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Scottish Gaelic and Manx are the ones I've invested myself in significantly. These days the efforts are more about simply trying not to lose them rather than to make appreciable further progress, though I do teach beginners' classes in SG (two students currently) and I'm almost done translating a ch...

A quick question for the native/fluent French speakers: So I am aware that colloquially (at least in Hex. French, don't know about Québec?) the pronoun on replaces nous . My question is, if e.g. on ne sait pas is interpreted naturally by francophones as "we do not know", then how does one render som...

Stella text in Maltese Translation to Maltese: Jekk jogħġbok, ċempel lil Stella. Saqsiha biex iġġib dawn l-affarijiet magħha mil-ħanut: Sitt magħref piżelli, ħames biċċiet kbar ġobon tat-tursina, u forsi xi ftit ħelu għal ħuha Bob. Għandna bżonn ukoll serp tal-plastik żgħir, u żrinġ tal-ġugarelli d...

Inspired by Miekko's performance shot above... me (the piper) in the West Hartford Community Theater's production of "Brigadoon" in November.

Bulgarian is a creole created when Slavic speakers mixed with the Turkic-speaking Bulgars. Bulgarian/Macedonian is basically Serbian without declensions. When foreigners learn a new language, they replace declensions and cases with articles, ie modern Latin languages dropped Latin declensions. As t...