Why is Spanish “cerveza” different from so many other European words for beer (beer, bier, birra, bière and others)?
This term in Spanish originally came from the medieval French word cervoise. For its part, the French term originally stemmed from the Gallo-Roman (that is, ancient…
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[Submitted by: ilyasafrika]I remember when I learned Cyrillic alphabet in my Russian class, READ ALL THE WORDS IN CYRILLIC.“What does it mean?”Yo, when you can read that, you call me and we’ll talk.
Hello, Japanese and Korean!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxjen2TR7k1r4behlo1_250.png)
Rikaichan (or Rikaikun for chrome users) is a popup Japanese-English dictionary tool
Just hover on top of a japanese word and ta-da! you get its translation and reading
I find it really useful!
Give it a try:
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Octopodes
[Picture: Background: 8-piece pie-style color split with alternating shades of blue. Foreground: Linguist Llama meme, a white llama facing forward, wearing a red scarf. Top text: “ Explain to a friend that they made the common mistake of affixing a second declension Latin plural to the Greek word (Latinized into the third declension) “Octopus” ” Bottom text: “ Watch their face as they reassess the value of our friendship ”]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv3lqir4Wu1qhh9hgo1_250.png)
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Like saying “make attention” instead of “pay attention” or “more big” instead of “bigger”…
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Mi inglés… Don’t go~](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv76leI7Bw1r4behlo1_r1_250.png)
Google Translate says Joseph is French…
It says Janina is Suajili.
“¡No estés chingando!” - Stop f*cking around!
“¡Vete a la chingada!” - Go f*ck yourself!
“No sé qué chingados hacer” - I don’t know what the f*ck to do.
“La fiesta se chingó” - The party was a [f*cking] failure.
“¡Hijo de la chingada!” - You [f*cking] bastard!
“¡Tu carro está bien chingón!” - Your car is [f*cking] awesome!
“Que chingados dijiste?” - What the f*ck did you say?
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I think everyone can relate to this…
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Yeah, Google is essentially the antichrist when it comes to anything beyond single-word translations. And even then it doesn’t always give good options, nor correct genders…
[submission from xn—lhutemoc-skbd]
Online suggestions:Italian ↔ English: WordReference German ↔ English: Beolingus and Leo French → English: L’InternauteWoxicon: Type a word in English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish or Italian, and it brings you the translation for every one of these languages. Zero context, though.
Reblog with suggestions! :)
I use Microsoft Translator for Spanish → English.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu932eIyvu1r4behlo1_1280.png)
