25.4K The English language is made up of phrases from many different languages. Phrases like “restaurant” and “boulevard” come from French, for instance, whereas Italian lends phrases like “pasta” and “finale.” However is there a language that shares English’s Germanic roots—and even makes use of an identical grammatical construction? You could be shocked to study…
Does your vocabulary want a lift? After dropping a recreation or two of Scrabble, you could end up wishing your linguistic library had extra taste. Luckily, it’s fairly easy to develop your vocabulary by specializing in phrases you already know and studying their opposites! Reverse phrases, or antonyms, are complementary threads that add depth, distinction,…
Instructor TikTok is stuffed with impressions. Impressions of principals. Elementary lecturers vs. secondary lecturers. Impressions of center schoolers. And a sure TikToker—or ought to I say artist?—is thought for doing completely spot-on impressions of English lecturers. Is it the cardigan? The medieval princess hair? The timbre of their voice that means they is perhaps on…
There are some phrases on the market which are brilliantly evocative and on the similar time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the phrase shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unfortunate person. German has the phrase Backpfeifengesicht, which toughly means a face that’s dangerously in want of a fist. After which there’s the Japanese phrase…
If you consider the world’s most lovely languages, lovely English phrases may not be the primary to spring to thoughts. In any case, it doesn’t fairly have the musical lilt of a Romance language. And having studied a number of languages, English additionally doesn’t all the time have phrases for sure distinctive, philosophically-rich cultural phrases, like Japanese…
2.5K Japanese famously has three writing programs: hiragana (平仮名), katakana (片仮名), and kanji (漢字). All are important for studying and writing Japanese, however solely the primary two could possibly be outlined as alphabets. What’s extra, whereas the English alphabet has 26 letters, the 2 Japanese alphabets have 46 characters every. With over thrice the variety…
Good listening expertise all rely upon expectations. To begin with, the context helps us guess the phrases somebody will say. We additionally use expectations to guess what sounds you’ll hear. So that you count on somebody leaving residence within the morning with a bag to say one thing like. I’m going to work However what…
From Wired comes this: “Professionalfessor of English and Medieval Literature Dr. Dorsey Armrobust solutions your questions in regards to the Middle Ages from Twitter. Why is it known as the “Middle” Ages? [What did medieval English sound like?] What activities did people do for enjoyable? Why had been animals tried in court docket for crimes?…
Spelling could be a difficult enterprise. It’s a talent that requires precision, persistence, and a superb reminiscence. English spelling, specifically, could be a problem. With its mixture of influences from totally different languages, it’s stuffed with exceptions and irregularities. However don’t fear. There are some guidelines that may aid you navigate the maze of spelling….
Japanese proverbs and idioms are crammed with historical knowledge. And a few of them you will have already heard and didn’t know they originated from Japan! These Japanese proverbs are known as ことわざ (kotowaza). They’ll are available in straight-forward sayings or be as philosophical as one in all Uncle Iroh’s from Avatar: The Final Airbender. It…
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You’re in all probability conscious that we usually use loads of French phrases in English. However do you know that English is so near the French language, that round 30% of English phrases come from the language of affection? A few of these French phrases in English (in any other case often called cognates!) are…