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Singapore's Simplified Chinese Characters 0 Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:42 am
How to attain a native-like accent? 9 Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:33 am
What language is this? Thai? Chinese? 8 Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:27 am
Questions regarding the learning of speakers of spanish 3 Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:52 pm
Ethnologue list 5 Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:59 pm
Did Ancient Egyptian sound like this? 5 Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:01 am
Am I Supposed To Learn Arabic? (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:16 am
comparing Iberian languages 8 Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:49 am
Can and should literature be read as a translation? 2 Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:31 am
Why do Spanierds use Le & Les (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:51 pm
Bias Toward Multilinguals? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 76 Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:05 pm
Zut! Lebanon is Dropping French for English (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:09 pm
Romance languages 3 Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:29 am
Hanja abandoned in Korean... 韓国&#3 4 Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:54 am
learning languages 6 Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:47 am
Which language is closer to being a creole? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 30 Fri Aug 21, 2009 8:18 pm
language survey 0 Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:20 am
Hardest to easiest (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Thu Aug 20, 2009 5:06 pm
Iberian languages (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ) 138 Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:01 am
Las vocales en las lenguas romances (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 56 Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:41 pm
English and French are the main foreign language in Brazil 5 Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:19 pm
Steinke-Institut list 5 Wed Aug 19, 2009 12:02 pm
Some Interesting Interviews With Polyglots 7 Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:55 pm
Arabic VS Russian (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:53 am
What You Should Consider Before Starting a Lang. 12 Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:36 pm
"German + French" or "French + Italian" (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 60 Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:48 pm
Number of Speakers with new technologies 2 Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:04 pm
French modification of foreign names 11 Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:30 pm
7th official language of U.N. (pages: 1 2 3 ) 33 Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:39 pm
How should one learn "Educated Spoken Arabic"? 0 Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:47 am
Which language should I start to learn first? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 39 Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:25 am
Skadinavinsk(a) 4 Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:22 pm
A Two Week Intensive Course In Portugese 8 Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:29 pm
Spanish Verbs vs. French Verbs (pages: 1 2 3 ) 32 Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:31 pm
Is it possible that Japanese adopts romanization ? 3 Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:48 am
If Arab states have no oil, will Arabic be useful in future? (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:56 pm
Taking On Another Identity To Learn A Language 9 Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:17 am
Taiwan needs your help 1 Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:15 am
Your Active and Passive Language Skills 1 Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:31 am
Learn Arabic (Lesson 3) 0 Tue Aug 11, 2009 7:48 am
3rd & 4th most useful language in India 3 Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:52 am
General Brazilian Portuguese (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:21 pm
Are You A Successful Language Learner? 7 Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:48 pm
French nasals 1 Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:19 pm
How does language affect a person's thinking? 1 Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:17 pm
Overthinking: A Barrier to Fluency? 4 Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:19 am
Spoken Italian against Spanish (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:46 pm
HALLUCINATIONS AUDITIVES avec l'hymne russe !!! 0 Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:43 am
French, the second global lingua franca (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) 104 Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:50 am
Peruvian Spanish (pages: 1 2 3 ) 35 Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:44 pm
Number of French speakers 0 Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:42 am
言語オタク 4 Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:14 am
THE MOON (pages: 1 2 ) 26 Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:24 pm
LearN AraBiC (LeSson 2) 1 Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:56 am
Vocabulary Building/vocabulearn, etc. 1 Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:45 am
The discussion on abandoning Classical Chinese 0 Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:31 am
How to pronounce Spanish "LL?" (pages: 1 2 3 ) 41 Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:22 am
Modern IE 6 Sun Aug 02, 2009 3:43 pm
