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Accent Expert Breaks Down 6 Fictional Languages From Film & TV | WIRED

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Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes some of the most famous “constructed languages” in movie and television history. Which real-life languages inspired “conlangs” like Klingon and Dothraki?

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Check out more from Erik here: http://www.eriksinger.com/

Languages Covered: Na’vi, Dothraki, Klingon, Sindarin, Parseltongue, Ewokese, Shyriiwook, Divine Language, Mork Speak, Groot Speak, Malkovich, Furbish, Heptapod.

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How to Learn a Language On Your Own

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For all the languages that I have learned, I only attended school twice. However, in every case it was becoming an independent language learner that brought me success.

0:00 – The one thing you need to be a successful language learner.
1:14 – The three keys to language learning.
2:10 – How LingQ helps Steve to be an independent language learner.
2:46 – How to get started in a language you don’t know at all.
6:24 – How to be an independent learner in a classroom environment.
7:24 – Moving past the beginner stage.
8:58 – How to combat the loneliness and frustration of language learning.

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Become an Independent Learner – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff0v1mkUON4

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What happens when you go on Omegle, but instead of speaking English you try to communicate in every other possible language? Watch this video to find out and let me know in the comments what you want me to do on Omegle!

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The *Many* Languages of INDIA!

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The *Many* Languages of INDIA!

This video is all about India and its stunning linguistic diversity.

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For Urdu, check out UrduPod101: http://bit.ly/Urdupod101. (Note: if you upgrade to a premium plan, Langfocus receives a small referral fee that helps support this channel).

Special thanks to Ajay Sharma for his Hindi and Sanskrit samples, Gopal Krishna for his Tamil samples and feedback, and Soroosh Motevalli for his Persian samples.

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Sergio Pascalin, Shoji AKAO, Sierra Rooney, Simon Blanchet, Sophia-Rose Marron, Spartak Kagramanyan, Steeven Lapointe, Stefan Reichenberger, Suzanne Jacobs, Sven Onnerstad, Theophagous, Thomas Chapel, Tomáš Pauliček, Tryggurhavn, veleum, William O Beeman, William Shields, yasmine jaafar, Éric Martin.

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TURN ON SUBTITLES!! 😀
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00:00 Intro
00:48 Czech
01:47 Brazilian Portuguese
03:39 English
04:57 Spanish
06:59 Japanese
09:15 Mandarin Chinese
11:32 Slovak
11:41 Outro
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German Language Compared to other Languages

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Language Comparison: Number of Different Words

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We compare some of the most popular languages in the world, what are the odds and probability of speaking certain language, which language has the most alphabets. Which language has the most words? How many words does English, Spanish, Arabic or Hindi have? What is the most difficult language to learn? What are the major languages of the world? We visualize the animated scale of alphabets, characters and words.

Disclaimer:
Only words of languages with over 20 million speakers are included otherwise the video would get too long. The only exceptions are the top 5. Thus apologies if your language is not included.
Only Alphabets with a usage of above 50 million, according to World Atlas, are included, with some exceptions. Video makes no distinction between speech, dialect and literacy.
Number referenced for words tend to be the largest dictionary that can be found online. Dictionary referenced in video. There may be bigger dictionaries though.
Usage or number of words may be outdated, but are often after 2010. More info in references.
There is difficulty researching between different formal definition of letters, diacritics and circumflexes, whichever probability and number given for the Alphabets are stated in the sources. There may be unintentional mistake, kindly comment if spotted.

Sources and References: https://pastebin.com/Ahx6TT0B

Music: Adventure by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 License
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List of Languages and Words featured:
Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Latin, Malay, Marathi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.

List of Alphabets and Scripts featured:
Arabic Alphabet, Armenian Alphabet, Bengali Alphabet, Burmese Alphabet, Chinese Characters, Cyrillic Alphabet, Danish Alphabet, Devanagari Alphabet, Dutch Alphabet, Filipino Alphabet, Finnish Alphabet, French Alphabet, German Alphabet, Greek Alphabet, Hebrew Alphabet, Hungarian Alphabet, Icelandic Alphabet, Italian Alphabet, Japanese Kana, Japanese Kanji, Kangxi Radicals, Khmer Alphabet, Hangul Alphabet, Kurdish Alphabet, Latin Alphabet, Lithuanian Alphabet, Polish Alphabet, Portuguese Alphabet, Spanish Alphabet, Swedish Alphabet, Tamil Alphabet, Telugu Alphabet, Thai Alphabet,Turkish Alphabet, Vietnamese Alphabet, Welsh Alphabet.
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FRISIAN – Sister Language(s) of English!

