Here, we’ll be creating our own artificial language with both my ideas and user-submitted ones!
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Various subjects and illustrated stories are written and spoken in the invented language of glyphic script called Tapissary. [Episodes appear twice monthly].
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A blog for newbie and veteran conlangers alike, where we discuss different aspects of conlanging and linguistics as well as some other stuff.
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Words about created words
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Who said language learning has to be difficult? Join Rita, Raffaele and the teams from the Easy Languages network as they share their stories of language learning and answer your questions. Members get bonus content, monthly Q&As, discounts and many more perks. Learn more at easy-languages.org/podcast!
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It’s a wrap for season 1! The Easy Languages Podcast is taking a break. We hope you have enjoyed the past 21 episodes, found our language stories interesting, and our tips useful and actionable. As for the future… stay tuned on the Easy Languages YouTube channel and on our website: easy-languages.org On behalf of the Easy Languages team, thanks for…
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21: 4 Asian Languages You Can Learn Together (With Hyperpolyglot & Author Tim Keeley)
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Join Rita in this special episode and listen to our remarkable guest, Tim Keeley - a hyperpolyglot & author - as he tells us about his fantastic life journey in 30 languages and gives us valuable insights into the historical and cultural ties that bind 4 of the major East Asian Languages: Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese. Tim explains - exa…
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20: New Languages for New Worlds: ConLangs and the Case of Esperanto
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In this episode we introduce artificial languages: a group of languages spoken, among other places, on Avatar's Pandora, or Tolkien's Middle-Earth. But the first stop of our trip is actually in Eastern Europe, where Esperanto was created in 1887. In the second part of the episode, we answer questions from two of our listeners, Anna and Joanna. Tune…
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19: The Hardest Language in the World (Isn’t the One You Think…)
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What makes some languages harder to learn than others? In this episode, we attempt to entangle the objective factors - as to why a language is complex - from the subjective ones. We also dedicate a section to talking about our experiences with those languages which we traditionally think are the most difficult to master. Show Notes Foreign Service …
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18: This is Why We Use Subtitles in 2 Languages
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Join Rita and Raffaele in this new episode as they discuss the importance of using comprehensible input throughout your language learning journey, and how a certain degree of difficulty is needed and welcome while consuming language-related content. In the second part of the episode, they share a few resources like apps, books, and courses that mak…
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17: The Spirit of the Sakha Language (Yakut) With Tatiana O. & Olga Y. From Easy Sakha
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Yakutia, also known as the Sakha Republic, the land where the Taiga meets the Tundra, is one of the coldest inhabited areas in the world and home to one of the most unique and thrilling languages and cultures in the Russian Federation. At Easy Languages, we are happy to count Easy Sakha as one of those languages. In this episode, you'll listen to T…
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16: Språkmelodi, or the Sound of Swedish: Fredrik's Language Journey Around the World
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In this episode, we have a guest: Fredrik grew up in a small town close to Gothenburg, Sweden, but has lived in Australia, Turkey, Hungary, and Spain, where he lives now. When he's not studying languages, he teaches Swedish as the Swedish Linguist. In the first section of this episode, Fredrik tells us a bit more about his story. In the second sect…
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15: Reasons You Should Join an Online Language Learning Community
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In this episode, we discuss why you should consider joining an online language-learning community if it still needs to be made the case. And there is no lack of reasons to do so! You can also listen to us share our experiences with language Apps, Forums and how you could use those cooperative settings to level up your language game! Besides, we tal…
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14: New Year, New Language: SMART Resolutions That Actually Stick
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Happy New Year, language lovers! Have you ever set a new year's resolution to learn a new language? If so, you're not alone! Learning a new language is a common goal for many people at the start of the new year, but unfortunately, a majority of these resolutions fail. Why is this? Rita and Raffaele discuss the common pitfalls of language learning r…
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13: More Than Words - The Importance of Culture in Language Learning With Marian B. From Easy Welsh
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Meet Marian Brosschot from Easy Welsh as she discusses, with Rita, how Culture and language are inseparable. Marian was raised bilingual Welsh-Dutch at home in Wales. She traveled quite a bit and has been teaching Welsh and English abroad for some time. In 2020, Marian B. went to Argentina for a year to work as a Welsh teacher in Patagonia and is c…
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In this episode Raffaele “goes solo” and tells you everything about Self-Talk, the incredibly underrated technique that can boost your speaking skills all the way to basic fluency. But how does it work exactly? What are its pros and cons? Join Raffaele and you’ll find out! Raffaele also shares the news about the most recent addition to our Podcast …
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11: The Success Formula - Habits Building In Language Learning With Kerstin Cable
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If you've been struggling with maintaining consistency in your language learning journey, Kerstin Cable has some words of wisdom to share. Kerstin Cable is a language and communications coach, writer, and podcaster living in England. She is a native German speaker who has studied 10 languages, including her language crush, Welsh. Kerstin is the aut…
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10: The Pareto Principle, or the Economically Efficient Way to Learn Vocabulary
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In the first part of this episode, we tell the story of Vilfredo Pareto, the Italian economist who discovered a distribution law that changed economics, and how we can all apply this principle to language learning, especially acquiring vocabulary. In the second part, we go into more detail and spill the beans on how we go about learning new words i…
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9: ÞEtta Reddast, It Will All Work Out Just Fine in Icelandic if You Follow the KISS Principle!
