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Thank you for that suggestion limon. I have been thinking about this for a while and we definitely need to make sure that all those links are saved somewhere in a list. I am just not sure yet how we can "solve" that issue. I might be doing a subforum "language ressources". There, we could create lists out of all the "resources posts" that we already got in the different language sections. Another possibility is to simply make a sticky thread in the Links subforum of every language. Would be easier. It would also be nice if we could write a few sentences about every link, so that people know immediately what the resources are all about.

As mentioned before, there is a trigger that will let you edit the post until 5 minutes after the post has been done. I can change this setting at any time and if this would be a "general wish" of the community, I am willing to change this. No worries :=)

Great thread, thank you Laura! Metonymy: I would like to add some classic examples: 1. A: What are you reading at the moment? B: I am reading Harry Potter. 2. I would like to order a glass of wine. Explanation of Examples (Metonomy) In the first sentence, person B answers with "I am reading Harry Potter". As person B is actually reading A BOOK called Harry Potter and not Harry Potter itself, this is an example for Metonomy. So, Harry Potter stands for the Harry Potter Book Series. In the second sentence, "I would like to drink a glass of wine", the person would like to drink some wine, however he/she does generally not want to drink the GLASS. The glass of wine stands for the content here, so this is metonymy as well. Definitions of Metonymy: A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). "Metonymy is a he rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it, as in describing someone's clothing to characterize the individual. Adjective: metonymic." -->Source of the definitions: grammar.about.com

Just refresh the page wowgtp and you will see some nice Hindi subforums waiting to be fed with quality content :grin:

Today I tested the Japanese Version and the Chinese Version of Mind Snacks and I have to admit that I had quite a lot of fun;) you can download the app for free and play and some of the games on level one are for free. You can easily get a feel for the game by playing the free "content". I was about to purchase the other levels for the chinese Version (5 dollars for 50 levels in total), however I had a problem with my credit card. The graphics of the game are brilliant. Mind Snacks really gamifies learning and I am curious about the paid mini-games and the content of the paid levels. I will buy the "full version" of it soond and will write a short review in here! :wacky:

There are an estimated 6,9000 languages spoken in the world today. They range in size from very large, with hundreds of millions of native speakers, to very small with as few as one or two speakers!!! The languages of the world are unevenly distributed, both geographically and also in terms of speaker populations. The largest eight languages have over 150 million speakers and 40 percent of the worlds population speaks one of those 8 languages (one of those eight languages is their native language). What is also very interesting is the fact, that more than half of all languages today have fewer than 10'000 speakers and more than 1/4 have LESS than 1'000 speakers. In some cases , mainly in Australia or the Americas, there are some highly endangered languages, which just have one or two elderly people who speak them! The largest number of languages are spoken in Africa and also in Asia. Papa New Guinea stands out amongst other places as on this island alone there are 820 different languages (!) Moreover, Vanuatu, with 120 languages amongst it's 100'000 people has the highest language density of any country in the world.

I would like to add a few myself as well: Left side = canadian spelling, right side = American spelling calibre vs. caliber behaviour vs. behavior centimetre vs. centimeter colour vs. color flavour vs. flavor marvellous vs. marvelous savour vs. savor worshipped vs. worshiped sceptical vs. skeptical rumour vs. rumor moustache vs. mustache

@Daedalus Thanks for providing those funny pictures. The Chinese Characters in the first picture actually stand for canting (餐厅). It means dining hall/restaurant, just in case you didn't know :=)

wowgtp was just saying that because he probably does not speak french :=) there is nothing wrong with that last part :grin:

I will do a start here by naming the onomatopoeia in German for the following animals. Please provide the words for those animals (and of course you can add more) in your native language! Onomatopoeia in German: Hund (dog): wuff wuff Hahn (cock): Kikeriki Frosch (frog): Quak Quak Ziege (goat): meeh Katze (cat) : miau, miau Kuh (cow): muh

Oh, that's a fascinating topic ! I'm going to do a new thread where we can compare the animal-related onomatopoeia in different languages!

