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Chocolate Peanuts
What’s the connection between chocolate and peanuts? Well, peanuts covered with chocolate taste good, and they are both native to the Americas, but apart from that, a French word for peanut, ca...
Language Quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Do you know, or can you guess, the language?
Surfing the Mountains
Did you know that you can surf on the mountains in Switzerland? A Swiss friend of mine spends his winters teaching skiing and snowboarding in Switzerland, and the rest of the time he lives here i...
Language Quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Do you know, or can you guess, the language?
Ruffled Rifles
The words rifle and ruffle sound similar, but are they related? Let’s find out. A rifle is a firearm fired from the shoulder with a long, rifled barrel, which increases range and improves accur...
Language Quiz
Here’s a recording in two mystery languages – we didn’t have a language quiz last week because I was away on holiday in Scotland and didn’t have time to set it up, so we have a bonus lang...
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
A sunny morning in Oban / Madainn ghrianach anns an Oban The trip from Oban to Skye went smoothly, and I bumped into a couple on the bus who I met at SMO last year. There were several other SMO-b...
Turas Fada (Long Journey)
Well, I finally arrived in Oban about an hour ago. It’s dark, it’s raining, and I’m about 3.5 hours late. I was hoping to see a bit of the town while it was still light, but at least I made...
Mr(s) Rumbling
Today I discovered that one way to say thunder in Japanese is ごろごろ様 (gorogoro sama) or literally “Mr(s) Rumbling”. ごろごろ / ゴロゴロ (gorogoro) is one of the many Japanese...
Giving Up
I have some news – I’ve had enough of learning languages and am giving up, throwing in the towel, putting the fiddle in the roof, throwing a spoon, and throwing the axe in the lake. This is s...