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Go on Dying! Do you wonder why Icelanders keep cursing each other regularly or where their names originated? Would you be able to name the God of Poetry in Icelandic mythology or even pronounce Thor or Odin's name correctly? Join Rita and her guest from Speak Viking, Óskar Bragi Stefansson, through Eddas, Sagas, on a journey to learning about an al…
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8: Arabic: Great Language, Low Profile
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Salam! This episode discusses how Arabic varieties around the "Arab world" differ from each other and where a beginner should start their journey with a fascinating yet not fully appreciated language. Therefore, we interrogate which variety one should learn and how long it takes to learn Arabic. And last but not least, we risk asking the taunting q…
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7: ¿Tú o vos? Which Spanish should you learn?
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In this episode, we meet José, a polyglot from Bolivia who moved to Spain and currently studies linguistics, but only when he's not creating content for Easy Spanish. We discuss how Spanish varieties around the world differ, and what is voseo. But most importantly, we answer the ultimate question for those who want to learn Spanish: which variety s…
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6: No Fear, No Hurry: How Long Does It Really Take to Learn a Language?
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In this episode, we delve into the dark depths of the etymology of words like Halloween and Samhain! But fear not, it’s just an excuse for us to talk about Celtic languages and some words that creeped into the English language! We also covered a hotly debated topic: can you really learn a language in 3 months? And if not, how long does it really ta…
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5: Big Fat Greek Worms: Discovering the Ingenious Language with Dimitris
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In this episode we celebrate a new milestone: the Easy Greek YouTube channel has reached 50k subscribers! We invited Dimitris to learn a little bit more about his passions but also his family, heritage and languages. We also discussed the history of the Greek language and its influences on today's Europe and why his students decided to learn the la…
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4: Journey From Berlin to Rio With Our “Multiple” Personalities
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Can our personalities shift when speaking a different language? Do we suddenly become more punctual when expressing ourselves in German and more joyful when communicating in Brazilian Portuguese? In this episode, we take you on a journey from Berlin to Rio, talk about music for our tip of the week, and present you with three of the most interesting…
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3: Cari’s "Big" Business : Past, Present and Future of Easy Languages
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In this episode, we invite you to meet Cari. You'll get to hear the following: The story of the birth of Easy Languages, told by Cari, and how it all started with Janusz and Cari. The meaning of a mysterious German idiomatic expression. Something you didn't know about Cari, and you learn exclusively in our podcast. And for our Patrons, a special bo…
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2: "Same Same, but Different": meet Cognates and False Friends!
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Learning a new language from scratch? You might already know thousands of words! In this episode, we show you how to improve your language awareness and possibly save months in your language journey by using this infallible trick in our tip of the week section: cognate vocabulary and how to navigate the intricacies of false friends! Show Notes Easy…
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1: Funny Idioms, and Why You Should Not Translate Word for Word
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Hi, it's Rita and Raffaele! In this first episode of the Easy Languages Podcast, we introduce ourselves (and our accents) and discuss why we love languages. We are both part of the Easy Languages network and just recently met in Barcelona, where we produced videos about funny idioms, among other things. As our week's tip, we explain why you should …
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Who said language learning has to be difficult? Join Rita, Raffaele and the teams from the Easy Languages network as they share their stories of language learning and answer your questions. Members get bonus content, monthly Q&As, discounts and many more perks. Learn more at easy-languages.org/podcast!…
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Welcome! • Welcome to Anchor! • Ideas! (Listen to this one!) • Comment
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In this introductory episode of the Deconstructed Construction podcast we discuss why we created the blog, and why/how/when we got into conlanging/linguistics (and some other stuff thrown in).
