Hi! Like many of you I was a little disappointed about not being able to head to beautiful Mexico this year but oh well… que será será !
I’m Malaysian but have been living in various countries. My main languages are Bahasa Malaysia, Penang Hokkien, Tamil, English, French, Hindi and Tagalog. I’ve also dabbled in Turkish, German, Italian, Japanese, Burmese, Khmer, Syrian Arabic, Navajo, Lakhota, Halkomelem, Nootka, Hawaiian and Malagasy. Malagasy is my current focus so if you want to miteny gasy with me, feel free!
I work for a software company that creates language apps so the more languages I know, the better, I guess
Wow Brian, you really love languages.
Sounds like fun to work for a company making language learning apps. Do a lot of your coworkers like to learn languages too?
Wow! These are incredible languages. May I ask what company you work for? I am also involved in Natural Language Processing and creating language technology for low-resource languages.
Haha, thanks. Yes, learning languages is a passion of mine, although I can probably say the same for everyone else on this forum
Many of my coworkers are bilingual or trilingual (one guy speaks at least 5 languages fluently), but they tend to stick to familiar European languages, like Germanic or Romance languages. I’m the crazy one who dips his toes in totally unfamiliar territory!
Hi Daniel, thanks :). I work for uTalk, we’re one of the sponsors for the Conference this year.
We’re currently focusing on rarer languages for our app, especially endangered ones. Off the top of my head, we will probably be adding Hawaiian and one of the Neo-Aramaic dialects to our app sometime next year (I say probably, because this depends on the worldwide covid situation, since we record native speakers of the target languages and sometimes our staff have to fly to remote locations).
That’s interesting! feel free to drop me an email if you’d like to discuss further. Are there any particular languages you’re working on at the moment? My work email is brian@utalk.com
Baguslah kalau ada orang di sini yang nak bercakap Bahasa Malaysia
Bence İstanbul çok güzel bir şehir! I’m pretty familiar with Istanbul, used to stay in Üsküdar and enjoyed walking all along the seafront from Fenerbahçe up to Beylerbeyi.
Likewise, the pleasure’s mine!
Brian
PS: Oh yes, I’m into creative writing as well, am currently working on my first novel, sci-fi with a focus on what else…linguistics.
Kalau dari segi tips, untuk kebanyakan daripada bahasa-bahasa ini saya dapatkan tips secara harfiah darpada buku-buku referensi Tapi untuk bahasa Hawaii dan Malagasy adanya teman-teman partner bahasa yang saling berpraktik sama saya melalui Zoom
Semoga sehat selalu :: ! Terutama sekali dalam situasi dunia sekarang yang tak terduga
Urban Fantasy is becoming one of my favourite genres. i just finished China Miéville’s “The City and The City” which was actually quite amazing, if a little discombobulating
