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Hi Shivani Welcome to linguaholic.com. Feel free to ask me any question about German. Have a great day. Lingua

Hi Naiara Welcome to linguaholic.com Our language learning resources page is always a good starting point. You can find it here: http://linguaholic.com/topic/280-online-resources-for-the-study-of-the-french-language-french/

That's interesting, but after all I think it does not have anything to do with staying longer at some place..but maybe I am wrong. I am not very familiar with this religious kind of texts.

Great thread, Anna! Thank you.

The etymology of country names is such a fascinating topic, isn't it? In case of 美国, it is an abbreviation for 美利坚合众国， which stands for The United States of America. But then we still have to find out why it was called like this in the first place. However, 美利坚合众国 is phonetically much closer to America than 美国 and it is no secret that foreign names, places, etc often get translated in a phonetical kind of way rather than in a semantic one. I will ask my Chinese Professor about it (If I have the chance to see him again). regards

The etymology of country names is such a fascinating topic, isn't it? In case of 美国, it is an abbreviation for 美利坚合众国， which stands for The United States of America. But then we still have to find out why it was called like this in the first place. I will ask my Chinese Professor about it (If I have the chance to see him again). regards

Is Reggaeton really Spanish? Didn't know that.

I think Nobu for men is pretty popular as well. And as far as last names go, Tanaka is pretty popular.

Well that is indeed funny

Actually I rechecked it and I have to admit that I did a mistake. The 'ihr' is actually a Personal Pronoun, because this 'ihr' here is in 3rd Person Singular and there is no third Person singular 'ihr' as far as Possessive Pronouns go. So it actually has to be a Personal Pronoun. So the control question you can ask to find out what it is here is: Wem ist die Weise eigen? -->Ihr (could als be Mir / Dir respectively). So it has to be a personal pronoun....and 'ihr' is correct and not 'ihrer'. So the sentence is perfectly grammatical. But this is such a monster of a sentence

Actually the 'die' is fine because it is related to BOTH 'und im tiefen Frieden' AND 'in der Ruhe des tropischen Abends' so it is completely valid to refer to it with 'die'.

You are welcome.

'der' is an article with reference to 'Weise' ----> der barbarischen Weise. I am not 100 % sure about the second one, but I am pretty positive it is a possessive pronoun. However, there is something else that is wrong. Sie war bei Bewußtsein, und im tiefen Frieden, in der Ruhe des tropischen Abends, die auf den Tumult der Schlacht folgten, sah sie zu, The 'die' after Abends is referring to Ruhe, so it has to be folgte instead of folgten...at least I think that is the way it should be written. Anyway, this sentence is very difficult to understand and I wouldn't exactly call this good style. After 'Abends' I would actually expect a relative pronoun referring to 'Abends' and not something referring to Ruhe. It is not impossible to do so but it is definitely hart to understand and as I said before, if the author wants the 'die' to refer back to 'Ruhe', it must be 'folgte' instead of 'folgten'.

This is a lovely thread, however I would like to point out that we had an almost similar thread back in 2013 :=) Please have a look here for some more love. http://linguaholic.com/topic/329-i-love-you-in-your-native-language/

You might want to add me on Skype. My skype ID is djeasily1. Feel free to ask me any question about german per PM (private message) here on linguaholic.com as well.

It's an interesting question. While there are definitely some differences and some unique characters in both Japanese and in Chinese, most of the characters are definitely the same. I studied Chinese for many years and Japanese for some time and I could not discover a lot of differences. However, there are quite a lot of differences in terms of the STROKE Order how you actually write the character in Kanji or Hanzi respectively. Then again, most Kanji are derived from traditional Hanzi, so of course there are tons of Kanji that differ from Simplified Chinese characters. The most interesting 'category' for me would be to see Japanese Characters that have NO Hanzi equivalent and the characters that differ in Stroke Order (Hanzi/Kanji).

Welcome Watangaboy! Hope you have a great time here!

If you are interested in language structures, you might want to have a look at WALS (Word atlas of language structures). It breaks all the languages down in terms of features (structures) and gives you a nice overview about word order features for more than 2000 languages :=) You should have a look at it. It's pretty cool. http://wals.info/

if he does actually speak 58 languages, we should bring him here to linguaholic.com. Would be nice to have him as a moderator :=)

good question :=)

Thank you Rowdy and welcome to Linguaholic.com! I hope you will have a good time here.

It's worth a try :=) Too shy to wrote in a forum? Can't actually believe this kind of thing ^^

agreed.

Dear XLS I appreciate people starting new threads. However, please use the search function first to make sure that there are no similar threads. We already have quite a few topics about the 'hardest languages to learn'. For instance: