Learn Italian Alphabet
Italian Alphabet has 21 letters
(plus the 5 letters used in foreign words)
A A Amore (love)
B Bi Bambino (boy)
C Ci Casa (house)
D Di Deserto (desert)
E E Essere (to be)
F Effe Forza (force / power)
G Gi Gruppo (group)
H Acca Hotel (hotel – ‘h’ is silent)
I I Italia (Italy)
J*
I lungo
Joystick (joystick)
Jupiter (the Roman god)
K*
Kappa
Kiwi (kiwi)
L Elle Limone (Lemon)
M Emme Macchina (car)
N Enne Notte (night)
O O Opera (opera)
P Pi Piazza (square)
Q Qu Questo (this)
R Erre Rosso (red)
S Esse Settimana (week) sounds like ’s’
Rosa (rose) sounds like ‘z’
T Ti Tutto (all)
U U Uscita (exit / escape)
V Vu Via (street)
W* Doppio vu
Walter (personal name)
X*
Ics
Xilografia (xylography)
Y*
Ipsilon
Yogurt (yoghurt)
Z Zeta Zucchero (sugar) sounds like ‘ts’
Zero (zero) sounds like ‘dz’
Combined letters:
Some letters can have a different pronunciation in Italian depending upon which vocal or consonant follow them.
Combination Sounds like Listen Example Listen
ca / co / cu ‘k’ Cucina (kitchen)
ce / ci ‘tsch’ Cinema (cinema)
che / chi ‘k’ Chiave (key)
ga / go / gu a hard ‘g’ Gomma (rubber / tyre)
ge / gi ‘dj’ Gelato (ice cream / icy)
ghe / ghi a hard ‘g’ Ghetto (ghetto)
GLI similar to American
Spanish ‘ll’ or Portuguese ‘lh’
Aglio (garlic)
GLA / GLE /
GLO / GLU
‘gl’ Gloria (glory)
gn Spanish ‘ñ’ Gnocchi (potato dumplings)
sca / sco / scu ’sk’ Scuola (school)
sce / scI ’sh’ Scienza (science)
SCHE / SCHI ’sk’ Schiuma (foam)
Actually the Italian alphabet does not normally include the letters J, K, W X and Y, but since there are some words derived from other languages that are normally used in Italy (as well as personal names).
Spanish Language
Spanish language is one of the most beautiful languages in the world and learning it opens the wide way into the fantastic reach culture. Spanish is the native language ofmore than 500 million people in the world. In addition to Spain, Spanish is the official language of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In addition, it is widely spoken in several other nations, including Canada, Morocco, the Philippines, and the United States. The history of the Spanish language and the origin of the dialects of Spain begin with the linguistic evolution of Vulgar Latin. It’s one of the Romance languages in the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European language family, then if you know French or Italian which are also belonging to Roman languages group you have all chances to learn speak Spanish perfectly.
Pronouncing in Spanish you do not need to be expressed since the verb itself will identify the subject, In Spanish, a pronoun is only needed when referring to a third person (singular or plural) for proper identification purposes since it can be a “she”, a “he” or even a formal second person singular. In the plural, the verb ending could be referring to a “they” (masculine or feminine) or to “ustedes”, a form of the second person plural used by everyone in all the Hispanic countries, except in Spain, where “vosotros” is preferred.
In Spanish, you can say who is speaking or whom somebody is speaking about by the form of the conjugated verb. This is different from English where most all the forms of most verbs are the same: I eat, you eat, we eat, they eat,etc. So in English we have to use the subject pronouns all of the time. But in Spanish, since each form is unique and reveals the subject, we don’t have to use the subject pronouns. you may use a subject pronoun or even a name so it is clear whom you are speaking about.
I yo
you (familiar) tъ
you (formal) usted
he йl
she ella
we nosotros (men and/or women)
you people (familiar) vosotros (men and/or women)
them (men and/or women) ellos
them (women) ellas
you people (formal) ustedes (men and/or women
Learn Spanish in Spain
The best way to learn any foreign language you are interested in is to stay in the country where the language is native not for a wile absorbing in culture, tradition, town and village life, people, and learning the language as well. Connecting with the native speakers of target language as real person the process of the learning helps you not only to perfect a pronounce and practices your spoken language but also gives so called genuine examples from real life.
In achieving high motivation, cultural aspect does have a great role because learners like culturally based activities such as singing, dancing, role playing, doing research on countries and peoples, etc. And living in an age of post-modernism, in an age of tolerance towards different ideologies, religions, sub-cultures and we should understand not only other language but also the other culture. No doubt such way of learning foreign language is much more interesting and effective.
CorrectMyText service
Not everyone can employ to himself a foreign teacher .What to do? The exit is – it is necessary to look closer at service CorrectMyText. This service is created specially for people who need to know a foreign language perfectly. Developers could collect a command of professionals from the different countries which help users of service quickly and without problems to familiarize with knowledge of English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian languages.
