https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/tags/language-day/ Recent content in Language Day on Life In Good Measure Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-52/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-52/ This time in Language Day we take up that one very sought after item during hot summer days - ice cream! Being a cold treat, the word “ice” is part of the word in many languages, so we give here also the word for ice, in brackets. Enjoy - your ice cream that is, of any type and flavor! And why not try this summer a vegan ice cream! ARABIC - Buaza (jalid) https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-51/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-51/ This time in Language day we embark on an imaginery journey through languages. We introduce one word in one language, and try to find the same word in another language, but meaning something else. We are looking for short stories of linguistic coincidences! When a Greek learns the Finnish word for thank you, Kiitos, he might be thinking of a whale - for that’s what whale is in Greek (although they do say φάλαινα as well). https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-50/ Mon, 29 May 2023 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-50/ This is the 50th Language Day article, and what better way to celebrate it than do it in honor of Tina Turner who passed away five days ago! We presents here the widely known three words of the song The Best - absolutely one of her most memorable melodies - in all the languages we have here. Kurdish is in for the first time. The song was originally performed by the Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, but it was Tina who made it a worldwide hit in 1989, and it has never diminished in appeal since then. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-49-2/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-49-2/ Let’s have something really fun this time around in Language Day! Winter turning into spring (in the Northern hemisphere), and while there is still snow - and even ice - on the ground in some northern countries, we are seeing more and more of the so pleasantly warming sun, and welcoming the spring once again. But we can still muster a few snowballs, and maybe try to with one of them hit an oak tree that in a few weeks will be getting leaves, and acorns for squirrels to pick up and eat, and store. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-48/ Tue, 28 Feb 2023 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-48/ Every fourth year we have the Summer Olympics. Which happens to always be the same year that the leap year occurs. So, next one will be in 2024, then 2028, and so on. For those of us who are into sports, it is an easy memory rule, easy to remember. But would you know how to say leap year in some other language? Or leap day? Let’s take here the word Leap Day, and then the sentence: I was born on a leap day. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-47/ Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-47/ Here is something that all our lives depend on. Love. We give you first the word in the languages below, and then for some of them a piece of music about love! Later on more songs will be added here, and you are very welcome to suggest one! CHINESE ?? 愛 Ài - DANISH ?? Kærlighed - DUTCH ?? Liefde - ENGLISH ????????????? Love - Dance Me to the End of Love (Leonard Cohen 1984) - Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan 1997, here performed by Adele) https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-46/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-46/ A road sign in the two official languages in Wales This time - a month late, sorry about that, but hopefully worth the wait - we concentrate in Language Day on the Welsh language. Well yn hwyrach na byth (see below!). A Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Historically, it has also been known in English as British, Cambrian, and Cymric. It might also be of interest to know about the Welsh people. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-45/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-45/ Living in these days of great uncertainty, let’s have again some uplifting topic here. The article on the Welsh language can wait. Why not have a few - foreign - words about Happiness? That thing that we all strive towards, in our own unique ways. That thing that we sometimes stumble upon. That thing that we can define in so many individual ways. In some languages the word “happiness” may also mean “luck”, in the same way that the word “unhappiness” may also denote accident. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-44/ Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-44/ Language Day celebrates L I F E - in these somewhat dismal times - big time! By rendering the word for it here in a few languages, and showing some titles of movies and videos (music in bold) where the word “Life” takes center stage. And, whenever possible, in the original language, and possibly even with the lyrics translated! The film links lead you mainly to Wikipedia, and the musical links to YouTube. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-43/ Fri, 29 Jul 2022 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-43/ This time in Language Day we take on a more general approach to what it is to use a language, any language, in our daily lives. And we take on a specific item there, i.e. the simple expression “Language!” And the idea that it is a good idea to once in a while - and in some very specific circumstances - to check ourselves as speakers of a language. How do we express ourselves, how do we say things in ways that may be interpreted by others as offensive? https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-42/ Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-42/ This time in Language Day we concentrate in a very common item, in use all around the world - the pencil! The English word for it comes from Old French pincel, from Medieval Latin pincellus, and from Latin penicillus “painter’s brush, hair-pencil,” literally “little tail,” being diminutive of peniculus “brush,” itself a diminutive of penis “tail”. In 1565 a large deposit of graphite was discovered in England. Extremely pure and solid, it could easily be sawn into sticks. