Merriam-Webster goes old school with first new hardcover Collegiate dictionary in 22 years! Link to Book: amzn.to/3K84qoQ Article about the dictionary: wbur.org/news/2025/11... Over 5,000 new words including cold brew, farm-to-table, parklet, heat dome, rizz, gaslighting, telework, doggo

The Atlas of Languages: Words Around the World amzn.to/3K8TW8m A beautifully illustrated overview of the history of languages around the world, filled with maps, sidebars, and unusual facts that will satisfy curious kids (and language-loving adults)

Frankenstein translated into Huasteca Nahuatl by author of Nahuatl textbook #nahuatl Link to Book: amzn.to/3X70kQI Link to author's textbook: amzn.to/4oazG4v

Are AI Subtitles Good Enough? Why Most Viewers Say ‘No’ payhip.com/FreelanceTra...

How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words. "With half of our 7,000 languages due to disappear this century, linguicide is one of the most pressing cultural emergencies of our age." amzn.to/4pjKPRe

The Atlas of Languages: Words Around the World amzn.to/3K8TW8m A beautifully illustrated overview of the history of languages around the world, filled with maps, sidebars, and unusual facts that will satisfy curious kids (and language-loving adults)

New: E Pluribus English: The Many Languages We Speak When We Speak English amzn.to/3LIgmOr

The book Little Brother (amzn.to/42Uj6LW) (full of contemporary slang – see sample) has been translated into both Standard Esperanto (amzn.to/41AWuyI) and a gender-neutral version (amzn.to/42AYA3d) (ex. frato changed to sibo (sibling)). #Esperanto

Now with over 5000 human-created books and resources! LanguageCrawler's Language Learning Bookstore: Curated books and podcasts to learn over 250 languages: www.amazon.com/shop/languag...

The Race to Save the World's Vanishing Languages theatlantic.com/sponsored/go... Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and revitalize them. Can this technology save endangered languages before it’s too late?

Digital linguists work to save the Arapaho language New database built with over 100,000 Arapaho sentences. www.popsci.com/science/ling...

Linguist's Tapes Transform Indigenous Language Study www.miragenews.com/linguists-ta... "Her mother had amassed a vast collection of notes and recordings beginning in 1959 that chronicled three of the seven distinct Pomoan languages."

ChatGPT broken? Proof that AI is not really intelligent: www.youtube.com/shorts/dbPT0...

Finding our talk (26 half hour episodes) about indigenous languages, experiences and revitalization efforts youtu.be/hobQaDFmqJM?...

In 1860, there was a group of young people who marched and held demonstrations in the streets against injustice to elect Lincoln. This group was known as the wide awakes #wideawakes Article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Aw... There's a book about them too: amzn.to/4mCnOYK

Google Warns of Major Overestimation in AI Translation Benchmarks. Researchers from Google & Boston University have found that even small amounts of contamination in training data can lead to significant overestimation of AI translation performance in large language models slator.com/google-warns...

What if A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Just published: Concise Encyclopedia of Spanish Dialects in the World / Enciclopedia concisa de los dialectos del español en el mundo, 2 Volume Set. amzn.to/45rPtpo

GIGANTIC 1170-page, 8.5" x 11" book jammed packed with Spanish to English vocabulary, including over 100 pages of slang, a grammar section and much more. Link to book: amzn.to/3IBzFqY #spanishvocabulary #learnspanish

One voice can shift the world!

2025 Goals Unlocked!

How translators can be "AI Resilient". A French to English translator for 15 years, he wrote this book about how to "Thrive, Charge More, and Stay Irreplaceable in the Age of AI": amzn.to/4nd6SZL Click Read Sample under the cover image for a long free preview #translation

Immigrant Tongues: Exploring How Languages Moved, Evolved, and Defined Us: amzn.to/44rxvCH "Patrick Foote’s Immigrant Tongues is the ultimate language history book, blending stories of migration, culture, and evolution to uncover how languages have shaped our world.

1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture amzn.to/4mlEEM5 What if the word “homosexual” was never meant to be in the Bible? This feature documentary follows the story of tireless researchers who trace the origins of the anti-gay movement among Christians to a grave mistranslation of the Bible.

Language Differences Control Your Brain’s Sentence-Prediction Habits. The brain’s response to information depends on language’s grammatical structure www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...

Excited about this new grocery store where I can purchase my ogarnic onarges and nabanas

"An elder spoke of a prophecy and of the fate of the Haida language - she said that when these people came we would forget how to speak our own language... People would giggle because we couldn't imagine that we would forget to speak our own language." www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzVw...

This is so awful! Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

German linguistics YouTube Channel: youtube.com/@Linguistike... The author also wrote a textbook: amzn.to/4bPzCSY

New French language reality game show on Amazon: amzn.to/4ko7TNj

New: Comparative Grammar of Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali amzn.to/4kyVmXs

March 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM Three free French textbooks for military and peace professionals (with audio files) En avant ! méthode de français pour les militaires et les professionnels de la paix: www.observatoire-boutros-ghali.org/la-methode-e...

The Language of Trump (written in French). The chronicles of a press translator who translates Trump into French: amzn.to/4kq0Y6b

Hazards of relying on machine translation. This option at an Italian self-service car wash should be translated as "WAX" (cera) and not "THERE WAS" (c'era). No human would make this mistake.

Not all constructed languages (conlangs) are created for the same purpose:

Why some speakers can't understand speakers who understand them - Asymmetric Intelligibility (with 7,900 comments from all over the world!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=E042...

"I'll be brief"

Why Do Cartoon Villains Speak in Foreign Accents? Children’s shows often use non-standard dialects to voice the "bad guys," sending a dangerous message to kids about diversity. getpocket.com/explore/item...

Comparative Grammar of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian and Catalan amzn.to/3WeGUcr

I received this multilingual letter from a large U.S. insurance company with nonsense characters for some of the languages. Coding errors happen, but this must have gone through several hands, so how is it possible that no one at the company noticed this?

Oops. I found this in the middle of a printed book of sample sentences for Arabic verbs that sells for $21.95. Apparently people are using ChatGPT (AI) to create books. Unfortunately, the sentences generated by AI are not always reliable. I returned it immediately.

Black Woman Wins Chinese Speech Contest *English Subtitles* www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiYq...

Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, written in 1988, is a brilliant story about a publishing house where one of the editors uses a machine, much like ChatGPT, to create new books. amzn.to/4fF0PYQ

"La Ĉashundo de la Baskerviloj" Sherlock Holmes mystery novel in Esperanto (this hard to find book has been recently re-released): amzn.to/3BKxoa3 #esperanto

Coming next month: The Cradle of Words: Language and Knowledge in the Spanish Empire amzn.to/4iNjvsh

Free Tibetan course: Intro to Tibetan (3 epubs with 200 embedded videos) Books: press.anu.edu.au/publications... Reader that plays the videos: epub-reader.online

New: The Aaniiih (Gros Ventre) Language: A Revitalization Reference Grammar (600 pages): amzn.to/4iQbRgW