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Have you ever gotten confused using a word which has so many different meanings depending on the context, especially if you didn’t know which meaning was applied to each context? Well, I have… I’m talking about the Homonyms: words which have the same spelling and pronunciation, but have different meanings.
Let’s talk about a Spanish homonym that paid my attention: MONO
According to the Spanish Dictionary RAE (Real Academia Española) mono means: Continue reading “Homonyms…” →
Today I would like to talk about a beautiful island, that stole my heart many years ago, with its beautiful people, culture and of course language:
Cuba, la isla bonita, as Madonna sings!
Cubans theoretically speak Spanish but they also have a proper slang, which from my point of view it can’t be considered as dialect, but just a different way to speak the native language!
Hi everybody!
I already mentioned that I pay attention to what people say when they speak or write a non-native language, right? So here is an article where I decided to list some of the classical mistakes people make while speaking or writing a foreign language, always among the ones I know!
First of all I wonder: ” Why people make mistakes?”
Let´s observe now the beauty of the Culture:
How many proverbs do you know?Do you know how they correspond in other languages?
Here I found these proverbs in italian and their equivalent ones in spanish, english, portuguese and norwegian:
Another passion I have is MUSIC and I have been searching for songs which contain different languages. The first song that came to my mind was
“Baila (Sexy thing)” by Zucchero
He is an italian international singer and not just one of the most popular in Italy, but also in Spain and Latin America as in the rest of the world. He likes to mix languages in his songs: I think it can be considered his own way of being international. (He has been singing here in Norway too and I even had the honor to have dinner with him after the concert, what an unforgettable experience!).
Why do we smile every time a foreigner tries to speak our native language?
We smile because his/her pronunciation sounds funny to us, or am I wrong?
But today I propose to you a few italian tongue-twisters read by some foreigners who live in Oslo, because I would like you to listen to their different accents and underline the beauty of each. That means I laugh because every accent sounds incredible to me and I don´t laugh at them, to be clear ;D!
The word pangram comes from the Greek language (pan gramma) and means “every letter”; so a pangram is known as a short sentence which contains every letter of a given alphabet.
I decided to search for five pangrams according to the five languages I know, just because I was curious on the kind of sentence that could be constructed using every letter of a specific alphabet:
