Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen

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Everything language & culture #langsky Talking about: - Learning another language - Adopting a second culture - Living the international life I’ve studied over 50 languages - some a little, some a lot I believe in human unity & coffee ☕️

A cloth tag removed from a t-shirt that states “100% cotton” in 21 languages, with a 2-letter language identifier preceding each line
The roundel of the Renaissance chateau completed in 1596
A book on the Czech city of Jindřichův. Published in 1992 celebrating the city’s history from 1293 to 1993.
A small Hungarian phrasebook on a desk. Publisher: Lonely Planet
Announcing the release of the Routledge essential grammar of Cambodian. A picture of the book listing on Amazon as the background, foreground: Brent in the lower right commenting on the book release
Vowel combinations
The pronunciation guide
The cover. Worn but in good shape
Nigerian Pidgin (A comprehensive grammar) Routledge
An app called “KHMER Language - Cambodian” in the Apple App Store
Tony red Indonesian dictionary bedside a black pen to show scale. A.L.N. Kramer Sr. Inggris Kamus Kantong
Amitabha-Buddha-Śrih: Gems of Buddhism Eastern Book Linkers
A Child’s Introduction to French. Copyright 1966.
The cover of a small Ukrainian-English dictionary from DK, a division of Penguin Random House. Blue and white with a picture of a sunflower
Black Sesame Brittle Snacks from Myanmar. The package is in Burmese and English
Ancient Egyptian Phonology
Zojirushi rice cooker manual in 5 languages
A photo of the Bluesky account bio of Radio Dreyeckland
A page displaying and explaining Mayan glyphs
Book cover. Medieval image of a woman in a horse holding a chalice approaching a tall tree which is highly stylized - a straight bare trunk leading to a circular system of branches
The front cover of a yellow book. The title is written in Chinese characters and Vietnamese. “Chinese-Vietnamese character dictionary”
A picture from a phrasebook on Burmese. An inset explains that the day of the on which a person is born determines the first letter of their given name
Coffee mug. Tan color crude map of the world on cream color background. The word “coffee” displayed in the language of each region This view is the Americas
Radio France International (RFI) in Chinese (simplified & traditional), Portuguese (Iberian & Brazilian), & Spanish
A worn old book. Thin. Very pale tan. Three donkeys drawn on the front in black ink. “SKEET by Mary Russell
A close up picture of a sign. Gold print on navy blue background. The Egyptian hieroglyph for a goose with part of the diner’s name visible.
The front of a 45 rpm record. “Introduction to French”. Red, white, blue stripes with two children featured on the front smiling.
A post on Bluesky from April 6, 2023 reading “hello world”
A book and a cup of coffee on a wooden table. The design on the cup is a collage of playing BG cards. The book is “A Grammar of Akkadian” by John Huehnergard
A page in an English-Korean dictionary, lit with soft yellow lighting on a cherrywood nightstand, open to a page giving a detailed explanation of “some”, showing relationships to other similar words such as “many”, “much” & “several”.
Chapter XIX The African Doctrine of Last Things. Section: Immortality. Explaining the belief in the afterlife in Ancient Egypt Section: The Ka or Double. Discussing the Egyptian concepts of a soul. English and Egyptian Hieroglyphic text. A. E. Wallis Budge “Osiris: The Egyptian Religion of Resurrection”
Read and Write Hindi Script Teach Yourself 1st edition 2000 This edition 2010 A white book with a large Hindi letter अ on the front (the letter for the sound “A”)
A page of a book. It is a lexicon of Hittite cuneiform signs. The meanings are given in German
The cover of the book “beginner’s urdu script”. The cover is glossy. It depicts a hand over a print page of dictionary of Urdu -English
The cover of a small book Méditations métaphysiques Metaphysical meditations by René Descartes
Book cover. In Japanese The World of Modern Physics - Seitaro Nakamura Kodansha Academic Library
A snapshot of the Maeil Business Newspaper account profile on Bluesky
A thin blue & white book: The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read & Write It By Nicholas Awde & Putros Samano
Bluesky user counter snapshot showing 21,693,730 users. Increasing by 3.3 users per second
Book cover El Secreto de las Catedrales The secret of the cathedrals By Jean-Pierre Bayard
Book on the iconography of Buddhist Tantrism. In French.
The Sanskrit Language Walter Harding Maurer Publisher: Routledge A blue paperback book on a pine tabletop