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Interesting Facts In Easy English: "Serendipity" Is Difficult To Translate
Discussion Question: What word in your language is difficult to trasnslate into English, and why?
What first came to my mind when thinking about this question was the Portuguese word "saudade". Without a shadow of doubt that word is the hardest word to translate into English. It is always mentioned when touching topics related to difficult words to translate into another language, mainly English.
You know, "saudade" is
AMERICAN TRY TO PLACE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ON A MAP...
And this is what happened (the following pictures are really hilarious, but in their defense, I'll say that some are really creative! haha)
You can see more of these funny examples and the whole article here:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/americans-try-to-place-european-countries-on-a-map
And check out this game if you think you can do it better ;)
There comes a point when you have to stop beating yourself up over mistakes that you made.
Which relates to my previous post ; I'm not trying to tell you to stop regretting because i know this is almost impossible, However regret it once and that's it, don't let regret win over the urge inside you to be better. We all have those mistakes that nobody knows about , Mistakes that if known we'd die out of shame .. But that's the point isn't it? I mean nothing can go perfectly perfect. Stop worrying t
I like to introduce to you a famous Malay fable which is called "Batu Belah Batu Bertangkup'. It can't be literary translated into English, but I would called it as "The Magic Cave".
Once upon a time, in a country far far away, there was a magic cave next to the forest. Even though it's a magical cave, the people was afraid of it. This was because the cave will open up when ever anyone whisper to it. However, if anyone entered the cave, that person will never be seen again.
According to the fable,
- In and im - means not. Impossible and innocent
I was dejected for what has happened this morning. I didn’t mean to hurt her. It was just an addressing out of love, but she got angry. I was shocked to see her anger, I just called her “nigger”, it was an innocent remark all out of love, and nothing else, because I was always attracted towards her ebony, shining features beside her innocence. That was impossible for her to get that much angry. I saw her this morning, she was a bit far away, I call
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Between peace and war there's a wall that stuck on the middle called politics .. To me .. It's just a bunch of well-spoken sentences that motivate people to across the humanity limits ..
Tell me about a war that has been politically solved ..If you could .. Then I would spend the whole day telling you about several ones that politics had been as reason as gasoline for sparking its flames ..
As an arabian young male being marked mediately as a threat ..It doesn't not bother me at all .. Otherwis
Very Very nice tip I have read on MYEC this week. A member talking about to learn with mistakes. I mean, to commit mistakes is part of the acknowledge. The most important is try, try and try.
He gave the example of a swimmer in his first time on a swimming pool. Inicially you feel so afraid, but if you not try you will never learn. Don't sit on the swimming pool border e keep watching. You have to try even you commit mistakes.
That's what I'm doing. Practising more and more
Yesterday I was as busy as a bee, occupied throughout the day in my office. I came back completely exhausted and wimpy. The drag TV programs could not keep me awake for long and I didn’t know when I was zonk out.
I was floating high as a kite in my dream, feeling myself as light as a feather, then all of a sudden I felt a sudden change in my surrounding, the room was filled with the similar fragrance. “How are you?” My heart started beating with pleasure, hearing her melodious voice; she was
Dear Captain,
I heard a saying "The dead, who don't bury them in others' hearts, are the real dead." I don't understand this saying... Do you have any views on it?
I guess it may mean we should do good to people, so that when we leave, they can still think of our goodness as if we were still around them. I'm not sure if my understanding is spot on.
I am very well now, don't worry. I've collected a set of ships that were painted in different eras for your birthday. Some of them are from the grandpas
Have you ever had a phobia? How you dealt with it? What kind of the phobia it was?
I think that phobia is something that is not easy to talk about. It's really very shame to say somebody that you are afraid of something. And may be it makes it even worst.
Some phobias are very dangerous, cause you may live in your fears day and night. If it happens to be for a long period of time it really destroys your brain and in that case you would need the help of a psychologist or even a psychiatrist. I thi
Hello everyone ,
i am writing my first blog and glad to find englishClub . basically i am from india and
i have done my graduation in 2008 . right now i am working but lack of prcaties and speaking my English is poor . but i want to improve my english .
in india , winter season has been started . now little bit cold are doing here but mid of winter season , very cold temperature here . every person
I was the first time to join this big family, my English is not good, the in the mind very trouble.I have also made up my mind to learn English well, but always feel i don't have talent.By chance see English Club, I feel very interested in, can put aside worries here, enjoy the fun of English.Hope you can help me improve my English.Thank you very much.
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Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.
The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation..
Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the wi
Interesting Facts in Easy English: The Verb "Run" Has The Most Definitions
Discussion Questions: As a learner of English, how does it make you feel to know that there are over 600 ways to use a single English word? What does this say about the English language?
Considering that for me studying a second language it's simply a pleasure, don't worry me about how many hundreds of meanings a single word can convey. What really moves me is the wish to learn little by little the nuances of the lan
It's a long mid-day of hot and furious summer. Tintin has nothing to sum up. Everybody seems has gone away to take some rest or may fall in nap for a while. So, there is silence every where. Such a day makes her upset and jovial altogether, and she let her mind to go, to blow away.
Now she is sitting beside her bedroom's window;watching a yellow colored unknown tiny bird which is flitting from one leaf to another. And obviously she is talking with herself, yes, monologue is one of he
I'm feeling to sad