I am having huge problems to login with my apple id and therefore I could not download this App until now. However, I might be able to login with my friends' account today and download it (and pay a few bucks for it). I am curious about this app, it looks really cute haha. I will let you know what the fuzz is all about. @jellyfish: I am glad to hear you still got some real snacks with you :=))

Actually, I could not just name one specific (or a few) movie(s) that helped me to increase my command of English, it is more the sum of all the films together that helped me to do so. Subtitles (in English as well) always helped me quite a lot to learn new English vocabulary-->when reading the subtitles, you might be able to pick up the meaning of a certain expression or word even if you did not came across this specific word or expression earlier on (context helps you to understand it). Anyway, some of my favorite films in English would be: Se7en, Kill Bill, Memento, Hangover and this pretty new film with Bradley Cooper, where he constantly is on drugs...can't remember the name at the moment.

Some of those expressions have already been mentioned 2 or 3 times. Please make sure that you read through all the previous entries before posting :shy: thank you !

Hey Snees! Welcome to the "linguaholic family" :grin: Hope you will be able to learn a lot about languages here while having lots of fun too :wacky: If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to ask!

Wir helfen Dir gerne Caparica007. Dein Beitrag ist gut geschrieben! Es heisst aber "Deutsch" und nicht deutch und am Anfang musst du deutscher gross schreiben, also "Deutscher". Beste Grüsse Marcel

oh and I changed it into phrase for you :=) I guess that troubled you a lil' hehe.

there is some kind of trigger that disables this function after 5 minutes after the post has been done. I might be able to give you a special permission so that you can always edit older posts (I can actually do it hehe). I will have a look later and let you know deyvion! regards M

There must be quite a lot of different expressions for "to be drunk". Let's make a monster-thread and name them all (maybe not all, but all we can think of). [list type=decimal] [*]to be wasted [*]to be smashed [*]intoxicated and..and..and..it's your turn now.

Please name your three magic ingredients for learning / mastering a language: Passion Long Term-Motivation Personal Goal/Aim So for me, the most important "ingredients" are Passion, Long-Term-Motivation and a Goal/Aim. I hold the view that passion is the single most important ingredient when it comes to language learning. Actually I do believe that passion is the most important thing for all kind of things you do (work, study, hobbies and much more). Long-Term-Motivation is also very crucial when it comes to Language Learning. It is really hard to master a language without it. When I think about me studying Chinese, I needed a few years to become fluent, I had to repeat writing characters over and over again, and this was just possible because I could somehow maintain the motivation to go on studying/repeating. Of course this also has to do with passion, so the two ingredients are definitely related, or let's better say the 3 of them. This leads to my last "magic ingredient", Goal/Aim. To keep up your (long-term) motivation, you will need to have a goal / aim. Why are studying Language X? Why it is worth to invest 1000's hours in language X and not language Y? You should be able to answer this question. Perhaps you are studying language X as you plan to move to the country where X is spoken, maybe X is just a work requirement or maybe your girlfriend speaks language X and so you really want to learn it. What's your opinion on this? I am curious to hear about your TOP 3 :karate:

I never had an extremely strict / tough teacher to be honest. Some of my Chinese teachers have been pretty "demanding" though:=) Especially in China. Most of the teachers there did not know our real name (this was probably due to the big number of students in every class), so they always had a list with all the names and they would use that list all the time to ask questions. So, when we had some homework, the next they the teacher would start at eight o clock in the morning asking 100's of questions and just going through the list with all the names..again and again and again....:doubtful:

I particularly like "La haine" and about every other film with "Vincent Cassel" in it. The film depicts the lives of three friends in their early twenties from immigrant families living in an impoverished multi-ethnic French housing project (a ZUP - zone d'urbanisation prioritaire) in the suburbs of Paris, in the aftermath of a riot. Another one that I really enjoy is "Banlieu 13". There are some crazy fighting scenes in it feels a little bit like a Jason Statham film.

I would like to add one more (this one being slightly more sophisticated)

I just stumbled upon this here: It is certainly wordplay, however I do not know what kind of wordplay this would refer to. Any suggestions? How would you "classify" this?

As far as I know "another one bites the dust" means that another person actually died. I could imagine that it is actually "war-related" terminology.