Almost everyone uses language, so inevitably almost everyone thinks they are an expert in it. I don’t consider myself an expert, though most of my work requires at least language competence and sometimes actual skill, but I do follow the blogs featured on this feeds page.
(If you are wondering where the translation-related feeds have all gone, I have put them on their own page.)
Most of the blogs represented here are in English, most of the time, but don’t be surprised to find other languages used. Go with the flow – I occasionally find myself pleasantly surprised at how much I can grasp in languages I have never seen before.
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Language Log » Stop and go
Andrew Herron sent in this photograph taken on Hospital Road, Hong Kong Island: 
I know that area well, since I lived there during the year 2002-2003 when I was teaching at Hong Kong University. Such scenes are often encountered as one walks or drives up and down the steep, narrow streets. In Hong Kong, construction is a constant. Practically everyone … [Link]
Language Log » Stuff
My usual blogging hour has been overwhelmed recently by a minor operation, course prep, research obligations, Ware College House events, and even a little sleep from time to time. So here are a few items from my to-blog list that I don't have time today to do justice to. "Arika Okrent announced as winner of the LSA Linguistics Journalism Award", … [Link]
languagehat.com » Modernism and Cliques.
I’m always on the lookout for people who write about literature sensibly, using their own judgment but not attacking received wisdom just to be different, and taking useful insights from various theoretical approaches without tying themselves to any particular one. I’ve found another such in Leonid Livak, a professor of Russian literature at the University of Toronto whose How It … [Link]
Omniglot blog » New languages to learn?
Recently I have acquired quite a few new language courses: as a sponsor of the Polyglot Conference in New York I received 10 new Colloquial language courses in Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Russian. I also bought a Glossika Russian course with the special offer given to conference participants, and bought a Basque course from … [Link]
Language Log » The mysteries of 13.5
China is in the throes of hammering out its next five-year plan, on the model of the USSR. For China, the current one they're working on is the thirteenth, so they refer to it as 13.5. In Mandarin, that would be shísānwǔ 十三五. Although the Communist bureaucrats think these five-year plans are hugely important, for the common citizen they are … [Link]
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