020312: Creo que...
Esta mañana de Domingo hace muy sol. Estos días esta bien porque hace frio a fuera.Quiero aprender mas español pero a veces yo no se como. Me gusta cuando yo escucho a mis amigos cantan en español. Creo que eso es un buena manera de aprendiendo español. Que cree? Que es unas pocas cantas de español que yo puedo aprender? Quizás cuando aprendo una puedo cantar para usted?
わたしのあさ
一
６じに まい日で おきます。
ほんとに だいきらい です。
はやすぎますから。
もっと あたたかい かけぶとんの した で いきたいです。
でも むりですよ。
しごとを しますを もっていますから。
たぶん、やすみで もっと ねればます。
つづけ
Ps. The picture is not mine, but I thought it was a pretty photo of sunrise at a beach near me :)
Trying to write sth. here
I think it may be interesting to post sth. in English and improve my English writing skills out here.
The Mixxer provides me with a great place to improve my speaking. And of course it's a great place to meet people from around the world. :) Thank you for the Mixxer.
I'm curious about how you guys find the Mixxer. For me, one morning a few months ago I felt very bored (at that time I was waiting for the result of my job interview.) While the waiting, I played my friend's iphone and typed the phrase, language exchange, on Google search page..... and here you go.. the Mixxer came the first on the webpage. Maybe it's kind of "accident", but it provides me with a lot of fun later. ^___^
These days I read some great articles from New York Times and get some listening practices from ABC news. Haha... I'm trying hard to teach myself. I wish I'll be more confident about the second language and get some fun out there!
Native Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese speaker, looking for English/German/Japanese/Spanish speakers:)
Hi, I'm from Taiwan and I've learned English and German for a while yet not very good with them, and I hope via practicing with someone who is obviously more familiar with these languages than I do can I improve my skills step by step.
I also wanna learn Japanese and Spanish, but I'm really really a beginner:P
so, If you are interested, we can practice together=)
Native English and German speaker wanting to learn Dutch and Sign language
Hey people. I'm from Austria, with a scottish dad and an austrian mum. I've grown up in the U.A.E. and speak English and German. I'm looking for someone to learn Dutch from, because it's a lovely language and I like the country (been there twice). I also want to learn sign language because it interests me and it's completely visual, not auditory (though I understand that there might not be very many people on this site teaching this language) :)
hope to learn alot!
xox R.
When to use теперь or сейчас (now)
Hello I am a basic level learner of Russian. Can anyone out there please explain when to use теперь and when to use сейчас?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Learn Spanish, Galician and Catalan langages with me, and teach me English...
Hello,
Like you know, if you want to learn Spanish, Galician or Catalan, and your native langage is English, please, send me a message we´ll learn together in a funy way...
I Wait your message...
Bye...
你好！我想学中文 ：）
大家好！我是美国人。我说英文和一点儿中文。我很喜欢学中文，可是我的中文不太好。 我想说，看，写中文非常好。 我也可以帮你练习英文。 我们可以练习跟电邮还是Skype。
Hello everyone! I'm from The United States. My native language is English and I speak a little Mandarin Chinese. I enjoy learning Chinese, but my Chinese is not too great. I want to speak, read and write Chinese very well. I can also help you study English. We can help each other learn with Skype or E-mail.
Setsubun bean throwing event In my neighborhood
February 3 was this year's Setsubun beans or nuts scatterings across the country Japan. The Japanese term Setsubun or 節分 literally means either the close of winter or the day before each season begins. Yet, the former definition is much more common in general.
Until the day reached, there had been a number of events for Setsubun at schools, community's shrines, and so on, for local kids. As a mother I took part in one of them with my kids, one of whom is a first grader in elementary school. The event was held by local seniors at a nearby shrine. As we and other students were invited to the party, thanks to those seniors, I'd like to write what we were given in my diary.
Before I tell what we did yesterday, I'll introduce to you a bit of the Japanese tradition. Setsubun is an event where we scatter roasted soybeans or peanuts with hulls, depending on where we live. Although the former case seems more popular to throw nationwide, we take a lot of peanuts hulls. Then, we pick up and bring them home. The reason for it is because historically we used to think that devils would appear at the turn of the season and exorcized the evils. Today, we learn and foster the folk tales, though we hardly believe that the imaginary character has been survived.
So, my kids and I went to visit the shrine with a community hall. The seniors had prepared peanuts with hulls and bagged snacks to be thrown. Because of the shrine, at first all the people prayed at the altar as clapping hands and placing them still.
