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VLC Mobile. The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World. A responsible traveler won't set foot in another country without knowing how to viciously insult the people in their native language.

The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World

Odds are, you won't even make it out of the airport before a situation arises that requires obscenities. But "obscenity" is an ever-moving target. It's an amalgamation of cultural taboos, the impact of current events and your mom. Accordingly, every country has developed a uniquely beautiful set of curses and insults that set it apart. While some insults are broadly accessible, like your mom, others will require a little background for the new student. . #9. Who Said That? Dear God Why? Other helpful Spanish phrases: When dookie is used for even the most pedestrian exclamations, more heated applications escalate the filth factor pretty rapidly: "I shit on your dead" (Me cago en tus muertos) "I shit on God" (Me cago en Dios) "I shit in/on your whore mother" (Me cago en tu puta madre) Note that's "in" or "on," we guess depending on how she likes it. #8.

. #7. The Great Language Game. Languages There are perhaps six or seven thousand languages in the world.

The Great Language Game

Even so-called hyperpolyglots, people who learn to speak six or more fluently, barely scratch the surface. You and I will never be able to communicate in all these languages without machine aids, but learning to identify what's being spoken near us, that's within our reach. This is the challenge the game provides. Audio sources Initial samples were sourced from SBS Australia, reflecting Australia's rich migrant culture. Usage data Are you a researcher or hobbyist interested in what langauges people confuse? Support the game. IPA Helper. International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Chart Unicode “Keyboard

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Grammar. Learn Spanish, French, German and English for free. Wordnik: All the Words. SpecGram—Speculative Grammarian Online. Test Your Vocabulary. Final result Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be: Share this test Invite your friends to take the test!

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This is the estimated number of entries in a standard dictionary for which you know at least one definition. Thanks for taking the test! And for foreign learners of English, we've found that the most common vocabulary size is from 2,500–9,000 words. However, we still need more data for complete analysis by age or education level, especially for participants under 15. So please share this test, via sites like Facebook (), Twitter (new, share your score: ) , or by plain word-of-mouth. Over the coming months, we will continue to update our statistics as more data comes in. For information on how our calculation is performed and how the test was put together, please go on to our nitty-gritty details page.

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