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"French is Romantic, Arabic Is Aggressive"...Does Culture Stop Us from Learning Languages?
It's a philosophical one with Lindsay this week!
Quick note on the topic of audio quality: In this week's episode, you'll hear Lindsay coming through at a slightly lower quality than usual. Our apologies! We'll be back to our usual high standards in the next episode.
Here are our two big topics.
Donald Trump Is A Tweeter
If you're au courant with the news these days, you may have noticed that Donald Trump is a prolific user of Twitter. But what do his tweets reveal about him? Language analysis platform Text Inspector has produced a report on the POTUS's twitter archive, and in this episode Lindsay and I examined what it all means.
Plus: What do Donald Trump and Regina George have in common?
Does Culture Stop Us from Learning Languages?
Learning German makes you efficient. Spanish is sexy. Arabic speakers talk about terrorism. Russian is a macho language.
Would you say you're influenced by statements like this?
In this episode, we discuss language attitudes and how they have affected our own stories in language learning. The discussion was powerful - starting with the question "Does culture / perception stop you from learning a language?", we talked about travel, terrorism, stereotypes and machine guns.
To round it off, we chatted about the good old Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Always one to draw us linguists out to the campfire.
What About You?
Do you think that ideas and perceptions have ever stopped you...or encouraged you in language learning? Say hi on Twitter @thefluentshow or write a little message through this website.
Sponsored By:
- Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages
Links:
- LangFest 2018 — Get 15% off your ticket with the code KERSTIN
- LanguageCon – The Shanghai Language Learner’s Conference
- Polyglot Conference
- Khairuldeen Makhzoomi was kicked off a flight for speaking Arabic | World | News | Express.co.uk — quite the comment section
- But WHY!!! Would You Learn a Language? Is Learning a Language Useful? by Fluent Language
- Language Attitudes PDF — French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu argued
that …
"Linguistic exchanges invoke a complex Linguistic exchanges invoke a complex
network of power relations in which the network of power relations in which the
producer, by producing an utterance or text, producer, by producing an utterance or text,
makes a bid for social authority, and the makes a bid for social authority, and the
recipient or audience decides to what degree recipient or audience decides to what degree
to recognize that claim to authority. to recognize that claim to authority."What language should I learn? - Fluent in 3 months - Language Hacking and Travel Tips Does the Language I Speak Influence the Way I Think? | Linguistic Society of America Conquer Your Bucket List: Should You Choose a "Useful" Language, or a Language You Love? - YouTube What's The Most Difficult Language?║Lindsay Does Languages Video - YouTube Through The Language Glass - Book on Amazon Guatemala's Fuego volcano: How the tragedy unfolded - BBC News Ask A Linguist FAQ: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Language Stories Episode 3: Montreal: Beyond Bilingual
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It's a philosophical one with Lindsay this week!
Quick note on the topic of audio quality: In this week's episode, you'll hear Lindsay coming through at a slightly lower quality than usual. Our apologies! We'll be back to our usual high standards in the next episode.
Here are our two big topics.
Donald Trump Is A Tweeter
If you're au courant with the news these days, you may have noticed that Donald Trump is a prolific user of Twitter. But what do his tweets reveal about him? Language analysis platform Text Inspector has produced a report on the POTUS's twitter archive, and in this episode Lindsay and I examined what it all means.
Plus: What do Donald Trump and Regina George have in common?
Does Culture Stop Us from Learning Languages?
Learning German makes you efficient. Spanish is sexy. Arabic speakers talk about terrorism. Russian is a macho language.
Would you say you're influenced by statements like this?
In this episode, we discuss language attitudes and how they have affected our own stories in language learning. The discussion was powerful - starting with the question "Does culture / perception stop you from learning a language?", we talked about travel, terrorism, stereotypes and machine guns.
To round it off, we chatted about the good old Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Always one to draw us linguists out to the campfire.
What About You?
Do you think that ideas and perceptions have ever stopped you...or encouraged you in language learning? Say hi on Twitter @thefluentshow or write a little message through this website.
Sponsored By:
- Clozemaster: Visit our sponsor Clozemaster, the free addictive language app in over 50 languages
Links:
- LangFest 2018 — Get 15% off your ticket with the code KERSTIN
- LanguageCon – The Shanghai Language Learner’s Conference
- Polyglot Conference
- Khairuldeen Makhzoomi was kicked off a flight for speaking Arabic | World | News | Express.co.uk — quite the comment section
- But WHY!!! Would You Learn a Language? Is Learning a Language Useful? by Fluent Language
- Language Attitudes PDF — French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu argued
that …
"Linguistic exchanges invoke a complex Linguistic exchanges invoke a complex
network of power relations in which the network of power relations in which the
producer, by producing an utterance or text, producer, by producing an utterance or text,
makes a bid for social authority, and the makes a bid for social authority, and the
recipient or audience decides to what degree recipient or audience decides to what degree
to recognize that claim to authority. to recognize that claim to authority."What language should I learn? - Fluent in 3 months - Language Hacking and Travel Tips Does the Language I Speak Influence the Way I Think? | Linguistic Society of America Conquer Your Bucket List: Should You Choose a "Useful" Language, or a Language You Love? - YouTube What's The Most Difficult Language?║Lindsay Does Languages Video - YouTube Through The Language Glass - Book on Amazon Guatemala's Fuego volcano: How the tragedy unfolded - BBC News Ask A Linguist FAQ: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Language Stories Episode 3: Montreal: Beyond Bilingual
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