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  1. I've just finished writing the first draft of a Japanese novel. It's by far the longest thing I've ever written in the language. Now comes the hard part: revising it until it's ready for the eyes of an editor. Still, it feels good to have taken the story this far.

    #novel #writing #secondlanguage

  2. I’m writing the first draft of a brand new short story in the Japanese language. Wish me luck in crafting something powerful and convincing someone to publish it.

    #exophonic #writing
    #secondlanguage #japanese #shortstory

  3. I’m writing the first draft of a brand new short story in the Japanese language. Wish me luck in crafting something powerful and convincing someone to publish it.

    #exophonic #writing
    #secondlanguage #japanese #shortstory

  4. I’m writing the first draft of a brand new short story in the Japanese language. Wish me luck in crafting something powerful and convincing someone to publish it.

    #exophonic #writing
    #secondlanguage #japanese #shortstory

  5. I’m writing the first draft of a brand new short story in the Japanese language. Wish me luck in crafting something powerful and convincing someone to publish it. #exophonic #writing #secondlanguage #japanese #shortstory

  6. I’m writing the first draft of a brand new short story in the Japanese language. Wish me luck in crafting something powerful and convincing someone to publish it. #exophonic #writing #secondlanguage #japanese #shortstory

  7. **📢 TP.HCM tiên phong biến tiếng Anh thành ngôn ngữ thứ hai**

    TP.HCM đang dẫn đầu cả nước với mục tiêu đưa tiếng Anh trở thành ngôn ngữ thứ hai trong giáo dục, đi trước kế hoạch 10 năm. Hiện có khoảng 30.000 học sinh đang học Toán và Khoa học hoàn toàn bằng tiếng Anh.

    #TiếngAnh #GiáoDục #TPHCM #NgônNgữThứHai #English #Education #HoChiMinhCity #SecondLanguage

    vietnamnet.vn/tphcm-di-truoc-1

  8. “…to learn a second language as an adult is a Herculean undertaking.” Just a bit of one of Leanne Osagawara’s ruminations on her always interesting blog.
    #Japan #language #SecondLanguage

    3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/

  9. “…to learn a second language as an adult is a Herculean undertaking.” Just a bit of one of Leanne Osagawara’s ruminations on her always interesting blog.
    #Japan #language #SecondLanguage

    3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/

  10. “…to learn a second language as an adult is a Herculean undertaking.” Just a bit of one of Leanne Osagawara’s ruminations on her always interesting blog.
    #Japan #language #SecondLanguage

    3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/

  11. “…to learn a second language as an adult is a Herculean undertaking.” Just a bit of one of Leanne Osagawara’s ruminations on her always interesting blog.
    #Japan #language #SecondLanguage

    3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/

  12. “…to learn a second language as an adult is a Herculean undertaking.” Just a bit of one of Leanne Osagawara’s ruminations on her always interesting blog.
    #Japan #language #SecondLanguage

    3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/

  13. VietNamNet 30/10: Thủ tướng phê duyệt Đề án Đưa tiếng Anh thành ngôn ngữ thứ hai trong trường học; Cục CSGT thí điểm sơn chữ "Dừng lại" trên đường nhắc tài xế giảm tốc.

    #GiáoDục #AnhNgữ #AnToànGiaoThông #ViệtNam #VietnamNews #SecondLanguage #SchoolEducation #TrafficSafety

    vietnamnet.vn/ban-tin-vietnamn

  14. me giving my first reading in the Japanese language last week.

    I read the first third of my latest short story, Photo Bomber (「フォトボマー」), which appears in the anthology Fear and SF (恐怖とSF), published last month by Hayakawa. The event, held at @sumika_tankyu in Kamakura this past Wednesday afternoon, was a spontaneous addition to the Kamakura Poetry Festival. I opened for poet Robert Priest and singer-songwriter Kai Shimizu.

    Photo by @aokajiya

    #secondlanguage #japanese #shortstory #reading

  15. me giving my first reading in the Japanese language last week.

    I read the first third of my latest short story, Photo Bomber (「フォトボマー」), which appears in the anthology Fear and SF (恐怖とSF), published last month by Hayakawa. The event, held at @sumika_tankyu in Kamakura this past Wednesday afternoon, was a spontaneous addition to the Kamakura Poetry Festival. I opened for poet Robert Priest and singer-songwriter Kai Shimizu.

    Photo by @aokajiya

    #secondlanguage #japanese #shortstory #reading

  16. here it is! My Japanese fiction writing debut! The first short story I’ve ever written from start to finish in my second language.

    My story “フォトボマー” (Photo Bomber), is in this anthology “恐怖とSF”(Fear and Sci-fi), released today by Hayakawa, Japan’s oldest and largest SF publisher:

    amazon.co.jp/恐怖とSF-ハヤカワ文庫JA-日本

    #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #horror
    #japanese #secondlanguage #shortstory #fiction #writing #debut
    #anthology #newrelease #恐怖とSF #早川書房

  17. here it is! My Japanese fiction writing debut! The first short story I’ve ever written from start to finish in my second language.

