submarine, président, acção, problemă – we can understand lots of English and French words, even Portuguese and Romanian ones, without having actually studied those languages properly. The examples above all belong to the vocabulary of the Romance family of languages, although there are equivalents in the Germanic and Slavic languages. Look at the example below,…
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Well, of course, you can discuss about it – but these are very exciting thoughts, enjoy!
Irregular verbs are a challenge in many languages. Most of us remember learning by heart long lists of Latin, English or German verbs: singen – sang – gesungen ; sing – sang – sung; canto – cantavi – cantatum This video features a song with rhymes and rhythm to make learning easier:
Bernd FW Springer: Das kommt mir spanisch vor ! Einführung in die deutsch-spanische Kommunikation. (That sounds like Spanish to me! Introduction into the German-Spanish communication.) Munich, iudicium, 2012; 277 pages, 28 euros. Arne has already written a lot on this blog about the importance of culture: About the importance not only of learning the language,…
We often use metaphors or figures of speech to express our emotions: for example, love is located in the heart … but is this really true for all languages? Farsi is a good example that this assignment of emotions to certain parts of our body isn’t as universal as it seems: „to jigare mani“ means…
