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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 25/11/2025

When you love languages, even the tag from your new t-shirt can be a gold mine #langsky #languagelearning #language

A cloth tag removed from a t-shirt that states “100% cotton” in 21 languages, with a 2-letter language identifier preceding each line

Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 08/08/2025

The city boasts a well-preserved medieval city center and a large medieval castle with a Renaissance chateau. I’ve included a few of the color plates of the book

The roundel of the Renaissance chateau completed in 1596

The interior of the Church of Saint John the Baptist

The old Jesuit seminary mid-17th century

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 08/08/2025

More show & tell A book I purchased in the Czech Republic in the Autumn of 2000 on a business trip A book on the city of Jindřichův Hradec (Jindřich’s Castle). German: Neuhaus (ironically) Many Czech cities also have German names Following each chapter in Czech is a German translation. #langsky

A book on the Czech city of Jindřichův. Published in 1992 celebrating the city’s history from 1293 to 1993.

The German translation of the introduction (following the Czech introduction. Note that the German name of the city, Neuhaus, is used

A translation into English via Google Lens

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 08/07/2025

And now for something completely different: a Hungarian phrasebook #langsky #hungarian

A small Hungarian phrasebook on a desk. Publisher: Lonely Planet

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 30/06/2025

The Routledge Cambodian Grammar drops Monday, June 30! Good news for learners of Khmer/Cambodian #langsky #khmer #cambodia #cambodian #books #booksky

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 29/06/2025

Show & Tell: 1931 French grammar book Notice the phonetic respelling throughout. Not just in the pronunciation guide or the first couple chapters. I love the black & white maps included. #langsky

Title page
By W.H. Fraser & J. Squair & David Hobart Carnahan

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 26/06/2025

Show and tell: Nigerian Pidgin If you’ve never looked into Nigerian Pidgin, it’s a wild ride. I find it utterly delightful. Everything about it is fascinating. This book purports to be the first comprehensive grammar of the language. #langsky #nigeria #pidgin

Nigerian Pidgin
(A comprehensive grammar)
Routledge

Publishing information for Nigerian Pidgin
Nicholas G. Faraclas
1996
(First paperback 2013)

A sample page so that you can see just a bit about the language

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 23/06/2025

From the main page select “alphabet” Then “each consonant” Then you can select any of the consonants and get more info and an audio clip. Unfortunately the vowels are not covered to the same degree

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 23/06/2025

Using this app to learn the Khmer (Cambodian) alphabet. (Technically, an abugida). I’m not saying this app is great. I don’t see any that are great, but it is useful. Combined with a couple videos and some online info, it’s doing the job Don’t know if it’s available on Android #langsky

An app called “KHMER Language - Cambodian” in the Apple App Store

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 18/06/2025

Just for fun. A tiny Indonesia dictionary. I think this was $1 US. Definitions are one or two words. So, yeah. Not the most comprehensive tool. But it was impossible to resist. #langsky

Tony red Indonesian dictionary bedside a black pen to show scale.

A.L.N. Kramer Sr.
Inggris
Kamus Kantong

Publishing info.
Kamus Kantong Inggris
English-Indonesian
Indonesian-English

A sample of the Indonesian-English section

A sample of the English-Indonesian section

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 13/06/2025

I picked up a book for $6 at a regional bookstore several years ago. It’s a collection of articles by Buddhist scholars. It includes the first 4 chapters of a the śrīsamvarodayatantrarājah - from a Sanskrit manuscript preserved by a Nepali vajrayana practitioner. #langsky

Amitabha-Buddha-Śrih: Gems of Buddhism
Eastern Book Linkers

Publishing information.
1996 Delhi, India

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 09/06/2025

My first language learning material ever. I was 5 years old, to the best of my memory. #langsky #French

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 07/06/2025

A book I bought in the Czech Republic in 2000 on a business trip about the city Tábor (which translates to “camp”) Here is the cover and a bit of the inside cover - original & through Google Translate #langsky

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 02/06/2025

I have been chatting with ChatGPT about its support in various languages. I put its capabilities into 3 categories of support: very well, well, and attempt. I asked it to give a complete listing of languages in its training model for these 3 categories. I thought I should pass it on. #langsky

