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I heard this in a podcast and wanted to see the study: apparently, speaking a tonal language has a relationship with having an ear for perfect pitch
I grew up speaking several tonal languages alongside English and it was always easy for me to pick up music, and all tonal languages. I can perfectly mimic Vietnamese even if I don’t speak it, to the extent that Vietnamese aunties scold me for being a foreign born Vietnamese person with a poor vocabulary
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Tone Language Translates To Perfect Pitch: Mandarin Speakers More Likely To Acquire Rare Musical Ability
Could it be that cellist Yo-Yo Ma owes his perfect musical pitch to his Chinese parents? While we may never know the definitive answer, new research from the University of California, San Diego has found a strong link between speaking a tone language…ScienceDaily
Whoa, interesting that "bini" means wife in Bahasa Indonesia, which is kind of opposite of the Tagalog meaning of "binibini." Reminds me of the difference of Tagalog "salamat" and Indonesian "selamat."
Incidentally, BINI has a song "Born To Win" that they translated to Bahasa Indonesia.
#TootSEA #Indonesia #Philippines #PlayListSEA #BINI #Asian #PPop #Languages
youtube.com/watch?v=yNAPz-CCk6…
BINI - Born To Win (Bahasa Indonesia Version) | Lyrics
Born To Win (Bahasa Indonesia Version)Composed by: RYVNG, Maynine, Eva Louhivuori, Sophia PaeTranslated by Irwan SimantunjakOver-all Production by Jonathan M...YouTube
I've been working on a thing for a few weeks, and I'm hoping there are #Language / #FileFormat / #Markdown nerds and experts on Mastodon who can provide some input and sanity-check.
I looked for an existing markdown extension file format that would allow me to write a document in multiple languages, and I couldn't find anything that fit the bill.
So, I decided to create my own. 🤷♂️
github.com/OmenApps/PolyglotMa…
#PolyglotMarkdown #Languages #OpenSource #LanguageTools #Translation #Multilingual
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GitHub - OmenApps/PolyglotMarkdown: A versatile Markdown extension designed to manage and display multilingual content within a single document, offering powerful features like language-specific content inclusion, multi-language metadata support, and vers
A versatile Markdown extension designed to manage and display multilingual content within a single document, offering powerful features like language-specific content inclusion, multi-language meta...GitHub
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In just under an hour our monthly #CommunityCall will focus on translations and translators! What are the top and most exotic languages that our app is used in? How can we improve the process & quality? Who are the (other) folks making our software accessible to non-English speakers?
Feel free to join us if any of this interests you!
antennapod.org/events/communit…
#localisation #l10n #translations #languages
Monthly community meeting ☎ 🎙 – AntennaPod
Every month we meet to discuss anything related to AntennaPod. From feature and enhancement suggestions by contributors, via usability questions and donation expense proposals, ...AntennaPod
Now I can finally listen to podcasts in all the languages I can't speak. I love it when technology enhances my access to knowledge and helps me do my work even better for those who benefit from it.
github.com/chidiwilliams/buzz
#Accessibility #Audio #Languages #OpenSource
GitHub - chidiwilliams/buzz: Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper.
Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper. - GitHub - chidiwilliams/buzz: Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your person...GitHub
The students were to pass the test by connecting their computers with an Ethernet cable to the examination machine running a special OS, presumably a fork of Debian. The test was taken by tunneling into the examination machine through the web browser and handling the exam in an accessible HTML from there.
Sadly, the audio recordings for the listening part do not seem to be available. Pity, as they reference Whatsapp voice messages. Would be fun to check for their authenticity based on the sound quality.
On that note: Do language exams in your countries reference modern communication methods or is it still a telephone? When I took my final in German, "Social media: pros and cons" was just a subject of the mini essay I had to put together as part of the writing assignment.
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#Accessibility #Blind #Finland #Education #Languages #German
Voicenet is the service of the Swiss Union of the Blind, where you can call in and receive all the information you need to access culture, shopping, receive advice, benefit from the organization's services etc.
