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Quadruple homonyms list. Homonyms are words that are spelled differently and pronounced the same.

quadruple homonyms list

There are thousands in the English language, including tons of triple homonyms like "two," "too," and "to," but very few quadruple homonyms. I haven't seen these listed anywhere else, but I have a few: The Internalational Dictionary of Neologisms. Why is Sanskrit so controversial? India's new government focus on Sanskrit has sparked a fresh debate over the role language plays in the lives of the country's religious and linguistic minorities.

Why is Sanskrit so controversial?

Inside a brightly lit classroom at Delhi's Laxman Public school, a group of students sing a Sanskrit hymn. Across the corridor, in another classroom, a group of grade eight students are being taught Vedic Mathematics, which dates back to a time in ancient India when Sanskrit was the main language used by scholars. It is all part of Sanskrit week - a celebration of the classical language across hundreds of schools mandated by India's new federal right-wing government.

INDONESIAN HANGUL. Exciting news for writing-system aficionados: the Yonhap News Agency reports that “A minority tribe in Indonesia has chosen to use Hangeul as its official writing system, in the first case of the Korean alphabet being used by a foreign society.”

INDONESIAN HANGUL.

The tribe in question is on the island of Buton, in or around the city of Bau-Bau (which the Yonhap story gives as “Bauer and Bauer”); a Korea Herald story specifies the language as “Jjia jjia,” which would suggest that it’s Ethnologue’s Cia-Cia (population 79,000, alternate names Boetoneezen, Buton, Butonese, Butung, South Buton, Southern Butung). As Victor Mair at the Log says, “That’s one small step for [an] alphabet, one giant leap for the Korean people [and their economy].” About - The Rosetta Project. The Rosetta Project is The Long Now Foundation's first exploration into very long-term archiving.

About - The Rosetta Project

It serves as a means to focus attention on the problem of digital obsolescence, and ways we might address that problem through creative archival storage methods. Our first prototype of a very long-term archive is The Rosetta Disk - a three inch diameter nickel disk with nearly 14,000 pages of information microscopically etched onto its surface. Since each page is an image, rather than a digital encoding of 1's and 0's, it can be read by the human eye using 500 power optical magnification.

How I Learned a Language in 90 Days. I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here's How. Second Language Acquisition Theories. Over the past three decades a number of different theories of second language acquisition have been formed in an effort to provide explanations as to how language learning takes place, to identify the variables responsible for second language acquisition and to offer guidance to second language teachers.

Second Language Acquisition Theories

Each theory accounts for language acquisition from a different perspective so some criteria are needed in order to classify and evaluate each theory. Theories of second language acquisition can be classified according to different criteria. According to their form theories can be classified along a continuum with ‘deductive’ on one end and ‘inductive’ on the other. Does being bilingual make you smarter? Language teacher and researcher Miguel Angel Muñoz explains the latest research on how being bilingual affects your brain, ahead of a British Council seminar in Cardiff on whether learning a foreign language makes you smarter.

You can watch the live-streamed seminar on Tuesday, 3 June. More than half the world's population uses two or more languages every day. A few myths about speakers of multiple languages. Is monolingualism the norm?

A few myths about speakers of multiple languages

Do bilinguals have two separate language systems? The British Council's Nayr Ibrahim separates the myths from the realities. Rate your foreign language fluency. Rate your foreign language fluencyHome > Guide > Tips & Tricks > Rating your fluency We never stop learning a language : there are always new words to learn, old skills we forgot, and all our life we have to work on the foreign languages we learned. Is there a way to define what is "fluency" in a foreign language ?

Learn 40 Languages for Free with Free Audio Lessons. How to learn languages for free?

Learn 40 Languages for Free with Free Audio Lessons

This collection features lessons in 48 languages, including Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Italian, Russian and more. Download audio lessons to your computer or mp3 player and you’re good to go. Amharic. Etudesque. Language in Use.