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Plain English Campaign

How many of you have read English documents that are hard to read or understand?

The website below contains useful information about writing English, that can be easily read and understood:

How to write in Plain English:

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/how-to-write-in-plain-english.html

Free guides

Find FREE guides at the link below:

- General writing guides.

- Lists of alternative words.

- Glossaries.

- Special subjects

- Grammar guides

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/free-guides.html

Hope it is useful.

Regards

Dave

November 12, 2017

John Oliver describes Countries & American States - No Offence intended (It's called humour!)

Thought some of you would find these YouTube videos amusing - No offence intended.

How John Oliver describes countries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiG6_1LS_AI

Part 2 John Oliver Describes Countries (compilation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujv5BhNfO2A

Watch How John Oliver Describes American States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EeUHGBK65s

John Oliver takes on Companies & Brands - Hilarious Compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BcbmuoazrI

Well I found some of them quite amusing :-)

Enjoy!

November 23, 2016

Another Useful Language Resource - www.50languages.com

Salut, Hello, Cześć, Hallo, 你好，

Another useful FREE language resource I have found:

https://www.50languages.com/

http://www.goethe-verlag.com/

Learn a new language with Audio and text. Looks interesting

Regards

Dave

November 21, 2016

Useful FREE Language Resource - Pronunciation and Useful Phrases (Most Languages)

I was brushing up on my limited German, by taking a course on Udemy.
I know a few words and phrases as I lived in Hameln for three years, but I never learnt the language. My son was actually born in the Hildesheim krankenhaus (hospital) in Germany, almost twenty years ago.

The instructor mentioned the follwing resource to practice pronunciation. It looks very useful:

http://www.languageguide.org/

This is for learning the following Languages:

German
Hindi
Russian
Portuguese
Korean
English
Italian
French
Hungarian
Mandarin
Spanish
Spanish - Mexico
Arabic
Japanese
English (UK) (British English) - What a great language :-)
Turkish
Dutch

Best Regards

Dave

November 21, 2016

Great Chinese Language Learning Resource - http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/dictionary.php

I found this resource after a Google search for "Chinese Character Stroke Order". I think it's excellent!

http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/dictionary.php

You can search for any of the following:

- Word.
- Thesaurus.
- Example sentences.
- Strokes.
- Character.

You can even choose to draw a character using your mouse / stylus and let the search engine find the word your after from your doodled character.

I looked up an example word that I already knew from the following words I had already learned:

我不是中国人，我是英国人。

I am not Chinese, I am British.

Example Word Lookup

中 zhōng

English Definition - within; among; in; middle; center; while (doing something); during; (dialect) OK; all right; China; Chinese; (Chinese surname)

Related Words - Words With Same Head Word

中国 zhōngguó   China
中午 zhōngwǔ   noon; midday
中学 zhōngxué   middle school
中文 zhōngwén   Chinese; Chinese written language; Chinese writing
中间 zhōngjiān   between; intermediate; mid; middle
中央 zhōngyāng   central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state)

Words With Same Tail Word - Words With Same Head Word

其中 qízhōng   among; in; included among these
集中 jízhōng   to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together
空中 kōngzhōng   in the sky; in the air
当中 dāngzhōng   among; in the middle; in the center
高中 gāozhōng   senior high school; abbr. for

Sample sentences

    中国有什么闲暇吗？
    Is there any leisure in China?

    中国有56个民族。
    There are 56 ethnic groups in China.

    中国有中国的特点。
    China has Chinese characteristics.

    我在旅行中用了地图。
    I made use of the maps during my journey.

    风暴中无处可求援。
    Help was lacking during the storm.

    上课中不要跟别人讲话。
    Don't talk to others during the class.

Common Words With This Character

中国 zhōngguó   China
中午 zhōngwǔ   noon; midday
中学 zhōngxué   middle school
中文 zhōngwén   Chinese; Chinese written language; Chinese writing
中间 zhōngjiān   between; intermediate; mid; middle
中央 zhōngyāng   central; middle; center; central authorities (of a state)

Hope you enjoy this.