- David Price’s K’iche'
- Netflix and Chill
- Turkish Intro
- Tim Morley’s Esperanto Intro
- Learn by building a dictionary
- Rick Dearman’s Using Anki TV and subtitles
- Iversen’s Trees and Waves and the Germanic Mess
- Using Deep Learning
- Joanna’s Gender Pronouns in Language
- Ten Things Polyglots do Differently
- Slovak intro
- Nootka
Of those I watched some were not noteworthy - I’m not going to comment on those. Those that merit mention:
Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis - good for French presentation. It’s the patois of the region where my two youngest live so I also bought the ASSIMIL guide for this - it’s a bit small and like a few dialects - I was interested more on vocalisation shifts which were not really covered.
Tim Keeley - Making of a Hyperglot - Just a very good speaker with an anti-conformist attitude on language levels and test that speaks a buttload of languages - he’s written quiet a few articles that I’m going to hunt down. Will post links and probably start a few discussions here on few relevant topics. We also spoke afterwards on Himalayan languages (he’s working on Tamang/Sherpa for a trip) and ‘lateral’ acquisition - approaching a language by learning another on the language tree - I pretty much put Ladakhi aside since the material is not that available but I’ve been inspired by our talk to look into classical/modern Tibetan as way to approach it. So. New/Old language on my plate.
Pragmatica Intro - not sure about the applicability to language acquisition but a nice talk in Spanish on Pragmatics, if you are looking for content in Spanish. He also recommended Maria Escandell’s book on the subject.
Klingon Intro - Went on a lark, and while I won’t say ‘go see it’ - it was interesting to see the presentation that focused on the structure of a language and not just ‘a bunch of phrases’. Geek points to those guys!
Cesco’s and Dimiitris’ talk on language weirdness - a really multilingual talk covering a lot of structural subjects. Just fun!
The Mentalist Show was just fantastic. Really top notch and Florian also gave a talk the next day.
Jessie Ann’s concert was also great - an she’s an incredibly friendly person. She may actually drop by on the forum - gave her the url and we had the same concerns about managing study time.
If you are interested in a free intro to Glossika - here is the link that was shared: http://eepurl.com/cOz5s9
Truly the best part of the conference was meeting people and the time spent between talks with you’z’all.
Languages that caught my ear and I bought material for or decided to readdress in one way or another?
- Slovak
- Catalan
- Occitan
- Italian (reactivation)
- Brazilian Portuguese (reactivation)
- Ladakhi
Gah! That list is really too long. But I got a few interesting ideas on approaches for some of those. Obviously I’ll write about what I’m doing when I’m doing it.
Sites I’d like to look into mimicmethod.com & yozzi.com
So, language stuff
Hebrew
Been using Colloquial Hebrew to review verb groups (and create some drills). It is, in my eyes, a pretty excellent learning book. I’m going to look into other languages from this series (Slovak, Tibetan, Icelandic...).
And on my flight last night I got in about 6 hrs of study so that was nice.