Languages - July 2006

2006-07-08 10:00:06 · 5 answers · asked by ? 5

2006-07-08 09:56:59 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Given the following rules to this language:

andur- = to see (add endings directly to stem.)
maami - father (drop the "i" and then add endings)
Ianna - John (no changes to proper nouns before endings)
Word order is : VSO. (verb, subject, object)

Anduro maami Iannas.
Andurit maamat Ianna.
Anduro Ianna maams.
Andurit Iannat maami.

Can you translate these sentences and give a name to any grammatical cases which may be present?

2006-07-08 09:50:49 · 13 answers · asked by zsopark 2

Ok I don't wanna start an argument but I really wanted to receive an honest response. I'm a spanish student and I really do love learning and speaking it but sometimes I wonder everytime hispanic/latino esp. mexicans talk it sounds very very loud when their talking I don't know maybe but I observed that even when they whisper or talk to their neighbors it seems that their fighting like really wild lol even when I watched telemundo and univision. but yea so I asked my Cuban teacher and she wasn't surprised with my question and laughed and she told me because hispanic people they have to pronounce everything by syllable plus the "R" really hard and sometimes the double "RR" so they can understand each other. Is this true? Any other feedbacks before I ask my Panamanian friend.

O yea in addition, EverytimeI hear Argentine news or when I hear them talk on tv they don't sound loud and they don't sound as if their fighting it seems that they speak spanish really soft.

2006-07-08 09:50:22 · 6 answers · asked by xxikickers 1

I'm trying to learn german, and I'm somewhat confused about the difference between the pronunciation of the letters I and E. To me, they sound exactly the same, like the english long E sound.

E - http://www.u.arizona.edu/~tinab/ABC/MAX00015.WAV
I - http://www.u.arizona.edu/~tinab/ABC/MAX00023.WAV

2006-07-08 09:49:46 · 4 answers · asked by Dylan 2

Please do not reply with any anti-Arab sentiments; this is a serious question not intended for political commentary.

2006-07-08 09:41:58 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-08 09:25:13 · 6 answers · asked by Patricia 3

Choose (a) or (b) as the most grammatical to complete the following sentence:
"Joe gave presents to my friend and ____"
a) Me
b) I

2006-07-08 09:20:23 · 25 answers · asked by perseph1 4

Kid House & Ryukyu...? I bought a tshirt at a garage sale. it's got this sweet dragon on it. the tag on the shirt says kid house and there's also a Japanese? symbol with kid house written underneath. Also on the shirt is Ryuku written real big across the front and then there's another symbol with the word Daisuke underneath. when i do a search i can't find all these words occuring together, nor can i really discern their meaning separately. any ideas....?

2006-07-08 09:17:50 · 4 answers · asked by lyndsay 1

2006-07-08 09:09:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I already know what the dictionary says, so I'd appreciate answers from native Spanish speakers as to what terminology is used. I usually hear people say "se acabo mi medicina, necesito mas" or something like that rather than using a specific word.

2006-07-08 09:01:02 · 7 answers · asked by Dakota 3

2006-07-08 09:00:08 · 3 answers · asked by Mirage 2

In English, when you talk about breaking a leg or someone breaking your heart, you use the same word - break. It seems to be different in Chinese.
斷 了 腿
斷 了 氣
你 傷 了 我 的 心
你 摧 了 我 的 心
How do you correctly express the fact that someone has broken your heart?

2006-07-08 08:32:16 · 8 answers · asked by careyxxx 1

2006-07-08 08:24:51 · 4 answers · asked by catsmeow 1

More than half the world's thousands of languages are in serious trouble and may die out in the next few decades. In most cases the causes are multiple, but in the end the younger generation simply doesn't learn, the middle generation understands but isn't fluent, and only the oldest speakers retain the full richness of the language.

Most of the the reasons are either political or economic- people are often forced by majority speakers to adopt the new language (even where minority speakers were the original population). In other cases the language is felt by speakers to be an impediment to economic success in the larger society. Yet most of the world's people are multilingual, so how can keeping the old language hurt you? Is it because it identifies you with a group held in lower regard by the majority?

How do you feel about societies that try to wipe out minority languages and culture? Is this healthy? Should effort be made to stop this, or reverse it? What if it costs money?

2006-07-08 08:15:38 · 18 answers · asked by diaboloid 2

If you have a look at the spreading of the German language on the whole globe, you will consider that...

Is spreading the right word in this case?
on the globe or at the globe?
Would u write whole globe or just globe?

2006-07-08 08:04:09 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm an American attorney and want to be able to do business in China. Would it be better to learn Mandarin or Cantonese?

2006-07-08 08:00:33 · 10 answers · asked by Ask_Ivy 2

I kow Iran is the contracted form of "land of aryans". So I like to know other countries having same element in their names.

2006-07-08 07:44:44 · 9 answers · asked by Mirage 2

This isn't a joke; I have to phone this person up and don't want to get it wrong. The name is: Wancke .

2006-07-08 07:08:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

the original of language. (after the separation of tower of babel ), how people create their own languages?

2006-07-08 07:04:07 · 6 answers · asked by LetMEtell&AskYOU 5

2006-07-08 07:01:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

The words are:
ich - kaiserslautern - munchen - leid - shon - thom

I am trying to self-study German, but I am finding the pronunciation especially difficult. I really hope to have a German e-pal and I can help him improve his English or even help him learn Arabic from scratch. I am Egyptian, male, 28yo.

Thanks in advance.

2006-07-08 06:57:37 · 3 answers · asked by M_A_saBet 2

where does this misperception come from? English is very very easy if you learn it!

2006-07-08 06:39:39 · 19 answers · asked by modernlifeisrubbish 2

Mine are: buchstabieren in german , merde in french ( I know, but I like the way they say it :P ), culture in english , questo en italiano and in my language I like the word: predicción ..
Allright, this is a dumb question, but I'll like to know yours! :)

2006-07-08 06:01:50 · 41 answers · asked by jueves 4

This body language seems to be universal in any civilisations!

2006-07-08 06:00:16 · 7 answers · asked by avanti670 1

Does this mean that people are spelling so poorly that the computer doesn't know what they are talking about or that they are too lazy to click a button?
This has bothered me for some time. Maybe this is how language evolves over time. So many people are so used to seeing a spelling version of a word that they assume it is correct and perpetuate is use?

2006-07-08 05:54:41 · 10 answers · asked by craigy 2

I seem to remember that it as abput 1200 or 2000 or more but I cannot recall. Any ideas?

2006-07-08 05:47:24 · 8 answers · asked by alison k 3

2006-07-08 05:02:31 · 3 answers · asked by Omer 1

Another Question; Why isn't there a MISCOLANIOUS category for questions that don't really fit into any other category ??

2006-07-08 04:31:46 · 18 answers · asked by meimmoody 3

I have seen it many times on tv that when some Americans travel abroad they expect the locals to speak English. Although many of those locals are able to commuicate slightly, they are often called names sush as stupid and ignorant for not speaking English Fluently. Are they suppose to take English classes so they communicate with foriegners or is it the pther way around.

2006-07-08 04:31:33 · 22 answers · asked by Maj 1