@LanguageCrawler

A linguistic experiment to crawl and uncover the world’s linguistic resources. Visit my bookstore here: https://xitter.cf/t.co/NYAoeVERgT

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Joined July 2011
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This is one of the best language learning journey books I've ever read! A must read for learners of #Arabic amazon.com/gp/product/054785…
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300-page guide on the usage of the subjunctive mood in Spanish:amzn.to/1DhSKGl #spanishsubjunctive
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The Guild of Xenolinguists | Sci-Fi about novice linguists learning new alien languages: amazon.com/gp/product/193084…
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Anyone else have this problem?
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Why Chinese Killed Easy Words (And Made Everything Harder...). Another excellent video if you've ever wondered why individual Chinese characters have meaning, but Chinese always seems to build words with two-characters sometimes with a redundant meaning: youtube.com/watch?v=CxzyarB8…

Why Chinese Killed Easy Words (And Made Everything Harder...)

🚨 Cantonese Speakers: Get our Free Guide to Rapid Mandarin Fluency:...

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I highly recommend these colorful Russian language textbooks. Stress is marked in bold and audio is available through QR links in the book (downloadable): amzn.to/40Y97nM
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AI Made Translation Cheap. But Who Checks When It’s Wrong? aijourn.com/ai-made-translat…

AI Made Translation Cheap. But Who Checks When It's Wrong? | The AI Journal

The cost of producing a translation fell by three orders of magnitude. The cost of verifying one did not move at all. 

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Speak Czech Badly!: But Speak It Today! amzn.to/2yBDfdj 20 more language books with brutally honest titles: languagecrawler.com/2017/09/…
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Five Stupid Ways Movies Deal with Foreign Languages cracked.com/article_18721_th…

The Stupidest Ways Movies Deal With Foreign Languages

Sometimes people put foreign languages in movies. Aside from this being treasonously un-American, they hardly ever do it right.

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Seven mistakes foreigners make when speaking Japanese—and how to fix them en.rocketnews24.com/2015/12/…
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Foreign Language Mistakes: These Words Don't Mean What You Think They Mean: k-international.com/blog/for…
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Talian is a dialect of Venetian Italian spoken by around 500,000 people in Brazil. Here is a great 650 page dictionary amzn.to/3SvyD16 and a huge course book amzn.to/49t9Kup for Portuguese speakers who want to learn #Talian (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talian…)
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New Book: Thinking into German: A step by step guide to expressing ideas in German amzn.to/3Ssc2kz
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This site will create video-image anki flashcards from foreign language TV shows & movies: subs2srs.sourceforge.net/
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How translators can be "AI Resilient". A French to English translator for 15 years, he wrote this book about how to "Thrive, Charge More, and Stay Irreplaceable in the Age of AI": amzn.to/4nd6SZL Click Read Sample under the cover image for a long free preview #translation #translating #tl8 #ai
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The Great Irish Verb Book (amzn.to/4qiX3uo), 489 pages, 4 colors, 112 Irish verbs conjugated in Standard Irish and three dialects (Ulster, Connaucht, Munster). Full conjugations for present, imperfect, imperative, subjunctive, past, future, & conditional. 3300 verb index
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Three great books to learn German noun gender! New: Noun Hear This! Aid in Remembering the Gender of German Nouns: amzn.to/44eI2RL Der, Die, Das: The Secrets of German Gender: amzn.to/4eEYNcy The Secret Rules of Der, Die, Das - German Articles Demystified: amzn.to/45Qsll3 #germangender #derdiedas
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You are likely to make immoral decisions while speaking a second language, study finds. thelanguagenerds.com/2020/ho…

You are likely to make immoral decisions while speaking a second language, study finds.

Language sits deep within every one of us. It influences the way we see the world and guides how we relate to one another and to events happening around us. Studies have long shown that

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Spanish: Inside Conversations: Talking Like a Native Speaker: amazon.com/gp/product/097645… Mouthing Off in Mexico: amazon.com/gp/product/097645… Spanish One-Liners: Witty Replies & Comebacks: amazon.com/gp/product/097645… Spanish Name-Calling and Labeling People: amazon.com/gp/product/097645…
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Great YouTube channel for Italian learners (from beginner to advanced levels): youtube.com/c/Italianglot/vi… Website: italianglot.com/ @Italianglot
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