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- Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:37 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Test your vocab knowledge in a foreign language
- Replies: 112
- Views: 22732
Re: Test your vocab knowledge in a foreign language
Do Japanese really call "testicles" 金玉? LOL. The standard word in Chinese is 睾丸 as far as I know. I also Googled and found that that's the hanja for Kim Ok who was Kim Jong Il's secretary OK, it's not the "standard" word, but it's the one I know. 睾丸 or 精巣 are listed as "anatomical terms" in my dict...
- Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:33 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "this one" for "i"?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3574
Re: "this one" for "i"?
The standard/common word for "I, me" in Mandarin is 我 but in very formal language, 本人 ("this person") also refers to the speaker. I've seen it used on dating sites/apps before too, to clarify that the person is/isn't using fake pictures to conceal their identity, i.e. 照片(非)本人 ("photo[s] (aren't) min...
- Sun Sep 27, 2015 2:09 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311498
Re: Venting thread that embraces everyone without distinctio
I don't think I've ever heard a native speaker of American English use the word "thongs" as footwear in a context where they weren't making fun of Australian English.
- Sun Sep 27, 2015 1:45 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Test your vocab knowledge in a foreign language
- Replies: 112
- Views: 22732
Re: Test your vocab knowledge in a foreign language
Do Japanese really call "testicles" 金玉? LOL. The standard word in Chinese is 睾丸 as far as I know. I also Googled and found that that's the hanja for Kim Ok who was Kim Jong Il's secretary
- Sun Sep 27, 2015 1:16 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Duolingo
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1326
Re: Duolingo
Funny you just posted this thread today, as I just logged in for the first time in probably about a year to clear my courses and start over. I definitely agree that it's more a matter of maintaining motivation to study and learning vocab than anything else really, but that's still something, and it'...
- Thu Jul 16, 2015 6:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: please call stella
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7494
Re: please call stella
Here's mine: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0j6qq4OnoAx
I always hate listening to my voice >.< I sound so squeaky.
I always hate listening to my voice >.< I sound so squeaky.
- Sun Jun 21, 2015 9:11 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
- Replies: 1735
- Views: 358636
Re: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
An a cappella group that I follow just covered this song, so now I'm listening to it...I need to work on my Tagalog vocabulary
Sarah Geronimo - Kilometro
Sarah Geronimo - Kilometro
- Thu May 21, 2015 10:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese thread
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23763
Re: Chinese thread
Huh I never really thought about the phonetic values of the nasalized vowels... I speak with a Beijing accent and always assumed it was just [V~] but actually your analysis fits my pronunciation way better. (Though I'm still non-native, I do get told I have a fairly Beijing-ish accent, anyway. Makes...
- Wed May 20, 2015 9:56 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Duolingo
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16862
Re: Duolingo
I'll also add that, like those spaced repetition flashcard apps like Anki and Memrise, it can get really daunting if you miss a day or more due to personal life or whatever issues that make you unable to log in for a while. Everything piles up and it can become overwhelming to have so much to review...
- Wed May 20, 2015 9:41 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Austronesian alignment
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1851
Re: Austronesian alignment
This post is specifically about Tagalog: Binasa nang tao ang aklat. b<in>asa nang tao ang aklat <PST.P>read IND person DIR book The book was read by a person. Bumasa nang aklat ang tao. b<um>asa nang aklat ang tao <PST.A>read IND book DIR person A person read the book. Binilhán nang tao nang aklat a...
- Mon May 18, 2015 6:27 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Duolingo
- Replies: 50
- Views: 16862
Re: Duolingo
I used to use Duolingo for German, Portuguese, and Irish. I quickly dropped Irish after it was clear the pronunciations were horrible. I dropped German shortly after (which I had just been using to maintain, not to learn) as I became more and more frustrated with the limitations of what was an accep...
- Tue May 12, 2015 6:13 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311498
Re: Venting thread that excludes sirdanilot
After doing all this, and with more to come, my basic question is, HOW ON EARTH DO STUDENTS JUST UP AND STUDY ABROAD SO EASILY? Who is doing all of this for them, because I need that person. Which part? For me it was easy as applying to a program and they literally send me all the stuff I'll need, ...
