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Which language do you find most difficult to learn? 9 Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:29 am
Cantando em Romances 12 Thu Nov 12, 2009 4:05 am
Russian dialects (specifically in Ukraine) 3 Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:38 pm
The Spanish "b" and "v" 11 Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:10 pm
Which language is better Spanish or French? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 82 Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:38 pm
The two most spoken languages 11 Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:48 pm
Chines and Spanish are at par w/ each other 3 Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:11 pm
An advice to Guest 1 Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:56 pm
French has higher 3 Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:35 pm
World languages 1 Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:13 pm
Online dictionaries 0 Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:49 am
An advice for Visitor 1 Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:19 am
The 3 World languages in 2050 (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:00 am
Is there a language that is particularly poectic? (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:53 pm
How economic power is transformed into linguistic hegemony? 5 Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:34 pm
yiddish 5 Mon Nov 09, 2009 6:09 pm
Is Arabic difficult to learn? (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:46 pm
č/ć, š/ś 4 Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:34 pm
I love Italian (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) 100 Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:45 am
Why are Chinese characters still used? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 10 11 12 13 14 ) 208 Mon Nov 09, 2009 5:16 am
What is your favourite Spanish-speaking country and why 13 Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:24 pm
Which language is closer to English? 12 Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:04 pm
linguistic borders don't change much 5 Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:26 am
Chinese vs Japanese vs Korean 4 Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:21 am
Spanish the easiest language to learn after English? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 50 Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:13 pm
Whats wrong with Spanish?: Its evolution and how it is today 4 Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:07 pm
Current status of Occitan? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 60 Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:30 pm
French or German. Which language is the most useful? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 49 Sat Nov 07, 2009 4:49 pm
Peh-oe-ji is the standard Taiwanese! Not Tadpolenese! (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:16 am
Languages that sound bad (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 53 Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:47 pm
the worst at speaking languages 4 Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:37 am
Popularity of Russian PK Japanese 4 Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:52 am
Can Chinese and English be merged into one language? 11 Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:47 pm
¿Cuáles son los errores más comunes en español? (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:08 pm
I study film. What language should I study? 6 Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:01 pm
Learn Arabic Languages online with a private teacher 0 Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:36 pm
la mort de Lévi-Strauss 10 Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:21 pm
Learn Arabic Languages online with a private teacher 0 Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:20 pm
How do the Germans pronounce "Volvo"? 4 Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:42 am
Is Spain the European country that speaks English worst? (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:52 pm
Top ten writers 12 Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:36 am
Why has Mandarin still been an unpopular language? (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:57 am
Chinese question 5 Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:23 am
Has English prevented the US downfall/secession as Chinese? 9 Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:08 pm
The French of Italy (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:50 pm
A wonderful film in EU Portuguese: (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:51 am
English and Spanish 12 Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:40 pm
Foreign language 4 Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:54 am
Why do people say English has not declensions? 11 Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:33 am
How come is Germany so tiny nowadays? (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:29 am
Future of French in Montreal 4 Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:13 am
The Language Show in Olympia 0 Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:46 am
French 2nd most used language in the blogosphere 7 Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:51 pm
English is not preferred over French & German in Switzer 1 Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:19 am
French- The Language of Business (pages: 1 2 3 ) 30 Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:38 am
So called multilinguals of western languages r monolinguals! (pages: 1 2 ) 29 Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:13 pm
Vietnam, South Korea and Japan 1 Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:03 pm
French in Mercosur & Spanish in African Union 10 Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:17 pm
3 languages to travel (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Thu Oct 29, 2009 11:49 am
Cantonese Seems to Flow Better Than Mandarin 0 Thu Oct 29, 2009 7:02 am
Biggest problem in learning: Interference 0 Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:14 pm
What languages do YOU speak, and how well? 13 Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:07 pm
The Languages of Prostitution (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:48 pm
Which language is the best/suitablest one for song singing? 3 Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:26 pm
La langue française est le suprême 11 Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:05 am
Deutsch ist die Übersprache 6 Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:20 am
Does language control our thinking? 12 Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:37 pm
The Dutch Citizenship Test (pages: 1 2 ) 26 Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:53 am
Shibboleths 3 Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:30 am
Do Americans ever need foreign languages? 14 Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:12 pm
Russian in Taiwan 7 Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:57 pm
Pacific Islands Forum Official languages 2 Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:10 pm
French in Russia 0 Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:52 pm
About Russian Journal 0 Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:58 pm
French Influence in Russia 1 Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:39 pm
A tour of Asia’s French-speaking cou 2 Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:33 am
Is Spanish disintigrating like Latin did? (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:08 am
Is French in decline? (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:04 am
Español es una lengua suprema 7 Sat Oct 24, 2009 11:06 pm
Cud translation machine eradicate learning foreign language? 0 Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:56 pm
Greek translation 0 Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:47 pm
The most beautiful Slavonic language (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 57 Sat Oct 24, 2009 2:08 pm
Learn Arabic Language online 0 Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:02 pm
When speaking a second language, do you have to convert it? 2 Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:51 am
Supreme ruling "extremely worrying": Quebec nation 3 Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:00 pm
