Sunday, September 14th, 2008

POLYGLOTS, DO YOU KNOW ANY?

Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti (1774-1849) was an Italian Cardinal who spoke more than 38 languages fluently. He never left Italy and yet managed to learn how to speak languages without accent. People from all over the world came to challenge him in their native tongue. They all reported their amazement at this man’s fluency.
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Monday, August 11th, 2008

LINGRO

 
I wanted to share this great programme with you all today. lingro is an on-line environment for people learning languages. lingro’s dictionaries remember all your translations and help you learn the vocabulary most important to you easier and faster. Isn’t this great?

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics

prestige (English → Spanish) 
prestigio
importance (English → Spanish) 
importancia

symbol (English → Spanish) 
símbolo
participants (English → Spanish) 
participantes, concurrrentes

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