LanguageCrawler
@languagecrawler
A pan-linguistic experiment to crawl and uncover the world’s linguistic resources. www.languagecrawler.com
Hazards of relying on machine translation. This option at an Italian self-service car wash should be translated as "WAX" (cera) and not "THERE WAS" (c'era). No human would make this mistake.
AI? subtitling error on Netflix. The speaker said "I just got launched into a place that really only ‘very ambitious people’ belong" and the AI interpreted that as “Barry Humphries” (RIP). How many human jobs have been lost and why does no one care about accuracy anymore?
Just published: Kik’aslemal ri Kaqchikela’: An Advanced Kaqchikel Maya Language Textbook amzn.to/4eMCByP Book One: La ütz awäch?: Introduction to Kaqchikel Maya Language: amzn.to/4vk7dN8 #mayalanguage
"Pouvez" is a conjugated French verb that means "you can / you are able to" #translationfail
Multilingual sign from the Grand Canyon, USA. What went wrong with the French and German? Was it AI or an incompetent sign maker? Source: www.reddit.com/r/French/com...
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind "The groundbreaking work that Language journal said no linguist could afford to neglect" amzn.to/4uJoted
Over 100 free podcasts to learn languages www.amazon.com/shop/languag...
You may know them from their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/atfrenchieso...), Alex Durand and Tom Carles (AT Frenchies) have now published a book: Pardon Our French: The Parisian Way to a Happier Life: amzn.to/4tbepKs
Read archived issues of The Linguist magazine here: www.ciol.org.uk/the-linguist...
New Book: Two Koreas: Understanding the Language of North and South Korea: amzn.to/42xl9re #northkorean #learnnorthkorean #northkoreanlanguage
Learn Korean With BTS (4 books with wireless audio pen that reads the words and dialogs & keyboard stickers with Korean alphabet). Bundle available here: amzn.to/4tI13W1 Videos about the kit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UifH... #learnkorean #koreanlanguage
When Your Language Textbook Has Never Met a Native Speaker: 5 Easy Ways to Detect AI-Made Language Books www.languagecrawler.com
Polyglot or scammer? It's getting harder to tell. This author published a 300-page language course (with plans to publish more). Do you find their claims credible?
When AI misunderstands the assignment. (Without context, it mistranslated the Spanish/French verbs subir/monter as "upload" instead of "do not climb up" - on the statue platform)
Speaking Spanish In The U.S.A.: amzn.to/4ksK4Eq El Español de los Estados Unidos: amzn.to/4trYE2U An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States: amzn.to/4tGJZ4e Varieties of Spanish in the United States: amzn.to/4s0Czar
Check out Langston Hill’s new Japanese language learning books - The Japanese Language Manual Volumes 1 and 2: Instagram post with the author: instagram.com/reel/DKMeFpo... Book 1: amzn.to/3Mcv6We (click READ SAMPLE to see sample pages) Book 2: amzn.to/4q4F1v6
Diccionario de Colombianismos (amzn.to/3NCvWMy) - Beautiful 540-page book of Colombian Spanish slang #colombianslang #spanishslang
Her Story: tinyurl.com/mdabpnn8 Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Haas Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwab...
AI crashes out when you ask it to show you something that doesn't exist:
Merriam-Webster goes old school with first new hardcover Collegiate dictionary in 22 years! Link to Book: amzn.to/3K84qoQ Article about the dictionary: wbur.org/news/2025/11... Over 5,000 new words including cold brew, farm-to-table, parklet, heat dome, rizz, gaslighting, telework, doggo