Sup? I don’t normally look at the visitor stats for this site. This might sound strange, or unbelievable if you have a site yourself. If you run a website, it’s easy and often dispiriting to obsess over numbers and what … Continue reading
Sup? Well, there you are speaking, Spanish (for example) and you want to maybe learn some Russian, but at the same time practice your Spanish … or you are a native Spanish speaker wanting to learn Romanian … or a … Continue reading
Sup all? I get the fact that the title to this post isn’t very catchy, but it has recently come to my attention that an increasing number of non native English language speakers are using Surface Languages. Hello, hi, hola, cześć, … Continue reading
Hi All, I feel European, and am not at all pleased about how England is withdrawing into itself. So many wasted and lost opportunities. I can’t alter that:( But I can add more European diversity and interest to Surface Languages:) … Continue reading
I want to be able to read Afrikaans, which means acquiring words and lots of them. As part of this I’ve been listening to the Afrikaans sentences on Surface languages, and understanding them in groups of ten. I say understanding, … Continue reading
Sup? The ‘elephant in the room’ is an English metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is either being ignored or going unaddressed. With languages, this is comprehension, and this blog post says it better than I could, but the … Continue reading
Sup? Here is a list, in no particular order, of what I would like to do or add to on Surface languages over the coming year. Improve the look of the homepage. Add five hundred sentences in Catalan, French and Russian. Add … Continue reading
… to fluency. There is this idea that if you learn 10,000 sentences (or so) you will more or less become fluent in a language. There are wiki pages etc. written about this – perhaps in too much detail as … Continue reading
Sup with you? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I should probably be building an ark. I live in the south west of England, also known as the west country, and it hasn’t stopped raining. Those climate … Continue reading