Hi everyone!

I'm Alaa, an Arabic language educator, and I've been working on a personal project called Rooto.

I've noticed that Arabic learners often struggle with memorizing vocabulary without understanding how words are connected through roots and patterns.

So I created Rooto, an interactive web app inspired by a slot machine. With every spin, you discover an Arabic root, a word pattern, a derived word, its English meaning, and an example sentence showing how the word is used in context.

The idea is to make learning Arabic a little more playful and engaging!

Here's a quick video of how it works.

Try it here: https://rooto.app

I'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!

Salut tout le monde !

Je suis heureux de vous présenter Jogolinga, une application que j’ai développée pour faciliter l’apprentissage de nombreuses langues africaines.

L’objectif est simple : rendre les langues africaines plus accessibles à tous, que vous souhaitiez apprendre la langue de vos origines, communiquer avec votre famille, découvrir une nouvelle culture ou simplement apprendre quelque chose de nouveau.

Je ne compte pas m'arrêter à ces langues mais je souhaite mettre en évidence les liens (ethymologie, culture etc...) entre chacune d'entre elles.

📱 Vous pouvez découvrir l’application ici :
https://jogolinga.app

L’application est également disponible sur Google Play. Une version pour iOS est prévue prochainement.

Comme il s’agit d’un projet que je développe moi-même, vos retours me seraient vraiment précieux !

N’hésitez pas à essayer l’application et à me dire ce que vous en pensez :

• Quelles fonctionnalités aimeriez-vous voir ?
• Qu’est-ce qui pourrait améliorer votre expérience d’apprentissage ?
• Quelles langues africaines aimeriez-vous apprendre ?

Guy on train was yelling at people. I’m in Italy right now on holiday. Just curious

I know a little bit of Italian, but unfortunately, I couldn't make sense of the regional variations. In a few places, it looks like a different symbol was used instead of a double 's'. The book was written in Bologna. What are the linguistic features to watch out for in this book? What is different from today's Italian? What are the reasons for these differences? Are there any specific scientific language differences?

Edit:

Thanks for all of the answers. My knowledge of the language is very limited, and i have a hard time understanding complex sentences. I didn't take any lessons or such. I found this source while i'm on a different kind of research, and i wanted to understand why it's readable but strange. So, every answer really helped me understand and be amazed by the text. You're all awesome :)

Hello all,

Apologies in advance for any improper terminology I may use in this post. I am not a linguist.

I work in retail, and today we had a customer come in who didn't speak English at all. She asked me for help in her native language, which was no problem obviously, but it wasn't a language I recognized and it's been plaguing me all day.

She was wearing a hijab, so I assumed a Semitic, North African, or Austronesian language, just based on the languages commonly spoken in the Islamic world. But the only word I have to go off of - the word for "shoes" - I haven't been able to find in a translator or dictionary. I can't remember it perfectly, but I recall it starting with an S or SH sound, along with having a P and an L in it somewhere. I wanna say it was "schlipessi" or something but I'm positive that's wrong. (I'm sorry this is so vague - the shift was very long and if I could remember more I would share ☹️)

I have no idea if this is the right subreddit for this, but I've been driving myself in circles all day trying to figure this out so I thought I'd at least try my luck here.

Thank you!

I am genuinely curious if anyone knows anyone who has studied the international auxiliary planned language named r/LatinoSineFlexione because I am interested in studying r/LatinoSineFlexione before studying Latin.

Just a heads-up: يَسْطَى (Yas-ta) is informal Egyptian slang, usually used casually with friends. Some Alexandrians might not appreciate being called that though😂

Have you heard it before? What’s the equivalent in your dialect or language?

So far, everything I find teaches a lot of slop. Even if I match q sentence in the book word for word, native indians always say it sounds weird. Also, the app where my indian friends are doesn't allow hindi text, so the only option is romanized version. Theres multiple ways to spell the same thing but those indians tend to stick to a certain set of ways, and it isnt at all like what is in the textbook. They also always point out the textbooks version of romanizing as weird and hard to understand. I'm not learning hindi to be formal or professional. I only want to talk to my friends in a colloquial and natural way. Is there any book or online resource that can teach it this way? I dont really want to commit to a tutor. I just want good content, preferably in the form of a book but anything will do.

A fresh two-word Telugu crossword — No. 18.

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This video was posted about 5 years ago.
The description says, “About 4 years ago, there was a song called “Junen” that was uploaded to an illegal music app called Music FM and listed as a song by MYTH & ROID. Does anyone know what this audio actually is? It sounds like some kind of Buddhist chant, but it doesn’t sound like Japanese.”
In the comment, some people says that this audio is Tibetan sutra, but we’re unsure.

I can’t recognize it from anywhere and it seems just made up

Hello, I am going to go to Greece next year with a friend. Are there any apps which are particularly good for learning Greek? What else could be useful? Very open to suggestions, thanks

I'm an English speaking American and lied to a couple of my classmates about speaking a little French. Could one of you share a few easy phrases for me to memorize?

https://youtu.be/wLrb2K6Szd4?is=CoEWIpm5k_S4-FF2 This is not a scam

Please, I need help. I can't identify what are they saying and what language is this

I've been curious about the linguistic classification of Zazaki (also known as Zazaki or Dimli) and would like to hear the opinions of people with a background in Iranian linguistics or historical linguistics.

Zazaki is spoken mainly in eastern Turkey, particularly in areas such as Dersim, Bingöl, and parts of Elazığ. It is often classified as a Northwestern Iranian language, closely related to Gorani, while Kurmanji and Sorani are generally classified as Kurdish varieties.

However, some Zazaki speakers identify as Kurds and consider Zazaki part of the Kurdish linguistic and cultural sphere. Others identify as Zazas and regard Zazaki as a separate language.

I have been learning Italian and Spanish for 5 years and it has been quite the linguistic journey. I got a bit rusty with English and decided to do some tongue twisters to get back in shape and surprisingly, I got pretty good at them very quickly. I figured it was because of speaking all the new words, syllables, and unique pronunciations in Italian and Spanish that my tongue was already kind of used to doing unorthodoxed articulations; only this time, it would be all in English in the form of tongue twisters. Can anyone relate?

ಪ (pa) to ಹ (ha) sound shift is one of the most discussed topic ever in Kannada language as ಹ (ha) sound is not native to any language rather than Hosagannada (New Kannada) and Badaga due to sound shift

Where words like ಪೆಸರ್ (pesar) becomes ಹೆಸರ್ (hesar) (later ಹೆಸರು), ಪತ್ತು (pattu) becomes ಹತ್ತು(hattu), ಪಾಲ್ (pāl) becomes ಹಾಲ್ (hāl) (later ಹಾಲು) etc

Like that there was one more sound shift which was of ವ (va) to ಬ (ba) which is least discussed about

And there were many words in Halegannada (Old Kannada) which had ವ (va) sound as like ಪ (pa) but got changed into ಬ (ba) as like ಹ (ha)

Word like ವಾ (vā) became ಬಾ (bā), ವನ (vana) became ಬನ (bana), ವಾಲೆ (vāle) became ಬಾಲೆ (bāle), ವಳ್ಳಿ (vaḷḷi) became ಬಳ್ಳಿ (baḷḷi) etc