There was a series of children's books about language learning that featured a bear. They were read in the late 1980s/early 1990s, and were new at the time. The bear would dress up in common regional clothing from the appropriate language-based area. I think there were audio-tapes with the books, but I'm not sure. The books were green, but they had ( Read more... )

I used to watch it with my son about five years ago, but I think it probably wasn't new then. A professor and his assistant (both mice) traveled back in time to the middle ages. They met a lion prince and some kind of evil witch/sorceress, who might have been a snake. The professor-mouse always had his hat on, and it was usually shown a little ( Read more... )

There is a video on youtube with some chill/ambient music probably made in windows movie maker by someone who doesn't speak english as their first language. It included bad jpeg pictures of "relaxation scenes" and rather funny rhyming (supposed to be rhythmic/soothing) phrases, one of which was "do you want a floaty boaty?" Can someone tell me: " ( Read more... )

In my drawer at work today, I found a coin that someone had obviously mistaken for a penny. I can't figure out what country it's from, though--and usually I'm pretty good at coming up with search terms ( Read more... )

I woke up the other day with the words "mohi mohi" running through my head. It's pronounced like "mow" the lawn + "hee" like in laughing, with the emphasis on the first syllable. I think it is part of a song. It might be a nonsense phrase or words from another language, I don't know ( Read more... )

There's a website where the members write blog entries in a foreign language they're learning. Native speakers of that language can write corrections and add comments to their blogs. So for example, I could, line-by-line, correct/comment on blogs written in English; Japanese members could help me with my blog entries written in Japanese, and so on ( Read more... )

I saw parts of a movie some time in April on Turner Classic Movies. I've checked the website's schedule to see if they maybe still had it up, but they don't. I'm really rusty when it comes to film, but I believe this was a Japanese film made some time in the 60s or 70s. I actually had the chance to record a small clip of it on my camera, which I ( Read more... )

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OK this is probably going to be pretty obscure. I was in the movie theater the other day and instead of showing previews, they were playing a random movie, only not showing it, just the audio. It was spoken in a foreign language, probably something from the Middle East but I am really bad with languages so I am not sure. The one thing I DO know is ( Read more... )

i'm trying to find the word for someone who loves accents. like accentophile, except not, because that's not a word. i swear i've heard it before but i can't remember what it is!