{"id":534,"date":"2009-12-11T13:08:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T13:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2009-12-09T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T13:14:12","slug":"trying-out-languages-37-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/trying-out-languages-37-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying out languages &#8211; 37 of them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many people, choosing which language to learn is a simple decision. It comes from necessity (business or moving to a country that speaks the language), or a particular interest.<\/p>\n<p>But what if you\u2019re interested in a lot of languages?<\/p>\n<p>Well, you could emulate one man who has decided to try out 37 different languages to find the one that is \u201cperfect\u201d for him. Keith Brooks began his <a href=\"http:\/\/37languages.wordpress.com\/about\/ \">project<\/a> in December 2008, and has so far covered 29 languages and is on to his 30th, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turkish_language\">Turkish<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The languages he is testing are pretty diverse \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/romanian.htm \">Romanian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/azeri.org\/ \">Azeri<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/library.thinkquest.org\/22868\/\">Xhosa<\/a> along with more popular ones such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/language\/spanish.html\">Spanish<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/language\/french.html\">French<\/a>. His <a href=\"http:\/\/37languages.wordpress.com\/\">blog<\/a> follows his learning progress and is a worthwhile read if you\u2019re interested in any of the languages \u2013 he provides a lot of information about their history and usage along with personal impressions of what the language is like for him.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video and hear what Brooks has to say about the project, in his own words.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/szsr_dnwhvU&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/szsr_dnwhvU&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many people, choosing which language to learn is a simple decision. It comes from necessity (business or moving to a country that speaks the language), or a particular interest. But what if you\u2019re interested in a lot of languages? Well, you could emulate one man who has decided to try out 37 different languages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,40,327],"tags":[473,475,477,4,474,123,269,327,478,476],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french","category-language-acquisition","category-spanish","tag-37-languages","tag-azeri","tag-choosing-a-language","tag-french","tag-keith-brooks","tag-language-learning","tag-romanian","tag-spanish","tag-turkish","tag-xhosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}