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Hi Noah Thank you for registering on www.linguaholic.com! Hopefully you will have a great time here! If you have any questions about German, French, English or Chinese, I might be able to help you out :=) For other languages, please refer to other linguaholics here in our forum :=)

Actually it is not universal at all. Even in a small country like Switzerland you got several DIFFERENT kinds of sign language. So it is kinda like different dialects of a language. It's an interesting question though, as earlier on, I also thought that maybe there is one universal sign language..however, I am 100 % sure now that this is not true.

Hey Solarees There have been plenty of requests for a dozen of new languagues.....and I did create subforums for a lot of them, but sadly most of them had almost no content in them after a few weeks/month, so I had to delete them. I suggest that you start some threads about Esperanto in the 'Other languages' section and if the participation and interest in those threads is big enough, I will be more than happy to create an Esperanto subforum! I promise :grin:

Oh, that's cool! But Nightwish has Songs in English as well, I reckon ? :=) There are a few Finnish Native Speakers on linguaholic.com. Hopefully you can find them. If not, I will help you to find them :=) :grin:

Hey Susa! Welcome to Linguaholic! You are studying Finnish by yourself? That's interesting! I would love to hear more about that. I have been in Finland many times, however I can just speak a few words in Finnish. kind regards from Switzerland lingua

Those examples are hilarious, Trellum. Thanks for sharing, hehe. The last one is really funny. Of course it's Japanese. They always seem to have the weirdest stuff :=)

Hey Marco! Thank you for joining linguaholic.com! I am happy to see another polyglot joining our forum! I think living in different countries for some months or maybe even a couple of year is the easiest and maybe also the most enjoyable/natural way of learning a language. I got to say I feel a little bit jealous about your diverse language skills :wacky: May I ask you how you were able to live in many different countries? did you have business to do in all those countries or how could you manage to live in each of those for several months/years ? kind regards from Switzerland lingua

Hi there Ahmed Thank you for joining linguaholic.com! I am happy to hear that you are studying English. We have lots of native English speakers here in the forum and I am sure they will be happy to assist you in studying English! If you have any questions about the forum, please let me know! kind regards from Switzerland Lingua

Wise words, PashaR. I completely agree with you. However, it is really still sad that it is like this. I guess in Britain they have the same kind of problem. Well, one could argue that the problem there is maybe not as bad as Britain is 'surrounded" by many European countries.

Yes, Hindi is definitely in the Top 5 as well, but most people seem to forget about it

Hey Archangelos Would you mind telling me what kind of problem you faced when you tried to upload those documents? I might be able to help you uploading them. regards lingua

That's an interesting question alanoww. I never really thought about this. However I do agree, that literally is a word that gets used far too often and often not as it should be used. :grin:

Hey Edda Thank you for joining linguaholic.com! We have many native English speakers on here. I am sure you can find someone who is willing to teach you English! If you have any questions about the forum or any particular questions about English, please let me know or make a new post in the English Language Section! kind regards from Switzerland lingua

Hi Colebra! Have a good time on www.linguaholic.com! It's nice to have you here. kind regards lingua

Dear Wavie thank you for joining www.linguaholic.com! You are most welcome :grin: really happy to have someone from the Faroe Islands joining my forum! that's just amazing. Moreover thank you for providing some Tongue Twisters in Dutch. Have never heard about these so far! Sadly I don't know how to speak Dutch, so I can't really imagine how they would sound like *.* See you in the threads! lingua

Thank you for letting us know about your new App. I will check it out soon and drop some feedback. regards lingua

Are you ready for some crazy Chinese Tongue Twister? Here we go :=) 施氏食獅史 石室詩士施氏，嗜獅，誓食十獅。 氏時時適市視獅。 十時，適十獅適市。 是時，適施氏適市。 氏視是十獅，恃矢勢，使是十獅逝世。 氏拾是十獅屍，適石室。 石室濕，氏使侍拭石室。 石室拭，氏始試食是十獅。 食時，始識是十獅，實十石獅屍。 試釋是事。 Shī Shì shí shī shǐ Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī. Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī. Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì. Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì. Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì. Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì. Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì. Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī. Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī, shí shí shí shī shī. Shì shì shì shì.

