Languages 2024, September

Let's talk about how it happened and what the word "appeal" means, and why it is impossible to appeal with words

The Russian language is great, multifaceted and very complex. According to the recognition of many foreigners who comprehend different dialects and dialects, it is he who is one of the most difficult to learn, and he is inferior only to Chinese and Japanese. And, like many other cultures of speech, our language has a huge number of words with an interesting etymology or history of origin. The word "fastidious" is just one of those

Describe the escalation of the conflict from the outside will help the theory developed by the scientist G. Bateson, which is called the theory of symmetrical schismogenesis

It's time to talk seriously about a word that no-no, but worries everyone, because it can often be found. There are many such words. So we need specifics. The participle "previous" is our object of study

It is believed that there are between 2,500 and 7,000 different languages in the world. The views of scientists on their total number differ due to the lack of a unified approach to what is considered a language and what is a dialect

What is a foreign land? Is it someone else's or someone else's? Object, phenomenon or substance? This article will tell about it. In addition, we will consider the morphological characteristics of this word, select synonyms for it and study several examples

The permanent features of the adjective name are their division into three categories: qualitative (hot coffee), relative (winter walk) and possessive (daddy's tie). They are based on a meaning that necessarily correlates with the noun

In the course of studying morphology, schoolchildren pass the topic "Suffixes of real and passive participles." Let's take a closer look at the intricacies and features of this group

Communion is an opportunity to convey both an action and its sign at the same time. It is often used to “lighten up” a sentence and translate it from a complex structure into a more concise version of it. For example: A fairy tale is a literary source that helps a child develop fantasy. A fairy tale is a literary source that helps a child develop fantasy. There are real and passive participles of the present and past tenses

Literary language is a processed form of the national language, which has written norms. It is the language of every manifestation of culture, which is expressed in verbal form

Africa is striking in its linguistic diversity. There are more than five hundred vernaculars in Nigeria alone. Of these, Hausa is one of the most common. The article will help you get to know this language, and also find out what it has in common with Arabic and how the Latin alphabet is associated with fraud

What does the Chinese character for "water" look like? How did he appear? What meanings, in addition to the literal, are embedded in it? Is the same character used for the concept of water in Chinese and Japanese? An attempt to briefly answer all these questions

"Chinese letter" - with these words, a Russian person, without hesitation, will indicate something difficult to understand. Chinese characters really sometimes scare with their intricate appearance. What are the most complex symbols in the writing of the Celestial Empire?

The phrase "old bastard" is well known to native Russian speakers. The part "old" raises no questions for anyone, but what does the mysterious word "hrych" mean in itself? And why is it sometimes useful to look into the dictionary

What is the passive voice? How does the passive voice of English differ from Russian? Passive voice in past perfect tense

Simplifying languages and theories, summarizing books and using emoji… Man can't resist his desire to optimize and make his life easier

This article discusses the idiom "no hesitation". Its interpretation, history of origin and scope are given

Many rules of the Russian language cause difficulty even for native speakers, not to mention foreigners. How to spell finish or end? Are these two verbs interchangeable, is there a difference between them? Detailed answers to these questions are contained in the article

The word "arrow" at first glance is quite easy to understand. This is an ancient weapon, a reduced copy of a spear with blades at the end - to improve aerodynamic properties. However, this word in modern Russian has other meanings. The etymology of this term is considered below, as well as synonyms are selected for it. To illustrate the use of the word in different meanings, examples of its use in daily speech are given

In the language of the famous England there is a very difficult topic in grammar, which is connected with the topic of verbs and their changes and use in different tenses. There are 16 tenses in the language, but 9 of them are the most used and studied

A phrasal verb is a combination of several words, the final meaning of which differs significantly from the meaning of the words separately. Often the essence of English phrasal verbs is difficult to explain or guess, it remains only to memorize. This greatly complicates the study of the language, because if you take at least the common phrasal verbs bring, you need to take into account that there will be many examples of use and meanings

