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by Ziz
Tue Jul 25, 2017 1:15 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

The whole thing about airports is very similar to Hebrew. The official word for 'airport' is נמל תעופה namal te‘ufa, which is 'flying-port', but colloquially everyone says שדה תעופה śde te‘ufa, which is 'flying-field'. Interestingly, the commonly used abbreviation for Ben Gurion Airport, the only se...
by Ziz
Sun Jul 23, 2017 3:01 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Replies: 3108
Views: 664130

Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread

only [ˈɵʊ̃n.li]
fool [fu̟ə̯ɫ]
again [ə̆ˈɡɛˑn]
direct [də̆ˈɹɛkt]
direction [də̆ˈɹɛk.ʃn̩]
party [ˈpʰa̱ɹ.ɾi]
four [foə̯ɹ]
Cairo [ˈkʰae̯.ɹɵʊ]
tsunami [su̟ˑˈna̱ˑ.mi]
lose [lu̟ˑz]
loose [lu̟s]
ten [tʰɛ̃ˑn]
teen [tʰĩˑn]
kin [kʰɪ̈̃ˑn]
good [ɡʊˑd̥]
bald [bɑˑɫd̥]
bold [boˑɫd̥]
fork [foˑɹk]
by Ziz
Fri Jul 21, 2017 4:12 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Я раз побывала. Шёл там снег. I went once. It snowed. J'ai entendu dire que ça se passe des fois au Canada. I've heard that sometimes happens in Canada. J'aime bien la neige. La neige fraîche a une si brillante blancheur. À l'Alaska, la neige reste tout l'hiver sans fondre. À Wisconsin, il est un p...
by Ziz
Thu Jul 20, 2017 6:27 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

.הערב נעשה מסיבת פרידה לאחת החברים שלי. אנחנו לא מתראים כל כך הרבה אבל גם ככה אני לא רוצה שהיא תעזוב אותי Ha-‘erev na‘aśe mesibat p ə rida le-aḥat ha-ḥaverim šeli. Anaḥnu lo mitra’im kol kakh harbe aval gam kakha ani lo rotse šehi ta‘azov oti. Tonight we're doing a going-away party for one of my fr...
by Ziz
Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:28 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

¿Cómo supiste dónde Jordania acabó y Arabia Saudita comenzó?
How did you figure out where Jordan stopped and Saudi Arabia started?
by Ziz
Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:59 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Quand j'étais toujours à l'université, j'avais de l'énergie pour apprendre des nouvelles langues, mais dernièrement j'en ai oublié presque toutes. Quand on vie dans un pays où il faut utiliser chaque jour une langue allogène, il est assez difficile à trouver de l'énergie pour se dédier à une nouvel...
by Ziz
Wed Jul 12, 2017 4:23 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

La mia nuova coinquilina studia l'astrofisica, ma già non vuole più essere astrofisica. È piuttosto triste perche vorrei parlare con lei sulla sua materia. Mi sembra che non lei piace la vita di cambiare casa ogni volta per fare della ricerca. My new flatmate studies astrophysics, but she doesn't w...
by Ziz
Wed Jul 12, 2017 4:57 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Al principio, kokhav se refería a un cuerpo celeste además de la Tierra, el Sol y la Luna. En sí mismo, por lo general significa ‘estrella’, pero puede ser un planeta también. Para explicitar un planeta, se puede decir kokhav lekhet (estrella caminante) o usar el préstamo planeṭa , pero el primero ...
by Ziz
Tue Jul 11, 2017 5:18 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

.בישראל, כולם אומרים "מלחמת הכוכבים". אולי בגלל שסטאר וורז נשמע טפשי לחלוטין Be-Yiśra’el, kulam omrim "Milḥemet ha-Kokhavim." Ulay biglal she-Sṭar Worz nishma‘ ṭipshi leḥaluṭin. In Israel, everybody says Milḥemet ha-Kokhavim , maybe because [staʁ woʁz] sounds totally stupid. .דווקא מסתבר שרוב הכותר...
by Ziz
Sat Jul 08, 2017 10:45 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

.טוב, אני אחד מהחברים האלה, אז זה לא יכול להיות זה
Well, I'm one of the Friends, so it can't be that.
by Ziz
Thu Jul 06, 2017 4:42 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

אַ גאַנצן חודש? וואָס וועט איר טון פֿאַר אַ חודש? A gantsn khoydesh? Vos vet ir tun far a khoydesh? A whole month? What will you do for a month? מײַן טאַטע וועט אויך קומען מין מײַן ברידערל בײַם סוף פֿונעם חודש, אָבער זיי וועלן בלײַבן נאָר אַ וואָך. איך ווייס, אַז ס׳איז גענוג צײַט כּדי צו זען אַלץ, ...
by Ziz
Wed Jul 05, 2017 4:31 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

من نرفتم کنسرت، اما دوست‎پسرم آنجا شغل می‎کرد، و او گفت که همه‎ی آهنگ‎ها لب‎زنی شدند، ولی بریتنی خیلی سرزنده رقسید. Man naraftam konsert, ammâ dust-persaram ânjâ shoghl mikard, va u goft ke haméye âhanghâ labzani shodand, vali Beritni xeyli sarzande raqsid. לא הלכתי להופעה אבל החבר שלי עבד באירוע, ...
by Ziz
Mon Jun 26, 2017 3:28 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

