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Title of discussion thread	Replies	Author	Start time	Last reply	Recs	Views
5 Jewish Languages You Didn't Know Existed	1	Behind the Aegis	Friday	Friday	2	188
Spanish vs Chavacano - Can They Understand Each Other!?	1	YoshidaYui	Thursday	Thursday	1	312
Christian pastor warns that Duolingo has been "infiltrated" by gay people	0	Behind the Aegis	Mar 16	Mar 16	2	382
My phonological English bucket list: item #1 "Buttigieg"	3	Tetrachloride	Mar 7	Mar 14	1	450
What are your favorite non-English words?	23	Recursion	May 2013	Mar 8	6	6671
Otsukaresama desu - The magic word in Japanese	1	yuiyoshida	Oct 2019	Mar 7	1	1159
Small breakthrough in my studying Japanese	5	TDale313	Nov 2021	Mar 7	7	1161
Classroom vs IRL: Spanish 2nd Person	9	Montauk6	Jul 2022	Dec 31	0	1420
Hand of Irulegi: ancient Spanish artefact rewrites history of Basque language	3	Jilly_in_VA	Nov 2022	Dec 31	15	1612
Do German speaking people still use the title Fraulein"?	3	raccoon	Nov 2022	Nov 2022	0	1540
The BBC accent	4	BootinUp	Oct 2022	Oct 2022	4	653
Magnificent Linguistic Family Tree Shows How all Languages are Related.	19	elleng	Oct 2022	Oct 2022	28	2366
Analysis: How Indigenous languages can be preserved, and why those efforts help revitalize culture	1	elleng	Oct 2022	Oct 2022	0	1140
The languages that live forever	2	Jilly_in_VA	Aug 2022	Aug 2022	13	963
What sort of Yiddish did Jews in Hungary speak?	6	Behind the Aegis	Aug 2022	Aug 2022	2	2287
I wonder about the evolution of words for technology	3	Marthe48	Jul 2022	Jul 2022	2	1440
Is Japanese Katakana Derived from Korean Kwukyel?	3	soryang	Jul 2022	Jul 2022	0	820
"Dead As A Doornail" Idiom Definition And Origin	4	sl8	Jul 2022	Jul 2022	12	1602
More early recordings of the Korean language	2	soryang	Apr 2022	Apr 2022	2	1455
Duolingo: Standing with Ukraine: a message from the CEO	2	Behind the Aegis	Mar 2022	Mar 2022	8	2167
Dr Peterson- How to Speak (Korean) Authentically	1	soryang	Feb 2022	Feb 2022	1	672
A site some of you might enjoy---BBC News Pidgin	1	Jilly_in_VA	Jan 2022	Jan 2022	8	1694
So, yeah... I've started trying to learn some Japanese	38	TDale313	Nov 2021	Jan 2022	13	3415
KUSO 101┃How to Swear Like the Japanese	2	YoshidaYui	Jun 2021	Jan 2022	1	802
Getting over the feeling that Yiddish is just for old folks	4	Behind the Aegis	Nov 2021	Jan 2022	4	1848
This message was self-deleted by its author	0	Behind the Aegis	Dec 2021	Dec 2021	0	1080
Finally decided on a third language... Turkish	4	prodigitalson	Nov 2021	Nov 2021	1	1346
German lumpers and splitters	5	Lionel Mandrake	Oct 2021	Nov 2021	1	883
Warming relations between Israel and Arab countries creates new application for Aravrit,....	1	Behind the Aegis	Oct 2021	Oct 2021	0	1024
What is your favorite American English dialect?	16	Odin2005	Jan 2012	Oct 2021	2	9630
Ladino speakers dwindling, but newspaper reaches milestone: 200th issue	0	Behind the Aegis	Oct 2021	Oct 2021	2	799
From Judeo-Greek to Karaim, Oxford courses on 12 rare Jewish languages aim to keep heritages alive	0	Behind the Aegis	Oct 2021	Oct 2021	2	959
parsing the title of Newton's opus magnum	7	Lionel Mandrake	Oct 2021	Oct 2021	2	849
What Lorde's Te Reo Maori Songs Mean For The Effort To Revive The Language	0	Jilly_in_VA	Sep 2021	Sep 2021	7	986
These 10+ Korean Words Have Just Been Added To The English Dictionary	3	soryang	Sep 2021	Sep 2021	1	856
Tut, a Language Used by Enslaved Africans, Is Resurfacing on Social Media	1	Behind the Aegis	Aug 2021	Aug 2021	11	1218
Hidden Influence of Chinese Characters and Words on Korean Vocabulary and Writing (Zev Handel)	0	soryang	Aug 2021	Aug 2021	0	975
Mistranslated doctoral thesis title triggers plagiarism review rocking South Korean politics	2	soryang	Jul 2021	Jul 2021	0	1705
