Damn it, the project is taking longer to finish than I thought. Bad Regev, no cookie.

In the meantime, things that have piqued my interest:

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From a friend of mine on Google+, he managed to find the one person to take a Eurovision entry and make ASL lyrics -- not that ASL's really USED in Europe, but we'll ignore that. :: laugh :: While there are ( Read more... )

Two different themes in today's article ...

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One common problem that an English speaker faces while speaking another language, is making the assumption that there is a one to one correlation between an English term and the language in question. For example, in English we have the verb "to wear" for clothing. We wear clothes, earrings, boots, jockstraps, whatever. However, in other languages ( Read more... )

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I'm so glad I have friends who think of me and introduce me to wonders like Bad Hebrew Tattoos, which, much like Hanzi Smatter does for Chinese (and other languages that get confused for Chinese), looks at misuse of Hebrew, particularly in tattoos. For those learning Hebrew it can be a great resource for what not to do, particularly at it seems ( Read more... )

Let me elaborate about yesterday's post: I had come across בעיניים קשורות, be'eynayim kshurot, as an equivalent to "easy as pie" (literally "with eyes tied"), and I thought: what a great MM this would make, since I knew a few others (the Japanese 朝めし前, ashimeshimae, "before breakfast", something that is so easy you could do it even before you get ( Read more... )

Several languages I've studied lack a present tense form of "to be"; Russian is a great example. "They are students" is, for example, commonly rendered as Они - студенты, Oni - studjenty, with the first word being "they" and the second word being "students." But, the more exposure I got to other Slavic languages, I'd seen those possessing a ( Read more... )

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I've always adored the Israeli singer Rita, and little did I know that we both had Iranian roots, until "Shane", or "The Comb" came out. This song is intriguing to me not just because it's an Israeli cover of an Iranian song (which is in itself surprising; let's see the reverse now!), but also because it's a cover of an older Iranian song. ( Read more... )

Some of my best Multilingual Mondays have a basis in real life, and today will be no exception. I'm not, of course, implying that this will be my best MM ever, but rather that it comes from the same source of "truth based on experience" that have brought about my favourite articles ( Read more... )

GRAMMATICAL GENDER CONFUSION: Hebrew, like many languages, has grammatical gender, where every noun is masculine or feminine. And like several languages, certain rules dictate usual behaviour of these nouns in terms of identification, pluralization, etc. And also like other languages, there's exceptions and bizarre behaviour. Example: ה, when ( Read more... )