The Russian language, like all other languages of the world, has its own we alth, and it is passed down from generation to generation. This value is stable expressions, the meaning of which has been laid down for a long time and is clear to everyone: proverbs, sayings, phraseological units. Each language has its own sayings, and sometimes the same proverb is translated from one language to another, even changing characters. Recently, in politics, to describe the situation in the world or in a particular country, the saying “and the wolves are full and the sheep are safe” is used

Today we will look at an amazing expression - gave a strekacha. Many people understand what it means, but one of its elements is obscure and incomprehensible - “strekach”. In the course of the study, this question will certainly be answered

Some words came into everyday colloquial speech from various professions, for example, from military vocabulary. One of these words is the noun "line"

When we are told "companions", it immediately conjures up thoughts of uncles in good suits who do common business. That is, people who are in the same company. Today we will interpret the noun and find out if it is so bad

What does the word "wang" mean? Where did it come from? In what cases can it be used, and in what cases it should not be used?

Language is a living being that constantly grows and develops, new words appear in it and obsolete, irrelevant expressions cease to be used. A couple of decades ago, we did not know what an oligarch is … Indeed, what is or who is an oligarch?

When learning English, many students panic when they realize that in English there are not three, but twelve tenses of the active voice! Each of them has its own form, its own words, indicators and situations in which it is used. Present Continious Tense (Present Continuous) is the present tense that is used if the action is happening at the moment, that is, right now (now, at this moment)

The topic "Degrees of comparison of adjectives" in English requires special attention and careful study. Adjectives have three forms: positive, comparative, and superlative

Music is a great way of self-expression, creativity, which is not given to everyone to do, but each of us probably wants to enjoy music. What does the term "toccata" mean and why even music listeners, non-professional amateurs should know it, you will learn by reading this article

In the modern Russian language there are a number of words, the meaning of which is not always clear to the layman. In this article we will try to decipher the meaning of the word "pool" and talk about the many varieties of this concept

Patrons rarely appear in society, much more often people prefer to be a little greedy and save once again. But what if the craving for hoarding goes beyond all reasonable limits? At this moment, a true curmudgeon is born

The Welsh language is one of the Celtic scripts of the Brythonic group. It is mainly distributed in the western administrative part of Great Britain, that is, in Wales, where about 659 thousand people use this speech

In Russia everyone does it. Although, perhaps, not only in Russia. Statistics show that even the British are prone to such behavior. In general, in all nations there are people who love to be ironic. Let's analyze the meaning of the verb and its synonyms

Often from the TV screen you can hear: "This is a real sensation!" But what does this word mean, and when is it appropriate to use it? Our article will help you find out what "sensation" is, determine its meaning and rules of use in terms of lexical norms

The scheme of a complex sentence is simply necessary for its correct characterization and for explaining the rules of punctuation. It takes into account all the features of the syntactic construction. We will analyze the schemes of a complex sentence, we will also give examples

The situation when a person wants to say kind words to a dear person, to turn to him with the necessary advice, can be defined in different words. This article will focus on the word "parting words". Below is the lexical meaning of the concept: what is it - a parting word? Synonyms are also selected for it and examples of its use in live speech are given

Types of load, definitions of physical, power, electrical, tax and social loads. How to calculate physical activity based on gender, weight, age and fitness level of a person. Body mass index. After physical activity: exit and hitch workout

Synonyms, paronyms, antonyms, homonyms - these terms, familiar to everyone from school, probably caused difficulties in learning. The difficulty in remembering these terms and their essence arises not only among schoolchildren. Due to the uselessness of use, adults can also get confused about what is what. Let's talk about homonyms. In the most general sense, these are words that are pronounced the same way. But not everything is so simple. Consider the concept of homonymy in more detail

The Kremlin is a type of city fortification. Such buildings arose for the first time in Kievan Rus. The topic of the article is the history of ancient Russian buildings, as well as the etymology of the concept of "Kremlin"