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-41/ Sun, 29 May 2022 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-41/ Three gypsy ladies in the 1930’s Helsinki You readers of Language Day have come to see that this article series can contain most anything to do with languages. The lingual possibilities are countless and how could it be otherwise - there are thousands of languages and nations in the world. This time in Language Day, we concentrate on the language spoken by the Romanis. And more precisely, Romanis living in Finland and Sweden. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-40/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:23:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-40/ Bula bula! This time in Language Day we have a special treat for all you Survivor fans out there! Some titbits of the Fijian language! An Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken by some 350,000–450,000 ethnic Fijians (i.e. less than half the population) as their first language, and as their second, some 200,000 more. The traditional Fijian language is made up of a number of dialects, with the official interpretation being Bau Fijian. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-39-2/ Tue, 29 Mar 2022 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-39-2/ The previous Language Day was published exceptionally already on February 22nd due to the article on Kalevala taking precedence on the 28th, the National Kalevala Day in Finland. But now we are back on the 29th, and this time Language Day deals with a very current topic. War. Let us take an anti-war stance here as well. First the word for war, and then the sentence here below in a few languages. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-38/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:30:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-38/ This month we publish Language Day exceptionally before the 29th. For three reasons, really. The obvious reason being that there is no 29th this month. The second reason is that on the 28th, which was to be the exceptional publication day for this month’s Language Day, is occupied by Kalevala Day - more about that later. And the third reason is that today, February 22nd 2022, is the magical day of Twos that just cannot be ignored! https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-37/ Sat, 29 Jan 2022 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-37/ Hot air balloon (kuumailmapallo in Finnish) This article is mainly for all you studying the Finnish language, or anyone interested in linguistic idiosyncharies! You might have heard that there are lots of long - very long - words in the Finnish language. That is true. And even though Finnish in no way has a monopoly on long words, their abundance in the language is something you just get used to early on. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-36/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-36/ Countries have different ways of denoting floors in a building. If you’re used to one system, it may be confusing to encounter another one as you travel abroad. This article might help you with that. The European method of naming floor levels starts with zero (0). Zero is the ground floor, and the one above it the first floor (1), two flights up the second floor and so on. Here follows a simple list of floor systems in some countries. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-35/ Mon, 29 Nov 2021 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-35/ Korean stop sign, saying “Jeongji”. But for sure, many do have the English word STOP on them too. Let us stop for a minute and have something else here in Language Day - a quick look at the Korean language for us who know absolutely nothing about it! This is a very simple introduction to Korean, and more precisely, the language spoken in South Korea. Many of us Westerners don’t even know whether the Korean characters are alphabets or logographic characters like the Chinese script, or kanji in Japanese. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-34/ Fri, 29 Oct 2021 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-34/ Mother tongue. The first language we learn, and usually by our mother, and father. Sometimes we get to learn two languages at once if the parents are from different linguistic background. And sometimes the third language enters the picture early on as we enter the school and the language of the land is not that of our parents. So, whatever else we may call the mother tongue - first language, native tongue, parent tongue - it will be the language of feelings and self-expression more than any other language we may learn. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-33/ Wed, 29 Sep 2021 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-33/ The Lingsberg runestone known as U 240, from the 11th century. near Vallentuna, Sweden This time in Language Day an interesting, but not a very current subject: rune stones and the rune alphabet. A fitting subject nevertheless, and certainly something that most of us don’t know a whole lot about! Most runestones date from the late Viking Age and are located in Scandinavia, notably in Sweden. But a few are scattered elsewhere, in places visited by Norsemen. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-32/ Sun, 29 Aug 2021 04:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-32/ There are a whole lot of loan words in English. Many more than you might think. Perhaps as much as 80% of words in the English language have a non-English origin. Most are of course from far back in time, but some are quite new. So new that you might recognize them right away if the source was your own mother tongue. Below there is an alphabetical list of some of these words. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-31/ Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-31/ The Watchtower’s Samoan edition Did you know that The Watchtower, started in 1879 by Charles Taze Russell and published monthly by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, is the most widely read magazine in the world? It has appeared with slightly different names, and has different editions even now, but you would have to live pretty isolated if you never had seen this magazine anywhere. The success of this theologically very conservative magazine is based on several factors. