Showing posts with label Linguistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linguistics. Show all posts

The Indo-European language family

The YouTube channel I would like to introduce here is JuLingo, run by Julie, who has made herself quite a reputation as a linguist.

Fastest way to understand 19 slavic Languages

Tim Keeley breaks down the slavic languages into three sub-families and shows how learning three slavic languages may enable you to understand all 19 to a large extent.

Germanic Languages

Germanic Languages: Top 3 Must-Learn After English. The languages and linguistics site I introduce here is Polyglot dreams

What happened to the 'F' in Spanish words?

Many Latin words starting with 'f' see this leading letter weakened to 'h' in Spanish. The cognates in Italian, French and Portuguese most often keep the leading 'F'.

Metatron Academy

More about the Youtube channel;  'MetatronAcademy' run by Raffaello.
Wheeras his command of Japanese and Chinese made him notorious, it are obviously not the first languages he learnt. Born in Sicily, he spoke Sicilian and Italian from an early age. Note that Sicilian is not an Italian dialect. The languages are not mutually intelligible. 

Langfocus

Langfocus is the Youtube channel I would like to emphasize here. It is a popular channel run by Paul. Many videos focus on one language or a comparison between related languages ... or between different variants of the same language.

A few videos are commenting on 'language families'.

Which is Harder? Japanese or Chinese?

Which is Harder? Japanese or Chinese? A comparative Analysis.

The Youtube channel I would like to introduce here is 'MetatronAcademy'

Linguriosa

Are you an avid learner of Spanish and have you always been interested in specific features of the language and its evolution? Then Linguriosa is the channel for you. Of course it is Spanish spoken (with a peninsular accent since Helena lives some 100 km north of Madrid.)

How Celtic is the Portuguese language?

How Celtic is the Portuguese language?

The phonetic difference between Latin and both Portuguese and French is considerable. Whereas for French, the Celtic influence is commonly recognized, this is also the case for Portuguese.

No es italiano ni tampoco portugués

Qual é a língua atual mais semelhante ao LATIM?

¿Cuál es el idioma actual más parecido al LATÍN?