{"id":897,"date":"2019-12-15T15:18:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T15:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=897"},"modified":"2020-02-02T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T15:00:22","slug":"episode-27-i-dont-trust-that-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=897","title":{"rendered":"Episode 27 &#8211; I don&#8217;t trust that pig!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Episode 27 &amp;#8211; I don&amp;#8217;t trust that pig!\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-12-15T15:18:53+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT17M52S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode I talk about how learning silly, obscure and weird words and phrases, and playing with words can actually help you to learn languages.\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"6.1\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8612\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-897-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=897-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"episode27.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode I talk about how learning silly, obscure and weird words and phrases, and playing with words can actually help you to learn languages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHsmoK21gh\">Here are some screenshots of phrases I&#8217;ve collected<\/a> in Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish, mainly from Duolingo. Many of these phrases are rather silly, which is what makes them memorable:<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/albums\/72157698896104462\" title=\"Language Learning\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4817\/45456565734_f9a5d697ed_z.jpg\" alt=\"Language Learning\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/useful.htm\">Silly phrases on Omniglot<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Tunes features in this episode<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\/hedgecats\">Hedge Cats \/ Cathod y Gwyrch<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/662006537&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/musescore.com\/user\/16918231\/scores\/5667004\">See the score for this piece<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\/the-ballad-of-the-wug-and-the-cra\">The Ballad of the Wug and the Cra<\/a> &#8211; a song I wrote back in 2015 about made-up creatures that feature in linguistic experiments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/193897548&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\/mwmpwyporthaethwy2\">Mwmpwy Porthaethwy \/ Menai Bridge Fancy<\/a> &#8211; this tune doesn&#8217;t feature in this episode, but is mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/601570035&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to support this podcast, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/uk\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=aLjPfXL-vP_1gQ_U23Iz8_hSWLlhzLHPMFZrt32dIEfG8htoNFLYaPoWkv8&amp;dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8def8934b92a630e40b7fef61ab7e9fe63\">make a donation<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/donations.htm\">contribute to Omniglot in other ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Episode 27 &amp;#8211; I don&amp;#8217;t trust that pig!\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-12-15T15:18:53+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT17M52S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode I talk about how learning silly, obscure and weird words and phrases, and playing with words can actually help you to learn languages.\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"6.1\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8613\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-897-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=897-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/radio\/episode27.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"episode27.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode I talk about how learning silly, obscure and weird words and phrases, and playing with words can actually help you to learn languages. Here are some screenshots of phrases I&#8217;ve collected in Czech, Danish, Esperanto, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Swedish, mainly from Duolingo. Many of these phrases are rather silly, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31,20,56,4,79,11,1,32,30],"tags":[82,9,81,8,80],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-learning-languages","category-music","category-podcast","category-russian","category-swedish","tag-czech","tag-language","tag-learning","tag-podcast","tag-radio-omniglot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}