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Not about language learning or creation, but maybe of interest??? :
National Geographic ran an article three years ago about dying languages. I remember being dumbfounded to read that apparently one language dies about every 14 days. Here’s a link:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/vanishing-languages/rymer-text
Very interesting read! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Show them that Krashen video where he draws Spock and chats in German
I wrote a summary of a website that already summarized Krashen’s hypotheses (so it’s a summary of a summary?) but the original website link is in the post, too:
http://tprsforchinese.blogspot.com/2014/02/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-zh-cn.html
I’ve tried to help students understand Krashen’s theories (and those of Daniel Kahneman) with an image of a tiny little monkey in their brain that can acquire languages if they keep it calm and relaxed and confident. I’ve described it on my blog : http://tprswitch.jimdo.com/blog
Thank you all! These are all new to me, so I’m off to look.
Leah, these sound like great resources (I look forward to reading your piece Judy!), and if you want to read a really informative and entertaining book that’ll undoubtedly get the thoughts rolling, pick up Bill Bryson’s “Mother Tongue”… I’ve been really enjoying it the last week!! Some topics that have jumped out at me: linguistic evolution, human physiology allowing for language, common ancestral languages, national language fueds… Chrisz, I didn’t realize Canada had such a historical tenuous relationship with French/English, etc etc (and I’m only on Chapter 3).
Jim – Thanks for the book tip! I just finished “In the land of invented languages” which is also a good read. There’s also a website – check it out.
Will do… I wonder if she talks about aUI, a Luther grad (where I went to college and in the town where I now reside) invented it.
She has a list of languages she surveyed for the purpose of the book: http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/index.php?page=languages
It’s a very long list. Wow, much longer than I expected.
Wow… lots!
I found his…
http://inthelandofinventedlanguages.com/index.php?page=languages&id=440
Did I see that correctly – a character-based language? It looks a lot like the written form of a nationality language where I lived in China (Yi nationality – subgroup Sani). Wild.
Are you sure you were in China… and not… Mars? 🙂