Langfocus Paul 🪬

Creator and presenter of the Langfocus channel on @Youtube since 2015. Language enthusiast and lifelong learner.

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Loving my baby and loving Dad life 👶🏻 My wife and I are under-slept, but overjoyed nonetheless.

I used to think family life would be boring, but this is the best. 😊

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Spanish & Portuguese have Arabic loanwords stemming back to the days of Moorish rule.

Here are some examples of food vocabulary from Arabic.

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Oy vey

(And oy vavoy)

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@SodovkaD Hey, you cheated! 😄

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Can you guess what language this is?

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Turkish loanwords in Lebanese Arabic

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@peteranthropos Yes, but the difference is that most of them don’t learn it as their first language.

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More Spanish speakers in Mexico than in Spain!

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@Tsolete1 Yes, that’s true too!

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Aramaic influence on Lebanese Arabic

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🇪🇬 Egyptians didn't like my map of Egypt 😮

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Are the Balto-Slavic languages really a thing?

It's the widely held consensus that the Baltic languages and the Slavic languages have a shared Proto language, and together form a branch of the Indo-European language family.

This has become more widely accepted in recent decades, though some people still deny or doubt it.

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@maumanfan Yes, “all” is something I should have responded to and corrected.

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Mexican Spanish words of Nahuatl origin

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Lionel Messi can't speak Catalan?! Are you sure?

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@XyzGonGivItToYa Yeah, I think they’re slightly different, but similar.

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@knopgua I should have known better than to leave the word “all” unchallenged in my response. I just skipped over it and focused on the general presence of Nahuatl words in Mexican Spanish. But yeah - people on X spot everything.

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@LuisAngelEnca13 @grok “All” was something in the comment I should have addressed. I was just generally commenting on the presence of Nahuatl words in Mexican Spanish.

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@komondc Yes, you’re right. “Lots of” would have been better than “all”.

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See how similar these Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic words are!

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American English is a PERVERSION of the original English from England?