Pronomes Relativos em Inglês: which e what
Já escrevi várias dicas sobre os pronomes relativos em inglês. Mas, as dicas foram sobre os pronomes who, whom e that. Nesta dica, chegou a vez de aprender sobre which e what também usados como...
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Speaker's power to act on words influences listeners' brain response
A speaker's power to act on his words influences how a listener perceives the meaning of their message, according to new research.
View ArticleMASTER ETYMOLOGIST COHEN.
Last year I posted about Allan Metcalf's Lingua Franca piece on the journal Comments on Etymology; now Metcalf has a Tablet story about the guy who writes it, "Gerald Leonard Cohen, professor in the...
View ArticleThe ShangRing device
Francis Miller sent in this photograph of a lollapalooza of a Chinglish banner (click to embiggen): When I first glanced at the English translation, I thought that I might be hallucinating from the...
View ArticleHelp with the Chinese Usage Dictionary
Yale University has a great Chinese Usage Dictionary with 85 entries. Only problem is that it uses the deprecated HTML practice of frames, and the links in the left sidebar are not right. You actually...
View ArticleWords in the News: George
The future King of England, who is third in line to the throne, has been revealed as George Alexander Louis, in a statement released by Kensington Palace. Full story >> VOCABULARY The Express's...
View Article7/25/13 - diaspora
1. The dispersal of a people outside their homeland. 2. A people, collectively, that lives in dispersed areas outside its homeland. If capitalized, Diaspora refers specifically to the Jewish community...
View ArticleReuters Video: William and Kate name Britain's new royal heir George
Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate have chosen three traditional royal names by calling their newborn baby boy George Alexander Louis, William's office said. Katharine Jackson reports....
View ArticleThe State of Oil
Oil is a big business and it is biggest in the hands of government. For decades the energy market in general and oil production in particular has seen a uniquely high share of government ownership....
View ArticleCartoon: Royal Baby Conversation
There has only been one topic of conversation in Britain over the past few days — the royal baby. And the trend looks set to continue now that the baby has got a name. However, not everyone wants to...
View ArticleWord of the day: Kayak
Although the use of kayaks is believed to date back 4,000 years, with the word appearing in all Inuit dialects from Greenland to Alaska, it did not become familiar in Europe until the seventeenth...
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Learn about Bulgarian on Wikipedia
Discover the Bulgarian Language If you're learning Bulgarian you may very well want to get an overview of the language, some of its unique features, geographical information about native speakers as...
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Learn Bulgarian with Android Apps
More Bulgarian Android Apps than you can Handle! Anyone with an Android gadget most likely knows about Google Play, as it's become the go-to source for Android apps. That said, I wanted to point out a...
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Free Bulgarian App and Games for Learning Basic Vocabulary (Online, Android,...
Free App and Dozens of Online Bulgarian Games Internet Polyglot offers fun and free games for learning basic Bulgarian vocabulary online. They also offer free Bulgarian apps for Android and iOS...
View ArticlePamukkale
Türkiye’nin Ege bölgesinde bulunan Denizli’nin şehir merkezine yaklaşık 15 kilometre uzaklıkta yer alan Pamukkale, dünyadaki en müthiş yerlerden bir tanesi. Tepeden tırnağa karla kaplı bir dağ...
View ArticlePamukkale
Placed approximately 15 kilometers away from the town center of Denizli, which is a city in the Aegean region of Turkey, Pamukkale is one of the most stunning places in the world. With a view of a...
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Language tip of the week: consequence
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are usually based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g....
View ArticleLanguage tip of the week: consequence
In this weekly post, we bring more useful content from the Macmillan Dictionary to English language learners. These tips are usually based on areas of English which learners find difficult, e.g....
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Top Language Learning Blogs of 2012
Who blogs the most about language learning? I just came across this round-up of top language learning blogs from 2012. We have revieved and linked to some of the top five candidates, but there were...
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MS, Chinese boffins team up on Kinect-powered sign language recog - Register
MS, Chinese boffins team up on Kinect-powered sign language recogRegisterMicrosoft researchers are working with Chinese boffins to tap the XBox 360 Kinect motion sensor's body-tracking capabilities to...
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