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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 Foreign Service Institute Basic Amharic – Audio – TextbookLessons with dialogues, drills, exercises, and narratives will teach you the basics of this language spoken in Ethiopia.

Includes samples of speech, explanations of basic language structures, and a variety of practical exercises. Ancient Greek Ancient Greek Introduction – Web SiteThe UT-Austin Linguistics Research Center provides an overview of Ancient Greek and 10 lessons based on famous Greek texts. Arabic Bookmark our free Arabic lessons section.

American Sign Language Introductory American Sign Language Course – YouTubeBy the end of this course you should have a basic bank of ASL words that you are able to use to form simple sentences. Bambara Bulgarian Cambodian Catalan Chinese Czech Danish Dutch. Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes. Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes You want to write your name in Elvish, but every place you go seems to make it harder than it ought to be.

Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes

Elvish writing looks beautiful and mysterious, but does it really have to be impossible to understand? Why doesn't somebody just spell out the alphabet so you can simply substitute the letters and get straight to the result? That's exactly what I've done here. Learn to write your name in Elvish in ten minutes. Here's the alphabet. That's it. Generally the vowels go above the consonants, but sometimes, in the case of Y and silent E, they go below. The straight line underneath is just one way to make one character do the work of two. The line above a consonant means that a nasal N or M precedes the consonant in question. Here's one last example with two different letter combinations. I am often asked how to handle double vowel situations. That's all you need to get started. Good luck! Ned Gulley Want an Elvish tattoo? Want an Elvish t-shirt? The Elvish Name Generator. Learning American Sign Language ASL and Signed English (SE)

How to Express Possessives and Pronouns in American Sign Language. Using pronouns in American Sign Language (ASL) is the same as in English; you need to refer to a noun before you use a pronoun.

How to Express Possessives and Pronouns in American Sign Language

You may also use possessives during your Sign conversation. Show possession by indicating whom you are talking about, what is being possessed, and then an open palm facing the person. You can also use proper nouns (a person’s name) to discuss possessives. Fingerspell the name of the person and then point to the item you’re talking about and sign a question mark. For example, suppose that you’re signing with someone and you want to know if the coat on the hook belongs to Tony. This table gives a list of pronouns that refer to people, and it also gives you the signs for the regular and the possessive pronouns.

Simple sentences can follow English word order. As a group, four little pronouns — this, that, these, and those — get a big name, demonstrative pronouns. The following sentences can give you some practice with pronouns and possessives: accusative case.