@languagecrawler.bsky.social
Interesting stuff I find about languages, language learning, linguistics, and translation
Finding our talk (26 half hour episodes) about indigenous languages, experiences and revitalization efforts youtu.be/hobQaDFmqJM?...
24.09.2025 03:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
In 1860, there was a group of young people who marched and held demonstrations in the streets against injustice to elect Lincoln. This group was known as the wide awakes #wideawakes
Article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Aw...
There's a book about them too: amzn.to/4mCnOYK
Google Warns of Major Overestimation in AI Translation Benchmarks. Researchers from Google & Boston University have found that even small amounts of contamination in training data can lead to significant overestimation of AI translation performance in large language models slator.com/google-warns...
22.08.2025 01:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
What if A.I. Doesnβt Get Much Better Than This?
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Just published: Concise Encyclopedia of Spanish Dialects in the World / Enciclopedia concisa de los dialectos del espaΓ±ol en el mundo, 2 Volume Set. amzn.to/45rPtpo
22.08.2025 01:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
GIGANTIC 1170-page, 8.5" x 11" book jammed packed with Spanish to English vocabulary, including over 100 pages of slang, a grammar section and much more. Link to book: amzn.to/3IBzFqY #spanishvocabulary #learnspanish
22.08.2025 01:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
One voice can shift the world!
29.06.2025 23:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
2025 Goals Unlocked!
29.06.2025 17:58 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
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
Immigrant Tongues: Exploring How Languages Moved, Evolved, and Defined Us: amzn.to/44rxvCH
"Patrick Footeβs Immigrant Tongues is the ultimate language history book, blending stories of migration, culture, and evolution to uncover how languages have shaped our world.
1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture amzn.to/4mlEEM5 What if the word βhomosexualβ was never meant to be in the Bible? This feature documentary follows the story of tireless researchers who trace the origins of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a grave mistranslation of the Bible.
21.05.2025 00:52 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Language Differences Control Your Brainβs Sentence-Prediction Habits. The brainβs response to information depends on languageβs grammatical structure
www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...
Excited about this new grocery store where I can purchase my ogarnic onarges and nabanas
03.04.2025 23:21 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"An elder spoke of a prophecy and of the fate of the Haida language - she said that when these people came we would forget how to speak our own language... People would giggle because we couldn't imagine that we would forget to speak our own language." www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzVw...
20.03.2025 16:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This is so awful!
Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
German linguistics YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@Linguistike...
The author also wrote a textbook: amzn.to/4bPzCSY
New French language reality game show on Amazon: amzn.to/4ko7TNj
15.03.2025 23:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
New: Comparative Grammar of Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali amzn.to/4kyVmXs
15.03.2025 23:02 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
March 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Three free French textbooks for military and peace professionals (with audio files)
En avant ! méthode de français pour les militaires et les professionnels de la paix: www.observatoire-boutros-ghali.org/la-methode-e...
The Language of Trump (written in French). The chronicles of a press translator who translates Trump into French: amzn.to/4kq0Y6b
06.03.2025 18:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
20.02.2025 02:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Hazards of relying on machine translation. This option at an Italian self-service car wash should be translated as "WAX" (cera) and not "THERE WAS" (c'era). No human would make this mistake.
10.02.2025 19:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Conlanging, The Art Of Crafting Tongues
The first feature documentary about the global phenomenon of constructed languages and the extraordinary people who invent them. amzn.to/42OshAA
Not all constructed languages (conlangs) are created for the same purpose:
10.02.2025 16:50 β π 1 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Why some speakers can't understand speakers who understand them - Asymmetric Intelligibility (with 7,900 comments from all over the world!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=E042...
10.02.2025 16:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"I'll be brief"
17.01.2025 19:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Why Do Cartoon Villains Speak in Foreign Accents?
Childrenβs shows often use non-standard dialects to voice the "bad guys," sending a dangerous message to kids about diversity. getpocket.com/explore/item...
Comparative Grammar of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian and Catalan amzn.to/3WeGUcr
10.01.2025 15:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I received this multilingual letter from a large U.S. insurance company with nonsense characters for some of the languages. Coding errors happen, but this must have gone through several hands, so how is it possible that no one at the company noticed this?
10.01.2025 04:09 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