Some things you can find there:
- the current supermarket prospects with all of the weekly discounts and special offers read by volunteers;
- TV and radio schedule, including information on movies with audiodescription aired throughout the week;
- traffic and construction works;
- rail schedules;
- signing up for the Union's events;
- a voice forum where users can ask for advice and exchange information;
All of that provided by volunteers and an editorial team in three languages: German, French and Italian with the ability to navigate through content E.G. jumping from beverages to dairy products with the phone's keypad.
I realize that things like the NFB Newsline exist but it seems that, as Switzerland is a much smaller country, it is easier to offer much more local information.
sbv-bvas.ch/voicenet-2/
#Accessibility #Blind #Phone #languages #Switzerland #German #French #Italian #AdventCalendar
Voicenet des Schweizerischer Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband Sektion Aargau-Solothurn
VoiceNet ein interaktives Hörmedium +41(0)31 390 88 88 und bietet umfassende Informationen des Schweizer Blinden und SehbehindertenverbandBith (sbv-bvas)
The official Mastodon app seems to have a bug when posting an image. Sometimes it will let you compose the post but when you add the image, the Publish button is greyed out. There are other apps that are good, for example, Metatext and Toot! on iOS, and Tusky on Android.
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There is an Advanced web interface that looks like Tweetdeck. You can enable it in Settings, Appearance.
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Putting plain text into the 'Search or paste URL' box at the top left of the web interface shows results from your own posts or posts that you have boosted, favourited, or been mentioned in. You can also search for user names, display names, and hashtags located in the body of posts. Putting a hashtag into a Content Warning doesn't work. It won't be clickable and might not be searchable unless someone else has used it in the body of a post.
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If you find a post on another Mastodon instance and want to boost it on your own instance, click the … menu and then Copy Link. Go back to your own instance, paste the link into the Search box and press Enter. The post will appear below the Search box, and you can boost it from there.
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You can create Filters to block posts containing certain pieces of text from being displayed in your Home feed. If you want, the filter can hide the post behind a Content Warning so that you can decide whether to view it or not.
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In the Advanced web interface, you can search for a hashtag, click the result and it will appear in its own column. You can then click the column settings icon at the top right and Pin the column. You can add more tags to the same column, if you like.
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If you boost a post and the author edits it, you will get a notification so that you know that it has been edited.
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It's the custom on Mastodon that if you're posting about Mastodon itself, you put a context warning (CW) of "Meta" so that people's timelines aren't flooded with things they don't want or need to see. Likewise, posts about Twitter can be hidden behind a CW: Twitter (or birdsite, birbsite, hellsite, tw). "CW: meta, bird" should be an obvious one.
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When you're writing hashtags that are a combination of several words, please use "camel case" (#CamelCase) so that screenreaders used by people with impaired vision can pronounce them properly.
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Mastodon has its own thread unroller: mastodon.social/@threadunrolle…
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If you go into Settings in Mastodon's web interface and click on Other, you'll see a list of languages at the bottom which you can use to control which posts you'll see.
This works well if you select which language your own posts are in. If you make a post in a different language from your default, select that language using the button at the bottom of the edit box before you post. This way, it can be filtered out on other people's feeds if they choose not to see posts in that language.
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When posting images, please add Alt Text. This allows sight-impaired people using screenreaders to know what is in the pictures. Let's keep the Fediverse friendly to everyone.
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Please use a strong password to log in to your server. If you haven't already done so, make sure you have activated 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) in your Settings. This will keep you and everyone else safe. There are a number of good 2FA apps available in the Apple and Google app stores. In fact, iCloud Keychain on an Apple device can be used to generate 2FA keys. See this article for details: appleinsider.com/inside/icloud…
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#MetaText #Toot #iOS #Android #Tweetdeck #searching #hashtags, #ContentWarning #filters, #boost #notification #meta #CamelCase #ThreadUnroller #languages #AltText #security
How to set up two-factor authentication in iCloud Keychain
You can balance both account security with the convenience of autofill when you set up two-factor authentication in iCloud Keychain. Here's how to do it.Darryl Boxberger (AppleInsider)
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#ActivityPub (already ActivityStreams core) has support for **multiple** languages:
w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core…
#i18n #languages