minutes
YouTube video by RobWords
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Have you already tried using Google AI Studio for language learning? There are so many possibilities! #LangSky
Whether it’s from new technology needing new words to talk about it, or young people inventing and repurposing slang, words and their definitions change all the time. #LangSky
5 Words That Have Changed Definitions Over Time
Whether it’s from new technology needing new words to talk about it, or young people inventing and repurposing slang, words and their definitions change all the time.
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It's curious how often this mistake appears in the media. 'Acta' is a feminine noun, so the correct form is 'la última acta', not 'el último acta'. Native fluency doesn’t always mean grammatical accuracy. 'Último' is an adjective and must match the noun’s gender which is feminine. #LangSky
Imitating an accent with the help of science. #LangSky
Imitating an accent with the help of science
YouTube video by The Nature of Things
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