Archive for the 'Language' Category

Peacefulness of Mind in Selecting a Cleaning Company

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

If you’ve ever had a furnace motor go poor and smoke filled your household, you know what the walls appear like and how the residence smelled. Most times the folks your insurance business recommends do not do the particularly most beneficial of work. Hiring your own Cleaning provider would be a good thing to do.
You [...]

How to Learn English

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Is it possible to learn English without ever setting foot in a classroom? Sure, some people can do it, but can everyone do it? Possibly, but it is important to remember that there are many reasons that people want to learn English and that those reasons ultimately play a factor in the success of unguided [...]

American English: The Different Sounds of the Letter “s” at the End of a Word

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

The voiced and unvoiced sounds of “s” at the end of a word.
We will look at two special cases where the letter “s” appears at the end of a word:
1. at the end of a verb,
2. at the end of a noun.
In these two cases the pronunciation of the “s”, whether it [...]

Mastering a Foreign Language: How To Become A Brilliant Speaker, Part 1 of 7 ‘Lose Your Inhibitions’

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

If you want to become a great speaker of a foreign language, the
first thing you will want to do is lose your inhibitions. Allow
yourself to make mistakes, and allow yourself to make a lot of
them. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to watch a toddler
acquire language, you know that most of [...]

6 Ways of Forming Chinese Characters

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Did you know there are only 6 ways of forming Chinese characters?
Yes, 6 kinds of Chinese characters make up the 50,000 Chinese characters in existence today.
Amazing isn’t it?
It shows that there is a logical symbol system used to create Chinese characters. That they are not just made up of random lines and strokes.
Once you know [...]

Translation Service Now Open All Hours

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Thanks to an exciting new service being launched by antipodean translation company New Lingo, no business need ever be lost for words again – whatever the time of day or night! For New Zealand’s leading Internet language services company recently added a new string to its corporate bow, with the launch of a 24-hour translation [...]

Practice Phrasal Verbs

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

An idiom is a phrase that has a meaning different from the meanings of its parts. Idiomatic expressions are commonly used and understood slang phrases. An essential kind of idiom is the phrasal verb, a verb whose meaning is changed when a second word is added. The second word is known as a particle. Verb [...]

How to Evaluate Foreign Language Courses

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

The internet is full of a wide variety of Spanish language courses and the decision of which one to purchase can be overwhelming. Do you follow the traditional paths and go with Pimsleur, Berlitz or Rosetta Stone? All are great products, but they carry a pretty hefty price tag. What’s more, the “big guys” teach [...]

Acquiring A First Language

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Have you ever wondered how you learned to speak your native language?
We can speak the language perfectly well, with grammatically perfect utterances and appropriate and accurate vocabulary for every possible situation or context in our lives.
Obviously, we can infer, our parents had something to do with this. After all, we speak their same language.
However, I [...]

Origins and History of the Spanish Language

Monday, June 18th, 2007

The Spanish language began when Southwestern Europe’s first settlers, the Iberians of Libya, got together the Celts, the nomadic Aryan tribes who migrated from the north. Together they formed the Celtiberian race and spoke a form of Celtic. At that time Spain was known as the Iberian Peninsula.
The Phoenicians of Lebanon followed. These great pioneers [...]