Resources to help you write in Spanish, including how to type accents, writing challenges, and dictados (dictation exercises).
Rinne encouraged audience participation also, having a Spanish-speaking couple sing lullabies in Spanish at the appropriate junctures in specific poems, and passing out gifts of “ghost money,” her own handmade paper crafts; ghost money, as I discovered, is money offered for a good afterlife of...
One difference between French and English is that French uses accents on letters in many of its words, whereas English rarely uses accents. Another difference is that French uses liaisons, situations when a normally silent consonant at the ending of a word is pronounced to link with the vowel ...
Stress normally falls on the penultimate syllable if the word ends in a vowel, vowel +s, or –en; otherwise if falls on the final syllable. Grammar The grammar of Catalan has many similarities to the grammar of Spanish. Nouns, articles, adjectives, and pronouns ...
Shtokavian is spoken in Serbia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and the southern part of Austria. The primary subdivisions of Shtokavian are based on two principles: one is whether the subdialect is Old Shtokavian or Neo-Shtokavian, and different accents according to the way ...
French, German, and Spanish are alphabetic scripts that use the Roman alphabet but modify some letters through diacritics, such as accents, umlauts, tildes, and cedillas. A diacritical mark or a diacritic is added to a letter to alter the pronunciation of a word or to distinguish between ...
The Chinese language is known for its resistance to lexical borrowing. Transliterations can hardly be retained in this language that use pre-existing characters to simply transcribe the pronunciation of the source word in the donor language. This exclusi
A few nights after our second meeting, Mick introduced me to the “financiers.” A pair of doughy Liverpool ham-n-eggers whose enterprise had gone “BOOM!” with Monopoly money transformed into pound sterling. Their weighty business attire suited England not Argentina. The Scousers’ accents so...
In an open-ended background survey question, study participants were asked to list the English accents that were familiar to them. The aim was to describe the frequency with which the laypersons in our study sample had encountered different varieties of English in the TLU domain of the internat...
Thecantillationare accents that show how Biblical passages should be chanted and that sometimes function as punctuation. Letters are in black, points in red and cantillation in blue. Fonts The Hebrew letter ה (hei) in four fonts (from right to left): modern Hebrew block, modern Hebrew han...