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Did you know that there’s a language that can be played on musical instruments? That there are native speakers of Esperanto? That there’s a language with only 120 root-words? That languages were designed to test a scientific hypothesis? In this talk, I’ll give a short tour through the colorful and eccentric world of constructed languages, and the reasons behind them. I’ll end with a mini crash course in Esperanto.
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Did you know that there’s a language that can be played on musical instruments? That there are native speakers of Esperanto? That there’s a language with only 120 root-words? That languages were designed to test a scientific hypothesis? In this talk, I’ll give a short tour through the colorful and eccentric world of constructed languages, and the reasons behind them. I’ll end with a mini crash course in Esperanto.
Word order in the diachrony of Esperanto: A corpus-based study of noun-adje...Federico Gobbo
Talk given in the meeting at the University of Amsterdam of the international network on The Structure, Emergence and Evolution of Pidgin and Creole Languages (SEEPiCLa), Monday the 14th of December, 2015.
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Talk given in the meeting at the University of Amsterdam of the international network on The Structure, Emergence and Evolution of Pidgin and Creole Languages (SEEPiCLa), Monday the 14th of December, 2015.
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European Languages - history and evolutionEuroasia
What are Romance languages? What's the difference between Spanish and French? German and English? Where did these languages come from? How have the evolved? Check out this presentation by Euroasia if you wish to learn about the evolution of European languages and how the various languages compare. Compulsory viewing for those learning European languages.
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Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
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The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
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Esperanto -- a language for engineers
1. Esperanto: A Language for
Engineers
A. Giridhar RAO
agiridhar.rao@gmail.com &
giridhar.rao@iiit.ac.in
2. Esperanto?
What? Planned language for international
communication
Why? Easy to learn
And? Not the cultural property of any
nation or group: humanity's “common
resource”
3. Esperanto – How does it sound?
Mia nomo estas Giri.
Mi loĝas en Hajderabado.
Hajderabado estas la ĉefurbo de Andhra-
Pradeŝo.
Andhra-Pradeŝo estas en suda Barato.
Barato estas granda lando en la
kontinento Azio.
4. Why Esperanto? - 1
English, French, Chinese, Hindi, Telugu...
take too long to learn!
Being forced to master someone else's
language is unfair. We need a more even
playing-field: linguistic democracy.
5. Why Esperanto? - 2
Esperanto
− is an easy, “open-source”, democratic
solution
− helps in learning other languages faster
− promotes global citizenship
− a tool for peace-building
6. What is Esperanto?
Planned language for international
communication
Easy to learn
Not the cultural property of any nation or
group
8. Zamenhof's Esperanto - 1
Russian, Polish, German (fluently);
Yiddish, French, Hebrew, Greek, Latin,
English (less well). Some knowledge of
Spanish, Lithuanian and Volapük
July 1887 La Unua Libro – 125 years
Some original poetry
Translated Old Testament, Hamlet,
Goethe, Heine, Schiller, Gogol
9. Zamenhof's Esperanto - 2
Volapük? Johann Martin SCHLEYER
So, Esperanto was not the first planned
language? Certainly not!
Over a 1000 such projects through
human history!
13. Esperanto: la afiksoj - 2
Arbo = a tree + -ar- = a group of things
− Arbaro = a forest (vort-ar-o; hom-ar-o)
Skribi = to write + -aĵ- = something
concrete; something tangible
− Skribaĵo = some writing; something written
-il- = a tool; Skribilo = a pen; Skribilaro
= stationery, a bunch of things you need
to write with, paper, pens, erasers, etc.
14. Esperanto: the affixes - 3
-ej- = a place; Skribejo = a room where
we sit and write; Skribilejo = a room
where you keep pens
-ist- = a professional; Skribisto = a
professional writer, a scribe
Skribilisto = someone who professionally
makes or sells pens
Skribilaristo = a stationery producer or
seller
15. Esperanto: the affixes - 4
Ino (female), Ido (child), Aro (set), Ilo
(tool), Ejo (place), Isto (professional) –
words in themselves; lexical affixes
Thus: inismo (feminism); ilaro (tool-kit)
Highly productive derivational
morphology; intensively agglutinating
Result: in John Wells' Eo-En / En-Eo dict.
(2010), 10 315 entries in Eo; 22 300 in
En
16. Why Esperanto? - 1
English, French, Chinese, Hindi, Telugu...
take too long to learn!
Esperanto? How long?
17. Why Esperanto? - 1
Basic French? Basic German? 100-200
hours of classes (+ homework!)
Basic Esperanto? 40 hours max!
School English? 10 000–15 000 hours of
learning!
– Nursery, LKG, UKG, Class 1-10 = 13
years
– 5 hours every day; 200 days per year =
1000 hours per year of English
– Nursery to Class 10 = 13 000 hours of
English
18. Esperanto: the community - 1
Guestimate: About a million speakers
(Factoid: half the world's 7000 lang. have
less than 3000 speakers!)
Universala Esperanto-Asocio
(Rotterdam): 18 000 members in 111
countries (previous prezidanto: Probal
Dasgupta, Kolkato, Barato)
~ 200 families where Esperanto is one of
the home languages
19. Esperanto: the community - 2
150-200 books every year
Esperanto Wikipedia: > 168 000 articles;
with ~ 12 000 hits per hour!
97th World Congress of Esperanto, July
2012, Hanoi, Vietnam
98th World Congress, Reykjavík, Iceland
Online communities
20. How to learn Esperanto
Free Esperanto courses (in > 30
languages!) at
WWW.LERNU.NET
21. Esperanto: the flavour
Soneto 18 de Ŝekspiro (Tr. Reto Rosetti)
Ĉu mi komparu vin al tag' somera? Sed jam ne velkos via plensomero
Vi estas ja pli bela kaj serena Nek dekliniĝos de l'beleco nuna
Majflorojn ofte vipas vent' severa La morto vin ne tenos kun fiero
Kaj tro maldaŭras la somero bena. Se vin la vers' eterna gardas juna.
Jen brulas la okulo de l'ĉielo Dum homoj spiros kaj okuloj vidos
Jen vualiĝas ĝia vido ora Vivante en vivanta vers' vi sidos.
Kaj iam senbeliĝas ĉiu belo
Laŭ voj' natura aŭ pro fat' rigora