About this Language Chat

Have you learnt (or would you like to learn) a language that uses another script or alphabet? Or does the idea of learning a language that is written in a *completely* different way scare you? In this episode of Language Chats, we chat about Penny’s experience of learning Japanese and Mandarin, the excitement of learning to ‘crack the code’, the visual nature of learning other scripts and alphabets, whether it would be possible to skip learning a script (#controversial), and which scripts we’d love to learn in future.

Have a question or want to share your experience with us? Get in touch!

Episode Links

• Hiragana in 48 Minutes student card set by Hiroko Quackenbush, Meiko Ohso

• Katakana in 48 Minutes student card set by Hiroko Quackenbush, Meiko Ohso

• Script Hacking series by Judith Meyer (Teach Yourself)
  PS: We thought there was a Script Hacking book for Thai, but we were incorrect on that - oops! There are currently versions available for Arabic, Greek, Russian, Persian, Hindi, Hebrew and Korean.

Episode published: 10 May 2021