Фонд Наследия Исчезающих Языков | Language Endangerment & Heritage Foundation

I admit that this post could perplex you, but I assure y'all going to understand what I meant by this later

quick shout to explanation what heritage language is

WHAT IS LANGUAGE REVITALISATION?

In the broad sense, revitalisation means prevention a language from dying (actively supporting, including languages into curriculum and so on). In the family context, it can mean beginning to revive your heritage language, connection with which was lost due to some circumstances (f.e. regional language is considered "rural" and a language of uneducated people, so family chooses "prestige" language over their own).

People can restart using the lost language by learning it and making this language a part of their life.

Imagine reaction of your grandparents or even great grandparents figuring out their language got one more chance!

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🟢 Site is up! Everything works the same but I have changed the address to https://lehf.jezmunh.name

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https://t-j.ru/learn-foreign-mistakes/

Found a nice article for Russian speaking folks

Today subscriber has shared a photo that he took in Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland, where information about group of endangered Saami languages is depicted 👀

Disclaimer: my point of view might not fit yours. It is totally okay.

Recently I've stumbled upon the summary of the interview with Louis von Ahn (co-founder of the notorious Duolingo company) posted on Habr and I got words to spill. In this interview they mostly discussed how AI tool is used in Duolingo and the app audience has gotten pretty controversial opinion regarding official words.
I have been around online linguistic communities for a while, among members of them were a plenty of the Duolingo users and those users periodically post task issues that ruin the entire experience. Sometimes tasks seem off or simply don't accept right answers. If before all that buzz AI boom you could say it's merely a human factor, but now the number of these odd sentences has grown geometrically. Remarkably, Duolingo company decided to disregard the support system for regular learners without premium and prefered ones who had the paid subscription.

Duolingo administration also predicted that number of human translators is going to significantly reduce, as they shall be replaced by AI bots. As for me, the statement mentioned above is not absolutely true, but partly. It's pretty noticeable that translators for English language and perhaps a few other popular ones already are not in demand, as other professionals already have taken a spot and more people been speaking English better due to the globalisation and internet spread. Good translators of less popular languages still will be in need, as AI works with them worse. I'm not talking about endangered languages lol.

In conclusion, AI is undoubtedly a nice tool that can help you with your routine or studies, but you should not fully rely on it, as in some spheres it misinforms more than helps.

Happy Easter! 🐰🐣🍫

I HAVE PRESENTED OUR PROJECT IN REAL LIFE???
Hello everyone! Danila Emelyanov is on the line! On March 27th I took a part in the student conference held in Kaliningrad 📍. I've introduced LEHF in front of the juries and other students. I think I've made it interesting to them.

I would like to express a huge gratitude to my friends, who decided to come and support me: Ребята, спасибо вам большое! 💚

It's a bit tough to draw conclusions on this event, but nevertheless it's only one of the steps towards success and making world better ✌

DISTRIBUTION OF THE ENDANGERED LANGUAGES IN THEIR NATIONAL AREAS
As you can see, regional or endangered languages aren't always spoken widely in their national regions. Belarusian, Irish, and Welsh languages were provided as examples.

Sources:
- Belarusian map was created by Aledr ReEs.k and uploaded on Wikimedia
- Irish map that shows the percentage of respondents who spoke Irish *outside* educational purposes, made by SkateTier and distributed on Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 licence
- Welsh distribution map is distributed by gov. wales

Recently the council of Europe has published new study about regional languages, which sounds encouraging:

💚 Regional languages such as Welsh and Basque became more used online! This means interest to those languages has risen
💚 Due to the fast widespread of the media projects people began to write more about their languages and distribute content that would help others to learn it
💚 Europe states that regional languages should be included into curriculum to provide support for their preservation

https://www.coe.int/ru/web/portal/-/new-study-published-on-regional-and-minority-language-protection-in-europe

WHERE CAN I STUDY MY REGIONAL LANGUAGE?

Many people could curious about usable resources that could be used for learning regional languages. Today I'm going to mention you one! This app is called "Clozemaster" and it really helps with learning vocabulary in context! You get to click 10 sentences a time where you need to insert the following word. This app offers such languages as Belarusian, Kornish, Guarani, Galician and etc. Clozemaster is free, but where is a premium subscription with additional features such as offline mode and learning without limits per day.

https://www.clozemaster.com/