There are also experts who can train Russian, Chinese, Korean, or Japanese. Direct dialogue with native speakers will allow studying grammar, correct use of words and the word-combinations, the settled phrases and turns. To start work with a site it is necessary simply to be registered. After successful procedure the user will have an opportunity to download the texts sounded by native speakers, and also to place the variants of translation of these texts. It is remarkable that other visitors of the project can edit them, or simply specify in discrepancies or grammatical errors. Let us notice that the resource is equipped by interfaces in several main European and Asian languages. Among competitors it is necessary to note following social services for language studying: RapidSteps, English by Skype and Livemocha.
Star exam 1.2
Presumably, the best types of teachers are those who know how to use games in their work.
Star Exam 1.2 is the Game for improvement of knowledge of English language of
primary and intermediate school students. Game has been developed for schoolboys in New Zealand. Examination tests include check of a lexicon, a pronunciation in English language. Though examination has been developed for schoolboys at whom an English native language, it can use and for language studying. Therefore it can use and those who wishes to study language.
This computer program will let you play several tricky games and this way allow you to study new words and relations between them, and more complex questions like style and emotions seamlessly. The gaming scenario is common: you run through questions, see several answer choices and are to select the right answer (or several right answers) and obtain points.
Glance on the other hand
Nobody begins to deny the fact that the language is our world outlook, world vision, culture, mindset. Usual and familiar, soaked in other language culture allows looking at all on the other hand, changes stereotypes, updates vision.
Smoke on the Water Japanese version
Million
English set a record, the first among other languages having registered a million words.
The millionth word became Web 2. 0, meaning new generation of interactive products and services of the Internet which arrive on the computer in an operating time in the WorldNet. It was required to English one and a half thousand years to set up the record.
Calculation of quantity of words in the basic languages is conducted by the Californian Company Global Language Monitor or GLM. It carries out monitoring of occurrence and the use of words in printing and electronic mass-media, analyzes the Internet, revealing new words and establishing quantity and context of their use.
To be accepted as a word of English language, it should appear in various texts at least 25 thousand times.
In the beginning of June GLM declared that the quantity of words in the English language has reached one million. Any other language has no so volume lexicon.
As experts consider, for daily use the person uses from 2 to 5 thousand words.
As a result hardly probable in the world there is a person who knows and uses one million words. By the way, Shakespeare in his writings used 24 thousand words, thus he has thought up 1, 7 thousand from them.
It is interesting that the term concerning the newest Internet technologies became the millionth word. However not all experts agree with GLM concept which they characterize as “liberal”. So, the company has included in the dictionary of English language such words as Clingfish, that means language with the mixed English-Chinese expressions, computer slang and the words, used in the Internet for a designation of new realities.
According to calculations of British linguists, still 50 years ago 250 million persons in the world spoke English. Today this number has reached a 1.5 billion.
Sort Of Dunno Nothin’
addinionally here is the list of words we should use as little as possible
(more ideas? please comment!)
Well
So
You know/you see
Well, you know what I mean
something like this (that)
why not
I see the point
… and all the stuff
I dunno
Got it
check it out
wow
damn
what a fuck(hell, shit)
is going on
cool
crap
kind of that
i’d say kinda
whatever, really, for real…
STFU – shut the fuck up
GTFO – get the fuck out
basically
f*ck, f*cking)
I see
uhm betcha,
lemme,
thing is,
feel,
figure,
hold it,
beat it,
come again,
c’mon,
cuss,
‘coz,
shoot…
actually, eventually, though
as far as i know
kinda = kind of
yeah
‘like’ (e.g. “Do you, like, go to school?”), ‘anyway’
Spanish Adjectives You Need to Know
Look, if you need to describe your personality in Spanish here is adjectives you can boldly use to.
ambitious – ambicioso
annoying – pesado
argumentative – quarrelsome, discutidor
bad-tempered – malhumorado
big-headed creído – engreído
bitchy – de mala leche, venenoso
brave – valiente
cantankerous – cascarrabias
carefree – despreocupado
careless descuidado – poco cuidadoso
cautious – prudente, cauteloso, cauto;
charming – encantador
cheerful alegre – jovial;
conceited, full of oneself – presumido
conservative – conservador
conventional – convencional
cowardly – cobarde
crazy – nuts loco, chiflado
cruel – cruel
dull – boring soso, aburrido
flirtatious – coqueta
friendly – amigable, simpático, agradable
generous – generoso
hard-working – trabajador
honest – honesto
kind – amable
laid-back – tranquilo, relajado
lazy – perezoso, vago
loyal – fiel
mean – tacaño
modest – modesto
moody – de humor cambiante
naive – ingenuo, inocentón
naughty (children) – malo, travieso (niños)
narrow-minded – de actitud abierta, sin prejuicios
de mentalidad – cerrada, intolerante;
pious – piadoso
polite – cortés, educado
proud – orgulloso
reliable: he’s a very reliable person fiable, confiable – es una persona en la que se puede confiar
self-confident: to be self-confident seguro de sí mismo – tener confianza en sí mismo
selfish – egoísta
sensible – sensato, prudente;
sensitive – sensible
shy – introverted – tímido, vergonzoso – introvertido
strict – estricto, severo, riguroso
stubborn – terco, testarudo, tozudo
sympatheti – c (understanding) comprensivo
trustworthy – digno de confianza
two-faced – falso
weird – raro, extraño
