http://blog.babbel.com/of-words-wudz-dialects-and-accents-the-man-of-a-thousand-voices-speaks-in-tongues/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:34:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.babbel.com/of-words-wudz-dialects-and-accents-the-man-of-a-thousand-voices-speaks-in-tongues/comment-page-1/#comment-21 octodog Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:47:47 +0000 http://blog.babbel.com/?p=134#comment-21 It was nice to finally differentiate between Sicilian and other Italian accents, as well as get where the English second person plural is "yoused". Ha. It was nice to finally differentiate between Sicilian and other Italian accents, as well as get where the English second person plural is “yoused”. Ha.

]]> http://blog.babbel.com/of-words-wudz-dialects-and-accents-the-man-of-a-thousand-voices-speaks-in-tongues/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Maps: 1,000 dialects and 6,912 living languages « ESOL World News Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:54:07 +0000 http://blog.babbel.com/?p=134#comment-20 [...] dialects and 6,912 living languages BABBEL BLOG–Last week we had Mara interviewing the Dialect Doctor, who claims to cure accents and strengthen dialects. Well, now here is databank of roughly nearly [...] [...] dialects and 6,912 living languages BABBEL BLOG–Last week we had Mara interviewing the Dialect Doctor, who claims to cure accents and strengthen dialects. Well, now here is databank of roughly nearly [...]

]]> http://blog.babbel.com/of-words-wudz-dialects-and-accents-the-man-of-a-thousand-voices-speaks-in-tongues/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Maps: 1,000 dialects and 6,912 living languages | The Babbel Blog Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:39:17 +0000 http://blog.babbel.com/?p=134#comment-19 [...] week we had Mara interviewing the Dialect Doctor, who claims to cure accents and strengthen dialects. Well, now here is databank of roughly nearly [...] [...] week we had Mara interviewing the Dialect Doctor, who claims to cure accents and strengthen dialects. Well, now here is databank of roughly nearly [...]

]]> http://blog.babbel.com/of-words-wudz-dialects-and-accents-the-man-of-a-thousand-voices-speaks-in-tongues/comment-page-1/#comment-10 syz Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:08:12 +0000 http://blog.babbel.com/?p=134#comment-10 Great interview! I'm going to borrow the "media-ese" term for the work I do with Beijing dialect as opposed to media-ese Mandarin, which the Chinese would call pǔtōnghuà. To run with Easton's great observation, the local language of Beijingers is not (exactly) the same as what you hear on television, even though the standard dialect is largely based on what's spoken in the capital. Great interview! I’m going to borrow the “media-ese” term for the work I do with Beijing dialect as opposed to media-ese Mandarin, which the Chinese would call pǔtōnghuà. To run with Easton’s great observation, the local language of Beijingers is not (exactly) the same as what you hear on television, even though the standard dialect is largely based on what’s spoken in the capital.

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