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Talk normally in Turkish he does

One thing Yoda is famous for is the way he speaks. He speaks with a different word order in English. This however is not a problem in other languages because they have what is called free word order, which means words can appear in any order in the sentence because prefixes or suffixes determine a […]

Grammar of Romance languages

The fascinating thing about Latin is that it didn’t actually die out. It just changed in all the areas where it was spoken into many different languages. What I love about languages is how they can almost be viewed as a living thing. Languages evolve and mutate producing changes and additions that are not seen […]

What does the fox say in ASL

The human desire for communication is amazing! Those who can hear and speak instinctively pick up a language. People don’t need to know anything about grammar or verbs or adjectives. They will just start speaking. But what if you have hearing problems or speaking problems? People will still want to communicate and this is shown […]

How Egypt invented the alphabet

The variety in writing systems around the world is really cool. Egyptian hieroglyphics (hiero- meaning sacred, so hieroglyphics means sacred writing) were used to write down Egyptian history. This is where we get a lot of our information about Egyptian history. But alphabet’s also developed in Egpyt. Get out the video in this post for […]

15 Words and Phrases Millennials Use but No One Else Understands | Inc.com

  15 Words and Phrases Millennials Use but No One Else Understands | Inc.com Can’t understand what a Millennial is saying to you? Here’s a cheat sheet to help. Source: www.inc.com/john-brandon/15-words-and-phrases-millennials-use-but-no-one-else-understands.html All groups come up with new words and expressions, which can be quite baffling to other generations. Don’t worry. Most of these words and expressions […]

The Persian Language

Persian is an Indo European language spoken in Iran. Indo European is the world’s largest language family in terms of speakers and even includes language like English, German and French. In fact, most languages of Europe are Indo European which includes the Germanic languages (such as English and German), the Romance languages (such as Italian […]