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Rosetta Stone 2.0
The Rosetta disk is an archive of 1,500 languages that can comfortably be held in the hand. The underside of the disk has, .. over 13,000 microetched pages of language documentation. Since each page is a physical rather than digital image, there is no platform or format dependency. Reading the Disk requires only optical magnification. [...]
Childs Colours
Babies see colour differently than adults researchers have found, babies brains process colour information in pre-linguistic parts of the brain, but adults process colour in linguiostic parts of the brain, which means adults see colour filtered through language. It also means at some point there is a change over in our perceptions of colour. (via) [...]
Learning Finnish # 2
I’ve started my new course at the university again learning Finnish, trying to do some basic following of the Finnish Media so below is a kind of part Linkdump part commentary on whats out there. A couple of daily free papers you get on your commute are uutislehti100 and metro (which you can download in [...]
Learning Finnish
I have just started on another Finnish course this time at Helsinki University. Finnish is a very interesting language older than other European languages and only really related to Estonian closely and Hungarian distantly, and the local myth is that its the second most difficult language to learn for an English speaker like me (the [...]
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