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	Lithuanian words and expressions Hello : labas I don’t understand :As nesuprantu Do you speak English? : Ar jus kalbate angliskai? Thank You : Aciu I understand! : As suprantu
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	- In 1989, approximately 2 million residents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia held hands to form a line 600kms long, in a show of solidarity and a demonstration for independence for the Baltic states. [Video] - Lithuania was the first country in the world to begin making vodka from corn. - Lithuania is the only country in the world which has a national perfume, "The Scent of Lithuania".

	Is it a realistic goal for a Language Learner to speak like a native? Read More		Word of the Day 10-04-12 RESILE (verb): To return to a former position, recoil, retract.
	French Proverb: "à bon vin, point d'enseigne" (not need to explain a good wine; i.e.: what is good needs no recomendation) Read More		Word of the Day 09-04-12 DIPLOPIA (noun): Double vision, a condition that causes a person to see two of everything due to bad eye muscles
	Spanish Proverb: "A caballo regalado no se le miran los dientes" (don't look a gift horse in the mouth) Read More		Word of the Day 09-04-12 IMMENSE (adjective): Marked by greatness, usually in sheer size.
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	Thank the Irish: 18 everyday words we inherited from them While St Patrick’s Day may be the best-known Irish import into everyday American life, the Gaelic Irish language has actually had more of an impact that you’d think. Thanks to English’s constant desire to steal words from other languages and assimilate them into itself, there are quite a few common words that come from the emerald isle. For example, "whisky" (or "whiskey") comes from the Irish uisge beatha, meaning "the water of life". "Galore", meaning an abundance of, comes from gu leor, meaning "enough". The word "slogan" also comes from Irish: sluaghghairm, a combination of sluagh ("army") and ghairm ("shout"). For 15 more common words derived from the Irish language... Read More
	Social networking helping to preserve languages on brink of extinction When people say that sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube bring people closer together, it’s easy to think of it as a one-dimensional thing. However, these kinds of sites that help and encourage social engineering have a few other major benefits that you might not consider at first. For example, of the some 7,000 languages that are spoken around the world today, half of those are expected to be extinct by the year 2100. The cause of this sad fact is often cited to be globalization and the fact that common language is the only real way for otherwise disparate cultures to come together... Read More
	7th grader suspended from school for saying "I love you" in native tongue This story happened a few weeks ago, and was pretty upsetting. Happily this kind of thing is the exception rather than the rule. When a Wisconsin 7th grader, Miranda Washinawatok, decided to speak a few words of her native Menominee language to a classmate, her teacher decided to punish Miranda for her own ignorance. Miranda was later sent to the principal’s office and suspended from school for "attitude problems". The words she had said to her classmate? "Posoh", meaning "hello", and "ketapanen", meaning "I love you".... Read More
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