In a seminar class, there may be no exams, but students are expected to read rather widely on topics and be prepared for thorough discussion of them in class. Another possibility in graduate classes is that in addition to readings done by all students, each student may also be expected to ...
Arabicis the language of Islam. Most of the Muslims are not native Arabic speakers but the language has special meaning and importance to their religion. Being the world’s second largest religion, Islam says that God through the angel Gabriel spoke in Arabic literally while he dictated the Qur...
A word is basically an association of linguistic sound and meaning. The spelling does not always easily correlate with the sound of a word. A dictionary helps us both with the spelling and pronunciation of such words. Electronic dictionaries are very popular nowadays and many users can be ...
French, English, and Spanish share the same Latin root and often you can understand the meaning of a sentence just by looking at the familiar words. But this is also a confusion when translation is not one to one. The student ends up learning things wrong all the while the app rewards t...
I might be disclosing my Tibeto-centric biases in saying so, but I think the Tibetan evidence* carries more weight of meaning than all the rest, although I leave it up to you where exactly to weight the meaning, as I always do. It’s hardly ever my aim to rule my readers here in ...
I might be disclosing my Tibeto-centric biases in saying so, but I think the Tibetan evidence* carries more weight of meaning than all the rest, although I leave it up to you where exactly to weight the meaning, as I always do. It’s hardly ever my aim to rule my readers here in ...
I might be disclosing my Tibeto-centric biases in saying so, but I think the Tibetan evidence* carries more weight of meaning than all the rest, although I leave it up to you where exactly to weight the meaning, as I always do. It’s hardly ever my aim to rule my readers here in ...