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Tag: Turkish
A Feast For Language Geeks
My brother just gave me a great present for ‘Eid: he sent me a link to the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center’s (DLIFLC) Language Survival Kits. It’s unsurprisingly a little heavy on the vocabulary necessary/useful for foreign occupants (yay, USA!) … but it’s still a lot of fun. 😀
They provide the same set of sentences in several dozen languages with translations, transliterations and native writing. To top it off they have audio samples for unfamiliar sounds in each language and with a native speaker saying the sentences out loud and then saying them slow in order for you to repeat them … awesome! 😀
Interesting omissions from the list are German and South Korean, while the list even contains separate entries for several regional dialects of Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Pashto, etc. … o.O
Vowels
I just learned the difference between [ɯ] and [ɨ]. 😀
Yay for Wikipedia’s vowel chart with audio samples. 😀
So Close
Ev Kadinin Yemek Kitabi
Aus der Sammlung von meiner Mutter: darin wird sogar noch beschrieben, wie man Stärke herstellt. 😀
Basic Needs
This is a visual manifestation of basic needs … i.e. when you are in a lecture and can’t concentrate because of hunger … 😉