Parrot Time - Issue 22 July/August 2016

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

COLUMNS:

1. Letter From The Editor - Culture and Language, Again

Languages and culture, culture and languages. Two great things that go great together. Which is a good thing, since it seems impossible to separate them.

2. At the Cinema - Monster Hunt

China's most successful film comes from an unlikely place: a story about the hunt for a baby monster by both monsters and humans in the distant past.

3. Book Look - Language Alter Ego

A review of Ekaterina Matveeva's book "Language Alter Ego".

4. At A Glance

Quick look at various language websites and resources

5. In Others' Words - Ulrike and Peter Rettig

In this issue, we interview Ulrike and Peter Rettig, owners of "Games for Languages". They talk about their personal backgrounds which brought them to languages, why they...

6. Where Are You?

Guess the city and country from the article and picture.

7. Basic Guide to Italian

Italian is a Romance language, spoken mostly in Italy. Here are some beginner words and phrases in Italian for a basic introduction to it.

FEATURED:

1. Learning A Language Is Learning Its Culture

Many people learn a language as part of a learning a country's culture. Guest writer Lucia Leite explains how language and culture are tied even more directly than we think.

2. Revisited - Early Bardic Literature in Ireland

The literature of a country is often founded firmly in the history and even the land of the country itself. In Ireland, the richness of the recorded history acutely mingles with the myths, as Standish O'Grady describes in this exerpt.

3. Languages in Peril - Save Medan Hokkien!

Guest writer Teddy Nee talks about the endangered language of Medan Hokkien and it's importance to him personally.