You might be able to find some Swedish Books here: http://uz-translations.net/?category=swedish

Linguee is great, I have been using it for years. However, they recently updated their arsenal of available 'language pairs' and I must say that I am not impressed about the Chinese-English, English-Chinese versions. It seems to contain quite a lot of 'errors' and often the wrong part(s) of the word/phrase is highlighted. Other than that, Linguee is really one of the best tools for translators out there.

[General Resources for German] http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/ (German News, German for Children, German Grammar, etc)
http://www.deutsch-lernen.com (10 Free German Grammar Lessons)
http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang_inhalt.htm'>http://german.about.com/library/anfang/blanfang_inhalt.htm (Free Lessons, Free Info about Grammar, Vocab & more)
 http://german.about.com 
http://www.deutschakademie.de/online-deutschkurs/english/ (Free Online German Course, claims to have more than 20.000 German grammar and vocabulary exercises)
 http://www.german-online.net (Two Free German classes + some more free Info)
http://www.yesgerman.com (More than 20 Free Online Lessons) http://learn-german-easily.com (Some free Basic Lessons)
http://leicht-deutsch-lernen.com
http://mindurgerman.com (All lessons are free, however the total number of lessons is rather low) http://www.smartphrase.com/German/ge_general_words_phr.shtml (Most vocabulary & phrases)
 http://www.linguanaut.com/english_german.htm (German Expressions & Phrases & Words) http://www.howtolearngerman.de/german-for-beginners/ (Some basic information to get you started) http://learn-to-speak-german.de/learn-with-songs (Learn German with German Songs) [Dictionaries, German] http://dict.leo.org/?lang=en http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de http://www.student-online.net http://www.canoo.net http://chdw.de http://bab.la/de/ http://www.germandictionary.org http://de.pons.com/ http://deu.hablaa.com/ [German Radio Channels] http://www.surfmusic.de/country/germany.html (Offers a whole bunch of links to German Radio Channels) http://tunein.com/radio/Germany-r100346/ (TuneIn Radio Channels, Germany) http://www.dradio.de http://www.ard.de/radio/ http://www.br-online.de http://www.ndr.de http://www.mdr.de http://www.dw-world.de [German (Online) Newspapers] http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/ (Aachener Newspaper) http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/ (Newspaper from Augsburg) http://www.badisches-tagblatt.de/startseite.html (Newspaper from Baden-Baden) http://www.morgenpost.de/ (Newspaper from Berlin) http://www.berlinonline.de/ (Newspaper from Berlin) http://www.welt.de/ (Newspaper from Berlin) http://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/ (Yiddish Newspaper from Berlin) http://www.bild.de/ (Famous German Newspaper, Hamburg) http://www.spiegel.de/ (One of the most famous German Newspapers, Hamburg) http://www.faz.net/ (Local Newspaper from Frankfurt) http://www.fr-online.de/home/1472778,1472778.html (Local Newspaper from Frankfurt) http://www.kn-online.de/ (Local Newspaper from Kiel, Germany) http://www.nmtagblatt.com/ (Newspaper from Munich, Germany) http://www.westline.de/ (Newspaper from Dortmund, Ruhrgebiet)

Hey Jack Thank you for joining Linguaholic.com! To get you started with German and Dutch, you should have a look at our Online resources (link list): http://www.linguaholic.com/online-language-learning-resources/ You will find lots of useful links there for both DUTCH and GERMAN kind regards Lingua

Hey there Littlefinn I wish you all the best with (re)-learning Finnish. We have a few Native Finnish speakers here in the forum and some more people that are actually interested in learning this beautiful language.

Hi Falcon Welcome to linguaholic.com! Hope you will have a great time here in our forum. May I ask you what languages you are currently speaking? regards from Switzerland lingua

Hey there I would just like to welcome you to www.linguaholic.com! We have quite a lot of Native Spanish Speakers here and I hope you will be able to find a suitable Language Partner! Unfortunately I don't speak Spanish yet, so I can't help you with that. However, if you would like to learn German, French, Chinese, or some Basic Japanese, feel free to contact me :=) Regards from China Lingua

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