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-30/ Mon, 28 Jun 2021 23:33:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-30/ This time in Language Day we take a slightly different approach. Namely looking at an expression in the English language that has a foreign background. There will be other such articles later on. We start with Dutch treat. Most English speaking people know exactly what that means, but others perhaps not. A treat yes, but Dutch? Anything to do with the Netherlands? Everybody knows though what my treat means. I pay for everything - for me, you and perhaps even for the rest of the bunch. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/native-america-in-northern-america/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/native-america-in-northern-america/ Anyone born outside of the United States or Canada tends to underestimate the number of place names in Northern America that have a connection with Native Americans. Or the First Nations as they are called in Canada. They are many! For there have been so many native tribes. Many of them ring a bell with most of us, some are less known, many are either extinct today or are so little known that we just don’t recognize them. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-29/ Sat, 29 May 2021 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-29/ There are so many languages in the world! But some of us - actually quite a few - go through life without learning - or needing to learn - any other language except the one provided to us since infancy, our mother tongue. Depending upon where you were born though, you may have been surrounded by other languages beyond your mother tongue to the extent that it has been only natural - or perhaps even necessary - to take up at least one of them. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-28/ Thu, 29 Apr 2021 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-28/ Sun, the source of all life in our solar system, certainly earns its own Language Day article! From the linguistic point of view, you can easily see the similarities in several of the European languages in the words we have for sun, be they Germanic, Latin or Slavic languages. The Romans replaced the Greek word for sun, Helios, with the Latin Sol, a root word that continues to refer to the sun in the present day, but sol itself came from the Proto-Indo-European sóh₂wl̥. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-27/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:15:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-27/ Have you ever wondered what the term “polymath” entails? Anything to do with mathematics for example? Being in various ways talented in mathematics? You would be partly right. It may indicate being talented in mathematics, but also in many other fields of science as well. According to Wikipedia, “A polymath is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems” https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-26/ Sun, 28 Feb 2021 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-26/ Ever wonder where the expression Blood is thicker than water comes from? Or what it actually means? You might think that it means that family relationships and loyalties are the strongest and most important ones, keeping people closer together. Stronger than friendships or even love relationships - where although closeness and intimacy is tangible, no blood is shared. But actually the opposite is true. The Blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb is a medieval proverb that means that bonds of friendship or love will always be stronger than bonds of family. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-25/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-25/ This time in Language Day we go through one word in daily use all over the world: grandmother! Let’s see the official (in bold) and the colloquial word (in italics) for these darlings in some of the countries in detail. Note that some languages make a distinction between maternal and paternal grandmothers (and grandfathers for that matter). The colloquial use given here are the most common ones. There may always be local and cultural variations. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-24/ Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:55:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-24/ A polyglot myself, I luckily stumbled the other day upon a great new acquaintance as far as language sites go. An Italian polyglot by the name of Stefano whose knowledge and interest in my mother tongue Finnish truely impressed me. He has a YouTube site called linguaEpassione with lots of quality content, and more coming of course. Stefano’s thoughts about studying Finnish and the response from Finns to his avid interest in their small language reminded me of the response I got from my Greek teacher in Stockholm University. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-23/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 12:15:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-23/ In these times of COVID-19 when traveling is scarce for whatever reason and wherever we are, it’s great to have access to the simple pleasures of Google’s Street View. Walking down the streets, driving through areas, watching what we might find behind a corner - even if some maps do need some updating too. And planning perhaps some future trip. So let’s explore a bit. À la Language Day. Let’s see how the word map translates in different languages. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-22/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:11:22 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-22/ People conversing in sign language. Photo credit Natural American Sign Language by daveynin This time in Language Day let’s have a look at sign languages. Since many of the ways we show our emotions and reactions with different gesticulations and facial expressions are universal, one might think that there could be just one universal sign language. But that is of course not the case. Sign languages are expressed through manual articulations in combination with non-manual elements. