Category: Did you know…

05
Nov

Clinical linguistics studies

The central focus of clinical linguistics is the application of the principles and methods of linguistics and phonetics to communication impairment in children and adults.
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/m4nvnqp
03
Nov

How dogs bark in different languages

Almost all dogs bark.  111018-108878Science has shown that virtually all dogs also can understand the barks of other dogs regardless of where they come from, however the way that humans hear those barks differs depending upon the language that people speak and the culture that they live in.

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20
Oct

Free – EuroVoc glossaries into English

Two file types are available: Excel (.xlsx) or .tbx (the latter is in a .zip folder). Click on the desired file type(s) under the desired language pair to start the download.
Bulgarian – English: EuroVoc BGEN Excel / EuroVoc BGEN .tbx
Croatian – English: EuroVoc HREN Excel / EuroVoc HREN .tbx
Czech – English: EuroVoc CSEN Excel / EuroVoc CSEN .tbx
Danish – English: EuroVoc DAEN Excel / EuroVoc DAEN .tbx
Dutch – English: EuroVoc NLEN Excel / EuroVoc NLEN .tbx
Estonian – English: EuroVoc ETEN Excel / EuroVoc ETEN .tbx
Finnish – English: EuroVoc FIEN Excel / EuroVoc FIEN .tbx
French – English: EuroVoc FREN Excel / EuroVoc FREN .tbx
German – English: EuroVoc DEEN Excel / EuroVoc DEEN .tbx
Greek – English: EuroVoc ELEN Excel / EuroVoc ELEN .tbx
Hungarian – English: EuroVoc HUEN Excel / EuroVoc HUEN .tbx
Italian – English: EuroVoc ITEN Excel / EuroVoc ITEN .tbx
Latvian – English: EuroVoc LVEN Excel / EuroVoc LVEN .tbx
Lithuanian – English: EuroVoc LTEN Excel / EuroVoc LTEN .tbx
Maltese – English: EuroVoc MTEN Excel / EuroVoc MTEN .tbx
Polish – English: EuroVoc PLEN Excel / EuroVoc PLEN .tbx
Portuguese – English: EuroVoc PTEN Excel / EuroVoc PTEN .tbx
Romanian – English: EuroVoc ROEN Excel / EuroVoc ROEN .tbx
Serbian – English: EuroVoc SREN Excel / EuroVoc SREN .tbx
Slovak – English: EuroVoc SKEN Excel / EuroVoc SKEN .tbx
Slovenian – English: EuroVoc SLEN Excel / EuroVoc SLEN .tbx
Spanish – English: EuroVoc ESEN Excel / EuroVoc ESEN .tbx
Swedish – English: EuroVoc SVEN Excel / EuroVoc SVEN .tbx
Read more: http://tinyurl.com/lx7alt2
13
Oct

About English pronunciation

Twice as many people speak English as a second language than as a native one! So having the wrong accent means you are actually in the majority and the same can be said for many other world languages.

korean-pronunciation

Read more: http://tinyurl.com/k7aqd95

08
Oct

What is this hashtag (#) symbol?

On Twitter and other social media:hashtag-for-header
The pound sign (or hash) turns any word or group of words that directly follow it into a searchable link. This allows you to organize content and track discussion topics based on those keywords.

Source: http://tinyurl.com/pa2xcta