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If you are interested in BYKI, please also have a look at those older threats here: http://linguaholic.com/spanish-study-apps/byki-learn-spanish-free/ regards

That's an interesting question. I would love to know the "size" of my vocabulary in English / Chinese / French / German. As I study computational linguistics, I might be able to create some nice statistics about the use of vocabulary of a certain person (not only about the size but also what kind of vocabulary a person uses, most frequent words, and and and)

Dear Thrix There is already a thread about this topic here: http://linguaholic.com/english-grammar/understanding-difference-between-british-and-american-english/ We should go on there to discuss this topic

I completely agree. I would just like to add: If you can afford it, go with immersion AND language classes in the respective country :karate:

Thanks for asking. I am absolutely in love with 文言。My teacher is incredible and we learn so much during class. Classical Chinese is very different from standard Chinese as it is spoken/written today, that is correct. As you mentioned, the grammar is very different and also in ancient times, the Chinese language was not tonal yet. What I like most about the study of Classical Chinese is the fact that I am learning a lot about the history of Chinese characters and where they come from.

For me, the most beautiful language is Chinese. Not because I am particularly fond of how Chinese sounds, but I just love the way Chinese is written. The characters are so beautiful and each character has its own history. The etymological study of characters is just super-interesting and most of the characters can be traced back to very ancient times.

I hear this Pulp Fiction quote pretty often : "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. " It is supposed to be from the Bible, right?

Hi Lizbeth Thank you for joining this community. Don't worry, we all started off as language newbies here in the forum. Hopefully see you in the threads soon! best wishes lingua

Hey mareebaybay Comparison Chinese vs. Japanese // Differences between Chinese and Japanese This is a rather problematic statement :=) Chinese and Japanese are not similar at all. Of course, both use characters and for someone who has never been in touch with those languages (or let's say has not studied Japanese and/or Chinese), they might look similar. However, in Japanese, they have three different scripts being Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are scripts from Japan and only the Kanji are derived from China. However, genealogically, those two languages are NOT related at all. Moreover, Japanese is not a tonal language, whereas Chinese uses tones. What's more, the grammar in Chinese and Japanese is completely different and sadly, Japanese Grammar is really hard compared to Chinese Grammar :wacky:

Even in Switzerland, SWAG and YOLO are very popular. It seems to me that those terms are very popular amongst musicians, mainly in the Hip Hop genre

Hi Wanderer Welcome to Linguaholic! I am always glad to see new members joining our family :grin: Hope you will find lots of useful infos in the forums. If you have any kind of suggestions on how to improve the forums, please let us know. regards

Hi Hedonologist I have never heard of this series. I personally used books like: Boya Chinese, Remembering the Hanzi (From J.W. Heisig), Zhongguohua and now I am using a book from Wolfgang Behr and R. Gassmann called, "Antikchinesisch" which is about literary (Classical Chinese). I have plenty of other books at home.

I am happy to see that native speakers are offering their help. This is exactly what the english lounge should be all about. Please correct as much as you can, because without people correcting mistakes, the english lounge does not make any sense, as the whole forum is in English anyway (and this part of the forum should not be mistaken as the off-topic forum :grin:)

You should listen to Serge Gainsbourg. He is (was) one of the most famous french musicians and he has a lot of nice songs!

Excellent recommendations! While checking out the fair tales of the Grimm brothers, you should also consult the Grimm brothers dictionary. It is free and you can consult it online here: http://woerterbuchnetz.de/DWB/ It is an excellent dictionary which contains unique information about semantics and etymology of words and phrases.

"Da könnte ich mich reinlegen" --> I could stand up for this (cause). // I am willing to stand up for this cause. Not 100 % sure about this translation. It's not perfect but it should be alright:=) I'm curious to hear your personal version :karate: "Ich habe die Nase voll von diesen Betrügern!"

Hallo Korsakoff! Es freut mich, einen weiteren User aus dem deutschsprachigen Gebiet begrüssen zu dürfen :grin: Ich bin Marcel aus der Schweiz und mir gehört linguaholic.com. I hope you will have fun here in the forums and if there is anything I can do for you, just let me know. :karate:

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认识你我很高兴。你是个汉语讲师吗？你说真的吗？真棒！你因该来瑞士教汉语。工资好的很， 因为在瑞士越来越多的人喜欢学中文。

Nice share! I always practise with this kind of paper or even with books having those squares in it. (usually those books being for young children starting how to write kanji / chinese characters hehe).

很可惜，我还没去过杭州。我也听说过，那个地方真美。尤其是那个西湖。如果在未来有时间的话，肯定要去看看一下。

That's a good point Gegegeno. Japanese really has a lot of English Loanwords. It even has some German loanwords, like arbeito (baito). In German, "arbeiten" means to work. In Japanese, "baito" or "arbeito" mean to work (temporarily). In Chinese, for instance, you almost don't have any English Loanwords at all. This makes it event trickier :=) On the other hand, Chinese Grammar is very simple compared to Japanese Grammar.

hi phoenixinsky I am so happy to see another Chinese language speaker in here. 我是马赛尔。我是个瑞士人。我现在在苏黎世大学学汉语。我真爱中国。我最喜欢的地方就是南京。我2008的时候在南大学过中文。这个城市太美了。Hope you will have a lot of fun in the forums here and hopefully you can also help some members here to learn/improve their Chinese skills.