to have guapa?! 0 Sun Aug 02, 2009 2:52 pm
German is the second most popular foreing language in the UK (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Sat Aug 01, 2009 2:36 pm
正簡之爭 - Simplifie 2 Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:43 am
Similar Languages: How to Study Them 3 Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:54 am
French language materials? 7 Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:24 pm
Surprized By Someone's Language Improvement 3 Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:25 pm
Word Processors 0 Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:22 pm
"What Do You Do With Languages?" (pages: 1 2 ) 29 Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:10 pm
Polyglot Book 2 Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:33 am
A Seminar for Multilinguals 4 Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:21 pm
How is Latin/Greek/etc taught nowadays? (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Thu Jul 30, 2009 2:32 am
How close are Creole languages to their parent language? (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:32 am
how sounds those french accents in English for you ? 4 Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:08 pm
German language adds 5,000 words - most of them are English 8 Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:23 pm
Why does Arabic have so many dialects? (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:05 pm
How did Greek become Turkish in Anatolia and Constantinple? 11 Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:55 pm
the main language will be... (pages: 1 2 3 ) 39 Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:49 pm
What makes French a Latin-Germanic mixed language (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 94 95 96 97 98 ) 1466 Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:33 pm
French has the most secondary speakers in the world? (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:36 am
How to begin learning vocab in a foreign language? (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:11 pm
If one's parents are from Mexico but grew up in Argentina?? 8 Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:20 pm
Why is this funny? if so. 0 Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:16 pm
Modern French Music Artists? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:43 am
Simplification of Chinese characters isn't worth the candle. 6 Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:41 am
Usefulness, Interests, Materials. 10 Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:04 am
Celtic Flow 4 Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:10 am
Which sentence is the correct one? 5 Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:57 am
how many words to 'know' a language (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:55 pm
French more different than the other Romance languages or 6 Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:44 pm
Most common Dutch vocabulary, where?? 2 Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:52 pm
A person who doesn't speak even one language fluently! (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:19 am
Does your lang. have different words for male/female nurses? 10 Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:58 am
French in France vs French in Quebec (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:53 am
brun v. marron (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:01 am
Holding Back 2 Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:18 pm
What languages did Luis Buñuel speak? How well? 3 Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:31 pm
Spanish is the most spoken language in the world? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 63 Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:27 am
Can linguistics predict how languages will evolve? 2 Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:31 am
Top Language Blogs and Antimoon 0 Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:54 pm
CATALAN (pages: 1 2 ) 23 Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:58 pm
SpEaKiNg AraBiC Easy NoW 0 Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:50 am
Where to study abroad? Spain or France?! 13 Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:43 am
North American Academy of the Spanish Language 1 Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:56 pm
Advert for learning Chinese on this site 1 Sat Jul 18, 2009 4:35 pm
Languages in Internet 1 Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:36 am
Switching Between Languages 3 Sat Jul 18, 2009 4:13 am
Quick spanish pronunciation question 4 Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:27 pm
Is verlan really common in French day-to-day spoken languge? 4 Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:10 am
International Organizations 14 Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:00 am
Indo-European languages (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:46 pm
French newspapers 10 Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:59 am
how many dialects of your own language do you speak? 10 Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:30 am
Comparing Thai and Korean language 3 Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:42 am
Los Angeles 5 Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:58 am
How is my Spanish? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 34 Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:18 pm
I've found a pronoun longer than Spanish "vosotros" (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:27 pm
What distinguishes languages from dialects? (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:19 pm
Easy language to pronounce for German speakers (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Tue Jul 07, 2009 7:39 pm
