What are Spanish homophones? And how are they different from homographs and homonyms? Part of the confusion comes from the fact that they all start with homo, which in old Greek means “one and the same; similar; alike.” These three words name a group that shares similar features.
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In 2006 I began to share resources via my website in the hope of supporting other MFL teachers. Now times have moved on, and I do not want to delete the site, so I have made all my old resources available, via Google Drive. All resources are available for you to view and copy. Simply navigate to the folder, click through to the resource you would like and once you have found it, click File > Make a Copy.
By the end of this post, you will: Know the most common Spanish conversational connectors Learn the types of connectors and how to recognise them in conversations Eliminate awkward pauses and unnaturally short, robotic sentences Speak Spanish more naturally with what you already know Never be at a loss for words again! Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? But it really is that easy.
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What if I told you that the key to achieve your language learning goals resides in mastering the 18 Spanish tenses? I’m not exaggerating—if you master today’s post, you’ll master all Spanish conjugations and with that, most of your current mistakes when writing and speaking in the language will be gone.
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In this post, you’ll learn everything you need to know about Spanish direct and indirect object pronouns including what they are, how to use them when to use them, how to combine them, a rule you need to be careful with, and where Spanish natives get it backwards.
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In Spanish, one syllable is always emphasised, and this stressed syllable is known as the sílaba tónica. To talk about where the sílaba tónica is located, you count back from the final syllable of the word. Let's look at this more carefully.
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The Italian grammar, compared to other languages, has a medium difficulty, while the pronunciation is less complicated. Most vowels and consonants always have the same pronunciation.
In this article we will talk about logical connectives, also known as logical connectors. They are conjunctions that are useful to combine sentences and periods by articulating our thoughts in a more linear way. There are many of them, but we will talk about the 15 most used, the ones that everyone should know to speak Italian!
Without conjunctions, we would be talking like robots, putting together a sequence of detached sentences. You might not realize this, but conjunctions are a very important part of our language. They have the important job of coordinating and linking phrases.
Italian prepositions, just like prepositions in any other language, are tiny language blocks which are incredibly important to ensure you deliver the right meaning.
When speaking a new language, you’ll find that many things about it are different compared to the language you’re used to. Sounds, words, grammar, everything is…foreign? Well, yes, of course. But maybe you haven’t yet thought about whether or not the sentence structure and word order are different, too.
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Ok… In this lesson we decided to explain (and make you understand) what direct and indirect pronouns in Italian are and how they are used! Let’s start!
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The first thing to do when learning Italian is to learn how to pronounce Italian. And, you cannot learn how to pronounce Italian unless you know the Italian alphabet! What are the letters and sounds of the Italian alphabet?
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In 2006 I began to share resources via my website in the hope of supporting other MFL teachers. Now times have moved on, and I do not want to delete the site, so I have made all my old resources available, via Google Drive. All resources are available for you to view and copy. Simply navigate to the folder, click through to the resource you would like and once you have found it, click File > Make a Copy.
French pronunciation can be quite intimidating but I got you ! Once you get familiar with the pronunciation basics, it's not so complicated. In this video, I'm explaining everything you need to know about the french vowels
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How do you pronounce these letters with the two dots on top in German? Can you learn it if you didn't grow up with it? And what if you don't have these letters on your keyboard?
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Learn the German alphabet with examples and detailed pronunciation. That's what we are going to cover in this Video. This episode is for complete beginners or people who just started as we will go in details through each and every letter. For each letter there are phonetics to make the pronunciation even easier.
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Here we will be speaking only about the word stress since there is also the logical stress which accentuates certain word in a sentence. The word stress is a way of differentiating the certain syllable of the word from the others by various means. Generally there are four types of stress:
Russian pronunciation is easy once you know all the letters of the Russian alphabet. Then all you need to know is where the stress falls in a word and a few simple pronunciation rules. Let's jump right in!
Learning Russian is not easy, that's why we created the Russian Level 1 channel. It's full of study resources created for beginner students of the Russian language. All Russian words and phrases in our lessons are translated into English and transliterated into Latin characters. They are repeated two to three times in both slow and fast Russian so that you can clearly hear the correct pronunciation. You'll be able to learn Russian with Russian Level 1 even if you're a complete beginner!
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