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English-German dictionary. Great Britons: Isambard Kingdom Brunel - Everything You Need to Know About The Engineer That Built Victorian Britain. SixDegrees Magazine. Five London Nursery Rhymes Depicting Death And Ruin. Detail from Panorama of London, Claes Van Visscher, 1616, showing old London Bridge. Do nursery rhymes suggest human bodies were built into the structure? These days, centuries-old nursery rhymes about London are passed down from parent to child with less consistency and less accuracy. Today, these rhymes feel more like media commodities, propagated in Disney pastels, and it often comes as a surprise to those who delve into the lyrics that they can depict a world full full of death and disaster.
Take this classic, probably of 17th-century origin: Ring-a-ring-a-roses, A pocket full of posies, A-tishoo! Remove those ring-a-rosy-tinted spectacles, for Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses is all about the Great Plague; the apparent whimsy being a foil for one of London’s most atavistic dreads (thanks to the Black Death). Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. This old tune proffers a simple story of money-borrowing, debt and a criminal’s execution. Half a pound of tuppenny rice, Half a pound of treacle. ThisisFINLAND: Aurora Borealis. Is Finnish a difficult language? By Hannele Branch, lecturer in Finnish, University of London How easily can a foreigner learn a language like this? In fact, Finnish is a very logical language, as many students who have methodologically studied it admit. Finnish often expresses ideas very differently from the ways of the more commonly studied European languages.
In other words Finnish is different. To start with, Finnish is a very demanding language, not least for a teacher and an author of a Finnish textbook. For these reasons, the problem facing the teacher of Finnish is to decide in which order grammar and vocabulary should be taught and how thoroughly they should be learnt. To understand the kind of complexities that Finnish presents to the beginner, let us examine the Finnish equivalent of the simple English sentence: I like you. Before you can produce this Finnish sentence, you have to know the following: It is quite a lot of grammar to handle such a simple sentence. However, that is only the start of the problem.