For people who have more than one native language 0 Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:32 pm
LAGRIMA 13 Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:28 pm
Why can't westerners master Chinese tones well? 9 Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:20 pm
The languages of football (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:17 pm
The Bildelberg Group 4 Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:02 pm
Should Catalan be classified as an Ibero-romance language? (pages: 1 2 ) 23 Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:24 am
traduction 1 Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:18 pm
Portuguese of which country is more beautiful? 11 Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:28 pm
The weakness of English language (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:52 pm
What do Slavic Last Names Mean? (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:14 am
Has anyone heard of "Daniel Tammet"? 2 Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:20 pm
Besides Chinese and Japanese, which Asian language is? (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:04 am
Museum of Portuguese in Sao Paulo 4 Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:55 am
Qual idioma mais facilita a aprendizagem do Latim? (pages: 1 2 ) 28 Sun Oct 18, 2009 3:16 am
If you watch a foreing-language film over and over? 6 Sun Oct 18, 2009 12:03 am
Interesting and important languages 4 Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:30 pm
A Chinese character 6 Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:04 pm
Aisha/Diwali/Huh? 0 Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:26 am
Is it true that the older you are, the less easier it is 1 Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:36 am
European capital cities by area 8 Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:16 pm
Does anyone speak Cantonese/Hongkongese? 6 Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:47 am
how can I learn BR Portuguese pronunciation? 2 Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:31 am
could you give those words in French and in Spanish? 11 Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:51 pm
Is it true that Italian is the easiest Romance language? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 56 Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:06 pm
Sensual language. 8 Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:56 am
What if Germany would win the WWII? (pages: 1 2 ) 26 Thu Oct 15, 2009 11:51 am
What Some "Method Pushers" Forget 6 Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:18 am
Wants to Learn French (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Wed Oct 14, 2009 10:55 am
Eighty Percent 5 Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:27 am
Olympic Games 2016 (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 58 Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:40 am
Should there be a new spanish reform? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 41 Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:33 am
Ukrainian v. Russian 10 Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:16 pm
Arabic language 7 Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:03 pm
Rationalist vs. Behaviorist? 0 Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:12 pm
what foreign languages do Chinese and Japanese students lear (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:53 am
Ou etudiez-vous le français? Pourquoi? 13 Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:54 pm
Lenguas en lucha - El español en Africa ¿Desaparecerá? (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:15 pm
Langues lutte - "les Français en Amérique du Sud" (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:53 pm
Chinese intonation (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:23 am
International organizations 1 Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:22 pm
Study in France 0 Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:45 am
la mejor vida... (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:35 am
Nat King Cole in Spanish 2 Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:27 pm
mnemonics 0 Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:49 am
Don't learn Traditional Chinese characters, but Peh-oe-ji (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) 101 Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:43 am
To flirt in different languages (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 50 Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:02 pm
Life after life 1 Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:44 pm
Jiaul'al. gah Qint'al. (L'oiseau et l'enfant in Taiwanese) (pages: 1 2 ) 23 Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:44 am
Greatest Linguist 14 Fri Oct 02, 2009 5:20 pm
Le français en Asie centrale (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:00 am
French "a" (pages: 1 2 ) 23 Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:31 pm
Did Hitler speak foreign languages? 12 Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:56 pm
German, French, Arabic, Chinese 2 Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:36 am
French recources 6 Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:31 am
Finnish language origins and Saami people (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:35 am
G-20 Summit (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:39 am
What does the Italian girl say in this video? 4 Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:18 pm
German Grammar. (pages: 1 2 3 ) 41 Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:38 pm
Learn Arabic Online 1 Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:27 am
Which Describes Your Language Learning? 5 Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:26 pm
Gobal cities and languages (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) 93 Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:42 pm
en français 14 Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:58 am
Langcafe RIP 4 Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:55 am
What would US be like if it spoke German or French instead? (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:39 am
German or Spanish? (I'm Chinese) (pages: 1 2 3 ) 42 Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:39 pm
Comparison between Classical Chinese and Latin (pages: 1 2 3 ) 40 Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:34 pm
From English to Japanese 9 Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:26 pm
Serbo-Croatian (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 55 Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:11 pm
"Atrochar" 3 Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:08 pm
French question... (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:44 pm
French translation 1 Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:58 pm
English >> GErman (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:36 am
(Welsh: Tywysog Cymru) 0 Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:51 am
Portuguese should be more popular than Spanish 9 Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:30 pm
Why is the so much fighting between the Romance languages? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 45 Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:52 pm
Should one learn American or Castilian Spanish (pages: 1 2 3 ) 33 Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:00 pm
Arabic course tips wanted 2 Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:44 pm
Inviting Russian-speaking people interested in linguistics 2 Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:32 pm
Let's give Spanish a second thought (pages: 1 2 3 ) 42 Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:18 pm
Cantonese Romanization (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 61 Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:57 am
Let's be realistic about French for a second (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:51 am
English was spoken in England before the Roman invasion (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 57 Sun Sep 20, 2009 7:43 pm
Can't pick what Slavic language to learn... (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:20 pm
OMG this is so interesting (on the origin of Indo-European) 3 Fri Sep 18, 2009 9:51 pm
Which is easier to learn, Chinese or Japanese? 4 Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:38 pm
