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Learning Thai
Learning Thai is like Learning to Sing
The language is very beautiful to listen to. There are many differences in the way English and Thai are spoken. Thai is a tonal language. That means a word that is spelled the same can have different meanings because of the tone or sound. The Thai language has five tones. Another difference is that Thai’s speak “house my” where English speaks “my house.” One more difference for Thai language students to note is that Thai does not have “a” or “the” and is spoken quite simply. Instead of “lets go to the store” Thai’s would simply speak “go store.” Thai language students are better off learning simple words first like who, what, where, when and why. You can do a lot of communicating with those one-word questions. Also if you learn simple sentence words like to, go, from, this, and come first, you will understand what the phrases mean because you will know the individual words. Another difference in Thai is that when the subject is understood it is not spoken.
Learn Thai at the World Word Exchange. Sign up and get two trial lessons free. Low cost effective language learning.
Learning Foreign Language
Learning Foreign Language
Questions are being asked everyday. Where can I learn. What software or website teaches best?
The World Word Exchange offers a unique game that speeds up remembering words. It is a great add on to any language method you currently use because of it low cost but very effective word game. Learn Mandarin Chinese, Spanish or Thai.
Learn that Word
Learn that Word
There is a big difference between learning a word and remembering a word. You can know the meaning of a word but not be able to remember how to say it. Everyone has done this. You can also know how to use a word but not what the definition of it is.
There are many levels of word learning. When most people think of learning a word they mean remembering how to say the word.
If you are looking for a place where you can choose the words you want to learn visit the World Word Exchange and try the user lessons page. Learn Mandarin Chinese, Spanish or Thai.
Learn Mandarin Chinese through a Chinese fairy tale – Movie 白蛇传说 (Legend of White Snake)
白蛇传说 bái shé chuánshuō (Legend of White Snake) is a Chinese folk legend that is hundreds of years old. You may have already seen it short cartoon or a black and white film, in Chinese or other languages. Now you can see it as an amazing movie casted by 李连杰 Lǐ Liánjié (Jet Li) and 黄圣依 huáng shèng yī.
This video has both Chinese and English captions. The content of the conversations are easy to understand as it’s quite a simple story so you may find this good for practicing your mandarin listening. The name of the movie is translated as “It’s Love”, it’s a love story, but this certainly doesn’t have your usual “lived happily ever after” ending.
So, enjoy the Legend of White Snake…
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Language Learning
Language Learning
Where do I begin? The question is which language learning method is the best? To answer this you must evaluate each program on how they teach. What is the method used to teach? What is the cost of course but more important how effective is the language software?
Words like who, what, where, when and why are all very helpful one word questions. I need a language method that can help me learn the basics like to, go, from, if. Then the phrases will make sense because I will know the individual words.
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Grammar Words
Grammar Words
It is difficult to learn proper grammar for most languages. It is not that important. If you speak “my house” or “house my” because you will be understood.
To learn how to use grammar you need simple grammar explanations along with grammar used in sentences for examples. Of all the grammar words: is, are, be, was, and were are some of the more difficult to use properly. It can take many years of practice. Again if you use the wrong words you will still be understood.
The importance of grammar when you are communicating with someone of a different language will be discarded. When you understand that dropping many words so you just use the important words will be of great help.
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First Language Acquisition
First Language Acquisition
First time you attempt to learn a foreign language is an exciting challenge. In the old days you had to go to a language school. Or if you had big money you could hire a private teacher. Now those days are over. Language learning online is here to stay.
There are many ways to start. There are many sites that teach language learning and just as many languages to learn.
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Chinese Language Learning
Chinese Language Learning
To learn Mandarin Chinese you first have to understand that Chinese is a tonal language. There are 5 tones. This means that the same word can be spoken but have a different meaning according to the tone. The five tones are: The pitch going up like asking a question. The tone goes down then up. The pitch goes down. The tone is light and soft-spoken with no emphasis. And normal tone no change. The Chinese call this tone system the “Hanyupinyin” and use the numbers 1 to 4 to mark the tones. No mark means no change or normal tone.
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Spanish Word for World
Spanish Word for World
The Spanish word for world is Mundo. You can learn Spanish at the World Word Exchange from a native speaker.
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What language do they speak in Thailand?
What language do they speak in Thailand?
They speak Thai. Thai is a tonal language. Thai is a very beautiful language to listen to. It sounds like singing. You can learn Thai from a native Thai speaker at the World Word Exchange an online language school.
Learn Mandarin Chinese, Spanish or Thai from a native speaker at the World Word Exchange. Sign up and get 2 free trial lessons. Low cost language learning online.
World Word Games
World Word Games
These are a great way to learn a new language. They are excellent teachers because learning a word and remembering a word are two different things. You can remember what a word means but not how to say it. You do this in your own language with words that are not repeated enough for you to use them. Repetition is what sparks remembering.
Word games that teach through multiple-choice are a great learning tool. You eliminate from what you know which is reinforcing what you know, and you guess from what you don’t know at all times reinforcing and pushing your memory.