is there a law of linguistics that says words change to what is easier to pronounce?	9	raccoon	Jul 2021	Jul 2021	1	3165
Oldest Korean-letter metal type blocks from King Sejong's reign are found	1	soryang	Jul 2021	Jul 2021	4	2499
100 verbs to survive in JAPAN! (Essential verbs in a day)	0	YoshidaYui	Jun 2021	Jun 2021	1	2821
Real Time with Bill Maher guests - Friday, May 7, 2021	0	Behind the Aegis	May 2021	May 2021	1	2240
Akron-born YouTube star and speaker of many languages dies	1	soryang	Apr 2021	Apr 2021	9	2122
Vent/rant about unclear speech	3	Foolacious	Mar 2021	Mar 2021	3	1625
The story of Richard Sears or "Uncle Hanzi"	12	soryang	Mar 2021	Mar 2021	5	2556
English must be so confusing to ESL people - where is the 'g' in anxiety?	28	bucolic_frolic	Mar 2021	Mar 2021	2	3272
We need to talk about 'Kike' -- how did the slur originate anyway?	0	Behind the Aegis	Mar 2021	Mar 2021	3	2639
We're running out of time to preserve endangered Jewish languages.	0	Behind the Aegis	Feb 2021	Feb 2021	1	1086
Can any suggest American TV shows that I can watch which are	3	phylny	Jan 2021	Jan 2021	0	3996
American Boys Pretending to Not Speak Korean ( Actually Fluent ) - Prank - [ Sean Pablo ]	8	yuiyoshida	Dec 2020	Dec 2020	1	5823
Understand NATIVE Japanese Conversations	0	yuiyoshida	Dec 2020	Dec 2020	1	1602
350 Phrases Every Japanese Beginner Must Know	5	yuiyoshida	Dec 2020	Dec 2020	0	2442
Surprising Strangers Switching from Chinese to Japanese: Yokohama Chinatown #3	0	yuiyoshida	Dec 2020	Dec 2020	0	1950
Early recording of Korean from the Sorbonne	2	soryang	Dec 2020	Dec 2020	2	1772
The Translator Relay: Don Mee Choi	1	soryang	Sep 2020	Sep 2020	2	1672
DuoLingo app!	3	yuiyoshida	May 2020	Sep 2020	0	2649
What's "Daze" in "Yare Yare Daze"? (And "Dawa"?")	0	yuiyoshida	Sep 2020	Sep 2020	0	876
Why Google Translate FAILS at Japanese	1	yuiyoshida	Aug 2020	Aug 2020	1	982
Would love to learn Mandarin online need suggestions	5	TuxedoKat	Aug 2020	Aug 2020	0	2678
A question about the ellipsis	13	PJMcK	Aug 2020	Aug 2020	2	2455
Any recommendations for jump starting French	9	bucolic_frolic	Apr 2020	Jun 2020	0	4109
I learned something new today....	3	yuiyoshida	Jun 2020	Jun 2020	4	2145
Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages	4	Behind the Aegis	May 2020	Jun 2020	1	2507
A neat site for translations	4	Behind the Aegis	Jul 2013	May 2020	1	4409
Interesting twitter thread on "translation talk"	1	soryang	May 2020	May 2020	3	1531
I was looking at taking Spanish at our community college. I was wondering about online	4	brewens	Apr 2020	Apr 2020	0	1734
1400 Japanese Vocab & Phrase 3 hr Audiobook (BasicIntermediate)	0	yuiyoshida	Apr 2020	Apr 2020	1	1190
Yandere (ヤンデレ)	1	yuiyoshida	Mar 2020	Mar 2020	4	1204
PARASITE-Jessica song(Parody)full version-Korea song(독도는 우리 땅)	0	soryang	Feb 2020	Feb 2020	0	1296
Korea Sijo (시조) in English -- by translation and original poems	0	soryang	Feb 2020	Feb 2020	2	1328
How I Learnt JAPANESE (Mikan)	3	yuiyoshida	Jan 2020	Feb 2020	0	1499
DO NOT SAY 'I think...' - say THIS instead - 21 more advanced alternative phrases	6	yuiyoshida	Jan 2020	Jan 2020	4	1913
Hwang Jini's riddle is a play on Hanja	0	soryang	Jan 2020	Jan 2020	1	3834
What does the Korean word "Arirang" ( 아리랑 ) mean?	0	soryang	Nov 2019	Nov 2019	1	2112
Ten Useful Korean Slang Terms X 2	2	soryang	Oct 2019	Oct 2019	3	1548
Japanese phrases you can use (Phrases I have accumulated over the years.)	1	yuiyoshida	Oct 2019	Oct 2019	3	5665
Why Is Korean So Hard?	1	soryang	Sep 2019	Sep 2019	4	1781
WHY Japanese is the HARDEST Language	4	yuiyoshida	Sep 2019	Sep 2019	1	1505
Agnotology	4	littlemissmartypants	Sep 2019	Sep 2019	8	1613