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One of the US English phrases that always make me uneasy (euphemism, btw) is ‘sure’ or ‘of course’ as a reply to ‘thank you’. It sounds to me across the pond like ‘of course/surely you should thank me’. I’m sorry but what the actual…?

'Turkistan' is a prime example of how a semantically fluid concept was appropriated and redefined by 19-c imperialist European science and exported back to its original linguistic milieus. Turkish ethno-nationalism has wildly benefited from this for more than a century.

I maintain that block-based writing systems easiest to write from top to bottom, right to left.

Japanese reading skills textbook, introductory level, for 2nd semester 1st year uni students. It always amuses me how language teaching differs according to the learner’s mother tongue. In China, bc learners of Jp. have direct access to the lexicon esp learned vocab and don’t

#langtwt Unpopular opinion: it's more efficient to teach a language with an unfamiliar script through transliteration first, then gradually through the script at about A2 level. I've heard that at a certain university in the US, students of Persian start with Tajik first, as the

globalvoices.org/2024/10/12/the… Always happy to see representation of us on the media but always frustrated that dismissive and negligent attitudes persist in the discourse - 'In 1862, this majority-Muslim ethnic group was struggling against the forced cultural assimilation promoted by

soas.ac.uk/about/event/wh… Can't believe someone's worked on this topic. Bit intimate - many Chinese people do still think that ethnic minorities, esp. Muslims, 'smell like lamb/mutton'. Was also the target of bullying at school.

Awaiting critical reactions from Fatimid History Dr. Χοδαδάδιος Ρεζαχανίδης 🇮🇸🇪🇺 Bill Figueroa

youtu.be/lovn0J-j2Ew 'Do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese?'

This cat was my favourite companion in my lonely childhood. Very excited to be learning Japanese properly so I can finally read it in the original 🫡

#langtwt Many literate Chinese speakers think that they have a unique advantage in learning Japanese. It's true. I myself have benefited wildly from this advantage, being able to understand academic books/articles in Japanese with only an awareness of its grammar but without any

Currently reading ???? ?????????????… SOAS library is dead.