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 30/05/2025

You can just ask for minimal pairing sentence variation in Japanese. I just generated the pics below. You can ask it to give the English equivalents. You can choose how many sentences. Best of all you can tailor the vocabulary, focus on certain kanji, grammar points etc

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 21/05/2025

Ukrainian-English dictionary from a local library. Obviously won’t make fluency, but it’s a tool. Good for practicing Cyrillic & picking up some vocabulary. And hey…it’s free. #langsky

The cover of a small Ukrainian-English dictionary from DK, a division of Penguin Random House. Blue and white with a picture of a sunflower

A page showing pictures of math concepts and tools labeled in both languages

Pictures of food items labeled in both languages

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 17/02/2025

A snack I found at a local Asian Market. We have a large population from Myanmar I the area. Many are Chin and Karen (ethnicities) The language on the package is Burmese (and English) #myanmar #burmese #langsky

Black Sesame Brittle Snacks from Myanmar. The package is in Burmese and English

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 14/02/2025

Been wanting a new rice cooker. Manuals: one in French; the other in English, Chinese, Korean & Japanese. Eventually I will make rice, after examining the free language materials #langsky

Zojirushi rice cooker manual in 5 languages

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 13/02/2025

Interesting account @rdl-aktuell.bsky.social Translation of bio: Radio Dreyeckland is the oldest German-language free radio. It has been broadcasting since 1977. RDL can be found in Freiburg im Breisgau. This is where the current editorial staff of Radio Dreyeckland writes #langsky #German

A photo of the Bluesky account bio of Radio Dreyeckland

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 12/02/2025

Random cool page for language lovers From “Reading the Maya Glyphs” #langsky

A page displaying and explaining Mayan glyphs

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 09/02/2025

A book a got for $0.75. There's some underlining & highlighting, so it was cheap "An Introduction to the World of Symbols" Einführung in sie Welt der Symbole (Zodiaque - Echter) #langsky #German

Book cover. Medieval image of a woman in a horse holding a chalice approaching a tall tree which is highly stylized - a straight bare trunk leading to a circular system of branches

Coronation of Mary as Ecclesia
Revelation of Christ in Glory
Mary Enthroned

two images of ancient Egyptian art depicting the djed pillar in a chapter on “Man” (der Mensch)

Quetzalcoatl as Lord of the Dawn at the Center of the Universe in a chapter on “the tree” (der Baum)

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 08/02/2025

I posted a video about this Chinese-Vietnamese character dictionary recently. I thought I should post some pics in case they’re useful (or interesting) #langsky #vietnamese

The front cover of a yellow book. The title is written in Chinese characters and Vietnamese. “Chinese-Vietnamese character dictionary”

Inside the book toward the front. An index where characters are listed by the number of strokes needed to write them.

In the mid area of the book. Characters are listed by radical. Entries show pronunciation, meanings, and example usages

Towards the back of the book. An index of characters listed alphabetically by the Vietnamese word associated with each character

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 06/02/2025

I found a set of mugs unexpectedly on a business trip about 20 years ago. I was quite happy. I love coffee. I love languages. Coffee around the world #langsky #coffee

Coffee mug. Tan color crude map of the world on cream color background. The word “coffee” displayed in the language of each region

This view is the Americas

Coffee mug. Tan color crude map of the world on cream color background. The word “coffee” displayed in the language of each region

This view is Europe & Africa

Coffee mug. Tan color crude map of the world on cream color background. The word “coffee” displayed in the language of each region

This view is Asia and Australia

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 06/02/2025

Growing up with shortwave radio, I pay attention to Radio France International RFI & other official channels Yes they are government- operated channels. They broadcast/publish in numerous languages. I’ve been watching them arrive on Bluesky. RFI now has several accounts. Take a look #langsky

Radio France International (RFI) in Chinese (simplified & traditional), Portuguese (Iberian & Brazilian), & Spanish

RFI in Mandingo, Swahili, Farsi, Hausa & Khmer

RFI in Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian, & Fula

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 06/02/2025

I thought Bluesky needed to see this. I found this book in an antique store right around the time the “skeet” discussion started. I didn’t post it at the time. I found it again recently. This…this is Skeet #Bluesky #skeet

A worn old book. Thin. Very pale tan. Three donkeys drawn on the front in black ink. “SKEET by Mary Russell

