Langfocus Paul 🪬

Loving my baby and loving Dad life 👶🏻 My wife and I are under-slept, but overjoyed nonetheless. I used to think family life would be boring, but this is the best. 😊

Portuguese influence on Japan (and the Japanese language)

Aren’t Japanese and Korean related to Chinese?

I’ve been saying this for a long time: The people who learn a language with near-native pronunciation are the ones who closely identify with the culture of its speakers, to the point where they feel like they are part of the in group. If you feel like part of the out group, it almost feels like you have no business speaking with too authentic of an accent.

My home country of Canada has 2 official languages (English and French). But some countries have a lot more. These are the countries with the most largest number of official languages.

Do you know what language this guy is speaking?

Is Arabic a single language?

Did you know these English words came from Arabic?

FRENCH words in Lebanese Arabic

What happens when Chinese speakers try to read Japanese?

Spanish & Portuguese have Arabic loanwords stemming back to the days of Moorish rule. Here are some examples of food vocabulary from Arabic.

Oy vey (And oy vavoy)

Turkish loanwords in Lebanese Arabic

Can you guess what language this is?

More Spanish speakers in Mexico than in Spain!

Aramaic influence on Lebanese Arabic

🇪🇬 Egyptians didn't like my map of Egypt 😮

Are the Balto-Slavic languages really a thing? It's the widely held consensus that the Baltic languages and the Slavic languages have a shared Proto language, and together form a branch of the Indo-European language family. This has become more widely accepted in recent decades, though some people still deny or doubt it.

Lionel Messi can't speak Catalan?! Are you sure?

Mexican Spanish words of Nahuatl origin