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The French government yields to protests and will allow university entrance exams to be taken in Catalan and BasqueStudents from a high school in Bayonne had announced that they would take the exams in Basque even if the administration refused to grade them.https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/govern-frances-reforma-permetre-catala/#Language

@TexasObserver it would set an example if the President stopped fornicating and getting people killed.

@mosgaard Duolingo isn't too bad when it comes to the German course as far as I can tell. "Almania" is available for streaming and in general Phil Laude's YouTube videos are funny and rather easy to understand. And then there's also "Trash TV" like Frauentausch, where the language isn't too difficult either!

https://peer.adalta.social/w/e3PRVZ1aHPgjimPvSCys37 [](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_announcement_116617349850613680_fr) [️](https://www.mpg.de/26530630/human-or-machine")La Synthèse Vocale Soulève des Questions Fondamentales sur la Nature de la Communication Humaine#language #rce #announcement #speech #voices

Maltese is the only semitic language written in the Latin script and the only semitic language that is an official language of the EU.Spoken natively by over half a million people on the Mediterranean island of Malta, the language is closest to historical Arabic.#FactOfTheDay #Maltese #Language

@Fionnbharr I think it can also be used just as "donkeys." Like "How've you been man? It's been donkeys." Or just "I haven't seen you in donkeys."

As an anglophone, I'd have been fine with a bilingual governor-general who spoke fluent French and Inuktitut and was just learning English."Bilingual" doesn't apply only to European languages. Inuktitut and other Indigenous languages have a much longer history here than French or English. 🫤#CanPoli #language #colonialism #colonialisme

Listening to a podcast--very highly educated people--going on about one of their all-time favorite artists, Herb Albert. They keep saying Herb Albert. One of the hosts is a superfan of Herb Albert.Is Alpert pronounced like it had a b in it? I think it's Herb Alpert. I really do.#jazz #music #language #grammarnazi

https://peer.adalta.social/w/qVsEHiWAzMNdEDa7zdwPzU [](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_philosophie_116500746885436975_fr) [️](https://whisper7.substack.com/p/zeit")La vérité n'est pas une révélation soudaine, mais un processus lent de maturation et de compréhension.#philosophy #psychology #language #philosophie #psychologie

@TarkabarkaHolgy I love this!

https://theconversation.com/anne-hathaways-inshallah-moment-goes-viral-heres-what-it-means-and-when-it-can-be-used-281329When is it okay for non-Muslims to say "inshallah"? (Anne Hathaway did it right.)#Language #Respect

ホテルの隣です。 Hoteru no tonari desu. It’s next to the hotel. #Japanese #travel phrases. #LearnJapanese. Visit the #Language Garage to learn more. https://thelanguagegarage.com/japanese-travel-phrases/

@octothorpe @troublewithwords interesting!

People ___ "don't believe in pronouns" must have a difficult time talking. _ can't think of how they manage __. Can ___?#pronouns #language #transRightsAreHumanRights

@Dianora It's also one reason why you hear people complaining about being attacked, but never attaped!

@Heliograph boooooo