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Comment on Ruby language by Japanese geek speak - the evolving ultrasaurus

Japanese geek speak - the evolving ultrasaurus — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:07:59 +0000

[…] Rubyists at last month’s RubyConf. Matz kindly recorded various phrases about Ruby in Japanese. Since then I’ve been working on learning katakana as an easy intro (perhaps) to the Japanese […]

Comment on Mightyverse iPhone App hits 128 Downloads! by agile development in action - the evolving ultrasaurus

agile development in action - the evolving ultrasaurus — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:07:19 +0000

[…] app. After 2 weeks, we hit 128 downloads and I enjoyed reading my co-founder, Paul Lundahl’s reflection on the process. Despite our misgivings, we continue to explore the painful edge of what may not yet be a minimally […]

Comment on MightySushi iPhone/iPad App by on bootstrapping a business - the evolving ultrasaurus

on bootstrapping a business - the evolving ultrasaurus — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:06:34 +0000

[…] a beta iPhone app. Just last week, we’ve kicked off a series of market tests starting with MightySushi a mobile app that works on iPhone, iPad and iPod […]

Comment on Brand Localization Challenges by on localization and translation - the evolving ultrasaurus

on localization and translation - the evolving ultrasaurus — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:06:05 +0000

[…] Localization Challenges A localized Brand is sometimes necessary when brands don’t translate well. If you need to re-brand for a specific market because of the meaning of some word used in your […]

Comment on how many people speak a second language? by Nicholas Miller

Nicholas Miller — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 19:30:25 +0000

I would say that an important demographic missed out here would be the number of people living in countries made through colonisation. In Paraguay, for example, about 85% of the country speak both Spanish and the indigenous language of Guaraní. This is exceptional in the region, but there are still a significant population who speak indigenous mother tongues and then Spanish or Portuguese (Quechua, the most spoken with about 9 million, itself comes from being the Incan language, where it quite possibly was once a lingua franca). Then there’s Hindi in India, Urdu in Pakistan, multilingualism in Afghanistan, Swahili in Uganda, DRC etc. So maybe it’s all these that bring up the total to past 50%?

Comment on Learning Mandarin with Pimsleur by Alisha

Alisha — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 20:55:41 +0000

Hmmmm, not sure how I found your site (facebook I guess?). Anyways, I am learning Chinese too. I’m pettry far along, learning characters now. Just a few recommendations from my own trial and error. 1. Rosetta stone is good, but NOT at the beginning. The first thing to do is learn the tones and pin yin pronunciation. A tutor or classroom setting would be best for this. I used rosetta stone at first, and my pronunciation was terrible. 2. if you are learning characters, I love the book by Tuttle called learning chinese charactors’. It uses the science’ of memory, and gives you little stories and pictures to remember the characters. very useful!. Have fun!

Comment on Mightyverse used on a pilot project to support Hawaiian revitalization by Hai

Hai — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 20:53:51 +0000

Japanese was supposedly my fogerin language, which I haven’t touched since I graduated from college. A trip to Japan would be a good incentive to brush up the language.Chinese… (you know the story…)Took Latin for two years in high school as a tool to help learn the roots of vocabulary. Continued for three more years in college. I don’t consider it as a fogerin language because people don’t really speak it. It’s more of a written language that lays the ground for other Romantic languages.

Comment on I have a dream in Spanish: Tengo un Sueño by Lamis

Lamis — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 20:37:03 +0000

here’s what helped me a lot: try schnwiitg the yahoo homepage to spanish and use altavista.babelfish (i think) for translating the words and phrases you don’t recognize this will work if you keep at it!! good luck, learning a second or even a third language is very good!!!

Comment on how many people speak a second language? by Seba

Seba — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:03:40 +0000

Hi Sarah, and thanks for your comment! Yes, apparently this might well be true… but I have been trying to get my head around this for a while in terms of how can one know…

Still, none of the sources mentioned here says much else than that “it so”… Im afraid the Center for Applied Linguistics that you linked doesn’t report on what you quoted, but a Tucker, G. Richard does –though without any sources. Your second and third links takes me to what it looks like a Japanese cell phone shop… Oh well. Thanks anyway! (the closest thing I’ve found is about Europe, and yes, half of them do speak a 2nd language http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_386_en.pdf )

Comment on how many people speak a second language? by sarah

sarah — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:36:02 +0000

Hi, I’m Sarah Allen, one of the founders of Mightyverse, and I wrote this blog post. I haven’t seen any updated studies, though I did move my update to the top of the post to clarify that, from what I’ve read, I now believe that a majority of the world speaks at least two languages.