Fictional languages and the linguistic view in Three-Body (Part 1)
I’m a sci-fi lover, and in the past few years I’ve been deeply impressed by the trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past written by the Chinese author Cixin Liu. ...
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Learning a third language via a second… and how linguistics helps along the way
Language learning is a lifelong journey. In particular, if a person speaks multiple languages and hasn’t acquired them all as mother tongues, then he must ha...
Vowel harmony… and why linguistics matters in language learning (Part 2)
In my previous post “Vowel harmony… and why linguistics matters in language learning (Part 1)” I wrote about my recent chat with a polyglot friend about vowe...
Vowel harmony… and why linguistics matters in language learning (Part 1)
Yesterday a friend of mine mentioned in a Facebook chat that he had started learning Turkish seriously. He went on to tell me about the striking similarity i...
My first post: Why blogging?
I had mulled over the idea of opening a blog for a long time before finally taking action. The problem was that every time I had got very close to actually d...