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FRISIAN - Sister Language(s) of English!

This video is all about FRISIAN, a close relative of the English language.

Are you learning a language? One great resource to check out is Innovative Language podcast programs: https://langfocus.com/innovative-language-podcasts/.

Special thanks to Auke de Haan from http://learnfrisian.com (Instagram: learnfrisian) for his West Frisian audio samples, and for answering all my crazy questions.

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Music:
“Actually Like” by Twin Musicom.
Outro: “The Jazz Piano” by Bensound.com

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00:00 The relationship between English and Frisian
01:06 Varieties of Frisian
01:55 A brief history of the Frisian language
03:45 Everyday phrases
04:26 Breaking down Frisian sentences
11:21 Final comments
11:44 The Question of the Day
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Getting to Know People by Speaking Their Language

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This project is showing how languages can help us to connect to strangers.
My Twitch page: https://www.twitch.tv/woutercorduwener
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Languages:
0:00 Intro
0:23 Hebrew
0:50 French
1:06 Italian
1:33 Arabic
2:01 Russian
2:13 Spanish
3:03 Thai
3:14 Portuguese
3:31 English
4:22 French
6:05 German
7:13 Spanish
9:37 Dutch
9:43 Mandarin
10:13 German
11:30 Turkish
11:42 Spanish

I always like it to practice languages from different language groups during a day. My main reason to learn languages is to understand other cultures better and to meet new people on the streets. Please let me know if I made an mistakes, your constructive feedback is more than welcome.
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Part 2 – Someday…
Part 3 – Someday…
Part 4 – Someyear???
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ASIAN LANGUAGES GREETINGS!

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ASIAN LANGUAGES GREETINGS!

Welcome to my channel! This is Andy from I love languages. Let’s learn different languages/dialects together. For today’s video, let’s hear the beautiful sounds of the Asian languages. Please feel free to subscribe to see more of this. I hope you have a great day! Stay happy! Please support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16809442. (Recorded by I love languages team)

English has unusual linguistic features most other languages don’t! These skills really make English unique compared to other languages around the world.

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The second of two fun, experimental takes on features English lacks and has. Part one lives here:

Last time we met skills English is missing compared to other languages, now it’s time for what it does have:

– (its spelling system)
– suppletive ordinals
– obligatory plurals
– definite and indefinite articles
– possession with “have”
– perfect with “have”
– passive voice
– asymmetric noun-pronoun alignment
– particle comparative with “than”
– interdental fricatives
– rhotics
– r-colored vowels (ahem, “coloured”)
– nounless adjectives with “one”

Thank you for watching, and see my sources doc below for even more!

~ Credits ~

Art, narration and animation by Josh from NativLang.

My doc full of sources for claims and credits for music, sfx, fonts and images:
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How To Say "HELLO!" In 46 Different Languages

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How to say hello in 46 languages: Bulgarian, German, Greek, Romanian, Polish, Albanian, Turkish, Malay, Indonesian, Japanese, …

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Languages:

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Danish 0:14
Armenian 0:15
Bengali 0:16
Finnish 0:18
Hebrew 0:19
Croatian 0:21
Serbian/Bosnian 0:22
Hindi 0:25
Arabic 0:26
French/Romantic 0:28
Latvian 0:32
Hungarian 0:33
German/Loud 0:36
Farsi 0:40
Hawaiian 0:43
Azerbaijani 0:45
Indonesian 0:46
Icelandic 0:47
Bulgarian/Пич 0:49
Estonian 0:50
Slovak/Czech 0:51
Japanese 0:55
Russian/Dimitri 0:56
Swedish 1:00
Italian/Bella Principessa 1:02
Albanian 1:05
Dutch/Funny 1:06
Macedonian 1:13
Swiss German/Ricola 1:14
Norwegian 1:21
Korean 1:23
Malay 1:24
Portuguese/Cristiano 1:26
Latin 1:29
Lithuanian 1:32
Polish/Kurwa 1:33
Swahili 1:35
Mandarin 1:37
Spanish 1:38
Greek/Malaka 1:39
Turkish 1:42
Austrian/Hawara 1:43
Vietnamese 1:45
Romanian/Dragostea Din Tei 1:47

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How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

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There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian — that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. “The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,” Boroditsky says. “Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.”

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