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-21/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-21/ The Tower of Babel by an anonymous artist, the Hendrick van Cleve construction The most beautiful language in the world. And the ugliest of them all. Which languages are we talking about here would you say? A hint: the emphasis is on the word you. For whether we find a language pleasing to the ear or not is an entirely subjective matter. A lot of it has to do with what your first language is and what other, perhaps foreign, sounds you were exposed to as a child. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-20/ Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-20/ Yes! Jesari! This time in Language Day we concentrate in one single language. There will be other times too when we do the same. Today’s language will be Finnish, and we concentrate here on the peculiar way the Finns shorten words with the ending -ri. Sometimes a pretty long word in Finnish (a language of many, many long words) gets to be shortened to a mere three syllable word which of course is the main purpose with abbreviation of words. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-18/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-18/ This time in Language Day a word daily used and a product in high demand all over the world in 2020. The face mask. Or respirator. Like the one in this picture that looks pretty home-made - and is prettier that many of the more official face masks that seemed to be sold out in so many pharmacies and other stores everywhere. The picture at the bottom of the page taken end of March tells that story (EI hengityssuojia is Finnish for NO face masks). https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-18-2/ Fri, 29 May 2020 08:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-18-2/ How often do we get misunderstood when we try to tell our name, address, the license plate number (or rather, letter and number combination) of our car, etc? And when traveling abroad, it doesn’t help of course that each country has its own way of spelling. So here is a helpful list: spelling alphabets in different countries. The main order of all of the alphabets is as follows: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Å Ä Ö https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-17/ Sun, 29 Mar 2020 20:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-17/ This time in Language Day one simple but very current word, sadly to say - otherwise depicting something fine and majestic, rooted in history. We talk about the disease COVID-19, which is colloquially called Corona and here we go through what that word is in some languages, in its meaning as the royal headwear. It does have another meaning as well of course, as currency for some monarchies - also very current as it threatens to wreck the economy of both individuals and countries worldwide. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-16/ Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:11:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-16/ This time in Language Day we talk about today´s topic, the Leap Day. The 29th day of February that occurs every four years - the same year as the Summer Olympics. You can read about Leap Year and Leap Day in Wikipedia’s extensive articles. Here let’s just go through what we call this particular day in different countries and languages, and the etymology of the word itself. Did you know that people born on a leap day may be called “leaplings” or “leapers”. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-15-2/ Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:33:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-15-2/ Since the year 2000, February 21st has been observed around the world as the International Mother Language Day, in order to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity, and multilingualism. In view of that, let’s see how the words mother & mother language (mother tongue) are said in some of the languages. Whether we speak just our mother tongue, or on top of that our father tongue (if it’s not the same as our mother’s), or acquire yet another language skill in childhood or later on in life, we can all appreciate the emotional familiarity of the very first language we learn. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-15/ Sun, 29 Dec 2019 15:36:00 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-15/ And. A word that never appears alone. Always preceded by something, and followed by something. Although it may sometimes start a sentence. But always loaded with promise and hope of continuation. So a very positive word, right? Which by itself doesn’t mean a thing. We’ll, of course it can be involved in a list of sinister things as well. And was also the first foreign word that I learned. We kids always walked to school, situated a couple of miles from our home. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-13/ Fri, 29 Nov 2019 08:11:13 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-13/ Let’s learn some Hawaiian this time around in Language Day. It is a Polynesian language and, along with English, the official language of the State of Hawaii. Read more about its background and politics here. This article will deal solely with the language itself. The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters. That is a lot less than in most languages. There are five vowels: a, e, i, o, and u - each with a long pronunciation and a short one. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-12/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:17:24 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-12/ This time in Language Day we concentrate on just one single language - as opposed to the usual multilingual theme we have here. This language is the Skolt Sami language. It is one of the many Sami languages spoken in the northern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway, and all of them belong to the Uralic language group. Year 2019 is - among other things - the International Year of Indigenous Languages that are spoken by millions of people around the world. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-11/ Sun, 29 Sep 2019 08:11:39 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-11/ Let’s have this time around in Language Day a little play with words. Or rather, letters. Three single letters to be exact. The letters A, I and M. See, you can start learning a language with very little, and go on from there. With as little as three letters. Language learning is not just about learning by heart, or from example, or from practice. It is also about the light and humorous touch. