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Spanish email friend for 9 yr old English boy

Dannie Parkes — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:54:30 +0100

Hello,
I am trying to find a Spanish friend for my 9 yr old Grandson.
I hope for a Spanish family to make contact so that my Grandson can communicate in order for him to learn Spanish and for him to help a Spanish child to further their English.

Many Thanks

Hardest Lingo???

AcOrEaNa83 — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:05:34 +0100

Which 5 languages or language groups would you consider to be the hardest (most difficult) to learn??
For me I guess it would be something like:
1. Oriental Langs (Thai, Chinese, Korean, etc)
2. South Indian Langs (esp, Malayalam and Telegu)
3. Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, etc...
4. Ancient Langs (Egyptian, Aztec, etc)
5. Euro-Cryllic Langs (Russian, Greek, etc)

SPANISH-....

happyteja — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:40:46 +0100

hi,
i am learning SPANISH,
can anyone help me get acquainted with the language.I have taken gr8 interest for the lang...

Grammar help

Galila_ — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:57:48 +0100

Here are two sentences :
1) There are a lot of students at school.
2) at school are a lot of students.

Which one is gramatically better? I would use the first one. What do you think?

Doric

Brocher — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:56:25 +0100

Doric is a dialect ae the NE of Scotland spoken in Dundee Aiberdeen Peterheid and Fraserburgh

Aabody--- everybody
Aathing--- everything
Aff---off
Affa--wfully
Aff pitten--evasive
Aifter--after
Aneth--underneath--below
Anither--another
Atween---between
Aye--yes
Baith--both
Bairn--child
Ben--downor through
Bide--stay
Black affrontit--embarassed
Bleeter--to talk aimlessly
Bosie--a hug
Brakk--break
Cauld&thirling..cold
Claes-- clothes
Claik--gossip
Clarty--dirty
Coorse--to bully--be bad,difficult/nasty
Deid--dead
Dinna--don't
Dinna fash yersel--don't trouble
Div--do
Doon aboot the mou-- depressed

Finnish language - Suomen kieli

anniina_81 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:29:56 +0100

If someone is interesting learn finnish, i am interesting teach and learn other languages too

Comedy Political Correctness

Bad Kitteh — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:41:10 +0100

I just heard the politically correct term for an illegal alien is an "undocumented immigrant", isn't that like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"?

Can you think of some other humourous PC examples?

Ferdinand de Saussure and his idea of linguistics

lh_no1fan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:30:00 +0100

Hey everyone..I have a question.I cant frikin understand what Saussure's theory on sign/signal/signifier/signified is!!So can someone VERY SIMPLY explain what they are?Please dont give wikipedia links or so,i read a bunch of material and yet i'm hopeless about it :-( thanks in advance

Can anybody help me ?

severjanka — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:04:03 +0100

I need for old magazins in French language (better is about geographic and travalling)... Can anybody help me ? A can pay for all axpense of postal...

French anyone?

Princess_Me — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:43:01 +0100

My French isn't that bad but needs to get better, anyone interested? My native language is Flemish (Dutch)