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Your web site is one, I must say, I have put in my bookmarks! Hopefully, I shall major in historic linguistics and your web site has given me a lot of information I have been looking for! I'm sending this e-mail just to commend you on your excellent web site! Keep up the GREAT work!
KryssTal Reply: Thank you very much for your kind comments. I can leave for my holidays with a smile on my face! Good luck with your studies.
Dear Kryss,
I want to thank you for your wonderfully informative Web site on Languages -- truly my interest!
I have an international home here in Monterey, California, where I house Scholars and foreign born professionals studying English at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
With this experience, and the combination of many years reading in the field of linguistics (just about everything) -- I've often wanted just to set up a display in my home on the History of the English Language, showing via graphics and other hands- on displays the marvelous progression of events and entrance of words into our tongue.
Then I got to thinking, and you may have the answer to this question: Is there an actual Language Museum somewhere in the world that may have a display on the history and development of various language families and / or English?
It seems to me that there should be a Museum of this sort somewhere. My little city, Monterey, has been designated the Language Capital of the World, since there is so much language activity going on here. If there were no such Museum yet, this would be a great place to begin one.
There should be a gallery of linguists, living and dead, lots about the history of dictionaries, the development over time of the various languages, atlases, globes, my gosh just a wonderful potpourri of linguistic lore.
I give talks in our community on languages to the general public. They just love to fine out about these sorts of things.
Well, you can see I'm a verbal person -- but you seemed to be a good person to ask about the existence of a Language Museum.
Many thanks if you can give me some sort of answer. I've travelled a little, but mostly have been a local lively lady linguist.
KryssTal Reply: Thank you very much for your kind comments
A museum of language sounds an excellent idea. I have never come across one in my travels (70 countries). If you want to set one up that would be great. I would be willing to offer any assistance and you would be welcome to use any materials from my web site.
Thank you for a prompt answer to my question. And thank you also for your generous offer to aid in some way. It's a worthwhile project -- a Language Museum. It would bring together so many facets of language that are now scattered throughout the world.
I just have one more itsy-bitsy question. Are you (or were you) a professional language educator affiliated with a university? You managed to set up a web site on a complex subject that would appeal to the general public. That is definitely an art and a skill. (i.e, you make things "Kryss-tal" clear -- If I think of a real pun for your name related to language I will e-mail you -- it would be a joy -- but your syllables are a challenge!)
KryssTal Reply: Thank you for your kind comments. As for KryssTal, the Kryss is my first name. Tal is short for Talaat, my better half's name. I am not a qualified language person. I am interested in languages as I travel a lot. Being from a Greek background and having learnt Spanish and studied Latin, I find languages reasonably easy.
My degree is in Chemistry!
What a wonderful website to help me with my third lecture in my UNIV 101 course, Society, Culture, and the Environment. I wish I had seen this earlier in the term. Thanks for the time you put into it! I may put a link to it on my homepage. I've definitely saved it in my favorite places. : )
Geographically,
KryssTal Reply: Thank you, glad I could share with an appreciative audience.
How many words are there in the English Language? Which language has the second most? Third most, etc.? I enjoyed your history of the language. In fact, we were discussing this very same topic at supper last night.
KryssTal Reply: The last figure I saw was over 250,000 for English. As for second, I'm afraid I don't know. I'll see if I can find out.
Hope you enjoyed your supper.
Thank you so much. I thought that there were about 250,000, but this person with whom we were eating, said one million. I had to challenge that, but I couldn't remember exactly how many words were in the English vocabulary. I believe that German is second, although they recycle words and add them together to make new ones. Thanks again.
I enjoyed the meal then, and much more so now that I was correct.
Dear Kryss,
I'm writing an article for my own role-playing web page about world languages, and I'd very much like to include some material from your pages.
The thrust of the article will be about the radical differences between closely related dialects - how well a character can speak one language may or may not mean that he or she can speak a related one.
I wouldn't be including large portions of your pages, but I would quote them from time to time. I'd also include a link back to your home page. Let me know if that's OK or if you have any reservations.
KryssTal Reply: No problem - I'll put a reciprocal link to your site.
PS Good to see you like Doctor Who :) My sister Kate is a New Adventures author, so I've had something of an exposure myself :)
KryssTal Reply: I've seen her name on some of the books.
Dear Kryss,
I happened upon your extensive website on languages. Would you have a complete listing of the "most spoken languages" link? What was your statistical source for this info? censuses or by general populations of countries?
Thanks for you help.
KryssTal Reply: I got that from the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Languages.
You forgot the part of speech called INTERJECTIONS!!!
I can't believe forgot that part of speech come on help me here. I'm in the 8th grade and in English I and you don't help me by forgetting a part of speech so please take better care of your website so that it can actually help me.
KryssTal Reply: Oh! I apologise.
The words "8th grade" are not used in England so I don't know how old you are or which level you are studying at. I will add interjections soon.
Good luck with your studies.
Dear Webmaster,
My name is Kenneth Beare and I am the guide to English as a Second Language at About.com.
About.com is currently the #1 News and Information service on the Web. It is comprised of about 700 Guide sites each devoted to a single topic, complete with Web site reviews, feature articles and discussion areas. One of my principal tasks as guide to ESL, is to choose and review the best sites concerning ESL and ESL related issues.
It has been my pleasure to add your site to my listings under British vs. American English.
The reason for this email is to kindly ask if you could possibly provide a reciprocal link to my site at http://esl.about.com. Below you will find a short description of the site:
English as a 2nd Language at About.com serves as a one stop guide to ESL on the Internet. Instead of the endless lists of links common on other sites, your Guide has meticulously sifted through the Web to bring you the best online resources for ESL teachers, administrators and students.
He has also contributed his own teaching expertise in creating a considerable amount of resources on the subject. What can you expect to find?
KryssTal Reply: I have added the reciprocal link for your excellent resource site.
Hi – First of all I'd like to say – excellent website! I found you site while looking for the correct way to write a sentence in Aramaic – and was hopeful you could give some advise on this matter. I would like to write "See Ye First The Kingdom of God" from the Bible - in it's original Aramaic but am not sure if it would be as simple as just copying the alphabet shown on your site. It is very important that is be correct as once written would be permanent and not able to be changed or erased.
Thank you for taking the time to read my email and I look forward to hearing from you when you have the time to respond.
KryssTal Reply: Assuming Jesus spoke that sentence he would have spoken it in Aramaic. However, the New Testament was written in Greek (a New Testament version called Koine). So this sentence was probably never written in Aramaic.
But to answer your question, I do not know how to write Aramaic or the language itself.
Good luck with your project.