Please Critique this Letter in Italian 7 Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:40 pm
The urgent Taiwan's news for translation, please! 2 Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:40 am
What is the most studied language in Europe after English? 7 Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:36 pm
Old Spanish (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:29 pm
Learning Farsi 5 Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:18 am
Quality, Quantity, or Both 5 Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:01 am
French pronunciaton 1 Fri Jul 03, 2009 6:40 pm
Mixed leísmo and non leísmo at the same time 13 Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:54 am
German in 3 countries (pages: 1 2 3 ) 37 Thu Jul 02, 2009 7:38 pm
Older Russian Music 2 Thu Jul 02, 2009 6:30 am
villages of France (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ) 113 Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:15 am
Swedish and Norwegian 11 Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:12 am
Los dialectos del castellano (pages: 1 2 ) 26 Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:09 pm
Català (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) 102 Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:08 pm
russian songs 12 Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:09 am
A propos de l'accent du Midi — @Greg 2 Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:19 am
Le mystérieux langage de Nostradamus 1 Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:38 pm
Be at peace in different languages (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Sun Jun 28, 2009 11:55 am
German language in Germany and Austria. (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 57 Fri Jun 26, 2009 6:44 pm
Barack Obama and Urdu Poets 14 Thu Jun 25, 2009 10:26 pm
Russian Question 1 Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:58 am
El español es la lengua Romance más antigua. 1 Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:35 pm
More than one -- How to divide the time? 0 Wed Jun 24, 2009 9:13 pm
Japanese in Republic of China 10 Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:01 am
Taiwan news for translation,please! 2 Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:46 am
Scripts/Writing 6 Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:20 am
What distinguishes creoles from non-creoles? 4 Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:46 pm
'I love you' in other languages (pages: 1 2 3 ) 37 Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:05 pm
Why can't grown-ups learn a language without an accent? 13 Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:26 pm
Russian Anthem 0 Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:50 pm
Greeting Kalaallisut 5 Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:45 pm
Language institutes are useless for promoting languages (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:53 am
Do you consider Occitania as fully part of France? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 30 Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:04 pm
Which Is Like Castellano...? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 33 Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:06 pm
Falando em Português (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 18 19 20 21 22 ) 319 Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:27 am
Frankish language in France (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) 123 Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:16 am
Shakespeare in India 1 Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:02 am
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and the Poetry of Afflatus 7 Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:47 am
Days of the Week 11 Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:52 pm
Suggestions on learning languages & how to keep persiste 14 Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:55 am
Parlons en Français (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 80 Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:06 pm
Latin in the movie of "Angels and Demons" 2 Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:22 pm
Imagine if Spain would join to Portugal (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 8 9 10 11 12 ) 173 Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:01 pm
E1Ler 12 Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:42 am
Computer voices in Chinese 1 Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:04 pm
intelligibility and reading ability 14 Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:37 am
three favourite languages (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 17 18 19 20 21 ) 309 Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:36 am
Finnish-Estonian intelligibility 10 Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:44 pm
A new cool English-German full text translator 1 Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:08 pm
French, it's rocket science?! (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:07 pm
Tom's Present to Us! 0 Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:35 am
Egyptian Hieroglyphs??? 12 Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:00 pm
Which Asian language sounds the best? (sound files linked) (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:44 am
Italian, correction 6 Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:49 pm
Which language for Arabic World? (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Thu Jun 04, 2009 2:50 am
Are there people who just can't do languages? (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:33 pm
Foreign names (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:52 am
Dues mostres d'occità parlat. (pages: 1 2 3 ) 30 Sun May 31, 2009 7:00 pm
