is the language you first learned as a child.First language is another way of saying mother tongue or native language.In contrast to your first language,your second language or L2 for short,is not the language you first learned when you were a child,but the language you le...
Singapore Australia the United States the United Kingdom China China Singapore the United States the United Kingdom Australia 3a Chinese Chinese and English English 1 We are Chinese. We are from ___.We speak ___. 2 He is ___. He is from America and he speaks___. 3 ___are from Ja...
In Southeast Asia, nodding your head is a polite way of saying“I've heard you”. In ancient Rome, when the emperor wanted to spare someone's life, he would put his thumb up. Today in the United States, when someone puts his / her thumb up, it means“Everything is all right”. ...
aBut in fact, as we shall see, inscrutability is often just another way of saying that the unstated, culturally defined expectations which Chinese and Westerners bring to theri face-to-face interactions do not coincide. 但实际上,因为我们将看见,不能预测经常是正义的另一个方式说汉语和西方人给他...
“How are you?” is a nice question. It’s a friendly way that people in the United States greet each other. But “How are you?” is also a very unusual question. It’sa question that often doesn’t have an answer. The person who asks “How are you?” hopes to hear the answer...
In the United States nodding your head up and down means “yes” while in some pats of Greece and Turkey it means “no”. In the southeast of Asia it is a polite way of saying “I heard you”. Today in the USA when someone puts his thumb up it means “Everything is all right...
Examples of countries without any official language are Australia, Costa Rica, and the United States. Linguist Tony Thornelookedat the US election campaign through alanguagelens COP29took place this month, so here’s a lookhow every word countswhen it comes to translating climate change ...
The Thing from Another World: Directed by Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks. With Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer. Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arcti
Time-resolved EPR investigation of very short-lived triplet states of azaaromatics On the outside, people's right and left sides look pretty much the same. On the inside, though, such superficial symmetry gives way to an imbalanced array ... N Hirota,S Yamauchi,M Terazima - 《Reviews of...
Examines why three former top United States (U.S.) defense officials dislike U.S. President Bill Clinton's national missile defense (NMD) proposal. Analysis on the threat of a ballistic missile attack on the U.S.; Three problems that have hampered the NMD program over the past decade; Fi...