Creator and presenter of the Langfocus channel on @Youtube since 2015. Language enthusiast and lifelong learner.

Canada
Joined January 2015
Loving my baby and loving Dad life 👶🏻 My wife and I are under-slept, but overjoyed nonetheless. I used to think family life would be boring, but this is the best. 😊
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Aramaic influence on Lebanese Arabic
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🇪🇬 Egyptians didn't like my map of Egypt 😮
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Are the Balto-Slavic languages really a thing? It's the widely held consensus that the Baltic languages and the Slavic languages have a shared Proto language, and together form a branch of the Indo-European language family. This has become more widely accepted in recent decades, though some people still deny or doubt it.
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Lionel Messi can't speak Catalan?! Are you sure?
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Mexican Spanish words of Nahuatl origin
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See how similar these Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic words are!
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American English is a PERVERSION of the original English from England?
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What language is the Hebrew Bible written in? Obviously HEBREW, right? Yes, but not *entirely*. Some sections were written in Aramaic.
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Could Latin ever be revived as a native spoken language? (meaning in its Classical or Ecclesiastical form, not modern Romance languages) I think it would be possible if the will were there, but it would end up being different from Latin as we know it. And if that were the case, what would the point be, since there are already modern descendants of Latin (the Romance languages)?
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"Is Modern Hebrew Totally Different from Biblical Hebrew?" These days I see a lot of comments online about Modern Hebrew being a FAKE language, that it's NOT Hebrew, that it's a constructed language based on Arabic and Yiddish, and so on. Of course there's often a political intention behind such statements. But there IS something different about Modern Hebrew: the fact that it's the result of a LANGUAGE REVIVAL. Some people try to spin that to mean that Modern Hebrew is fake Hebrew, but it's clear to me that Modern Hebrew is MUCH more similar to Biblical Hebrew than other modern languages are to their ancient antecedents over a similar time frame. This is in large part because of the revival. And the revival was possible because of extensive body of Hebrew literature that never stopped being produced. Of course there are differences though. In my new video that's premiering today, I dive in and look at the similarities and the differences. The link to the premiere in the first comment.
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Argentinian Spanish (Rioplatense Spanish, specifically) is known as one of the varieties of Spanish that stands out as quite different from the others. This is how that came to be.
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You can see the full video here: youtu.be/qJ31DcTmjyM
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The Icelandic language (basic info and history) - Full video in the first comment.
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The history and background of Jamaican Creole (aka Patwa) - Full video in first comment
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The Turkish language (clip 1) - This is a clip of one of my early videos from 2016. Enjoy the hokey production! 😄
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Basic phrases in West Frisian (#2)
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