Hey reader,
This week MondeLibrary surpassed 1,500 resources! Still plenty more to go. If you’re learning Italian, that language is well underway with a lot of useful resources, especially YouTube channels.
In other news, I’ll be heading to the Polyglot Conference Bologna in November this year. More info about it here.
🛠️Resource spotlight: Calibre
Calibre is a free ebook reader. Whenever I’m not on my kindle, I am using this to read. The reason I mention it here is that its built-in ebook reader has a neat feature: you can add a lookup panel that automatically translates whatever you highlight. You’ll need to modify the lookup panel a bit to add sources for your language. Here a screenshot of it in action for me:
I like to add Linguee and Wordreference as sources for easy context lookup too.
Calibre is also great for organising your ebook collection if you have a big one.
🌐Language learning
How to get past the intermediate plateau
A Redditor asks: What kind of jobs are polyglots or multilingual people doing with their language skills?
Another Redditor asks if you really need to reach C2
How to learn languages for the long haul - a podcast interview with an accomplished language learner
💻From around the web
Is Newspeak from 1984 possible? - a longform podcast
Why don’t we have a punctuation mark for sarcasm?
Is the Odyssey Translation Behind Nolan's Film Actually Woke?
Till next time!
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