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Virtual Teacher
Virtual Teacher
The world Word Exchange has a virtual teacher that will tutor you at anytime. Click to hear a native speaker say the words. You see foreign words spelled out phonetically in English and also see the native writing. After you study the words you play a multiple-choice word game that will greatly speed up word memory. While you play a virtual teacher tracks your progress and pop quizzes you on the words you get wrong.
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The Word Bank
The Word Bank
It would be so handy if you could go to a word bank and get only the foreign words you are interested in learning wouldn’t it? The World Word Exchange offers you just that. Its an online language school with a unique way of teaching. You can make your own twenty word lessons from their word bank. The words are loaded into a multiple-choice game that really speeds up word memory.
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Take a close look. What do you see?
What do you see?
Research has shown that young children cannot identify the intimate couple because they do not have prior memory associated with such a scenario.
Children see nine dolphins.
Is it sexy or is it wildlife? Learning another language leads to many more opportunities… in the sea!
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Do you have a computer, Photoshop, browser or web problem? Is there something you want to do, but don’t know how? We are experts in many areas including computers, Windows, and most browsers. We can help you with Software for music, Video, Html. We use many Adobe programs. Give us a try! You can’t beat the price.
We want to help you, all we ask in return is for you to help us promote our language learning site by passing cute wall posts through email, facebook and twitter. We are a small start-up company using creative means to reach a greater audience. Thank you. When we help each other we all win!
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Babel
The Tower of Babel
According to the Book of Genesis the Tower of Babel was an enormous tower built on the plain of Shinar. The event took place about 130 years after the great flood, when all still spoke the same language. The story is short so here it all is -
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Word Games
Word games are a great way to learn a new language.
They are excellent teachers because learning a word and remembering a word are two different things. You can remember what a word means but not how to say it. You do this in your own language with words that are not repeated enough for you to use them. Repetition is what sparks remembering.
Word games that teach through multiple-choice are a great learning tool. You eliminate from what you know which is reinforcing what you know, and you guess from what you don’t know at all times reinforcing and pushing your memory.
Learning to spell foreign words in phonetic or native spelling is also a great way to help remember words.
After words are learned word games are a vital way to review what you learned because like the words in your own language if you don’t use them you lose them.
Try the word game at World Word Exchange. It’s designed to make learning and remembering a new language as easy as possible.
Love of Chocolate Predicts your Age? Take our survey!
The Chocolate Age Calculator
This is pretty cool so please don’t cheat by scrolling down first! It wont take long and it’s fun (especially for chocoholics). Work it out as you go along. Use a calculator if you want!
But first this is a language learning site so a little history on where the word “chocolate” came from. It first entered the English language from the Spanish. How the word came into Spanish is less certain. Perhaps the most common explanation is that “chocolate” comes from the Aztec word chocolātl, chococ meaning ‘sour’ or ‘bitter’, and ātl ‘water’ or ‘drink’. However, as the word “chocolatl” does not occur in central Mexican colonial sources this is unlikely.The sources do have cacahuatl (“cacao water”) was the original Aztec word for the cold beverage consumed by the Aztecs. Using a word with caca in it to describe a thick, brown beverage would not have gone over well with most speakers of Spanish due to the fact that caca means faeces in Spanish, so the Spanish colonisers perhaps combined the Aztec atl with the Maya chocol, for unlike the Aztec, the Maya tended to drink chocolate heated. The Spanish preferred the warm Mayan preparation of the beverage to the cold Aztec one, and so the colonisers perhaps substituted chocol in place of caca.
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I can see it turn both ways, can you? Take our survey! Leave a comment! This is cool!
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Does Getting Drunk help You Learn a New Language?
Not wanting to promote the use of alcohol but this is an interesting result from a study by the University of Illinois. They found that people, or men in any case, not sure why they didn’t include women, were better and faster at word association tests when slightly inebriated.
It also improved creative problem solving. Jennifer Wiley, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and her colleagues asked students with different levels of mathematical skills to work together to come up with a formula. “A lot of things happened. The low-skilled students learned more, they asked more questions,” she says. “And they made the high-skilled students think more deeply. So, the group did end up inventing their own formula.”
I guess we all have our own opinions and experiences with this. Feel free to post yours. For myself I’m wondering why it took ten thousand years for scientists to figure this out. Oh, and they were testing with the equivalent to a couple of drinks, not blind drunk.
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How to Introduce Yourself in Thai
Here’s a good basic lesson on how to say hello and introduce yourself in Thai. Don’t forget, if you want to learn more Thai try our new site here.
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Memory and Language Learning
I think this video is basically correct and explains this well. I have noticed myself that I might have no understanding of something when I first encounter it but a few months later, even without trying, the mind has processed the information and understood it, so when I return to the same thing I suddenly have an understanding of it. So even if you think you aren’t taking anything in it is in fact all going in and will be slowly processed. Interesting the way the brain works. The game on the World Word Exchange is quite simple but has been designed to make your brain remember the words, pretty much as this video explains. What’s your opinion and experience of this?
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The Language Tree
This is a great illustration of the history of Indo-Eupropean Languages. I have no doubt that the history of humanity follows a very similar path. I would be interested to know the dating of the various breakaway branches and also see some details of the rest of the tree. Its interesting that this is such a small part of the tree. I would guess the bulk of it is African languages. If anyone can add some more info please do.