How to Learn Intermediate Spanish. What is the best way to learn ASL? Learning Languages. Why does Brazilian and European Portuguese sound so different? I just finished watching Link TV's World Music show and a Portuguses Fado song came on.
I have a general knowledge of the language and I can understand it since a quarter of my family is Brazilian. The song was of course in European Portuguese so I sat and listened to song. The funny thing was that I hardly could understand any of what they were saying. It to me soumded like they were talking German or some non-Romance language. If anybody has any knowldge of this or also has noticed this please write. Brazil and Portugal lie far appart from another.Its probable the same as English and US english,or far worse,Dutch and Afrikaans.Maybe Brazil is developing a new romance language?! Why do any accents of the same language sound different? Many people make a mountain out of a molehill when it comes to the difference between Lusitanian and Brazilian Portuguese. As an American of Portuguese background who has studied the two dialects for some time, I find the differences fascinating.
Review of Some Language Learning Communities: Busuu, Livemocha, LingQ, and Hello-Hello. Lately I’ve been using several language learning communities online to see what they offer and how expensive their pay materials are.
Personally, I was most interested in finding sites that offered free audio flashcards for learning vocabulary (preferably with pictures) and less so in finding a teacher or language exchange partner. I just wanted to learn some vocabulary (and how to pronounce the words) online since my main focus on learning languages in the beginning stages is to simply understand what people are saying, and to be able to say a few phrases to get around while traveling.
I don’t worry so much about forming grammatically correct sentences or having long conversations just yet. A few of the sites I came across were solely for finding teachers, some did not offer any or much free material, and a few were almost exactly what I was looking for. Busuu.com As for portability, you can download a PDF and MP3 of each lesson if you are a premium member. Livemocha.com LingQ.com. Learn English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese. Sign up - Mingoville. Frequency lists/Spanish1000. Frequency lists. Counting words and lemmas: The following frequency lists count distinct orthographic words, including inflected forms.
For example, the verb "to be" is represented by the conjugations "is", "are", "were", etc. English[edit] TV and movie scripts[edit] Most common words in TV and movie scripts: Here are frequency lists comparable to the Gutenberg ones, but based on 29,213,800 words from TV and movie scripts and transcripts. Here's a fuller explanation of how the list was generated and its limitations: Wiktionary:Frequency lists/TV/2006/explanation. Here are the top hundred words (from tv scripts) in alphabetical order: Here they are in frequency order: From the 10,000th to the 40,000th : 40001-41284 (the dregs that were tied for the final place) That'll probably be it. Specific TV Series Dictionaries[edit] Kids Don’t Learn Calculus Faster than Adults - Do children learn languages faster? - Tainan, Taiwan - GoAbroad Network. By Antonio Graceffo David Sedaris, the hilariously funny American author, has lived in France for a number of years and written a good number of humorous pieces about his own struggles with learning the French language.
In one of his stories, he was standing in line at a bakery. The woman behind him was holding a bright orange ball over her baby stroller, saying to the baby, in French, “ball, ball.” The baby giggled and laughed. The woman smiled and repeated slowly, “ball, ball.” Christophe Clugston, an internationally recognized, professional Muay Thai fighter, is a graduate of the famed Defense Language Institute (DLI) and a brilliant linguist, competent at both academic and interpersonal levels, in more languages than most of us would care to count. Language Exchange Community - Practice and Learn Foreign Languages. Welcome to the Polyglot Project. Street-Smart Language Learning™: Language Hacking Guide review: Great guide for conversation, but no focus on reading or writing. I think I developed a crick in my neck while reading Benny's Language Hacking Guide from nodding my head in agreement so much.
Although we took very different language-learning paths, it was clear while reading his book that the strategies we'd each came up with separately are very similar. While I can't say that I agree with him on every point (and I'll highlight some of those disagreements below), his book is definitely full of great strategies that, if implemented, will surely increase your ability to converse in your target language. However, his book purposefully focuses on only two of the pillars that hold up the language temple: speaking (especially speaking) and listening. Writing and reading have been consciously ignored (although you'll certainly make some gains in both writing and reading by following the advice in the guide). Here's how Benny describes his take on writing, which I presume applies even more to reading: Writing is not social enough for me to care about it.
Schlaflos in München – der Podcast mit Annik Rubens.