Ah I didn't think of that, thank you for mentioning it!

Wishing you a speedy recovery! 🧡

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@@MelangeASMR I have a cool idea. You should trace a ski map!

@@NortheasternP.T.S. That is a cool idea indeed; I did one last year for the advent calendar series :)

@@MelangeASMR that’s awesome!

Yes, my mistake, it didn't even occur to me to check whether the map had changed. It's a bit of an Austrian bias - here, it's completely unimaginable than anyone could change the borders of the regions, I think people would revolt. 😅 That's very kind, thank you 💓

Muy bien!! My Spanish is extra basic haha, but I'm very glad you enjoyed it! 😊😊🥰

That is an excellent idea, I just need to find the right map :)

Hope you liked it!! 💖💖

@@MelangeASMR I did indeed!

Thank you, Francisco! I can't give you a date yet, but Brazil is high on my list :)

Aw thank you! Have a good nap! 🤍

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thank you! I'm very happy that I have such a nice audience that wants to explore with me :)

Oh, neat! I sometimes regret that I didn't take Latin in school when I had the opportunity; it would have been a great basis for learning Romance languages later. Do you study it by yourself or in a course? Thank you!! 💗

I encourage you to learn spanish! you will be able to speak 500 million peoples in the world :-) Greets from Spain!

Pues empieza ya

@@MelangeASMR I did study latin and greek and in my case has helped me to understand cases and its use!

Katie, do you want send me an email or a dm on instagram? I think we should celebrate that!

@@MelangeASMR I will dust off my instagram account and send you a message! Thanks!

I'm always so happy to hear that. Sleep well!

Oh danke, das freut mich sehr!

A bit late, but thank you so much for the kind words!! It's really nice to hear that this hit the spot. And I know exactly what you mean with ASMR before there was ASMR; same experience here. And I have to admit, it didn't even occur to me that the map might have changed because rearranging regions is just unthinkable in Austria 😅

@@MelangeASMR Well the context was a bit particular, end of a dictatorship, brand new constitution five years prior etc ☺ Hâte de découvrir ta nouvelle vidéo, j'y vais tout de suite 🥰

I try 🙏

Thank you! I realized again how little I know about it - guess I should make some videos about it 😅

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That's so sweet, thank you 🥺

Thank you, Patrick 💙

Thank you for watching it, I hope you like it :)

@@MelangeASMR Yes! I love it. Thanks for your videos :)

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I'll try and get back to it - I kind of have a long list of topics... But it would definitely be interesting!

I can say "Donde este la prossima bar?" We'd make a good team haha

What more could you wish for from an ASMR video haha 💗

Hi Stuart, thank you so much, that's wonderful to hear! I normally put the sources in the description, but apparently I forgot to do so this time, sorry about that. It's the Putzger Historischer Weltatlas, published by Cornelsen. Other books I use often are Hölzel Universalatlas (which is often used in schools here) and the Metzler Lexikon Sprache.

Hope you had a good night's rest 😊

Thank you! :) It's always fascinating to me how differently other countries handle linguistic diversity. German is very restrictive in that regard, sadly.

Thank you! There'll be on the Spanish Habsburgs soon :)

True. That's because visigoths invaded Spain too and they mixed their ethnic and culture with the spanish. So we are a mix of celtics, romans, arabics, visigoths, phoenicians, jews...

Dankeschön! Das ist der Putzger Historische Weltatlas, hier in der Kartenausgabe, gibt es aber auch in einer größeren Version mit Begleittexten.

True, it wasn't a linguistic map this time. Language isolates is a nice idea, I'll look into it :)

Wasn't the book from the 60s or so? Wasn't it the time when the Basque were really aggressive with ETA? Maybe the map did not want to show it on purpose?

@@arminxvs3372 It's from that time period, yes, but it was just meant to show the regions as they existed at the time. It doesn't include any other minority languages either.

@@arminxvs3372 absolutely nothing to do with that. This is an old map, from 1961. ETA was just starting its violent activity in those days. This map was made on dictator Franco's time. Only provinces appeared but not Autonomies (as Basque County).

It's on my list! I'm just not very quick at working my way through it....

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I haven't, but I'd love to look into them some time soon! If you know any good resources, do share 💚

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Hey Terri, sorry for the late reply to this one! And you're not the only person who's curious which is why I have a done a Q&A before on my community tab, right here: kzfaq.infoUgkxV-Pr6qUny6QJ-_NwHvE-zIcrlJVEk4kq In short, I'm not a teacher of any kind and since I'm a shy deer lol, I'd rather keep it vague, but my job is basically in customer service. For each video, I count about a day for preparing and filming, though it really depends on the topic. Currently, it happens more often that the topic comes first, but especially when I started, I often just went searching for interesting maps and then looked up some stuff on wikipedia to figure out what to talk about. And that's how the channel developed, frankly. It's difficult to know where the views are going to come from when you get started, and it just so happened that the map videos were doing the best. If the algorithm had worked a little differently, this could have morphed into a very different channel 😅 And as for where my interesting in these topics came from.... I don't know! I just liked languages and history at school (though not geography, funnily) and that hasn't changed - and I'm very happy that I've found a lot of people who also like these things 🥰💖

@@MelangeASMR I keep forgetting about the Community Tabs, so I never go over there. Thank you for letting me know. 😊

@@Terri_MacKay Same thing, unless youtube suggests it, I don't see it 😅

Hey, thank you! I'd love to do a video on Indo-European history as well as on the Eastern branches, and Sanskrit will fit in nicely with that. I just can't give you a date yet...

Ahaha sorryyyyy, it just didn't occur to me that the map might have changed in the meantime 🙈

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Thank you for the kind feedback 🤍 I think I'll have to get a better map again next time haha.

Hallo to the missus!

Yes, that's it exactly. There are a couple throughout Vienna where you can leave your old books that you don't want anymore and pick up something else. Sometimes people also leave their old maps which is great for me haha

Sounds similar to the "little free libraries" that have been getting popular over the years

Hello there!

Aah you're right, I wanted to mention Andalucian in the context of Latin-American pronunciation, but I must have overlooked that note. Oh well...

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Schlaf gut!

Will do, but it'll take a bit :)

Probably, yes! I just find the difference to design standards in current textbooks pretty striking where they avoid that "wall of text" look. In my Norwegian book, for example, everything is broken up into little dialogues with pictures, grammar boxes, example phrases, a few tests and exercises etc.

Sure, I have it on my list, it'll just take a bit :)

@@MelangeASMR Ty 🥺❤️❤️

@@MelangeASMR Oooh, I am looking forward so much! I studied italian philology so it would be nice to refresh that knowledge or learn new things:)

It happens. I usually read up on the topics I want to present the week before and in the case of Spanish, there was a lot of reading to do. So sometimes I run out of time, or I overlook info that would be important enough to include, or sometimes I just forget a thing or two while we're filming. It's not out of disrespect, it's just that I have limited resources, and I always appreciate it when people add to the topic in the comments.

@@MelangeASMR I understand what you say and I want to apologise if my comment has been harsh. It's not your fault that region tends to be forgotten or its history mistreated. You do a difficult job (and you're very talented!) but no ome can be an expert in everything. Sorry if my comment hurt you.

That's very sweet, thank you! And no worries, your comment wasn't hurtful. It's an important language to you and now I know about it too :)