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Written by Gadiandi
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Sunday, 13 August 2006 |
"Search engine giant Google, known for its mantra "don't be evil", has fired off a series of legal letters to media organisations, warning them against using its name as a verb." You can also look up what "to Google" means in other languages on Wikipedia. So start googleando!
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Written by Gadiandi
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Saturday, 12 August 2006 |
"Germans can be grumpy, unpleasant people—and it's not because of post-Nazi guilt or a diet filled with bratwurst, says one American researcher. It's because of their vowels. Hope College psychology professor David Myers says saying a vowel with an umlaut forces a speaker to turn down his mouth in a frown, and may induce the sadness associated with the facial expression. Myers added that the English sounds of "e" and "ah" naturally create smile-like expressions and may induce happiness. Clearly the solution for the Germans, much like the solution for every other people in the world, is to become more like Americans. The German Embassy would not comment on the findings, saying they were 'too scientific.'"
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Written by Gadiandi
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Saturday, 12 August 2006 |
I recently discovered a new website with excellent language learning tools. It's called Yabla and it basically gives you foreign language videos with the exact text of what they are saying right below the video. It also has the translation right below the video and you can click, at any time, on a word that you don't know and get a definition of that word! How cool is that?! You can also slow the video down and hide the text if you want.
Unfortunately, it has a monthly fee to use it but they constantly add more videos. You can at least try out the sample videos. Here's the one for Spanish: LoMasTv. |
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