Anyway, so I started working on "Game of Thrones" as a show based on these books written by George RR Martin. The first language I created for it was Dothraki. I wanted to create High Valerian and a variant of I call Low Valerian.
I think it's this passion and this-- I always joke about how I may be .. And I speak English first as my first language , and then Spanish is my second language. I do everything else in Spanish, and I would try to explain that to my abuelitos.
She was born in Santo Domingo, the capital of Dominican Republic, and grew up in a-- I had to practice this word. Spanish is my first language -- matriarchal household surrounded by amazing cooks. Her interest in food began as a child visiting the farmer's market with her mom and watching her grandmother and aunts cook
you speak about yourself. And so my first language is Spanish, which was a big hurdle when I was kind of figuring out pronouns, because I had to gender myself all the time. And this research says that the language that you learn shapes how you see and associate different objects.
If you're ever going to jump out of a plane, it's very handy. Our main language-- our first language is all English.
It was taken with an old camera. From the first Language Creation Conference in 2006, where a lot of language creators met for the very first time in person. Before that, it was all online interaction.
And another thing that's been that big turnaround is that we now have so many people with autism telling us that when you allow me Trying to institute person-first language into schools and things like that.
And the Russian outlets include Russian television, which broadcasts into eastern and southern Ukraine where a lot of folks who are ethnically Russian or Ukrainian speak Russian as their first language . And indeed, there's nobody in Ukraine who doesn't speak some Russian and some Ukrainian.
And they took trips to Disneyland. And his first language was English. And when Anwar was seven, the family moved back to Yemen so that Nasser could take a job building up the Department of
Shibani: Oh, in Hollywood. Yeah, I'm certainly interested in, in writing in the English language. It is my first language . Now, whether that would be a Hollywood production per se, or just an international production, or an Indie film, I don't know. I mean, probably the latter, you know? But I, because I've lived in the U.S. for as long as I have, because my thinking
And I don't know-- I would dare to say that billions of people around the globe were able to pay attention. I was raised learning English as a first language , and then it wasn't until later that I began to try to learn Lakota.
for referring to the periodic elements. You mentioned that you created your first language while you were studying at UC Berkeley.
for referring to the periodic elements. I actually started creating my first language at the same time that I started studying linguistics, or I think I did.
for referring to the periodic elements. So I thought that I created my first language in the spring semester of 2000 when I was a freshman, and when I was taking Arabic, and Esperanto, and Russian,
The way I like to describe it to people is it's like learning a second language. You don't forget your first language . You just have a greater vocabulary now to speak with more people.
on your own, and you'll see why, but it's kind of a way in. So if you're creating your first language , what might you do? Well, the very first thing that a language needs is a purpose.
Don't Google it. Well, Google it. I wrote an essay about how my first language was so bad and why. So if you Google Megdavi, you should find it.
domains to use the technical term and in just different kinds of rare forms or words Johnny Hill mentioned how you know I've forgotten something that his first language is chim the way they but he still lost some aspects of it from remembering how he used to be able to speak to say his his grandmother or whatever or certainly the way she would
If that scared means that I had the courage, yes, then I believed I was Dublin office um don't have English as their first language . Um so, it's a challenge to speak, but even more so when English is not your first language .
Please, don't confuse us. Because whenever I go to countries where English isn't the first language , I often get confused with Mel Gibson. And people think it's the first time I've heard it.
in a place where it's not your first language and where you look different, it's very hard to explain those nuances and to explain
to. The first language I spoke when I entered Kindergarten was Spanish.
that's one where they've started singing songs in it at meetings and things so it's gradually coming back though it has no actual fluent first language users anymore two two-part question are there certain aspects to a language that are just inherently pleasing to you as a linguist when you come across the language and
I was growing up in China and I was speaking the Mandarin Chinese as my first language .
Some of you here have been exposed to a second language rather than your first language because you're around it.
How many of you are doing business in a language that's not your first language ?
I really did not expect to see any hands. All right, so this is the first language I ever created. I created it as kind of a freshman, sophomore, over-the-summer type of thing at UC Berkeley.
barely speak Urdu, which is my first language .
I went to an Arabic school, and Arabic was my first language .
Immediately. And people who don't speak English as a first language can't do that.
And going in as a year old, it became my first language and my first dreaming language.
It's so much different from reading novels and writing long essays about them. So it was all of that stuff that kind of contributed to me creating my very first language in college, which was terrible. It was so terrible I'm not even going to show you an example of it, but just to give you an idea of it's terrible-ness, the name the language was
interfaces where we're trying to accommodate people who might not know your language as their first language .
And that enabled my children, for example -- who attend an education institute where their first language of instruction is Maori -- to be able to get on their computers and
And all of a sudden, I was going to this new school where 80% of the kids spoke Spanish as their first language .
And if you're a processor, if you're introverted, if English is not your first language , think about what a disadvantage that places you.
And if you're a processor, if you're introverted, if English is not your first language , think about what a disadvantage that places you.
So a lot of what I've learned has been as an adult. Spanish is not my first language .
on the . We lived in 10J, they lived in 9J, and Japanese was my first language .
historical complications. So my maternal ancestors there they are, the indigenous people of Britain. If you like. Their first language is not English, they speak
And then they all communicate with each other, struggling in English, which is not anyone's first language .
Like right now, I'm improvising in English, which is not my first language .
70,000 years ago. You know, I think that was the first language .
for referring to the periodic elements. I had previously taken a year of Arabic and a semester of Esperanto, and I started creating my first language at the exact same time
Then you do other things just because you think they're neat. And so it ends up being a language that serves a whole bunch of different masters and ends up being a disaster, kind of like my first language . Don't Google it. Well, Google it.
So a lot of Oaxacans have darker skin, they’re of shorter stature, a lot of them, their first language isn’t even Spanish, it’s whatever their indigenous language is.
They now attend a school, as I said earlier, where Maori is the first language of instruction and Google has helped them to search computers in their official language -- a language that