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leia em português: martigos in other languages here; translations are by friends

hi! i'm mati, and this page is a blog of sorts that i run. i mostly write about linguistics on here, but occasionally i might write about other topics that i'm interested in. most of my articles are intended for a general audience and don't require that you be trained in linguistics — articles that may be more "challenging" are explicitly marked as such with a star (★).

and, oh! at the bottom of the page, you'll see two sections:

  • extra is for things that i've written but aren't articles about linguistics. for now, that section has a list of the resources i use for learning about linguistics and languages, and also my mandarin journal, a regularly updated series documenting how i'm going about learning mandarin!
  • to do & abandoned is for, well, pages i started writing but haven't finished yet ("to do"), and pages that i've given up on writing ("abandoned"). i might bring back some of my to-do or abandoned articles if enough people ask for it!

one more thing about the articles: there's some of them that i only have in english, while others are only in portuguese. if you speak both languages, i'd recommend you check both pages to see the stuff that's there but isn't here (especially stuff about the linguistics of portuguese); the "change language" button is riiight up there ↑. if you want to know more about me though — mati, the writer — you can check this page: who is mati?.

lastly, i hope you enjoy reading my pages!


articles

— just click on the link and read!

articles with a star (★) after their name

these require a little bit of technical knowledge to enjoy fully; the words after the star are what you need to know. if you see, for example

★ knowledge of ipa

it means that you might not understand what i'm talking about if you can't read the ipa. you're welcome to take a look at my starred articles if you don't know the required topics, but you'll probably be lost for some parts or have to do some research on your own...

some years can jump — why do we call leap years, leap years? + names for them in other languages

mandarin at the karaoke — some things about the chinese writing system

talking on paper — a series about east asian orthographic borrowings
★ basics of chinese characters + how chinese influenced japanese and korean

watashi ha gakusei desu — why is japanese は pronounced wa?
required knowledge of hiragana & katakana, at least until i revise it; basic japanese advised but not necessary

extra

how did you learn all this? — sources i used for learning about linguistics
— this one will be constantly updated whenever i feel like it; the finished list is going to be huge.

to do & abandoned

↑ those are links, just click on them and you'll be taken to the pages

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Pub: 05 Nov 2023 23:07 UTC
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