Difference between; you guys, you folks, you people 12 Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:01 am
minor languages (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 53 Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:36 pm
Which language has the best cinema? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 45 Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:00 pm
English from 11th century (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:13 pm
Why isn’t German very popular? (copied) (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 65 Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:53 pm
German-Russian-Portuguese 3 Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:36 am
A question for Asian people (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:58 am
language plus country (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 45 Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:28 pm
Spain and other speaking countries? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 70 Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:05 pm
Please stop posting in English! (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ) 116 Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:28 pm
Slavic words in other languages (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:46 pm
the most boring language: Spanish (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:52 pm
Is S more sibilant in American Spanish than in Castilian? 10 Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:19 pm
rFrench is spoken in Argentina 7 Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:39 pm
Spanish spoken even in Cameroon 5 Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:37 pm
Urdu Poetry Translations in to English 0 Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:14 am
Novju mezxunarodju jazika! 4 Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:53 am
Spanish ~ When to use ís, és, ás, id, ad, ed 3 Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:09 pm
Are there any JOURNALISTS here? 3 Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:44 pm
Worst People At Speaking English? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) 94 Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:19 pm
Is Spanish more useful than Portuguese in Latin America? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 61 Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:26 pm
Latin Union (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:44 am
Which group of languages is the hardest? 4 Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:13 pm
The new Latin: Spanish language (pages: 1 2 ) 23 Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:13 pm
How do you think extraterrestrial languages are? 10 Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:23 pm
why, Why was kanji eliminated in Korean script?????? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 45 Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:07 pm
Spanish, oficial language in African Union (pages: 1 2 ) 29 Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:16 pm
foreign accents 8 Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:32 am
Smart Dogs Can Always Learn New Tricks 3 Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:24 pm
Question for Chinese speakers 7 Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:54 pm
"I can do it" in French? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:39 am
Learn Arabic in Egypt 0 Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:56 am
How does modern Hebrew sound to non-Hebrew speakers? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 66 Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:10 am
Why learn a foreign language? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 32 Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:12 am
Le français en Amérique Hispanique (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:27 pm
renault/peugeot 9 Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:10 pm
Afrikaans preposition 0 Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:31 am
palabrotas 12 Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:03 am
Learning a language through another language 3 Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:23 pm
"French and Italian"? or "French and Spanish& (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 58 Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:49 pm
What makes a language Romance or Germanic? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ) 109 Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:44 am
spanish: "sembro" /...having problems 3 Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:50 am
Can Romanians understand Moldovans? 6 Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:26 pm
How to Talk About Nationality Correctly 3 Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:09 pm
New language hierarchy (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 45 Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:56 am
liaison 7 Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:21 am
Slavic languages (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 67 Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:34 pm
Live and Learn 5 Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:05 pm
Did Etruscan influence Latin phonology? 1 Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:32 pm
Cual es el mejor diccionario de Español? 2 Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:21 pm
How to pronounce "Tomasz" 4 Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:53 pm
Language that sounds like English (pages: 1 2 3 ) 44 Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:24 pm
Does Greek sound like European Spanish?. (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:11 pm
Afrikaans Problems 1 Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:46 pm
similar languages (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 58 Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:37 pm
Taiwanese in Cyrillic alphabets 5 Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:53 pm
dictionnaire du français (FLE) 3 Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:42 am
Best language for singing? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 15 16 17 18 19 ) 277 Wed Sep 02, 2009 4:04 pm
Hot in Mandarin Learning (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:01 pm
Africa investor launches French language Magazine 0 Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:11 pm
TH sounds 12 Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:20 am
French Immersion Schools in Hispanic Countries 11 Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:41 am
which subject is least dominated by English? 8 Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:45 am
Languages in Mobile Phone 6 Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:04 pm
Choosing a "pocket" Spanish dictionary 4 Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:58 am
Another language for telecommunications (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:17 pm
Taiwan president suggests using simplified Chinese character 2 Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:39 am
English & Spanish 13 Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:57 pm
question about a Russian phrase 1 Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:22 am
Taiwanese Mulan 2 Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:06 am
English or French? 8 Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:00 pm
Why do people always think 7 Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:51 am
A question about Chinese writing 7 Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:52 am
Simplified Chinese Characters are popular in Taiwan now 3 Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:55 am
New Simplified Chinese Characters created by Taiwan 1 Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:57 am
ESL-Ethnologue List List 4 Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:13 pm
French appeared first before Spanish as OAS official languag 4 Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:07 pm
biggest tragedy for each language? (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:01 am
Russian palatized consonants 0 Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:39 am
Hindi R vs English and Japanese Rs 1 Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:12 am
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