Tettyo Saito, 30, has spent many years as a hikikomori--a socially reclusive person. He failed college entrance exams and so stayed at home with his parents, rarely leaving. He watched a lot of movies during that time, i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/22/This-Japanese-Man-Taught-Himself-Romanian-and-Then-Became-a-Published-Novelist-in-Romanian/As our world becomes increasingly interconnected,... ...r world becomes increasingly interconnected, many languages used by small populations are dying out. The Enda... ...anization has found that many of these endangered languages can be found in New York City itself. For example... ...York Times reports on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/03/03/Of-the-700-Speakers-of-Seke-a-Nepalese-Language-150-Live-in-Two-Apartment-Buildings-in-Brooklyn/I made this thing called LOL Verifier: a device that only lets you type lol if you’ve actually laughed out loud pic.twitter.com/Gsc63yGEm0— Brian Moore (@lanewinfield) January 3, 2023 Because we live in fall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/01/04/A-Machine-That-Allows-You-Type-LOL-Only-When-You-Actually-Laugh-Out-Loud/Or, to put another way, if Yoda was from Bavaria instead of spending his years in Dagobah.Nick Alfieri is an American football player who plays for Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns in a German football league. He's also a f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/08/30/If-English-Was-Spoken-Like-German/Kindergarteners are just better at naming things than we are. I mean, we’ve all adopted “hanitizer,” right? pic.twitter.com/AskCYKMfFd— Mrs. F (@ms_frazzled) August 16, 2022 Mrs. F, a kindergarte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/08/17/Kindergarten-Teacher-Uses-Words-Invented-by-Her-Students/Cartoonist James Chapman (previously at Neatorama)... ...h this comic “How to Answer the Phone in 10 Languages ” for Babbel. Chapman has made the exercise... ...cs that translate everyday actions into different languages every Friday.Via Laughing Squid | Image: Babbel
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/12/How-to-Answer-the-Phone-in-Ten-Different-Languages/[http://youtu.be/lSXNqsOoURg]YouTube LinkI love animals, but elephants are some of my favorites. They are soulful, smart and sweet to their species and others. This video provides facts about the intelligence of elephant...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/23/Why-Elephants-Never-Forget/We have a problem? No, you have a problem. It's no... ...e travel blog Hotel Club illustrated 10 idioms in languages other than English that might baffle native Engli...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/11/11/Strange-Idioms-from-around-the-World/If you're a native Japanese speaker traveling to an English-speaking country, you might wonder how you will be able to conduct business and everyday transactions in a language that is very different from your own. How wi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/30/A-Darth-Vader-to-Japanese-Phrasebook/[http://youtu.be/cas-B-CGnLk] (YouTube link)Have y... ...rth Vader’s voice sound like in the various languages that the Star Wars films have been dubbed into? H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/15/I-Am-Your-Father-in-20-Languages/