The first page inside the book. Same words as the cover along with a more detailed larger sketch of a donkey whose name is Skeet. Orange highlights to the charcoal grey sketch

Next page is simple the donkey running on the left and the word “Skeet” on the right. All else is blank

The next page begins to tell the story of the donkey. “1 Skeet’s Mountain Home”

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 05/02/2025

A picture I took years ago. A place called “Goose Creek Diner”. It has since changed name & location. Amazing food. Southern cuisine (USA)…but…an Egyptian hieroglyph as its logo! It was so surprising. If you’ve studied Egyptian you’ll recognize it #langsky

A close up picture of a sign. Gold print on navy blue background. The Egyptian hieroglyph for a goose with part of the diner’s name visible.

A picture of a partial vocabulary list in which this hieroglyph is used to form the words for “son” and “daughter”

A picture of the goose hieroglyph with phonetic value from “Egyptian Grammar” by Sir Alan Gardiner

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 01/02/2025

My first ever language instruction material. A 45 rpm single of kids singing and saying a few phrases in French. I was 4 years old I remember struggling to understand what a foreign language was. Why were there 2 ways of saying everything?! It was mysterious #langsky

The front of a 45 rpm record. “Introduction to French”. Red, white, blue stripes with two children featured on the front smiling.

The A side of the record. “Parler Français. Learn A Little Language. Common Sayings. France Is A Country”

Navy blue label on black vinyl.

The B side of the record. “Come to a party. Quelle Heure Est-Il? Bon Nuit, Cherie”

Navy blue label on black vinyl.

The back of the sleeve of the 45 rpm single showing various other records available from “Golden Records” for 49¢

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 31/01/2025

The Vietnamese not only borrowed Chinese characters and used them to represent native Vietnamese words like (Japanese and Korean). They created new unique characters. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%E1%B...

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 24/01/2025

Unexpected find on a bookstore shelf “What to Say When You Talk to Yourself” Telugu edition #langsky #Telugu

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 24/01/2025

You might try something like this with AI. I did this really quickly in ChatGPT You can also take a picture of a bill and upload it to ChatGPT (or another AI) and ask it to translate and explain.

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 11/01/2025

As the next installment in my “totally random cool language book pics with no explanation,” here is a page from an English-Korean dictionary on a nightstand. #langsky #korean #hangul #books

A page in an English-Korean dictionary, lit with soft yellow lighting on a cherrywood nightstand, open to a page giving a detailed explanation of “some”, showing relationships to other similar words such as “many”, “much” & “several”.

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 21/12/2024

4. I don’t have the version in Indonesian, but I have it in Japanese and Tagalog. It looks good to me. When I get serious about Indonesian, I will purchase this book.

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 21/12/2024

3. As for courses books, here’s what I have on my shelf. As usual, I don’t really like the Teach Yourself. I find it to be chaotic. The Periplus books is good. I consider it a nice find. Lots of explanation.

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 21/12/2024

2. I have a couple phrasebooks. I have a crazy love for phrasebooks. If you want one, the Lonely Planet is far superior to the Berlitz. The Lonely Planet actually has grammar, pronunciation, and cultural tips. I’m not suggesting phrasebooks are serious tools. But I love them.

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 21/12/2024

1. I decided to respond to this with a thread 🧵 so others could see it and give suggestions. First a couple dictionaries. The little red one is just fun. It’s tiny and I got it for $1. But not a serious language tool. The larger one (Gramedia) is great if you want a print dictionary. #langsky

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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 20/12/2024

Today’s book: Read & Write Hindi Script Teach Yourself - Rupert Snell As I’ve said before, Teach Yourself doesn’t have the best full courses, but their script introductions are pretty good. Personally I have found value in devoting time to a new script in the beginning. #langsky

Read and Write Hindi Script
Teach Yourself
1st edition 2000
This edition 2010
A white book with a large Hindi letter अ on the front (the letter for the sound “A”)

The back of the same book.
Author Rupert Snell has been teaching and researching Hindi for 35 years. Currently Director of Hindi Urdu Flagship, University of Texas at Austin.

Several Hindi letters are shown with the composite strokes to show how the letter is written. Some vocabulary words are given when use these letters

A list of the most common 100 composites. These are letter combinations written together which frequently occur in Hindi. In other languages these are commonly referred to as ligatures.

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