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"Ah, I pulled my hamstring."
You're limping. A coworker asks what's wrong. You explain that you injured one of your leg muscles. Ah, I pulled my hamstring.
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Baby Books in Spanish: Authentic Learning and Cultural Resources
The post Baby Books in Spanish: Authentic Learning and Cultural Resources appeared first on Speaking Latino. For your spanish dictionary go to SpeakingLatino.com.Many teachers are always on the lookout...
View ArticleLearn Japanese, an introduction
A brief overview of how I learned Japanese and some hints and tips for people learning the language today.
View ArticleA JavaScript i18n Library for HTML 5 Applications
Website Localization is a key factor and an important step to achieve global market maximization. Translating your website’s content is only part of the localization process. Your website’s structure,...
View ArticleBIBLIOPHIKA: FUTURIST BOOKS.
Back in 2008 I posted about the exhibition "Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917"; here's a gorgeous collection of book covers from that period (scroll down). The text is in...
View Article"Sadomasochism" in Chinese
In "Has Sadomasochism Arrived? Confrontations of power at the level of sexuality in China", author Li Yinhe approves of the translation of the term "sadomasochism" as "nuedailian" in the following...
View ArticleiStudyEnglishOnline
It's been a while since I featured a new English learning site on The English Blog. There was a time (a few years ago) when new sites seemed to be appearing every week, but my Top English Learning...
View ArticleWord of the day: Roquefort
This is one of the world’s most famous blue cheeses, even though the mould which makes it so distinctive is actually green. The name Roquefort is taken from the town where it is produced, and its...
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Create the future AND win a prize in my survey
Hello everyone, just a quick note today as I'd love to invite you to give me some feedback on this blog. The Fluent Blog has been going for over a year and been visited by over 20,000 internetters...
View ArticleFree bab.la App Day!
We're very grateful to all of you who helped us to reach 50,000 likes on Facebook! It's such a great pleasure to interact with you, sharing infographics about languages, playing language games and of...
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Texts, and what to do with them
Imagine this: you’re a keen learner of English in a small town somewhere in Europe, and you’re attending an English course two evenings a week. The course follows a coursebook published 15 years ago...
View ArticleTexts, and what to do with them
Imagine this: you’re a keen learner of English in a small town somewhere in Europe, and you’re attending an English course two evenings a week. The course follows a coursebook published 15 years ago...
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i’m lovin it…
Last week we talked about promoting multilingual websites, with the general idea being that Content is King. Creating great website content is the best way to get indexed, and also to get visitors and...
View ArticleMore on Juola's stylometry
Worth reading if you were interested in the computational stylometric analysis by Patrick Juola that helped to unmask J. K. Rowling as the author of The Cuckoo's Calling: an article in The Chronicle of...
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"If you go with the High Yield checking account, you can earn 1.25%...
You work at a bank. A customer is starting a new bank account. There are a few types of accounts. You're describing some of the differences between them. If you go with the High Yield checking...
View ArticleClipping McDonald's
Commenters on a recent post ("Australian hypocoristics") discussed the vowel quality of the first syllable of McDonald's in detail and at length. The issues involved are interesting enough to deserve a...
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SPRAINTS AND FORNICATION.
I've been reading The London Train (P.S.) (a birthday gift from jamessal), and I was sent to the dictionary by the following sentence: "She showed them a dusty depression on the bank that might be...
View ArticleWord of the Week: Chindōgu
Chindōgu: The art of the “unuseless” idea. As a Wikipedia entry (with “multiple issues”) puts it: Chindōgu is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like...
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Back at the wordface
As has become my family’s summer tradition, we headed off on a bike trip for the month of July. Last year’s trip took us from Lake Geneva to Salzburg; this year we started in our very own driveway and...
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