Israel Lai
PhD composer (UoM) https://israellai.com
polyglot 🇭🇰🇬🇧🇵🇱🇩🇪🇸🇪🇫🇷(🏴👋🏻) youtube.com/rhapsodyinlingo
stenography hobbyist
creator of language podcast 絮言．狂想 youtube.com/@seoijin
BA(CUHK), MPhil(Oxon)
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- I love how English uses so many synonyms of "vote" whereas #Welsh is just like eh...a vote is a vote 🗳️ voting station 🗳️ voting card 🗳️ voting booth 🗳️ voting paper 🗳️ voting box
- The best thing to come out of this ordeal is that I've been called a "popular" creator by news outlets and even the radio
- Reposted by Israel LaiI have been following @israellai.bsky.social 's journey to Learning Welsh. Now he wants to do the British Citizenship Test in Welsh, which seems to be quite difficult: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYFu... #Welsh #Wales #LearningWelsh
- @tldrnews.bsky.social oops :p
- Why did my brain just hear "darling hold my hand" and go "get more with Super Duolingo"
- jesus, nation dot cymru be giving me jumpscares
- Every time I attempt to fill in a form from certain *ahem lloyds bank ahem* websites #nationality
- Reposted by Israel LaiMembers of Welsh and Irish youth organisations have joined forces once again to break down language barriers through music and continue building relationships between both Celtic communities
- Reposted by Israel LaiThis is assimilation era pedagogy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
- Fellas you really gotta sort this thing out between yourselves #irish #scottish #scottishgaelic #gàidhlig #gaeilge
- I'm taking the citizenship test in Welsh. . . . Is it out of spite? Maybe. #eisteddfod #cymraeg #cymru #welsh #wales #citizenship #ukcitizenship
- But why? Can Welsh people pass the test themselves? youtu.be/5Y_dN7grdgg
- Ah yes, I needed my daily dose of British hopelessness and depression youtu.be/83eQcOWWqj8 #uk #infrastructure #trains #housing
- I've decided to change the language of my YouTube account, so that hopefully they'll stop pushing the crap auto dubs on me. If my language is niche enough, they probably don't have a dubbed track ready for me.
- Unfortunately I don't speak a language that is very niche but still big enough for YouTube to support it, so it'll have to be Swedish.
- arghhhh why is manchester such a bizarre part of the UK where I feel somewhat positive about the future?! this place is a dump but it's also a weirdly nice dump
- Hongkongers speaking 8 languages with NO ACCENT AT ALL 🤫 #accent #accents #hongkong #hongkonger #cantonese #polyglot #languages #languagelearning #language
- Can YOU beat the Ultimate Welsh Language Trivia Quiz? youtu.be/GKmgwb6pUQk
- YouTube's been pushing auto-dubbed videos hard lately... Once in a while it's a topic I genuinely want to watch, but then I know that if I click it, I'll have to endure the robot voice for a few seconds before I can get in the settings and switch back to the normal German. So I'm sorry BR24 but no.
- Reposted by Israel LaiMae'n anodd dysgu Cymraeg tu fas i Gymru! Dyma un o brofiadau @israellai.bsky.social ym Manceincion o bennod diweddaraf fy mhodlediad, Hefyd. Ydych chi wedi cael profiadau tebyg? 👂 hefyd.podbean.com/e/israel-lai... #Cymraeg #DysguCymraeg #podlediad
- Reposted by Israel LaiDysgu Cymraeg? Dwi wedi ail-gychwyn fy mhodlediad, Hefyd, sydd am fywydau siaradwyr newydd fel ti! Yn y pennod newydd dwi'n siarad gyda'r anghygoel @israellai.bsky.social - boi o Hong Hong sydd wedi symud i Fanceinion. #Cymraeg #DysguCymraeg #podlediad richardnosworthy.cymru/2025/05/21/p...
- Mae o wedi cymud tipyn o amser, ond mae'r bennod Hefyd wedi dod allan! Ewch i wrando arni hi ar unwaith! Diolch i @richardnosworthy.bsky.social #cymraeg #cymru #dysgucymraeg #welsh #learnwelsh #wales #pod #podlediad #podcast #podcastguest
- These interviewees are so slay ngl ✨🇵🇱🏴
- Reposted by Israel LaiHey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
- "If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. It's common sense." Is it? What if I don't? youtu.be/U_AwIgUFIQU #english #englishlanguage #welsh #cymraeg #labour #labourparty #keirstarmer #uk
- Reposted by Israel LaiSunday school at Grace Faith Mission in NYC Chinatown, c. 1936 On the blackboard is John 3:16 in Cantonese: 上帝愛世人𢬿其獨生之子賜過佢哋 Of particular interest to me is the word 𢬿 (pronounced in Cantonese as kaai5) which is similar in meaning to 把 or 將 in Mandarin. 𢬿 is rarely used in Cantonese nowadays
- I propose something like a Godwin's law for Discord servers: As a server grows, the probability of a pet/animal channel being set up approaches one
- Reposted by Israel Lai
- I made it 🥹 I not only survived the Canadian winter, but also made a video about Québec French! Literally filmed inside a snowstorm!!! 💀 youtu.be/4bqM2bIhnw0?... #canada #quebec #québec #french #français
- oof the racist comments started coming in a lot earlier this time around
- Hate #duolingo cards so much omg The answer is 'I have gray hair', I typed 'gre' and my peripheral vision saw a card fly into the sentence, so I just assumed it was 'grey'...but alas Just let me type my goddamn answer in peace please
- Making this video has taught me that it's hard to enunciate at -20°C
- AMY AMY AMY
- Ok but why are these guys so based
- Happy #InternationalAsexualityDay! 🖤🩶🤍💜
