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- Wed Jan 28, 2015 6:43 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1116673
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
If you want to be in an at least somewhat exciting city, go to Vilnius - lots of architecture, culture & students = nice cafés. I was in Kaunas in the 90s, it's more of a small town and I don't think it has become much more exciting since then. It's worth a day trip, though (distances are short in ...
- Wed Jan 28, 2015 4:38 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1116673
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Vasarą norėčiau važiuoti į Lietuvą, nes mano dėstytoja man sakė, kad Lietuvoje bus Lietuvių kalbos vasaros mokykla. Viena vasaros mokykla bus Vilniuje, antra Klaipėdoje ir kita Kaune, bet aš nežinau kuris miestas būtų geriausias. Manau kad Vilniuje bus gerai, nes Lietuvos sostinė, bet Klaipėda yra ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:32 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 306941
- Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:44 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Common L2 English mistakes
- Replies: 56
- Views: 10333
Re: Common L2 English mistakes
(getting a little bit OT) Finnish plural nouns include also kasvot 'face', aivot 'brain(s)', and the more easily explicable housut 'trousers' and sakset 'scissors' for paired things. Although you could add aivot, if it's plural because (everyone) has two halfs. I like the sound of "Figaron häät".
- Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:57 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: dunkles å in Austro-Bavarian
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1731
Re: dunkles å in Austro-Bavarian
Not sure, just something I read some time ago: [a] remained when followed by a diminutive suffix (so for example, something made of glass is "aus glås" with å, while a glass of water is "a glasl wåsser" with [a] in Glasl; Madl (~Mädchen) also has [a]; also - at least in my family: "a schnåps" but "a...
- Mon Nov 29, 2010 4:48 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Are there other voices apart from Act./Pass./Antipassive?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6095
Re: Are there other voices apart from Act./Pass./Antipassive
Yes... the passive. You used it there. Unless I'm misunderstanding you. I probably didn't explain that thoroughly. "He gave her the book" has, of course, the passive "The book was given to her", but what I was particularly interested in was whether a language can produce "She received a book", thus...
- Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:56 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Are there other voices apart from Act./Pass./Antipassive?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6095
Are there other voices apart from Act./Pass./Antipassive?
I was just wondering wheter there are other voices apart from the probably already by you all well known active, passive and antipassive. As far as I know, these are used to reduce the number of obligatory arguments of a verb, thus from the sentence "He's reading the book" we get the passive "The bo...
- Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:26 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 352357
- Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:29 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The mistakes you've made
- Replies: 115
- Views: 99713
It took me a good, long minute to realize that I had added the French -er to Arbeit, leaving me with Freutsch. Joy. This is a very nice neologism (I think at least, I've never heard it before) and better than always hearing about Denglisch. *g* As for mixing languages... same goes for me as for mos...