Parrot Time

07/10/2022

At the Cinema - Mal Día Para Pescar - Bad Day to Go Fishing
In 1962 South America, a former fighting champion and his manager travel from city to city, scamming the population with a wrestling exhibition. In Santa Maria, however, they may have taken on more than they can handle.
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04/10/2022

Tanabata - The Star Festival
Relationships can be hard, even among the stars. The Japanese Tanabata festival celebrates the love of two famous heavenly lovers.
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01/10/2022

When Languages Meet
Languages and people are often bound together in their destinies, so when two groups of people come together, their respective languages are also affected. The outcomes of these meetings usually profoundly change the languages involved, for better or for worse.
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29/09/2022

Languages in Peril - The Romanian Relatives
Most people know of Romanian as a Romance language, but do they know it has three siblings, which are now endangered? We will look at Istro-Romanian, Aromanian, and Megleno-Romanian.
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27/09/2022

At the Cinema - Everybody's Famous!
Fame is an obsession for many people, and some people work very hard to achieve it. Some people, however, take a more desperate path to it...
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25/09/2022

In Others' Words - Emily McEwan
Author and publisher Dr. Emily McEwan tells us about her books, publishing company, and what she is doing to help revitalize Scottish Gaelic.
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15/09/2022

Language Learning is for everyone!

You can't learn a language without resources. More importantly, you need resources that others have found useful. So how do you find them? Welcome to the Language Learning Library.

13/09/2022

Introducing Southeast Asia in Taiwan

When people from several cultures come together, they really need a place to learn about each other. Teddy Nee writes about SEAMi, the first Southeast Asian-themed bookstore in Taiwan, which is uniting the community.

11/09/2022

Languages in Peril - The Polish Connection

These endangered languages have fought hard for their acceptance as true languages, and now they must fight for their very existence. These are the the slavonic languages of Kashubian, Rusyn and Silesian.

11/09/2022

At the Cinema - Kukushka - The Cuckoo

The end of the war tosses two soldiers from opposite sides together with a native woman. None of them can understand the others' languages, but despite the constant confusion this causes, they find a way to understand what each wants.

10/09/2022

09/09/2022

Stepping Up Your Language

Learning another language is a challenge, so what better way to tackle it than using a challenge? The Step Up Language Program (SULP) is just that, as outlined by Jefferson Netto.

08/09/2022

Liber Linteus - Mummified Language

The Egyptians liked to preserve things, as can be seen with their pyramids and mummies. Something else they preserved, although by accident, is the longest piece of Etruscan text, the Liber Linteus.

06/09/2022

Avoiuli

Cultures and languages influence each other, but how often does a cultural practice become a form of writing a language? On the island nation of Vanuatu, this has happened in the form of Avoiuli.

05/09/2022

Book Look - Berlitz Phrasebooks

A short review of language related books.

28/08/2022

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The Voynich Manuscript isn't the only volume of text and images that hasn't been translated. The Rohonc Codex is another mystery, although not as well known.

20/08/2021

One of the hardest parts of becoming fluent in another language is becoming able to properly use and understand figurative language. In this article, Tarja Jolma shares her love of proverbs and their importance.

28/07/2021

Among the endangered languages of the world, even members of the Romance family face extinction. The Rhaeto-Romance languages of Ladin, Friulian and Romansh are featured in this issue.

25/07/2021

Deciding to learn a language is easy. Deciding which language to learn is a bit trickier. Teddy Nee offers six methods you can use to make the choice.

16/07/2021

Learning A Language Is Learning Its Culture
Many people learn a language as part of a learning a country's culture. Guest writer Lucia Leite explains how language and culture are tied even more directly than we think.

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Many people learn a language as part of a learning a country's culture. Guest writer Lucia Leite explains how language and culture are tied even more directly than we think.

12/07/2021

When creating a multilingual site, it can be time consuming to properly format dates for each language of the site. Fortunately, PHP provides a solution with the

12/07/2021

Languages don't always get along with each other. Sometimes, they don't even get along with themselves. Norwegian is a language that has two written forms: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk.

12/07/2021

People love to ask questions about languages and language learning. There are a variety of them that really can't be answered, and it those that we will attempt to answer.

12/07/2021

Which of these motivation killers have you fallen victim to?

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So many people talk about ways to get motivated when learning a language, but what about what causes people to lose interest?

16/06/2021

Revisted

The is a reprint of a chapter from

09/05/2021

We've created a new store on Etsy, called "Language Pride".
There you can find language themed mugs, clothing, and other gifts for yourself or the language lover in your life. All sales help support Scriveremo Publishing so we can continue bringing you great language learning resources. We hope you visit the store and see what we offer. Thank you!
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31/01/2021

At the Cinema

The first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut, set over five centuries in the past, shows us both a legend and lives.

31/01/2021

Letter From The Editor

Linguist or Polyglot. People often confuse the two terms. Which one are you?