    My story “フォトボマー” (Photo Bomber), is in this anthology “恐怖とSF”(Fear and Sci-fi), released today by Hayakawa, Japan’s oldest and largest SF publisher:

    amazon.co.jp/恐怖とSF-ハヤカワ文庫JA-日本

    #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #horror
    #japanese #secondlanguage #shortstory #fiction #writing #debut
    #anthology #newrelease #恐怖とSF #早川書房

  18. here it is! My Japanese fiction writing debut! The first short story I’ve ever written from start to finish in my second language.

    My story “フォトボマー” (Photo Bomber), is in this anthology “恐怖とSF”(Fear and Sci-fi), released today by Hayakawa, Japan’s oldest and largest SF publisher:

    amazon.co.jp/恐怖とSF-ハヤカワ文庫JA-日本

    #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #horror
    #japanese #secondlanguage #shortstory #fiction #writing #debut
    #anthology #newrelease #恐怖とSF #早川書房

  19. here it is! My Japanese fiction writing debut! The first short story I’ve ever written from start to finish in my second language.

    My story “フォトボマー” (Photo Bomber), is in this anthology “恐怖とSF”(Fear and Sci-fi), released today by Hayakawa, Japan’s oldest and largest SF publisher:

    amazon.co.jp/恐怖とSF-ハヤカワ文庫JA-日本

    #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #horror
    #japanese #secondlanguage #shortstory #fiction #writing #debut
    #anthology #newrelease #恐怖とSF #早川書房

  20. here it is! My Japanese fiction writing debut! The first short story I’ve ever written from start to finish in my second language.

    My story “フォトボマー” (Photo Bomber), is in this anthology “恐怖とSF”(Fear and Sci-fi), released today by Hayakawa, Japan’s oldest and largest SF publisher:

    amazon.co.jp/恐怖とSF-ハヤカワ文庫JA-日本

    #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #horror
    #japanese #secondlanguage #shortstory #fiction #writing #debut
    #anthology #newrelease #恐怖とSF #早川書房

  21. Take a close look at the cover of that upcoming sci-fi anthology from Hayakawa. You'll see my name in katakana (イーライ・K・P・ウィリアム). That's because I've got a short story in there, the first I've ever written in Japanese. It's something I've dreamed of for, like, 15 years. I'm in total disbelief...

    #secondlanguage #fiction #writing
    #japanese #scifi #debut

    hayakawabooks.com/n/n38b136ad6

  22. @mms

    German as the language of mathematics.

    It allows for long composite words, which still have some concrete, tangible meaning. Its sentences can be complex yet they remain intuitive. And the mature writer can throw in concrete everyday notions, slang, to give added meaning to an abstract concept.

    van der Waerden is a master of all of these.

    (I live, work and write in English, and I love English and its writers with all my heart. Interestingly, my favourite English novelist is Joseph Conrad, whose native language was Polish.

    #language #SecondLanguage #mathematics #VanDerWaerden #JosephConrad #German

  23. @mms

    German as the language of mathematics.

    It allows for long composite words, which still have some concrete, tangible meaning. Its sentences can be complex yet they remain intuitive. And the mature writer can throw in concrete everyday notions, slang, to give added meaning to an abstract concept.

    van der Waerden is a master of all of these.

    (I live, work and write in English, and I love English and its writers with all my heart. Interestingly, my favourite English novelist is Joseph Conrad, whose native language was Polish.

    #language #SecondLanguage #mathematics #VanDerWaerden #JosephConrad #German

  24. @mms

    German as the language of mathematics.

    It allows for long composite words, which still have some concrete, tangible meaning. Its sentences can be complex yet they remain intuitive. And the mature writer can throw in concrete everyday notions, slang, to give added meaning to an abstract concept.

    van der Waerden is a master of all of these.

    (I live, work and write in English, and I love English and its writers with all my heart. Interestingly, my favourite English novelist is Joseph Conrad, whose native language was Polish.

    #language #SecondLanguage #mathematics #VanDerWaerden #JosephConrad #German

  25. @mms

    German as the language of mathematics.

    It allows for long composite words, which still have some concrete, tangible meaning. Its sentences can be complex yet they remain intuitive. And the mature writer can throw in concrete everyday notions, slang, to give added meaning to an abstract concept.

    van der Waerden is a master of all of these.

    (I live, work and write in English, and I love English and its writers with all my heart. Interestingly, my favourite English novelist is Joseph Conrad, whose native language was Polish.

    #language #SecondLanguage #mathematics #VanDerWaerden #JosephConrad #German

  26. @mms

    German as the language of mathematics.

    It allows for long composite words, which still have some concrete, tangible meaning. Its sentences can be complex yet they remain intuitive. And the mature writer can throw in concrete everyday notions, slang, to give added meaning to an abstract concept.

    van der Waerden is a master of all of these.

    (I live, work and write in English, and I love English and its writers with all my heart. Interestingly, my favourite English novelist is Joseph Conrad, whose native language was Polish.

