Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "I still remember when I used to teach English online and one of my students asked me how to conjugate the verb ‘to be’ in the past tense. “I was” , I begun And then he interrupted. “But why do we say ‘if I WERE’ ?!?” well, here’s the answer."
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "I still remember when I used to teach English online and one of my students asked me how to conjugate the verb ‘to be’ in the past tense. “I was” , I begun And then he interrupted. “But why do we say ‘if I WERE’ ?!?” well, here’s the answer."
157.5K views10 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "THREE FUNDAMENTALS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING"
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "THREE FUNDAMENTALS OF LANGUAGE LEARNING"
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "leave me a word beneath ⬇️ - anglish is a bit of a silly thought experiment and has some issues since the notion of a ‘pure’ Germanic language is in itself paradoxical … but hey fun to think about!"
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "leave me a word beneath ⬇️ - anglish is a bit of a silly thought experiment and has some issues since the notion of a ‘pure’ Germanic language is in itself paradoxical … but hey fun to think about!"
65.2K views7 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "why do students from all over the world learn Catalan?? 📚🤓I recently had the pleasure of working with @irllull at their ‘estada lingüística’ in Mallorca and that was exactly the question I asked to this group of fascinating individuals 😁Which reason surprised you most ? 🤯"
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "why do students from all over the world learn Catalan?? 📚🤓I recently had the pleasure of working with @irllull at their ‘estada lingüística’ in Mallorca and that was exactly the question I asked to this group of fascinating individuals 😁Which reason surprised you most ? 🤯"
115.8K views7 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "the syntactical querkiness of Portuguese … and French"
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "the syntactical querkiness of Portuguese … and French"
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "LANGUAGE LEARNING - MY STORY for the full episode check out my podcast LanguageNut , link in bio! (It’s free obvs) 🎧🎧🎧🤘🇬🇧🇬🇷🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸🇩🇪🇷🇴🇦🇩🇵🇹🇷🇺"
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "LANGUAGE LEARNING - MY STORY for the full episode check out my podcast LanguageNut , link in bio! (It’s free obvs) 🎧🎧🎧🤘🇬🇧🇬🇷🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸🇩🇪🇷🇴🇦🇩🇵🇹🇷🇺"
47.1K viewsFeb 25, 2025
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🔹 Reuben Constantine, a young British student at Oxford University, speaks 10 languages fluently, but confessed that Romanian 🇷🇴 is his favorite, according to Adevărul newspaper. 🔹 He explained why he feels attracted to Romanian language, highlighting the similarities with the Romance languages and the Slavic influence, especially in terms of vocabulary. 👉 Watch the young man's explanations in the video. 👇 🎥: tiktok/oliversoxford | Ambasada României în Statele Unite ale Americii / Romania
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🔹 Reuben Constantine, a young British student at Oxford University, speaks 10 languages fluently, but confessed that Romanian 🇷🇴 is his favorite, according to Adevărul newspaper. 🔹 He explained why he feels attracted to Romanian language, highlighting the similarities with the Romance languages and the Slavic influence, especially in terms of vocabulary. 👉 Watch the young man's explanations in the video. 👇 🎥: tiktok/oliversoxford | Ambasada României în Statele Unite ale Americii / Romania
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Reuben Constantine | The language that left the grave … What do you think? Are movements like this examples of a real ‘success story’? Or is it ultimately a... | Instagram
11 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "THE LANGUAGE OF MALLORCA !!! 🏝️☀️📖 I recently had the special privilege of working with a group of students, professors, writers and other guest speakers to learn all about the culture and language of this special island. ✍️ Mallorca is home to a variety of the catalan language known as mallorquí which has some fascinating characteristics - in some ways it is the most archaic form of Catalan still widely spoken! 🌍 This video is an interview with Pere, a teach
70K views6 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "my point is not that saying “the data are…” is incorrect, but rather that it is unnecessary to correct people’s use of a more naturalised English declension pattern, since we already do this with ‘paninis’ or ‘the alcohol’… 🧐🧐 What do you think?"
