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A and B sound right to me. C looks wrong to me, but I think can guess where this comes from (assuming it's not a regional thing). "Other than" might be shortened to " 'ther than", and in non-rhotic accents there is very little stress on the "er". In fast speech you might hear something like "We had no choice 'thuhthan to turn round...". If I heard this, I don't think I'd notice a mistake.
However, C looks wrong to me when I read it, and also when say it out loud.
0 votedMarch 9, 20170- Both "John and Emma live in London. He is single." and "John and Emma live in London. HE is single and SHE is married." are correct and natural. It would get confusing if one or both of the names could refer to both men and women, but since that's not the case here repeating the names would be redundant.0 votedFebruary 3, 20170
Su Ki: In Australia we use the British system. I have seen the odd place use the American system, but it's not very common.
I also once stayed at a hotel where the ground floor was called the third floor, and there was a library at my uni in Canberra where the ground floor was called the second floor. For whatever reason they chose to start counting the underground floors.
0 votedJanuary 25, 20170Didn't you already ask this? https://www.italki.com/discussion/126495
They're different enough to not be mutually comprehensible, and the grammar isn't the same (Dutch has genders, as well as a completely different word order). Dutch is definitely much closer to German than it is to English.
Having said that, English speakers do have a lot of advantages learning Dutch. You can guess a lot of Dutch vocabulary by thinking what English words sound similar, although it would be hard to do so without context. Prepositions work much the same way in Dutch as they do in English. If you know irregular verbs in English, then when reading Dutch you'd notice the same verbs are usually irregular in the same way. If you see a phrasal verb in Dutch, you can usually separately translate the verb and preposition into English literally, and find it exactly corresponds to a phrasal verb in English. Questions are asked in a similar way in Dutch. Articles work exactly the same way in Dutch and English. If you know English, you won't have to relearn some of the same concepts in Dutch.
Knowing English would definitely help you learn Dutch, but not in the same way as knowing Spanish would help you learn Italian (in this comparison, Dutch and German would be comparable to Italian and Spanish). It's definitely not "easy" to learn Dutch for English speakers (I'm an English speaker living in the Netherlands trying to learn Dutch). There is still a lot of different grammar you have to wrap your head around, but knowing English would be more of an advantage than more distantly related languages.
0 votedJanuary 7, 20170Very easily. Is also extremely common.
I suspect it's a cultural thing. If you live in a culture where it doesn't happen, then it might seem it's not possible. If you live in a culture where it's extremely common, it seems like a bizarre question to ask. I think anyone who says it can't be done is a bit naive!
This question pops up here surprisingly often. I'm curious, what brought you to ask this? Is this a common debate where you live? Have you observed such friendships and wondered whether whether/why they're possible?
0 votedDecember 23, 20160- Prime ministers and chancellors have similar roles in that they're the head of government, but what title is used is specific to each country. Australia has a prime minister, but not a chancellor. Germany has a chancellor, but not a prime minister. Is there a practical difference between the two? Not that I'm aware of. A country's choice on whether to use "chancellor" or "prime minister" has more to do with what word the makers of that country's legal system preferred than anything else.0 votedDecember 21, 20161
- 2+2 - Two plus two 2*2 - Two times two 4/3 - Four divided by three (or simply just "four over three") 2^2 - Two squared √2 - Root two 2+2=5 - Two plus two equals five 2<3 - Two is less than three 3>1 - Three is greater than one 2<=x - Two is less than or equal to x 2 ≠ y - Two doesn't equal y Most people would call both "(...)" and "[...]" brackets, but some people would argue that the former should technically be called "rounded brackets" or "parentheses", and the latter "square brackets". The distinction is important in programming, but otherwise if you just say "brackets" most people would assume you're referring to these: (...).0 votedDecember 21, 20160
If the child's native language is Russian I think object pronouns would be a simple concept for them. You just need to say that they're the same as object pronouns in Russian, except they also take the role of a lot of other cases in Russian which don't exist in English (e.g. dative pronouns, instrumental pronouns etc.).
For example, you could say "I" is like "я", and "me" is like "меня", but also takes the role of "мне" and "мной".
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