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[podcast]http://conlang.org/podcast/LCS_Podcast-014-Ball.mp3[/podcast] David interviews Doug Ball about his conlang Skerre, its history, and his career in linguistics. .mp3 recording | Dr. Doug Ball’s Faculty Page | Skerre Homepage Doug is the best (and longest-tenured) conlanging friend I’ve got. I’ve known him ever since I started conlanging in 2…
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[podcast]http://conlang.org/podcast/LCS_Podcast-013-Wells-Jensen.mp3[/podcast] David and Sai interview Sheri Wells-Jensen about her work in the world of conlanging, and her work as a linguist at Bowling Green State University. .mp3 recording | Dr. Wells-Jensen’s Webpage Talk about a really, really good idea. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could google …
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[podcast]http://conlang.org/podcast/LCS_Podcast-012-Varkuza.mp3[/podcast] David interviews Paul Varkuza about his language Varkuzan. We discuss his language, its name—his name—and the role his synesthesia played in the process of his language’s creation. .mp3 recording Before I talked to Paul, I was pretty sure that synesthesia was fake. And by…
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[podcast]http://conlang.org/podcast/LCS_Podcast-011-Burke.mp3[/podcast] David interviews Jeff Burke, the creator of the Proto Central Mountain family of languages, and author of The Spirit-Weaver, a novel Jeff has been working on for the past fifteen years. In this interview we discuss his languages, his writing, and the role conlangs play in liter…
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[podcast]http://conlang.org/podcast/LCS_Podcast-010-Frommer.mp3[/podcast] David and Sylvia interview Paul Frommer about his creation of the language Na’vi for the movie Avatar. We discuss his experience working on set, and working with movie folks, as well as the language itself. Please note that this interview was conducted in mid-January, and ref…
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[podcast]http://conlang.org/podcast/LCS_Podcast-009-Editor_needed.mp3[/podcast] mp3 Hi, this is David Peterson from the LCS podcast. You may have noticed that the last podcast (John Quijada’s LCC2 talk [which was excellent, by the way!]) was the first in some…six months? Podcasts can’t come everyday, of course, but one would hope they’d come in s…
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August 16, 2009 Alice in Wonderland "The Queen's Croquet Ground" Part Two. This film continues a chapter from "Alice In Wonderland". Lewis Carroll's original English text is translated into the invented language of Tapissary. The glyphic script of that language has various forms. The style used here is read from right to left, and from the base sup…
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I had major problems with a new computer this month, so Alice in Wonderland is still on hold. I’m presenting this short episode to take the Aug 1 slot. I’m going to read you an expression that you may have heard before. First I’ll read it in the original French, then I’ll follow up with the English translation: ‘Il faut manger pour vivre, et non pa…
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Episode 7 “A Preview” July 16, 2009 This week, I’m giving a preview of the upcoming episode which will be a continuation of Chapter 7 from Alice in Wonderland. Because I’m adding some animation to that entry, it is taking longer than the alloted 2 weeks to construct. So I’m filling in with a preview for this week, which gives me the opportunity to …
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Episode 6: "The Queen's Croquet Ground" Part I Epizod 6: "Yit Cwanoson Croquet Texxa" Meros I This week's episode begins chapter 7 in the novel 'Alice in Wonderland', translated into Tapissary. The entire film is spoken in Tapissary with English subtitles.Af parrrottalk@yahoo.com (Steven)
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This week, I’ve written some phrases about the days of the week in Tapissary’s ‘Sunrise’ style. A frequently used Art text style (called the ‘Sunrise’ style) in Tapissary is generally written from right-to-left as in Hebrew or Arabic. Reading right-to-left is called the ‘sunrise’ mode because your eyes travel from the east margin of a page to the w…
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June 1, 2009 Episode 4: The Baroque Ocean (Lesson on the plural) In episode 3 (The Alligator Captain), there was mention of the Baroque Ocean (Baroc Oshianno). In this episode, I take you right to the ‘sea floor’. The formation and pronunciation of the plural is explained in the second half of the film. Spoken Tapissary is subtitled in English. Fol…
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Episode 3: The Captain Alligator. May 16, 2009 In this week’s episode, I’m bringing PART ONE of Captain Alligator’s adventures. Animation accompanies the story, and a red arrow helps you follow the Tapissary. The action begins in the village of Ventiçello which is lapped by the shores of the Baroque Ocean.…
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Episode 2: “How to Eat Spaghetti” In this week’s snippet, Tweeter, my finicky parrot rejects a bowl of spaghetti. But this loss of appetite does not override a colorful lesson in grammar. The command form, the numbers from 1 to 5, and some help with pronunciation are included in this segment. Duration: 12 minutes.…
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In this episode, I’m reading the beginning paragraphs in chapter one “Down the Rabbit Hole” from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”. Five Tapissary vocabulary words are introduced (pictures, conversations, watch, end, come), and you will see how each fits into the context of a sentence in the second part of this video podcast. I made the artwork…
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