Since we just addressed telling time in Spanish and you’re no doubt working hard on practicing your new abilities to answer ¿Qué hora es?, we might as well do a quick review of the numbers . The Number System The Spanish number system works basically the same as English’s, just with different words of course. [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Numbers in Spanish 1-100
Posted in Spanish, tagged numbers on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Telling Time in Spanish
Posted in Spanish, tagged telling time on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Telling time is something that most of us do on a daily basis without ever having to think about it. It seems like such a straightforward thing, but it can get complicated when learning to tell time in a new language. It can involve a lot of new vocabulary, or even more confusingly, it can [...]
Accents in Spanish
Posted in Spanish, tagged Spanish accent marks, Spanish pronunciation on September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Unlike English words, Spanish orthography is such that Spanish words visually show their accent points in the written word. Those accent marks aren’t just another pretty face – they help to indicate how the word should be pronounced. The Basics of What the Accents Mean If a word contains an accented vowel then the stress [...]
Definite and Indefinite Articles in Hindi and Amharic
Posted in Amharic, Hindi, tagged definite and indefinite articles on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Definite and Indefinite Articles If you can’t quite remember which are the articles in English, read this little refresher before preceding with Hindi and Amharic articles. Definite and Indefinite Articles in Hindi While on the subject of definite and indefinite articles, it should be addressed that the Hindi language does not have articles like the [...]
Definite and Indefinite Articles in German
Posted in German, tagged definite and indefinite articles on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re a little vague on what the definite and indefinite articles are in English, read this little refresher before proceeding with the German articles. Articles are one of the easier portions of English grammar, but in German the articles do not remain constant but change depending on the gender of a word and what [...]
Definite and Indefinite Articles in English
Posted in English, tagged definite and indefinite articles on September 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Before we discuss how to express the definite and indefinite article is in other languages, let’s do a refresher on what they are in English. Surprisingly the use of the definite and indefinite articles in English is exceptionally straightforward. That very fact can lead English speakers to a great deal of confusion when learning the [...]
BEOLINGUS Online German Dictionary
Posted in German, tagged German dictionaries, online dictionaries on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BEOLINGUS is a particularly good online German dictionary that displays a wide range of definitions as well as phrases that word can be used in. It’s definitely the most thorough and useful one that I’ve yet come across. For hard copy German dictionaries, the one I use is Harper Collins German Concise Dictionary, which is [...]
