Corsican polyphony
I spent last Thursday and Friday at a workshop on error analysis, and Thursday evening there there was a Corsican banquet, with a concert by the musical group Sarocchi. The banquet and concert were in...
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Learn Basic to Advanced Portuguese Vocabulary & Travel Phrases for Free...
Free Portuguese Vocabulary Trainer Online This free Portuguese vocabulary trainer is a cool tool for learning basic to advanced words and includes audio for pronunciation practice. This online service...
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Learn Basic to Advanced Romanian Vocabulary & Travel Phrases for Free Online
Free Romanian Vocabulary Trainer Online This free Romanian vocabulary trainer is a cool tool for learning basic to advanced words and includes audio for pronunciation practice. This online service...
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Learn Basic to Advanced Slovak Vocabulary & Travel Phrases for Free Online
Free Slovak Vocabulary Trainer Online This free Slovak vocabulary trainer is a cool tool for learning basic to advanced words and includes audio for pronunciation practice. This online service plays...
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Learn Basic to Advanced Spanish Vocabulary & Travel Phrases for Free Online
Free Spanish Vocabulary Trainer Online This free Spanish vocabulary trainer is a cool tool for learning basic to advanced words and includes audio for pronunciation practice. This online service plays...
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Learn Basic to Advanced Russian Vocabulary & Travel Phrases for Free Online
Free Russian Vocabulary Trainer Online This free Russian vocabulary trainer is a cool tool for learning basic to advanced words and includes audio for pronunciation practice. This online service plays...
View ArticleO que significa “Set time”?
Para começar, saiba que “set” neste caso é um adjetivo e significa definido, certo, preestabelecido. A expressão “set time” pode ser traduzida como “horário definido”, “hora certa”, e é comumente...
View ArticleThe world's 5 most influential languages
Are you studying one of the world's most influential languages? The following quote from this video seemed particularly noteworthy: > Every language is the most important language in the world - to...
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Top 10 Bolivian Spanish Slang Words and Expressions
The post Top 10 Bolivian Spanish Slang Words and Expressions appeared first on Speaking Latino. For your spanish dictionary go to SpeakingLatino.com.Guest author for this article, Robert, is a UK...
View ArticleWord of the week: Geofencing
Geofencing (also geo-fencing):“A technology that defines a virtual boundary around a real-world geographical area.” (Source: Techopedia.) In practice, this often translates to “drawing a ‘fence’ around...
View Article[SilverSpoon] Join Neutrino Now (Spaces Permitting)
Thank you for your interest in the SilverSpoon/Neutrino program. Neutrino is now temporarily opening up for new enrollment into the program (select languages only). However, right of entry is...
View ArticleLanguages Are Like Butter
You know something? I love butter. In fact, I love dairy products, period. Demonized as they often are today, I’m going dairy all the way. There’s nothing quite like the sight, sound and smell of...
View ArticleINDOLENCE.
It suddenly struck me as odd that the words indolence and indolent have the meanings they do, since they're transparently from Latin dolere 'hurt' (either transitive 'give pain to' or intransitive...
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Spanish Experts
Learning or improving your Spanish? Then this is your blog. Here you'll find English/Spanish vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, sayings, grammar explanations, FAQs, and much more! Author(s): Karin
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The good news in bad news: Repeatedly exposing yourself to a negative event...
Psychology shows that it doesn't take much to put you in a bad mood. And being in a bad mood slows your reaction time and affects your basic cognitive abilities like speech, writing, and counting. But...
View ArticleThe Dip in Serendipity
In a recent CNN piece entitled, “Internet Gains Are Serendipity’s Loss,” Todd Leopold writes about...
View ArticleThanksgiving Around the World
Thanksgiving has been officially celebrated in the US since 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday of November a public holiday. However it dates back to an earlier, three-day...
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9 Words in Spanish for Doobie Hair Wrap
The post 9 Words in Spanish for Doobie Hair Wrap appeared first on Speaking Latino. For your spanish dictionary go to SpeakingLatino.com.Famous singer Rihanna surprised the public by appearing with a...
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Replace or Hazard?
Here’s a Chinese public service poster that uses a pun to get its point across: The big text reads: 你是要换， [Do you want to replace it,] 还是要患？ [or do you want a (safety) hazard?] So the key here is that...
View ArticleNo word in any European language for "a vice common in Asia"
Mark Swofford recently encountered a variation of the "no word for" trope in a footnote in an 1831 work, History of the Pirates Who Infested the China Sea from 1807 to 1810 (Jìng hǎi fēn jì 靖海氛記),...
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