Join Lucas and Luna in Episode 255 of Learn Estonian with Fexingo as they return to the hardware store. This episode focuses on essential vocabulary for DIY projects, including asking where items are located and requesting specific tools. Perfect for...
Today · 5 min
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Radio Omniglot
Omniglot News (27/09/26)
Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New language pages:
Eipo (Lik Yuke), an Eastern Mek language spoken in the Highland Papua province in eastern Indonesian.
Tontemboan, a North Minahasan language spoken in northern Sulawesi in Indonesia.
Meru (Kĩmĩĩrũ), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in central Kenya.
New adapted script: Cyrillic-Kiswahili (Кисирили-Кису’ахили), a way to write Swahili with the Cyrillic script devised by Myles Webley.
New numbers pages:
Michif, a mixed language combining Cree and French spoken in Canada and the USA.
Meru (Kĩmĩĩrũ), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in central Kenya.
New phrases pages:
Michif, a mixed language combining Cree and French spoken in Canada and the USA.
Meru (Kĩmĩĩrũ), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in central Kenya.
New Tower of Babel translations:
Meru (Kĩmĩĩrũ), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in central Kenya.
Livvi-Karelian (livvin kieli), a Finnic language spoken in northwest Russia and southeast Finland.
Eipo (Lik Yupe), an Eastern Mek language spoken in Highland Papua Province in eastern Indonesian.
In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Wending One’s Way, we wend our way through the origins of the word wend and find out what links the Vandals with the Mediterranean Sea and Andalusia in Spain.
It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.
On the Omniglot blog this week we find out what slow music has to do with being at ease in a post called At Ease, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language belongs to the Philippine language family, but isn’t spoken in the Philippines.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language spoken in New Brunswik in Canada and Maine in the USA.
On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post about words for Suction and related things in Celtic languages.
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Today · 2 min
TM
Tell Me Your Story (Slow Spanish Stories)
A Morning Ruined By a Simple Cable | Slow Spanish Podcast Ep#91
What is the one minor inconvenience that has the power to ruin your mood before your day has even started?
In this fun, highly relatable, and totally ordinary story, we dive into a classic morning mishap.
Everything was set for a peaceful, productive day: the coffee was hot, the schedule was clear, and the morning air felt fresh. But right before heading out the door, a simple routine task turned into an unexpected, twenty-minute battle against an invisible enemy hidden deep inside a backpack.
Have you ever lost a ridiculous amount of time trying to solve a tiny, stupid problem? Let us know in the comments.
Today · 12 min
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Super Easy Greek for Beginners: Listen to comprehensible Greek | Ελληνικά για αρχαρίους
98: Τα αντίθετα (μέρος δεύτερο)
Artemis goes through some pairs of opposites in slow Greek (part two).