Articles Tagged with foreign language

Difficult meters

Published on December 26, 2023December 26, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

On poetry

Can anyone write a poem?

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Going overseas

Published on April 25, 2023April 23, 2023 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Reasons to leave home

Whether a trip abroad is worthwhile depends on why you are going.

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On translation

Published on December 6, 2022December 4, 2022 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Moving between languages

We consider alternative teaching strategies.

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Monoglot music

Published on September 27, 2022September 26, 2022 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Not about sukiyaki

What does an old song say about its times?

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Tilting at windmills

Published on December 7, 2021December 5, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The vanishing knight

Where did Don Quixote go?

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The language of philosophy

Published on August 24, 2021August 23, 2021 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Words and ideas

Does the language you speak determine the way you think?

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Not the way it sounds

Published on June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Spelling reform

Written and spoken languages are different.  Should they be made more similar?

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Language technology

Published on June 2, 2020June 2, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Materials for learning

We notice that some things have gotten much easier with advances in technology.

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On learning languages

Published on February 25, 2020February 25, 2020 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Spanish, Russian, Java, Python

We use “language” for a misleading variety of things.

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Greek tragedy

Published on November 12, 2019November 10, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Retained in translation

What comes across, and doesn’t, when we change languages.

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