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-10/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 21:55:53 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-10/ Welcome back to Language Day! If you haven’t read the introduction yet, please do it here. This time we deal with the etymology of weekdays in a few languages. The first day of the week varies in different countries and cultures, but let’s take here Sunday as the first day for the sake of convenience. This may get a bit complicated and confusing, and if it does, just pick one or two languages, and go from there. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-9-2/ Sat, 29 Jun 2019 07:11:29 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-9-2/ Welcome once again to take a dive in languages - a big part in our journeys of life. Whether we actually make any journeys geographically or merely in our minds - digitally or otherwise. This time it will be about the third person singular - he and she. To the exclusion of all other aspects of gender specification. So without entering in the discussion when and why the two genders get grammatically separated, or what is the role of feminism in all of this, let’s just say that I myself found out only a couple of weeks ago that gender neutrality is not that uncommon after all. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-8/ Mon, 29 Apr 2019 08:11:38 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-8/ Welcome again to Language Day! If you haven’t read the introduction yet, please do it here. This time we’ll go through that simple but oh so useful and such an appreciated word: Thank You! Here presented the most simple form of it in different languages, more or less corresponding to the English Thanks. The way the word is written in its own language is given after the language designation. How it is pronounced is for you to find out! https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-7/ Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:11:08 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-7/ This time in Language Day, let’s talk a little about countries. Anyone who watches international sports events such as the Olympic Games is well aware of that many national teams like to display the name of their country in their own language. Which can be very different from how it is said in English. So the list below shows what it might say on the shirt of an athlete (these days of course you often see the name of the athlete instead). https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-6/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:11:31 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-6/ This time in Language Day a very useful expression if you are traveling abroad. The one question that you need to ask when looking for a place, any place. You already know where you want to get to, and you only need to attach two simple words to it: where is? Of course you can always try English anywhere you go, but the fact is that not everyone knows English, so here goes: where is in several other languages. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-5/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:11:20 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-5/ The feeling when you are at the beginning of the runway. The plane has left the gates what may seem like a long time ago, now waiting for the permission for takeoff. The buzz of conversation between the passengers are louder than the engines, for a while. But there is in the air the anticipation of what is to come, and for that some of the passengers get really quiet. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-4/ Sat, 29 Dec 2018 06:33:48 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-4/ If you are planning to welcome the year 2019 abroad, you might want to wish Happy New Year in the local language! Never mind the pronunciation, just trying to say it may get you some new friends! Cin cin! Here’s how it is said - or rather, written - in the following countries and regions:  Albania: Vitin e ri të lumtur! Armenia: Shnorhavor Nor Tari! Շնորհավոր Նոր Տարի Basque Country (Spain): Urte berri on! https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-3/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 09:11:29 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-3/ Welcome once again to take a dive in languages - a big part in our journeys of life. Whether we actually make any journeys geographically or merely in our minds - digitally or otherwise - knowing a few languages besides your mother tongue is always a good idea. The original theme for this article was actually something entirely different, nothing to do with cartoons, but fate chose otherwise. So this time we jump into the magical world of marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of the cartoon series SpongeBob SquarePants which premiered back in 1999. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-2/ Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:35:36 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-2/ Welcome to Language Day! If you haven’t read the introduction yet, please do it here. Let’s start with something fun! Some Disney characters, and more precisely, the three nephews of Donald Duck. How do you say Huey, Dewey and Louie in some other languages? Would you expect them to be like in English, or just something that would sound just as fun? Let’s see! Let’s take first the country of origin, the United States. https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-1/ Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:11:43 +0000 https://lifeingoodmeasure.com/language-day-1/ Hi! From this day on Journeys of Life will have another featured series, namely Language Day. Every 29th of a month. This blog is entirely in English, but partly due to the multilingual background of the blogger, and partly due to the world being increasingly international, these sort of articles fall naturally in place here. And languages, well, they are a big part of our lives. Even if you only speak your mother tongue, you’re still gonna hear other languages as well.