Languages - August 2006

2006-08-02 12:57:57 · 18 answers · asked by Mikee 3

2006-08-02 12:26:48 · 19 answers · asked by Chris M 2

2006-08-02 12:12:52 · 10 answers · asked by nb19 2

2006-08-02 11:38:12 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese and English is my second language. I'd like to meet people who I can exchange information with (I help you out with portuguese and you help me out with some english).

Please, contact me if you like it.

Thanks.

P.S: Maybe it's not the right place to post this, but I wouldn't go to Y! Personals, I don't think I can find the kind of people I'm looking for there. So, sorry!

2006-08-02 11:07:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's adjective-noun reversement.But I don't know the grammatical reason why Europeans reverse their words.In English we'll say "big dog",but in Spanish or French they reverse it saying the noun "dog" first ,then the adjective "big".I haven't been able to figure out why,even though I've read several language instruction guides,but they don't ever mention that grammatical aspect of European languages or explain how that law of their grammer is to be applied. If you can tell me this you will have cleared up a long standing mystery for me.Thanks in Advance!

2006-08-02 11:05:56 · 21 answers · asked by Wonder-full 2

2006-08-02 10:17:35 · 2 answers · asked by *Nickey* G 1

2006-08-02 10:14:26 · 5 answers · asked by natasha 2

2006-08-02 10:13:07 · 15 answers · asked by Miranda S 1

Can today's English people understand English spoken1000 years ago?

2006-08-02 09:27:02 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-02 09:16:43 · 10 answers · asked by Tian 3

Ok mi amor esta bien no te preocupes je je je por cierto amor que te gusta comer para comprar tu comida que te voy a preparar cuando vengas

2006-08-02 08:55:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

China, Japan and India's economies have been rapidly growing in the last few years & it is likely that one of them will become the world's superpower. Whereas, USA is going through a slump right now & European economy is going from bad to worse. If this trend continues any further, we might as well be facing the prospect of China or Japan dominating the world & the English speaking nations in the world will have to give way to the Chinese.

Schools will no longer offer English as a key, important language anymore. Stock markets, News broadcasts, movie posters etc. will all contain Chinese characters, as opposed to English that we have been accustomed to. Soon, English will become like what, say French or German is at the moment. English will lose it's importance.

Are you scared that this thing is waiting to happen? Chinese will dominate English

2006-08-02 08:17:27 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I want to speak it so much. Will someone teach me, I wana go to Italy too. BTW italian men are cute to me. You can email me.

2006-08-02 08:04:26 · 7 answers · asked by rosepassions 3

What a fun

2006-08-02 08:04:24 · 10 answers · asked by a_persianboy_a 1

Eres en mucho pantelones cortos! Ya lo se! y digo nuesto madre!!!

2006-08-02 07:56:36 · 10 answers · asked by K 3

I am looking for titles that need to be translated.

2006-08-02 07:46:47 · 2 answers · asked by Ema 3

For those of you who speak languages other than english, what do you think of it? Is it a pretty language or does it sound ugly to you?

2006-08-02 07:43:33 · 8 answers · asked by SweetestSicilian 1

I want to learn it. it seems fun

2006-08-02 07:20:59 · 22 answers · asked by Gothic Girl 4

I'm from the UK and I never understand what people mean when they talk about a British accent. The English language has been widely spoken in the British Isles for over 1000 years, and as a result there is more diversity in accents in the UK than in the rest of the world put together. Yes it's true that not all Americans or Canadians or Australians have the same accent, but in England alone the accents are so diverse that often someone from the south might not be able to understand someone from the North at all.

When you talk about a British accent, which one do you mean?

2006-08-02 07:12:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-02 07:04:08 · 3 answers · asked by ? 1

This question is mostly for those who parents come from a Spanish speaking country and were brought up in the U.S. and didnt learn English till you started school. How long did it take you to learn the language?? Were you put in ESL, Bilingual, or regular classes?? Do you think ESL and Bilingual classes help students or hold them back? If you didnt go to ESL or Biligual classes, how are your Spanish speaking, reading, and writing skills now??

2006-08-02 06:55:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

how can we say that a person has a 5 o'clock shadow? is there such thing as 4 o'clock, 3 o'clock shadow and so on?

2006-08-02 06:32:04 · 9 answers · asked by cloud_9 2

What happened to kids dreams this days? my 7 year old kid wants to be a bus driver, what happened to the dream of being a president or to be a cop? or is it that being a president is not a dream anymore?

2006-08-02 06:30:13 · 7 answers · asked by Oscar 5

im from el salvador, are you
and if you are what state?

2006-08-02 06:16:10 · 7 answers · asked by cadillac grills cadillac spills! 3

2006-08-02 05:44:17 · 13 answers · asked by laflirt 1

I mean I dont mynd mispelled words like "embbarazing" or "wierd" cuz those r just 2 damn complicated n ppl r aloud 2 ocassionally make misteaks but than there r these ppl who intenntinaly maek up words lyke "b4" or "ne1" or "gud" I mean what is up wiz that? They say no 1 cares about spelling but how can u not care aboutt gud spelling if its ez on de i's n its an integral part off reeding n we all likye 2 read cuz that makes us least iggnorant, wright? Sum ppl then also deciede to criticzims evry typoes I made n they laffed b/c I turned an ez word like "insane" in2 "inane" becuz the latter is juss nonexistant. There r also ppl who tipe like there y kei is broken (like, their rite "sexi" instead of "sexy" n "boi" instead of "boy") but their still better then ppl who ignores completely the rulez of punxuation and they have like 5 sentences b4 they use a period but worse still r u guyz who axually read dis untill thee nd cuz I guess u must b rilly bored or something kthx 4 listening bye!

2006-08-02 05:23:05 · 11 answers · asked by teh_sexi_hotttie 4

Or anywhere that I could get them translated correctly?

2006-08-02 05:16:03 · 9 answers · asked by ThreeLoeras 2

I am a Chinese, learning English. So I want to creat a language learning partnership, I will help him/her about Chinese, and I hope she/he will help about my English.

We can study by way of VOIP tool,like Skype, MSN.

if u r interested, pls contact me. my email is desktiger AT yahoo.com.cn

2006-08-02 04:54:03 · 4 answers · asked by chinawood 1

Is there even an answer to this one?!

In Spanish, the table is feminine, the car is masculine, beer is feminine and (mysteriously) the clitoris is masculine. Plenty of other languages do this too, but there seems to be no consensus as to things that are masculine or feminine in every language. Cars are female in French, for example.

So how did this feature of language come to exist? Nobody in any language thinks that objects actually ARE male or female, they're just objects, so why did they start calling them "he" and "she"? And why do we NOT do it in English?


PS: Yes I know we sometimes call boats "she", for example, but that's just a figure of speech. According to the grammatical rules of English, a boat is an "it".

2006-08-02 04:53:40 · 17 answers · asked by Alex 42 2