If you are of French blood does this mean you will speak and learn French with ease, even if you were born in California, and a surfer dude? Maybe. It sounds crazy right? well, although no strong conclusive evidence is found, it appear that were your ancestors were from could determine what specific abilities you have […]
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There are 6,912 living languages according to the Ethnologue. Of these there are 516 nearly extinct languages. Once language death occurs it’s very hard to resurrect a language because you need real live native speakers. Hebrew and perhaps Cornish are two successful examples of languages resurected. A language is considered living if there are native […]
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Google launched a new tool called translate. This will allow you to type an English search term for example and produce search results from target language websites.
For example, you could search for Russian girls or Love phrases on Russian language pages. You seach in English but on Russian language websites with English language results. Try it out and its a lot of […]
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Here is a quick tip for learning a language. This language learning technique is simple. When you do not know a word in your target language substitute an English word. Especially it it’s a higher-level word. And one more thing, say it with the accent of your target language. Better yet change it a little […]
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If you go to a foreign country to study a language there are many options. You can go to an official language school, you can go to a private language school, you can live with a host family or you can hire a private tutor. I have taught at and studied at […]
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The Amish of America speak a hybrid dialect called Pennsylvania Dutch or Pennsylvania German. It is a Germanic language with a good amount of English mixed in.
If you sit and listen to two Amish speaking, you may be surprised that what seems like every fifth or tenth or twentieth word is actually English. Occasionally you […]
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Babies are made to learn languages, its almost, if not more important than eating. This is becasue this is that they will use this for the rest of their life as the brain will discard pathways it does not need, to finish the mold for the language learning hardware. Read about how babies read lips to learn languages.
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The Kurgan people are considered the Proto-Indo-European speaking people who lived in Southern Russian beginning in the 5th millennium BC. During the 3rd millennium BC The Indo-European languages began to diverge and form precursors to Proto-Slavic, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Indo-Iranian, etc.
Other theories put the origins of a unified linguistic Indo European culture about the 9th millennium BC but […]
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Are the Slavic and Baltic language groups related because of geographic proximity or did they share a common origin or root. This debate cannot concretely be solved by linguistic analysis because the Slavs and Baltic people live too close. Therefore, no matter which way you analysis from a language stand point, you will see words […]
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French language in music
A new French language CD for Celine. Celine is great. Her songs are beautiful and rich in words that having meaning. I have written this before, but if you were to take songs you like and translate them into your own language, then learn the lyrics you will learn a lot of […]
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