Creator and presenter of the Langfocus channel on @Youtube since 2015. Language enthusiast and lifelong learner.

Joined January 2015
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Loving my baby and loving Dad life 👶🏻 My wife and I are under-slept, but overjoyed nonetheless. I used to think family life would be boring, but this is the best. 😊
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Could Latin ever be revived as a native spoken language? (meaning in its Classical or Ecclesiastical form, not modern Romance languages) I think it would be possible if the will were there, but it would end up being different from Latin as we know it. And if that were the case, what would the point be, since there are already modern descendants of Latin (the Romance languages)?
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"Is Modern Hebrew Totally Different from Biblical Hebrew?" These days I see a lot of comments online about Modern Hebrew being a FAKE language, that it's NOT Hebrew, that it's a constructed language based on Arabic and Yiddish, and so on. Of course there's often a political intention behind such statements. But there IS something different about Modern Hebrew: the fact that it's the result of a LANGUAGE REVIVAL. Some people try to spin that to mean that Modern Hebrew is fake Hebrew, but it's clear to me that Modern Hebrew is MUCH more similar to Biblical Hebrew than other modern languages are to their ancient antecedents over a similar time frame. This is in large part because of the revival. And the revival was possible because of extensive body of Hebrew literature that never stopped being produced. Of course there are differences though. In my new video that's premiering today, I dive in and look at the similarities and the differences. The link to the premiere in the first comment.
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Argentinian Spanish (Rioplatense Spanish, specifically) is known as one of the varieties of Spanish that stands out as quite different from the others. This is how that came to be.
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The Icelandic language (basic info and history) - Full video in the first comment.
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The history and background of Jamaican Creole (aka Patwa) - Full video in first comment
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Check out the full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=hNM-BE4x…
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The Turkish language (clip 1) - This is a clip of one of my early videos from 2016. Enjoy the hokey production! 😄
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Basic phrases in West Frisian (#2)
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Dialects of the Basque language
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Basic phrases in West Frisian (#1)
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Language contact between Old English and Old Norse had a major impact on the development of Middle English.
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Polish is the second most widely spoken Slavic language
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The Polish language (basic info)
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The Maltese language developed from Siculo-Arabic, a dialect of Arabic spoken in Sicily under the Fatimid Caliphate. A high percentage of its vocabulary comes from Romance languages, especially Italian and Sicilian, but a significant percentage is still of Arabic origin, and its grammatically Semitic. It's the only Semitic language that's an official language of the EU.
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The mysterious origins of the Basque language
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In 1928 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk began a reform of the Turkish language, replacing Ottoman Turkish with a new standard variety of the language.
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