Come and share your language journey on our podcast! Our goal for the podcast: - have guests from every independent country and autonomous territory of the world - have native speakers of every language spoken on Earth What kind of guests have we had: - polyglots, people who have studied multiple languages to various levels - people with rare native languages - people who have lived abroad and traveled a lot What we usually talk with the guests: - what languages are spoken in their home country - what languages are mandatory or optional in their country or region - what languages the guest has been exposed to in their family - what role languages have had in their personal career or hobbies - history and culture of the guest's home country In what languages can we make the episode: - English, Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French or Russian - The host speaks the aforementioned languages and the guest can speak those or some similar languages that the host can understand enough to have the conversation this way What is not necessary: - you don't need to be fluent in any language other than your mother tongue, as soon as we have a common language and some interesting language related topics to discuss - you don't need to be wikipedia telling things you don't know about the history or culture, these facts will come up through your personal story We are happy to promote your projects and social media channels. We don't offer any compensation for the guests. Send us email and tell us something about yourself and we'll see if we could record an episode together.
Linguistically, if they are not mutually intelligible, then they're different LANGUAGES, not dialects. Cantonese, Hokkien and Mandarin, their mutual intelligibility is 0%! So you can know how different they are, especially in terms of the pronunciation. Their tones, characters and grammars are also different. Cantonese has 6 tones 9 sounds, Hokkien has 7~8 tones, Mandarin has 4 tones. Northern Vietnamese has 6 tones and Southern Vietnamese has 5 tones.
Come and share your language journey on our podcast!
Our goal for the podcast:
- have guests from every independent country and autonomous territory of the world
- have native speakers of every language spoken on Earth
What kind of guests have we had:
- polyglots, people who have studied multiple languages to various levels
- people with rare native languages
- people who have lived abroad and traveled a lot
What we usually talk with the guests:
- what languages are spoken in their home country
- what languages are mandatory or optional in their country or region
- what languages the guest has been exposed to in their family
- what role languages have had in their personal career or hobbies
- history and culture of the guest's home country
In what languages can we make the episode:
- English, Finnish, Estonian, Swedish, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French or Russian
- The host speaks the aforementioned languages and the guest can speak those or some similar languages that the host can understand enough to have the conversation this way
What is not necessary:
- you don't need to be fluent in any language other than your mother tongue, as soon as we have a common language and some interesting language related topics to discuss
- you don't need to be wikipedia telling things you don't know about the history or culture, these facts will come up through your personal story
We are happy to promote your projects and social media channels. We don't offer any compensation for the guests.
Send us email and tell us something about yourself and we'll see if we could record an episode together.
Linguistically, if they are not mutually intelligible, then they're different LANGUAGES, not dialects.
Cantonese, Hokkien and Mandarin, their mutual intelligibility is 0%! So you can know how different they are, especially in terms of the pronunciation. Their tones, characters and grammars are also different. Cantonese has 6 tones 9 sounds, Hokkien has 7~8 tones, Mandarin has 4 tones. Northern Vietnamese has 6 tones and Southern Vietnamese has 5 tones.