Bluesky · Hashtag

#langsky

531
posts · 30d
75
users
18
posts / day
7.1
posts / user
-56% vs last week

#langsky is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 75 people shared 531 posts with it — around 18 a day. Activity is down 56% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 10 with 31 posts.

#langsky posts per day (last 30 days)

Posts with #langsky

Rubito
@rubito.com.br
almost 2 years ago
The Brazilian Portuguese slang of the day is "treta". You'll see a lot of examples of it on Bluesky, now that it's full of Brazilians and we're crazy people, so I recommend you learn this one! "Treta" refers to any sort of confrontation, from a simple quarrel to a general Irish pub brawl. #langsky
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Zev Handel
@zevhandel.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered. This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao! What more could you want? #langsky 🀄️📚 1/
A brush-written Chinese character composed of 㐅 and 也, a gender-neutral way of writing tā.
A brush-written Chinese character composed of 男 and 也, a way of writing tā with male reference.
11 148 316
Citizen.Coping
@propcazhpm.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
"Adult learning doesn't appear to become difficult because of a change in neural plasticity. Rather, we see things through the lens of our native language and that 'warps' how see foreign languages. Through training, we can change our 'perceptual warping' to make language learning easier." #LangSky
Adults Can Be Retrained To Learn Second Languages More Easily, Says UCL Scientist

www.sciencedaily.com

Adults Can Be Retrained To Learn Second Languages More Easily, Says UCL Scientist

Our ability to hear and understand a second language becomes more and more difficult with age, but the adult brain can be retrained to pick up foreign sounds more easily again. This finding, reported ...

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Citizen.Coping
@propcazhpm.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Alcohol had no effect on the speakers’ self-ratings; those who’d had a drink weren’t any more confident or pleased with their performances. But native speakers rated people in the alcohol group as having better fluency — specifically better pronunciation — than those in the water group. #LangSky
It's True: Alcohol Helps You Speak a Foreign Language Better

time.com

It's True: Alcohol Helps You Speak a Foreign Language Better

People who drank a boozy beverage were more fluent than those who drank water

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen
@thedigitalglobalcitizen.com
over 1 year ago
Today’s reason to learn another language: There are over 7,000 living languages on Earth currently. This is your home. Get to know it. Would it be nice to learn at least one other during your time here? #langsky
15 20 149

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