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Mind your language

yugocean @yugocean (9963) • India 27 Jan 18

Nope, this is not about UK comic genre TV series MYL, this is all about Your Language. There are more than 7000 languages recognised today, but just 20 languages account for more than half the world's population. Mandarin is the...

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Need help from (English) Linguistics student on word formation of slang

luciferinchaos @luciferinchaos (50) • Indonesia 13 Dec 10

I'm working on a research paper on the formation of slang words (morphology and semantic). I need some help form any linguistics students who have sufficient knowledge of slang, morphology and semantic. Or just from any native...

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Language

sheanne @sheanne (440) • Philippines 9 Apr 10

Do you like to learn new language? If you already a linguistic, how many you can speak of and what are those?

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How do YOU interrupt talkative people without being harsh?

diamania @diamania (7011) • Netherlands 22 Jan 10

I have a female friend who can be very talkative and most of our conversations on the telephone end up being one sided; always about her never about me. What can I do to make it less one sided?

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Linguistic Mylot

Capndon @Capndon (337) • India 14 Jun 08

Do you think it would be worthwhile to have Mylot in various Indian languages? Also Mylot in other foreign languages?

foreign languages

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I was wondering...

xParanoiax @xParanoiax (6987) • United States 26 Nov 07

Does anyone happen to know some good websites which teach different languages? With playable audio to teach me how to properly pronounce it, preferrably? To make this a real discussion, I'll explain why and ask another...

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Do you speak Japanese?

jessie_marcelo @jessie_marcelo (146) • Philippines 10 Dec 06

I want to learn to speak and write in Japanese. I am interested to learn that language. Please give me the mostly commonly used Japanese sentences/phrases: Like on how to introduce oneself and the ones usually spoken when meeting...

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