German or Swiss German gesucht!
Guten Tag, Ich kann ziemlich gut Deutsch schreiben. (Woerterbuch im Hand!) Aber wenn I sprechen wollen, Scweizerdeutsch ist alles was darraus kommt! Als Ich in der Schweiz gewohnt, niemandem hat mit mich Deutsch zu sprechen gewuenscht. Ich habe viele Grammatik gelernt, aber kann es nicht sprechen. Ich brauche Uebungen. Danke!
Und was Ich han welle sage!....
Good Day, I can write German pretty well. (with a dictionary in hand!) But when I want to speak German, all that comes out is Swiss German! When I lived in Switzerland, no one wanted to speak High German with me. I learned alot of grammar, but I can't speak it. I need practice! Thank you!
Karen
If you want to learn spanish!
Hello!
I'm Duvan.. I'm a native spanish speaker and I also study english! I want to learn and improve my english level, I also want to learn French!... I can teach you spanish and you can teach me your language! :)
My skype account is: duvanvargas
Goodbye!
New Year Resolution
Now it's Feburary already. Maybe it's kind of late to post this year's resolution.
Here are my top 3 in my mind:
1. Be healthy: try to learn more about how to prepare healthy dishes and keep fit by practicing vinyansa yoga and hiking.
2. Read more books to nurish my mind. :)
3. Improving my driving skills!!! (I have no any problem with driving in the States, but here in Taiwan I have big trouble :( )
Wish everyone here has happy 2012 :)
The introduction (some Advices + explaining the plan of learning) ;)
Hello everyone !
I hope you were doing great on the last lessons in Arabic.Well,I will do on this lesson, or you can see your first lesson which you will learn seriously Arabic language after the long explaining about the phonetic system, please everyone don't use the system to memories the words, I will use it just to know the pronunciation, if you want to test yourself on the pronunciation, you can contact me or another native speaker, with pleasure to help you more to get the good pronunciation.
At first,I will explain the plan that we will use the learn Arabic, I will do five parts:1-Conversation 2-Vocabulary 3-Grammar 4-Reading 5-writing
1-Conversation: I will write down in every lessons, the famous conversation in (Standard Arabic).
2-Vocalulary : It will relate to the conversation, I will just notice the words and their meaning.
Would anybody like to help me practice Japanese through Skype?
My Skype username is the same as it is here: video_game_king.
你好！
我的中文名字是柯橡。我今年20岁。我是美国人。
去年我在大学学习中文。 现在我没有棵但是我想要练习中文。 我想要能说普通话。
你们也要练习吗？ 我们去Skype， 好吗？
【屋, house, ya】---- place for staying for sleep
We have a Chinese character which looks like 屋 in Japan, meaning house in general. 屋根 (Yane, roof), 屋上 (Okujou, house top), 屋外 (Okugai, outside house) are just a few of the examples. How does each part mean in terms of origin? I'll show you how it's composed.
As I posted the image for the Kanji, there are two parts to divide into --- the outside and the inside. You should stroke the upper part at first. This component, called "Shikabane" in the language, came from a lying person. Shikabane, or written as 死かばね, literally means a human body after death, because 死 symbolizes to die. In other words, Shikabane has the two meanings.
Then, the inside part 至 represents a bird flying down onto the ground. Eventually, this implies that "something comes here."
Therefore, today's Kanji was invented because a house was a place for people to visit and stay in for a long time.
In addition, another character 室, used such as in 教室 (kyoushitsu, classroom), takes the 至 part as well. The initial image for Itaru or 至 was also from the bird flying down. Not to mention, 室 is related to a room.
Previously, I had explained about 室. Here is the link, posted last September.
http://www.language-exchanges.org/ja/content/%E5%AE%B6%E3%80%81%E5%AE%A4-house-and-room-pigs-house-and-bird
I hope you learn our Kanji characters in connection to one after another. It's interesting. To be honest, I'm learning them again, this time with my child!
020212: Hoy
Yo trabajo mucho hoy. Pero no estoy cansada. Esta semana se va rápido, no? Mañana es Viernes y entonces el fin de semana~! Espero mañana hace sol a fuero. No me gusta cuando es frio. Bueno, tengo que dormir.Tenga un buen noches~!
020212 : Puedo hacer lo?
Hoy escribo mi primero blog entry. He estado aprender mas español estos días. Espero aprender mucho mas español. Por favor ?amigos pueden ayudar me? Muchas gracias. Quiero escribir algo cada día. !Espero que puedo hacer lo!
