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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6142 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 8 03 October 2011 at 12:49pm | IP Logged |
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I stumbled across this on the British channel BBC2 at 9:00pm on Sunday. In the first episode, he managed to discuss conlangs including Klingon and Esperanto, as well as interview a UN translator. In last night's episode, he discussed minority languages visiting Ireland and the Basque region. In the Irish section he appeared in the Irish language soap, Ros na Rún. He also visited Israel to discuss the development of modern Hebrew. I haven't enjoyed a program like this in a long time. He managed to touch on so many topics we discuss here, I wonder if he knows about this forum.
Has anyone else seen this program, and what did they think ? Edited by DaraghM on 03 October 2011 at 12:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5372 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 8 03 October 2011 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
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I think you can watch it here; however, it's only available within the UK.
It's also on Youtube Edited by Arekkusu on 03 October 2011 at 4:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| boon Diglot Groupie Ireland Joined 6150 days ago 91 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Mandarin, Latin | Message 3 of 8 03 October 2011 at 7:11pm | IP Logged |
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I'm a fan of Stephen Fry. I saw bits of both episodes. The second episode seemed better than the first. I recorded the first episode though, so I must watch the whole thing.
I saw the Ros na Rún episode when it was aired. He was good in it. Shame about the programme itself! Well, I hate all soaps so I'm not the best judge. In episode 2, the discussion of Hebrew was very interesting. He was talking to a mechanic about the names of car parts in Hebrew. Some words came from Biblical Hebrew, others were constructed and many were borrowed from English. The "immortal" from the French Academy had some weak arguments to support the Academy's negative position on minority languages in France. Basically he said "Ooo, French is wonderful and widely spoken. Why bother with your provincial non-entities?". The bit about North African rap music was good too. They use their own French idiom, with Arabic and Portuguese loan words. European French has absorbed some of these words because of the music. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5372 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 4 of 8 04 October 2011 at 4:22pm | IP Logged |
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I watched the first episode yesterday and quite enjoyed it! A little succinct at times, but still entertaining.
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| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5719 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 5 of 8 02 November 2011 at 10:28am | IP Logged |
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I noticed that it has been taken down from the channel that Arekkusu linked. But all five episodes are here.
I liked this show, but I was hoping for something that would investigate languages deeper I guess. I knew many of the things he talked about, although some facts about some languages were very interesting. I think it was great as a introduction to the subject and it is a TV show so I can't expect too much. All in all, I'd like to see more shows like that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6573 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 6 of 8 02 November 2011 at 10:44am | IP Logged |
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Here is a Language Log post about the series, called "Around the world of words, without a linguist". Do read it if you watch the series.
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| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4972 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 7 of 8 02 November 2011 at 3:30pm | IP Logged |
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I enjoyed all 5 episodes and was expectantly awaiting the sixth when I found out it was only a 5 part series. You
can't treat 6,000+ languages in 5 parts!!! But it was at least of interest to me and hopefully to the non-language learner who now feels a little curiosity... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4879 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 8 of 8 02 November 2011 at 5:52pm | IP Logged |
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I've watched the first 3 episodes so far (thank you to Harry Hill's TV Burp for pointing this show out to me!) and I'm loving it! It was especially interesting to hear about swear words and insults, and how they came about in different languages and cultures.
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