Darren was curious about how I could speak/know five languages without being "old" (whatever that means); I'm sure he'd be shocked to meet Stuart Jay Raj who is (I'm pretty sure) probably younger than I am. ( I keep writing Stuart Ray Raj by mistake, so I thought I'd correct that now.)
I have to think that there are other people (maybe even the person who started this thread) who are interested in languages other than the standard European ones we see hear often.
I'd love to hear Xie or others comment on his Cantonese or any other of the following languages. His blog is "Behind the Curtain" I think. He is also on the Language Geek site. Someone shared that Raj's Thai is quite good.
The languages:
Thai, Lao, Cambodian, Mon, Burmese, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Jawa, Bali, Sunda, Melayu, Tagalog and other languages from the Philippines, Gu Wen (古文), Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokien, Naxi and other Chinese dialects / regional languages, Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Pali and other Indic Languages, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Signed English, Auslan and other Sign Languages, NLP, ESP or Esperanto
I'd also like to remind other polyglots and language enthusiasts that there is a link on the Micheloud site "How to Learn any Language" to the FSI courses. They are free. It's like a gospel thing, almost too good to be true.
There are "exotic" (to me anyway) languages and the standard ones.
FSI is from the 1960s, but there are some gems.
I have to think that there are other people (maybe even the person who started this thread) who are interested in languages other than the standard European ones we see hear often.
I'd love to hear Xie or others comment on his Cantonese or any other of the following languages. His blog is "Behind the Curtain" I think. He is also on the Language Geek site. Someone shared that Raj's Thai is quite good.
The languages:
Thai, Lao, Cambodian, Mon, Burmese, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Jawa, Bali, Sunda, Melayu, Tagalog and other languages from the Philippines, Gu Wen (古文), Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokien, Naxi and other Chinese dialects / regional languages, Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Pali and other Indic Languages, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, Italian, Signed English, Auslan and other Sign Languages, NLP, ESP or Esperanto
I'd also like to remind other polyglots and language enthusiasts that there is a link on the Micheloud site "How to Learn any Language" to the FSI courses. They are free. It's like a gospel thing, almost too good to be true.
There are "exotic" (to me anyway) languages and the standard ones.
FSI is from the 1960s, but there are some gems.