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
This Wonderful World
The gold rule is trust yourself. You can do much more wonderful things in your life than you think you can. The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge and learning foreign language is one of the most important parts of discovering this wonderful world. As to my reason for learning foreign languages is because I just love to do it. Do you remember Mark Twain’s story when “In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language”. So I wouldn’t like to find myself in such situation!
There are various perfect language online resources, such as http://rosettastone.co.uk/ for instance, offered great number of article and tips on how to learn a foreign language which, no doubt will let you to learn any language you want in your own time having fun and deriving true benefit from the process.
You can find there all what you need – from first steps with online beginners’ course and the grammar per unit to comprehensive list of vocabularies, language programs and testing tools. It’s worth to get a guide to start learning language you are interested in. Whether you are going to learn Spanish, French, German, Polish, Greek, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese other languages, there are many ways that work. It’s fast, easy and fun!
Tell Me More Japanese
The package TELL ME MORE Japanese addresses all the skills critical to learn Japanese: reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and culture. It includes all 3 levels: Beginner (to discover or revise the basics, and make yourself understood in basic everyday situations), Intermediate (Revise and build upon basic Japanese to improve your conversational abilities), advanced (Strengthen your skills and expand upon different themes in everyday life) and is the perfect solution to learn Japanese, helping you in your first steps with the Japanese language, allowing you to discover Japan’s fascinating cultural heritage.
This is the first language method based on speech recognition technology. The software will enable students to easily master the various nuances of the Japanese language.
Understand And Be Understood
It is said that words and letters hold the secrets of the universe. So, no doubt, learning a foreign language, no matter which one, we do discover another universe. Besides that learning any language we acquire not only knowledge but really the important component to life.
As more than 500 years ago Latin was the dominant language in the world just so, as we see, English is an absolute dominant language in our modern world and no wonder! Because English today is not only the language of commerce and education, science and technology, but definitely the language of world spoken and written communication. However that may be, English is an important language in many places today and there are great number of perfect, high quality English as a Second Language resources that will help you on the way of learning English to be able to write and speak it fluently. Don’t miss your chance to understand and to be understood.
Learn New Words Every Day
Motivation and self study are best solution you can learn any language you want. Spanish is one of the most beautiful and popular language in the world. The most economic ways to learn Spanish is through self study of course and here you can use different methods such as CDs, Books, Online support, DVDs or a combinate all of them.
Also making to learn sveral new words every day as a rule will help you very much on the way.
7 days of the week in Spanish
7 dias de la semana en español
Monday – lunes
Tuesday – martes
Wednesday – miercoles
Thursday – jueves
Friday – viernes
Saturday – sabado
Sunday – domingo
12 months of the year in Spanish
12 meses del año en español
enero
febrero
marzo
abril
mayo
junio
julio
agosto
septiembre
octubre
noviembre
diciembre
Spanish Language
I love this language because of great literature, poetry, music, in spite of my Argentinean neighbor who does not let me to sleep al the night singing his serenades till morning:-) I love it because of
The door is open,
the cricket is singing.
Are you going around naked
in the fields?
Like an immortal water,
going in and out of everything.
Are you going around naked
in the air?
The basil is not asleep,
the ant is busy.
Are you going around naked
in the house?
This is poetry of my most loved Juan Ramón Jiménez. A central theme of his verses was the oneness and beauty of the world.
Intelijencia, dáme
el nombre exacto de las cosas!
… Que mi palabra sea
la cosa misma,
creada por mi alma nuevamente
How it sounds magically! You can find any information about Spanish learning easily. All what you need is just a wish to open this extremely wonderful word.
