The sound of "stuttering" in Czech!
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What happens when a popular YouTuber moves from Boston to California?

Linguist Andrew Cheng studied YouTubers who had been posting for years and had moved — and he found interesting things about how their accents changed. Plus, the method has interesting pros and cons too.

I really enjoyed this interview! Check it out:

Watch: https://youtu.be/dJw85kZl63g

Read: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/cheng-youtube/transcript

Listen: https://pod.link/173429229

The sound of "shriek" in French!
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The sound of "hushing" in Finnish!
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The sound of "pausing or thinking" in Vietnamese!
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Interesting video about the ceremonial Damin language of northern Australia.

https://youtu.be/wfpjNdhpMzg?si=2fzE9eqkzjCjz7s9

The sound of "kiss" in Korean!
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Deadline extension

We have extended the deadline for applications to the #CRC1646 summer school on linguistic creativity until May 15th!

Have a look at our cool programme, featuring e.g. @ElenLeFoll!

more information and application form: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/veranstaltungen/summer-school-2025

Or contact us: crc1646.rtg@uni-bielefeld.de

How often does it happen that a place takes name from a company that occupies it? In #Warsaw, a whole city district of Ursus was named after a company that used to have a gigantic mechanical factory here, manufacturing tractors and other vehicles for about a hundred years. It had a few different names before that.

And yes, name comes from Latin "ursus", meaning bear.

The sound of "scream" in Nepali!
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The sound of "hushing" in Greek!
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The sound of "hushing" in Hungarian!
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The origins of ‘say “uncle”’

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57984/why-do-we-say-uncle

Why do so many English words that start with "u" get pronounced like there's a "y" in front of it? We don't really do that with words that start with other vowels.

And if you're going to do that, why not actually add the "y" at the beginning altogether?

For #NationalTourismDay, may we direct you to our video about the Olympics, Amateurs, and – it turns out – tourism? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im0C18vcyFE

The sound of "laughter" in Somali!
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Fun fact:

Swedish has two grammatical genders:
Neuter
Common

So even though we have two grammatical genders in our own language we get confused when learning languages that have male & female as grammatical genders.

The sound of "drinking" in Latvian!
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Taiwan Film Festival in Australia held the Taiwanese Bookshelves event at the Museum of Sydney today. The speaker was Dr Paelabang Danapan (孫大川). He spoke about the importance of language and literature for Indigenous people in Taiwan. He also had a conversation with Professor Jakelyn Troy about the connections between Indigenous peoples in Taiwan, Australia and the Pacific.

https://www.taiwanfilmfestival.org.au/paelabangdanapan

The sound of "sharp strike" in Chinese!
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