Which is this language? 4 Sun May 31, 2009 4:27 pm
Favorite Aspects of Italian (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 16 17 18 19 20 ) 285 Sun May 31, 2009 8:25 am
Spanish, a special language. 4 Sat May 30, 2009 3:50 am
Need help: Intercultural Competence at work 3 Fri May 29, 2009 4:14 pm
Do Numbers Matter? 4 Thu May 28, 2009 10:52 pm
Methods for Relearning a Language 1 Thu May 28, 2009 9:15 am
french text 4 Wed May 27, 2009 12:05 am
Why German is not popular here? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) 125 Tue May 26, 2009 9:18 am
Dungan language 1 Tue May 26, 2009 2:28 am
Which is this language? 2 Mon May 25, 2009 12:29 pm
Do you hear languages as Color/Colour? (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Sun May 24, 2009 3:47 pm
Dutch people (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 58 Sun May 24, 2009 12:26 pm
What language is this sentence and what's it say? 2 Sat May 23, 2009 4:39 am
languages of crime 8 Fri May 22, 2009 8:48 pm
Why are Swedish "number 6 "and "sex" the 1 Fri May 22, 2009 7:06 am
Vulgar Latin speakers really spoke very bad Latin 0 Thu May 21, 2009 3:20 pm
Why are the Russian(Slavic) numbers 9 and 10 so similar? 7 Thu May 21, 2009 3:45 am
Danish in Greenland 7 Wed May 20, 2009 7:54 am
Satem language vs Centum language? 10 Tue May 19, 2009 5:19 pm
frases hechas (castellano) 3 Tue May 19, 2009 9:27 am
Is the Mandarin Chinese uniform everywhere? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ) 118 Tue May 19, 2009 3:46 am
AVE MARIA, español, italiano, francais, portugues, etc... (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Mon May 18, 2009 8:24 pm
I don't know German. What's he saying? 0 Mon May 18, 2009 5:59 pm
What languages are these (They are numbers)??? 1 Mon May 18, 2009 11:21 am
Serbia and Croatia (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Mon May 18, 2009 4:16 am
intelligence 1 Mon May 18, 2009 1:47 am
Davay pogovorim po-russki 7 Sun May 17, 2009 3:55 pm
Top ten languages 1 Sun May 17, 2009 3:12 pm
Avis, habits 0 Sat May 16, 2009 10:34 pm
Portuguese accents 3 Sat May 16, 2009 6:33 pm
like languages? don't vote for EU elections (pages: 1 2 3 ) 34 Sat May 16, 2009 1:10 am
Is It True? versions 2 Fri May 15, 2009 10:55 pm
Language as key of un nacionalism 0 Fri May 15, 2009 10:08 pm
You can tell a lot about a language from WIKIPEDIA (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Fri May 15, 2009 11:18 am
Which languages are important in the field of science and 7 Fri May 15, 2009 1:15 am
Accent belge et accent québécois 11 Thu May 14, 2009 8:31 pm
Native speakers' license 5 Thu May 14, 2009 4:21 pm
Is my French correct? 4 Wed May 13, 2009 5:16 pm
translation-HELP-French!!! 2 Wed May 13, 2009 5:12 pm
The Chinese people are descendants of Sumerians 11 Wed May 13, 2009 2:18 pm
Which Chinese dialect do you like most? & Which sounds b (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 54 Wed May 13, 2009 4:22 am
India's Got Foreign Talent Show To Kick Off 0 Wed May 13, 2009 3:20 am
language with most consonants, (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 48 Wed May 13, 2009 12:19 am
The Chinese pattern of thinking in English letters 8 Tue May 12, 2009 5:47 pm
The problem with flags representing languages... (pages: 1 2 3 ) 44 Tue May 12, 2009 2:39 pm
Drifting American girl seeking Hollywood dream in China 1 Tue May 12, 2009 10:46 am
French is big necessity in Africa (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Tue May 12, 2009 4:20 am
Do all romance languages derive from French? (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Tue May 12, 2009 1:10 am
Chinese Bridge Competition graced France 1 Mon May 11, 2009 3:07 pm
8th Chinese Bridge Contest Preliminary finished in Portugal 1 Mon May 11, 2009 3:05 pm
Switzerland successfully staged Chinese Bridge Competition 1 Mon May 11, 2009 3:03 pm
Learning Hindi Helps Foster Musical Skills 0 Mon May 11, 2009 6:38 am
Learning Chinese helps to foster musical qualities 3 Mon May 11, 2009 6:37 am
Hindi Poetry Translation Center For Spain 0 Mon May 11, 2009 6:35 am
Chinese Poetry Translation Studio set up in Spain 7 Mon May 11, 2009 6:34 am
Learning English/German via Skype 7 Sun May 10, 2009 7:45 pm
If I Visit Spain. (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) 121 Sun May 10, 2009 6:52 pm
¿Qué hace a un lenguaje ser grande? 11 Sun May 10, 2009 3:33 pm
brainless 6 Sun May 10, 2009 1:14 pm
The difficulty for learning Nordic languages in Taiwan (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Sun May 10, 2009 7:50 am
Obama is an Hispanic fanatic? (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Sun May 10, 2009 3:58 am
Which Spanish version is this? 1 Sat May 09, 2009 5:50 pm
7 Reasons strike foreigners in awe in beefing Chinese diffic 8 Sat May 09, 2009 4:47 pm
Battle of Teutoburg Forest (pages: 1 2 3 ) 33 Sat May 09, 2009 4:06 pm
What are the most graceful French expressions in English? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 35 Sat May 09, 2009 2:51 pm
Chinese learning craze sweeps the USA 4 Sat May 09, 2009 1:51 pm
Parliamo in Italiano 7 Sat May 09, 2009 11:09 am
Hindi Learning Craze To Sweep USA 0 Sat May 09, 2009 5:22 am
Fun in Chinese learning classes in Portugal 3 Sat May 09, 2009 5:20 am
Chinese going global and standarization 4 Sat May 09, 2009 5:18 am
Argentina undergoing Chinese learning craze 1 Sat May 09, 2009 5:16 am
7 Reasons strike foreigners in awe in beefing Chinese diffic 3 Fri May 08, 2009 4:34 pm
Reading Chinese characters contributes to myopia 13 Fri May 08, 2009 8:04 am
Alien languages 10 Thu May 07, 2009 3:09 pm
Korean or Japanese - which is easier? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 40 Thu May 07, 2009 2:49 pm
Korean student: Learning Chinese amid huge fun 1 Thu May 07, 2009 2:06 pm
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