    #language #SecondLanguage #mathematics #VanDerWaerden #JosephConrad #German

  27. @WIRED
    This can be so very true. I took French in early 1980s as total immersion. We spoke French only, all day, and at night, I would call my wife at home and could not speak English suddenly, many words were not there. My mind had moved to thinking in French.

    #Language #Bilingual #Bilingue #SecondLanguage #ThoughtProcess

  28. Inatt drömde jag, på engelska, att jag var #advokat i ett amerikanskt brottmål. En av vittnena hette Adam Paradiset. Han berättade att folk hade problem med hans efternamn.

    Jag vaknade men var tvungen att se var historien tog mig så körde vidare med att förhöra ett #expertvittne i brottsstatistik, på engelska. Som tydligen var professor i statistik på UC Berkley. Och var dr. i #statistik. Med ”law degree” från Harvard. #dröm #SecondLanguage #EASL #Manus #film #copyright #a24

  29. Inatt drömde jag, på engelska, att jag var #advokat i ett amerikanskt brottmål. En av vittnena hette Adam Paradiset. Han berättade att folk hade problem med hans efternamn.

    Jag vaknade men var tvungen att se var historien tog mig så körde vidare med att förhöra ett #expertvittne i brottsstatistik, på engelska. Som tydligen var professor i statistik på UC Berkley. Och var dr. i #statistik. Med ”law degree” från Harvard. #dröm #SecondLanguage #EASL #Manus #film #copyright #a24

  30. Fun fact: Speaking a second language not only boosts brain power but also makes life more fun!

    Watch my latest YouTube video all about speaking a second language. Click the link or search “Hebrew by Inbal” on YouTube to watch.

    youtu.be/tOJ1j7k4ZEE?si=3xefhK

    #secondlanguage #language #expatlife #languagelearning#hebrew

  31. Teachers, we're curious: do you ever get your students to do introductory language study on Duolingo or similar apps as extension activities when they are learning about other regions? What grades or ages, what apps, what languages?

    #Duolingo #Eduation #Edutooters #Language #LanguageStudy #EdTech #EduTech #SecondLanguage #Homeschooling @education @edutooters

  32. (2/3)

    But this is a good example of how meaning is a moving target. A consensus, not an objective fact.

    This becomes very obvious when learning a second language. Especially when moving beyond vocab for everyday objects into more abstract concepts.

    IMHO second language learning is as essential as maths or reading to a well rounded education - received or autodidactic. It's a weakness in the anglophone world that it's not always part of our curriculum.

    #education #languages #SecondLanguage

  33. CW: Conversation about Second Languages

    I took spansih in almost every year it was available to me K-12. I've always viewed language as important. People would ask me "Taylor, why are you studying spanish? It's pointless, study math instead or literally anything. You are a genius and live in the US. English is all you'll ever need"

    Well today I was working on a very time sensitive project and had to drain a lot of boiling water very quickly. I had a lot to do and we have these very large yellow lids. I had only a few seconds and the only person standing nearby was a Romanian that speaks no English and no German. She speaks Romanian and Portuguese. Close enough, I hoped. I looked her in the eyes and said "Amarillo", she reached down and gave me exactly what I needed.

    It is intensely important to speak more than one language. A great deal of the Latin in Spanish can be found everywhere from Portuguese to Croatian. I live in Germany now but I would honestly argue that even in the US, having a second language is one of the most important skills you could ever have.

    #immigrantlife #secondlanguage

  34. I'm at a conference and I got called on by the speaker. But I didn't want to talk and reveal my accent and have everyone act weird about me being foreign so I just did this and he called on someone else :

    #immigration #foreigner #expat #immigrant #xenophobie #france #american #secondlanguage #secondlanguageproblems

  35. It’s always satisfying when I come across a Russian post and I’m able to piece together, if not the whole thing, at least a part of it. Today I recognized «в метро» which means “in the subway” :)

    #Russian #LearningRussian #SecondLanguage #Россия #Америка

  36. Escuchando a #PyConCharlas a @pycon y entender mas de lo que pensaba me tiene con ganas de practicar mi español de manera más profesional.

    Lo siento por el proximio contenido deficiente en español.

    correcciones + ayuda bienvenida 😅 🙏

    #espanol #languagelearning #secondlanguage

  37. Olá! Você está a aprender inglês?

    Você pode ler o livro #cristão chamado a #Bíblia. Traduzimo-lo em InglêsFácil (#EasyEnglish). Você também pode ler livros acerca da Bíblia em InglêsFácil.

    Todos os livros são grátis. Não tem de pagar nada.

    easyenglish.bible/internationa

    ma.shellbooks.org/index.php/su

    #língua #inglês #English #learnEnglish #learningEnglish #languageLearning #language #secondLanguage

  38. ¡Hola! ¿Estás aprendiendo inglés?

    Tú puedes leer la #Biblia, el gran libro #cristiano, y distintos libros sobre ella en Inglés Fácil (#EasyEnglish).

    Todos nuestros libros son sin costo alguno. No tienes que pagar para obtenerlos.

    easyenglish.bible/internationa

    ma.shellbooks.org/index.php/su

    #inglés #English #learnEnglish #learningEnglish #languageLearning #language #secondLanguage