Hello from Yemen! #HelloWorld #Yemen #language #linguistics

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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Hello from British Virgin Islands! #HelloWorld #BritishVirginIslands #language #linguistics

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

Historical map of ancient Rome of the 1st century CE published in Italy in 1570.
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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

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.

Hello from Djibouti! #HelloWorld #Djibouti #language #linguistics

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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Hello from Bolivia! #HelloWorld #Bolivia #language #linguistics

Africa: Valentin-Yves Mudimbe - the Philosopher Who Reshaped How the World Thinks About Africa: [The Conversation Africa] Congolese thinker, philosopher and linguist Valentin-Yves Mudimbe died on 21 April 2025 at the age of 83. He was in the US, where he had lived for many years. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKc2sf #Africa #Philosophy #ValentinYvesMudimbe #Linguistics #Thinkers

The sound of "frog croaking" in Hungarian!
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Hello from Peru! #HelloWorld #Peru #language #linguistics

The sound of "pausing or thinking" in Indonesian!
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