He empazado a aprender galés. I have started to learn Welsh. Bore dydd Llun da! Dw i eisiau cath. Good Monday morning! I want a cat. Boa sorte! O galês é uma das línguas mais confusas que tenho tentado aprender. Infelizmente, é um pouco difícil encontrar recursos que explicam tudo claramente. Parei...
by Ziz
Sat Jun 24, 2017 8:02 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Solía practicar el japonés con videojuegos para niños, que se escriben casi todos sólo con hiragana. I used to practice Japanese with children's video games, which are almost all written just in hiragana. ¿Por qué escribir con sólo 50 carácteres si más que 2.000 servirán también? Why write with jus...
by Ziz
Thu Jun 22, 2017 4:06 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

クッキーを食べすぎて、ちょっと病んだ。だが、もっと食べたいよ。 I ate too many cookies and I feel a bit sick. But I want to eat more. Japonés es un poco feo escrito. Los carácteres no tienen una densidad o complejidad uniforme. Ojalá que por fin tiraran los kanjis y escribirlo todo con hiragana, tal vez con espacios entre las pala...
by Ziz
Tue Jun 06, 2017 3:25 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Pasé seis semanas en Taiwán. La mayor parte del tiempo estaba en una aldea indígena en las montañas del centro, pero los aldeanos ya no podían hablar bunun así que lingüísticamente no era muy interesante. Pero te recomiendo que vayas a Taipei, que es supermoderno, y Jiufen, que no está muy lejos. L...
by Ziz
Wed May 31, 2017 5:51 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

他の「まあまあ」という意味がある言葉がある?あるいは英語話者はこんな概念があまりいらない?外国人はもっと灰色の色合いが見えるんだか。 Hokano "maa-maa" to iu imi ga aru kotoba ga aru? Arui wa Eigo-washa wa konna gainen ga amari iranai? Gaikokujin wa motto haiiro no iroai ga mierun da ka. Are there other words with the meaning of "so-so"? Or do English speakers not ...
by Ziz
Tue May 30, 2017 5:25 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Vandaag wil ik iets in Nederlands schrijven. Of Vlaams. De zuidelijke dialecten klinken mooier, maar het is lolliger om woorden met een nordelijk accent te zagen. Ik moet meer tijd aan het leren van talen besteden, maar het is moeilijk om Hebreeuws uit mijn hoofd te duwen, omdat ik het elke daag sp...
by Ziz
Mon May 29, 2017 6:07 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Me alegro que, con un poco de pratica, mi español vuelva a la memoria. Pensaba que lo perdí pero aparentemente estaba siempre ahí, escondido en mi mente. Por ejemplo, platicaba con un amigo mexicano del arte y el verbo "tratarse de" me acabó de venir a la memoria, un verbo que hube perdido por 3 añ...
by Ziz
Thu May 11, 2017 12:47 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Im letzten Sommer habe ich ein paar Mangos mit einer Freundin gekauft. Es war ein sehr heiße Tag, und so haben wir beschlossen, mit ihnen Smoothies zu machen. Inem letstn zumer hob ikh gekoyft a por mangos mit a frayndin. S'iz geven a zeyer heyser tog, lekheyn hobn mir bashlosn tsu makhn smoothies ...
by Ziz
Wed May 10, 2017 2:05 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Imralu wrote:Hakuna mtu yeyote anayejali hali yangu ya embe?
Isn't there anyone who cares about my mango experience?
Ich hoffe, dass die Mango von deinem Kollege sehr lecker war.
Ikh hof, az di mango fun dayn koleg iz geven zeyer geshmak.
I hope your colleague's mango was very tasty.
by Ziz
Tue May 09, 2017 4:39 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Loanwords with a more specific meaning
Replies: 63
Views: 14942

Re: Loanwords with a more specific meaning

Hebrew has a few from English. ‘puncture’ > פאנצ׳ר pančer (flat tire > screw-up) ‘penalty’ > פנדל pendel (penalty kick in soccer) ‘talk back’ > טוקבק tokbek (online comments) ‘bug’ > באג bag (software bug) But the ones from Arabic are the best. فضيحة faḍīḥah (scandal) > פדיחה fadikha (screw up) عرص ...
by Ziz
Sun Apr 09, 2017 3:01 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1141031

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

לדעתי, נשמע קצת איכ להגיד שהולכים ל-"טוילט". בניב שלי, טוילט זה אך ורק הדבר עצמו, כלומר האסלה. להגיד שאתה הולך לאסלה מדגיש את מה שאתה מתכוון לעשות שם, שזה רק טיפה פחות גס מלהגיד שאתה הולך לחרבן. אגב במקרה הזה, עברית היא עדינה ויופמיסטית במידה לא אופיינית—אומרים שהולכים ל-"שרותים". Lede‘ati, nishma‘...
by Ziz
Sun Apr 09, 2017 2:29 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: How to convince an ENG teacher that there aren't 6 Tenses
Replies: 48
Views: 11547

Re: How to convince an ENG teacher that there aren't 6 Tense

I don't know the technical terms, but in ESL the standard explanation for the difference between "will" and "going to" for voluntary actions is that "will" is for decisions made at the time of speaking (and offers andppromises made at the time of speaking) while "going to" indicates a prior intenti...
by Ziz
Tue Apr 04, 2017 7:17 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Will non-English languages make it into space?
Replies: 30
Views: 6986

Re: Will non-English languages make it into space?

Thanks everybody for your input. I actually didn't think about non-governments spearheading colonization even though it's been nearly half a century since a government has landed people anywhere. Same for AI translation (which is funny, given that I was just tinkering with it the other day). Probabl...