59.3K views7 months ago
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Reuben Constantine | 🙏 THE DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF “THANK YOU” IN THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES 🇪🇸🇵🇹🇫🇷🇮🇹 🇷🇴 🙏 I find Portuguese ‘obrigado’ especially interesting... | Instagram
43.9K views3 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "The languages I love and why 🤩❤️ I think every language means something different for each person… the reality is a complex mixture of memories and associations attached to each language and the people who speak it. These connections go far beyond simple concepts like “grammar” or “vocabulary”, but nonetheless here’s a “fun” video to get you thinking about the topic… Ps. I know representing language with national flags is problematic … please don’t take it too
27.6K views4 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "What about your language? ⬇️ Are there many anglicisms or have new words been invented based on pre-existing roots ? 🤔"
91.2K viewsApr 17, 2025
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "CAN YOU UNDERSTAND SPOKEN LATIN ?!! 🏛️🏺🗣️ Big thanks to my good friend Ziwen for participating in this video. As well as being a post-doc research fellow in linguistics at the university of Oxford, he SPEAKS LATIN ! 🙌🏽💪🏽🐐 I have never studied Latin but it’s really fun to see how knowledge of Romance languages make Latin more or less intelligible. 🧐🏺 , how much of this were you able to understand? Which languages do you speak which helped you? Comment b
81K views3 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "Is English a Creole Language?? To many linguists , a Creole is a nativised pidgin language : a language spoken born out of a need for communication between speakers of different languages. When the Norman’s invaded England in 1066 speaking Norman ‘French’, they met the Anglo Saxon people who spoke Germanic dialects known as Old English. These two languages were mutually unintelligible, yet the resulting ‘Middle English’ seems to be a mix of the two. Does this me
25K views6 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "fun fact the history of ‘Arabic numerals’ is actually a little more complicated than you might imagine …🤯 The name ‘’Arabic numerals’’ came about because Europe adopted the number system from the Arabic world around the twelfth century CE. However, the numbers were probably developed in India first. AND there is another Arabic number system which has the same root but evolved slightly differently, used in some arabophone countries, but usually in combination wi
85.6K views10 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "what do you think? Is the theory convincing or is there something I’m missing here ? … 🤔"
40.4K views8 months ago
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Reuben Constantine | The “passat perífrastic” in Catalan in one of the most interesting and unique ways of forming the past tense🤔Can you think of any other... | Instagram
16.7K viewsApr 21, 2024
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "in your language do you use an article before names??? Or maybe some other word or structure is used to introduce people? 🤔 please comment below I’m genuinely interested!’ ⬇️"
48.7K views8 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "the evolution of languages really is surprising sometimes !!! 🤩 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 🇦🇴 🇲🇿 🇬🇼 🇨🇻 🇸🇹 🇹🇱 🇬🇶 Can you think of any other language where an expression meaning “the people” has come to mean “we” ? I wonder if Portuguese is a unique case or not …"
302.5K views8 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "QUIZ - SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT CATALAN🤩 @irllull - how many did you get?? Were you impressed by the knowledge of the students ? 🤠"
68.4K views7 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "A LÍNGUA GALEGA !!! 🇪🇸🇵🇹 Galician speakers please get in touch, I’d love to hear what you think about your language and if you think I’ve represented it properly in this video …"
254.5K views10 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "no Greeks or Spaniards were harmed in the making of this video 🤝🇬🇷🇪🇸 (except maybe at the end) @lyricfluentapp What about in your language? Are there are insults used commonly among friends? 🤔 ⬇️"
81.1K views8 months ago
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CONSTANTINE 2 - First Trailer (2026) Keanu Reeves, Mads Mikkelsen | Concept Trailer
24.8K views8 months ago
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Reuben Constantine | Phonology : the system of contrastive relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language.... | Instagram
80.9K viewsFeb 11, 2025
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Why Portuguese is a Linguistic Gem for Learners
10.5K views9 months ago
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MULTILINGUAL chat - Reuben's experience learning Greek, Romanian, Catalan and Spanish (PART 1)
3.5K viewsJul 28, 2024
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "my Arabic pronunciation was probably not the goat 😅🐐 but I find this so interesting!! Do you think people will forget the acronymic origin of this word ? 🤔 maybe it is already forgotten in some languages ?"
188K views9 months ago
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Reuben Constantine on Instagram: "Why do we have irregular verbs? 🤔 This is one of the answers 😦 Watch until the end and it’ll make sense I promise 🥳"
93K views10 months ago
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