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Parrot Time issue 15 May-June 2015

 

Published every two months, it has had such diverse feature articles as:

- Are You Wasting Your Money on Language Classes?
- Chatting in Languages Online
- Why English Is Different Than Any Other Language
- Why Do People Learn Languages?
- The Ultimate Fate of Language Learning
- Coming Home to Faroese - The Why and How of Learning a Small Language
- Religion in Culture
- Constructed Languages - Making It All Up
- Rohonc Codex, Linear A & B, the Rosetta Stone, the Voynich Manuscript
- Speaking with Aliens
- When Languages Meet and Conflict

As well as standard columns dealing with:

- Language artefacts
- Linguist and author biographies
- Film and book reviews
- Languages in peril
- Celebrations from around the world
- Etymologies of foods
- "Where are you?" monthly contest

Current issue:

FEATURED

1. How Do You Say It? A look at sound notation systems.

A new language means new words, new grammar, and new sounds. But how do learn to pronounce those new sounds if you only have written resources? We look at some common sound notation systems.

2. Of Pidgins and Creoles. A look at how some languages are born.

Just like any living creature, languages grow, evolve, and die. Did you also know they can also be born and grow in a natural way, without being created by a single person? Such is the life of pidgins and creoles.

3. Who Are You To Learn A Language?

Are you having a problem learning a new language? Do you believe that you just aren't capable of learning one? Guest writer and neurolinguist Jimmy Mello has some advice for you!

COLUMNS

1. Letter From The Editor (Sounds Like)

Most of the time, when we talk about learning a language, we emphasize the importance of vocabulary and grammar. But what about being able to say what we learn?

2. Languages in Peril (Yumans on the Edge)

On the south western border of the US, in a region of Mexico known as Baja California, the Yuman languages are struggling to survive. Cochimí is already extinct, and its...

3. Where Are You?

Guess the city and country from the article and picture.

4. At the Cinema (Dil Chahta Hai)

Three friends find their path to love in their own way in the Bollywood romantic comedy, Dil Chahta Hai.

5. Words in Your Mouth (Egg)

Like eggs, etymologies can also be scrambled sometimes. Find the history of the word in many languages.

6. Book Look

A short review of language related books.



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