In the first episode of our LGBTQ pride month podcasts we are talking about the uncomfortable scenarios we can find ourselves in while studying in a classroom or with a tutor.

To come out or not? It's the age old question for queers, and sometimes it's easier to hide ourselves out of fear of discrimination or making other people uncomfortable.

I sat down to talk with my friend (@hao.writes on Twitter) to discuss his experiences with tutors and how he has handled it before.

I had a fun lot of learning about Sumerian, Akkadian, Cuneiform, and ancient literature. It was really cool reading about the theories behind the languages, where everything came from, how it evolved, and how people are digitizing the writings so they can be more easily studied!

Sources:

• Anderson, Sean Eron, and Marc Levoy. "Unwrapping and Visualizing Cuneiform Tablets."
• Damerow, Peter. "The origins of writing as a problem of historical epistemology." (1999).
• Foster, Benjamin R. "Humor and cuneiform literature." Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society 6.1 (1974): 2238.
• Hamdany, Arwa Hamed Salih, Raid Rafi Omar Al-Nima, and Lubab H. Albak. "Translating cuneiform symbols using artificial neural network." Telkomnika 19.2 (2021): 438-443.
• Jauhiainen, Tommi, et al. "Language and dialect identification of cuneiform texts." arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.01891 (2019).
• Kenanidis, Ioannis, and Evangelos C. Papakitsos. "Yet another suggestion about the origins of the Sumerian language." International Journal of Linguistics 5.5 (2013): 30.
• Michalowski, Piotr. "The lives of the Sumerian language." Margins of writing, origins of cultures (2006): 159-84.

I have some problems with how SLA studies are done and how regular, nonprofessional people talk about them. This is me complaining about that.

Podcast is coming back.

Here's a bit.

More soon! =D

Sorry I've been gone.

During our interview Etiene expressed her admiration of Paulo Freire and the work he had done on literacy and how it has inspired many others. I had to cut it for time and flow, but I still wanted to share it! 

In this episode I talk with my friend Etiene, who previously suggested the comprehensible output topic we covered. We discuss all sorts of things from comprehensible input, comprehensible output, why some language learning methods don't work as well or are being misapplied, and many more things.

If you'd like to download her app you can do so (or sign up for the iOS testing) here:

Android: https://tinyurl.com/y3ah2h25

iOS: https://tinyurl.com/y2lchync

You can find her at:

@etiene_d

@polyglossapp

You can reach me at:

llearninglounge@gmail.com

@TheLLLounge

youtube.com/languagelearninglounge

In this mini episode we talk very briefly about the differences between TESL, TEFL, and TESOL. This is very basic and bare bones though and I talk a bit about my experience hearing differing definitions even though I don't quite remember some of them. 

In this episodes I give quick and dirty run down on my history learning about pragmatics as well as some of my favorite things about it with simple examples.

I also mention why this is one of the things I want to study in using games as language learning tools and why.