Just started a course taught by @jure and I thought Žižek had turned to CS – turns out that the Slovenian accent is quite recognizable, though Slavoj really became the face of it!
Tag: languages
“Ode to the Turtle”. Synthesized handwriting plotted by axidraw. Text by Seymour Papert. So many of us started programming with Logo Language…
Just Call Apeldoorn
The small city of Apeldoorn is home to one of the most successful Dutch insurance companies: Centraal Beheer. The company built a reputation creating tv advertisements that prove in 30 to 60-second the importance of being insured. In each ad, some kind of disaster looms (but is rarely shown) and the historical slogan reminds viewers …
Gelato Jilatu
I think it was my brother who first introduced me to the concept of Wiki-nationalism. This happens when an article on Wikipedia says very different things in different languages, reflecting the point of view of a given country or culture. I remember laughing while reading the article on Christopher Columbus in English, Spanish and Italian. The English …
Idea for a frictionless bilingual reader – my way
If I were to actually go on and make the bilingual book-reader app a reality, this would be my Epic and child stories: “As a language student, I want to practice my skills and increase my vocabulary while doing what I really would like to do instead: reading adventure books.” 1.1 As a language learner I …
Idea for a frictionless bilingual reader – competitor analysis
It doesn’t happen often these days that I read a book in two languages, but that is mostly due to my laziness. Reading in a foreign language was very important for me in the acquisition of English and Spanish, so it’s not surprising that improving my Portuguese and my Dutch has almost come to a …