- Sun May 10, 2015 12:07 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311498
Re: Venting thread
You're on a linguistics forum. No one cares if you split your infinitives. Many people here probably do as well.
- Sun May 03, 2015 11:06 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311498
Re: Venting thread
I'm a quarter, which by Irish standards means I'm allowed to apply for citizenship, so I did, agus anois is Éireannach mé . What about you? You're Canadian so ... are you also French? As someone who is also 1/4 Irish...what? (Not that I am going to do this, if I can, I just find it interesting) The...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:09 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 374444
Re: Happy Things Thread
If only there was a page linked to on the 3rd paragraph of zompist's link that would answer your question (It's also pretty evident that there's a significant Romani community from the TLC show "My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding" which is...well, it's a TLC show so that tells you everything you nee...
- Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:33 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 374444
Re: Happy Things Thread
I've done a map like Viktor's, from the same website (iirc we found it independent of each other), though I'm not quite as hardcore as Viktor is. It's just something for my knowledge in a "hey, cool" type of thing, not something I'm actively working to complete. This is my map, the legend is on the ...
- Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:14 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 374444
Re: Happy Things Thread
[All I am saying is that the attitude of some people here is very anglo-centric in that they expect learners of English to have perfect command of the language and know very infrequent and unimportant words that have to do with a domain that 99% of the population hardly ever talks about, i.e. makin...
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:46 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese thread
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23763
Re: Chinese thread
How do you distinguish between "i see an interesting book" and "i'm reading an interesting book" in chinese? Same as in English: by your choice of a verb. IANANS, but I think "我看見一本有趣的書" would be clearly understood as "I see an interesting book". It's all in the presence of 見, which also means "see...
- Thu Apr 09, 2015 10:03 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 374444
Re: Happy Things Thread
"yarn" is one of those technical terms that every native speakers knows. "drop spindle" is not. I have no idea what it is without googling, for example.
- Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese thread
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23763
Re: Chinese thread
Really? Because it means exactly what it sounds like. It's not like iotation or schwas are unique to Chinese...
- Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:47 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese thread
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23763
Re: Chinese thread
How is it not diachronic? It went from [i~ɪ] to [jə~jɤ]. Other varieties maintain the high front vowel, the Beijing-area dialect shifted at some point. Phonemically it's probably /i/, definitely not /jə/, if only because most varieties of Mandarin maintain [i~ɪ] in that position. I'm not even sure i...
- Fri Mar 20, 2015 11:06 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese thread
- Replies: 108
- Views: 23763
Re: Chinese thread
[ʂyː˧˥] would definitely be wrong, if only because the vowel is definitely not rounded.
- Sat Mar 14, 2015 12:56 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese pronunciation of Japanese names
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7859
Re: Chinese pronunciation of Japanese names
One of the "readings" of 比 in Sino-Viet is tỉ. 毕 is tất 鼻 is tị or tì 必 is tất as well 币 is tệ 滨 is tân 避 is tị So it looks like it's mostly bi syllables in Mandarin with two bin (though there's no pattern in Cantonese). Most of them are 4th tone, except 比 and 鼻 (and also, 闭, 4th tone, is bế), and t...
- Fri Mar 13, 2015 8:25 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 374444
Re: Happy Things Thread
I've tried to do genealogy online before, but it usually leads to dead ends around the turn of 1900, considering none of my direct family members were in the US at that time and I don't want to pay to use the international search features on ancestry.com (not that I expect much from the Philippines,...
- Fri Mar 13, 2015 6:34 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Chinese pronunciation of Japanese names
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7859
Re: Chinese pronunciation of Japanese names
Brackets are where hanviet.org didn't have a transcription for a rare character, or where there appeared to be something weird with the transcription (three cases of this: Cant. sơi vs. SV nhu , Cant. bân vs. SV tân , and Cant. miện vs. SV diện .) Actually there's a standard correspondence between ...