Alfonso

Its got to be Uranus. People used to pronounce it as \  yu̇-ˈrā-nəs\ but I guess because of so many people were making fun of the name they changed it to \ˈyu̇r-ə-nəs\.

Hello and welcome to the forum! Nice compositions by the way!

It will be more accurate to compare Google Translate's translations with other translations from other websites like www.freetranslation.com and www.bing.com/translator.

Is it exclusively for android? I mean...isn't it a little weird that an app named 'iHola' would be incompatible with the iPhone? Haha, just kind of a passing observation. :wacky:

Its not i-hola, its just hola really. In Spanish, the question marks and exclamation points are also indicated upside down before the sentence as a way to predict the type of sentence when reading.

Thanks! I think that even the word "kapatid" or "sibling" comes from "patid" meaning "to break" or "to cut off" comes from the same type of metaphor. Siblings are like fruits growing and separating from the main mother tree!

Yes, the Filipino language uses a lot of metaphors in its language. Hulog ng langint translated to English is fell from the sky which means a blessing. Makapal ang mukha translated to English is having a thick face which in Filipino means insolent. Those are just a couple common examples of Filipino metaphors.

Maybe it would be good if we can raise the time to 10 - 15 minutes? It might take more time for others to notice spelling or grammatical errors.

Yes, you'll find a few words for every type of foot-ware. To add to that;

Shoes = also Calzado

Sneakers =  also Zapatos de lona or Calzado de Tenis

Boots = Botas

Slippers = pantuflas

Heels = Calzado Tacon

Correct me if im wrong, from my understanding beso is derived from besarte. Like LauraM said, Google translate is very useful for understanding the gist of the word or sentence but you can't rely on it for 100% grammatically correct translations.

It's actually called 'SMS language', 'text speak', or 'txt-speak' (or something similar). I find it annoying in words like gr8, or u instead of you, but I do use abbreviations like afaik, iirc, imo, simply because that's more accepted.

That's interesting. I've never heard any of those abbreviations before, could you enlighten me on the meanings of afaik, iirc and imo please?

For a couple of years I worked at a Spanish restaurant that had a lot of Spaniards and Spanish speaking clientele. I can't count the number of times I was spoken to in Spanish, and although I knew some basic conversational Spanish, half the time I failed at conversing properly in Spanish, which of course was embarrassing for me. That was a big frustration of mine back when I was working at that restaurants.

Just downloaded it, I'm gonna try it out. Thanks for sharing with us!

Thanks! Those videos really help. She says its easy but its harder than she makes it look. It's gonna take me awhile to get the pronunciation right. I think I should also spend time listening to thai, I find it hard to understand the accent. kaahap-khun!  :grin:

that's a fantastic idea.  i like your creative thinking.  i would also favor a game that is similar to mad libs.  i always enjoyed playing mad libs.  is anyone else interested in hangman or mad libs at all?

I second this! A hangman language learning game would be awesome. I remember playing some mad libs when I was young too. 

Wow, this is the first I ever heard of Esperanto, but I find it very interesting. I'm doing some reading on it now and I'm hooked on it! Seems like natural globalization effort although not more that 2,000,000 people either speak it or are fluent from what I'm reading. Still, its a very good idea to come up with an internationally spoken language that transcends race and nationality.

Being bilingual of multilingual has a lot of benefits, such as, being able to properly communicate with more people, it's an advantage when abroad and it's a good benefit when looking for a job. Being bi-lingual, or knowing many languages can be a huge plus when applying for a job, especially when its related to the job. Its also good exercise for the mind in my opinion.

Awesome! A lot of suggestions now. I'm downloading Marcelino, Pan y Vino, El Mariachi and Todo Sobre mi Madre. I'm really excited to watch them, I'll post my feedback when I do. Thanks for the recommendations folks!  :grin:

The Basque language is  much older than the Spanish language, and is a very unique language. I've met many Spaniards, some with basque heritage, that have no idea how to speak Basque which is not surprising since only about 30% of people in the Basque region Speak Basque.

Not to discourage anyone but I would imagine it to be much harder to learn the Basque language compared to Spanish for two reasons. First, you won't find as much study material or reference materiel to study Basque from as well as Basque language speakers that might be able to tutor you. Also, the language is a lot older and doesn't share the origins of modern languages such as English, Spanish, German, French, etc. so it might come across as a very alien language to us.

Hola! Welcome to linguaholic! Its great to see someone interested in learning new languages at such a young age. Career-wise, It can be a huge advantage to know, or at least be familiar with, different languages.

I've always been told that the best way to maintain fluency in a language would be to speak the language regularly. If you don't have someone to talk to, maybe you could teach part-time, or online, you maintain the language and you'll earn some extra cash. Movies and reading will help maintain the language too.

Looks like most people find it irritating or annoying. I just wanna share, I got a text from my friend a couple days ago. R u goin 2 x-tian's party l8r rply asap (Are you going to Christian's party later? Reply asap.). Took me a few second to figure out what he was saying.

My girlfriend and I are planning a trip to Thailand later this year and I was wondering what are some common greetings in Thai? I'm oblivious to the language.

I always understood antonyms to a certain extent. Of course I knew the antonym for hot was cold, and for high is low. I always wondered though about the correctness of certain words and their respective antonyms. For example, if the antonym for hot is cold, what about scorching? Would it be cold, or freezing? What about words like disgusted and scornful, static, hazardous etc. I guess what I would like to know is do all words have a single correct antonym?

Interesting topic, I never knew their was a term for that. I'm not sure but is "we came, we saw, we conquered" an anaphora?

I understand the usage of in,that it basically mean "not", does that go the same for im

proper - improper

mobile - immobile

possible - impossible

potent - impotent

polite - impolite

Well, I have to admit, using Taglish is very convenient most of the time. But whenever I hear a socialite wanna-be talking in pure Taglish, it makes me want to hit them in the face.  seriously, why don't they just use pure English instead?

hahaha, I wouldn't wanna go that far, but I know what you mean. I say, either speak pure Tagalog or pure English, it's just too bad how its everywhere, tv, radio, even the news some times.