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Language,
in the wild.

Essays, practical guides and language records for people who want to understand what they are learning, not only complete another lesson.

Free Resources on Endangered Languages 15 min Feb 09, 2026

Turoyo: A Language on the Edge of Silence

TL;DR: Turoyo is a culturally rich Aramaic language, but it’s under pressure as migration and dominant languages push it out…

Free Resources on Endangered Languages 11 min Feb 09, 2026

TL;DR: Judeo-Tat is an endangered Iranian Jewish language shaped by Persian, Hebrew, and life in the Caucasus, once central to…

Learn russian for free 10 min Feb 06, 2026

TL;DR: You don’t need a big Russian vocabulary to communicate. You need a small set of high-impact words, plus context,…

Learn linguistics for free 9 min Feb 05, 2026

TL;DR: Language doesn’t just describe the environment, it shapes how we value and treat it. Ecolinguistics studies these hidden narratives,…

Learn russian for free 15 min Feb 04, 2026

TL;DR: Russian films feel hard at first because they say less than they mean. To follow them without subtitles, stop…

Free Resources on Endangered Languages 13 min Feb 04, 2026

TL;DR: Votic is one of Europe’s most endangered languages, now spoken by only a handful of elderly speakers after decades…

Free Resources on Endangered Languages 13 min Feb 03, 2026

Once spoken along the windswept shores of the Baltic Sea. Livonian is one of Europe’s quietest linguistic miracles. A language…

Free Resources on Endangered Languages 11 min Feb 03, 2026

In 1974, the Manx language was declared dead. When Ned Maddrell, the last known native speaker, died, the language was…

Free Resources on Endangered Languages 12 min Feb 02, 2026

Ume Sámi is one of Europe’s quietest language survival stories. For much of the 20th century, it was assumed to…

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