Proto Indo-European, the hypothetical language from which all IE languages evolved, had three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. Most modern descendents have retained 2 or 3 of these genders. English is fairly unusual because it has done away with...
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My friend Karen Chung is an American linguist and Associate Professor at the National Taiwan University in Taipei where she teaches English and linguistics. Her publications focus mainly on Chinese linguistics and teaching English to foreigners. Over the past few...
Portuguese goes Brazilian
From the International Herald Tribune, May 16 2008- http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/16/europe/EU-GEN-Portugal-Language.php All the Portuguese speaking countries (Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, East Timor, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and...
Join Quicksilver Translate at the Language Show in London
Online Business, Make Yours International - Colin Whiteley (President, Quicksilver Translations) gave a presentation at the 2007 Language Show in London offering advice for succeeding at integrating languages into online businesses to operate on a global level. How to...