Language Training

You must have heard ‘ooooh la la, that’s sooo Italian’ being said about Italian fashion, men or women. There must be something about Italy and all things Italian that drives people to learn the language. You may be planning a trip to Italy, drawn by a love for things Italian, or planning to do business out there. Or, maybe just for personal reasons, you would love to learn the language.

You can easily learn how to speak Italian by the way an Italian converses, the phrases they use and the jokes they crack. Or, you may want to go all out and enjoy everything Italian, from the wonderful cuisine to a very traditional European culture that they are used to.

Italians love when you speak Italian to them and it very easy to learn the language. It’s also a great gift to have, if you can pick up a new language, as it a bridge to a new culture that you have liked all your life.

If you’re looking to learn Italian, you could try an online course to learn how to speak the language. Rocket Italian is one of the best out there. The courses available for Italian language training through them begin with a free 6 day demo of sorts using the benefits of multimedia. You will find that learning a new language can be lots of fun as nearly 300,000 the world over have already experienced.

If you want to learn how to speak Italian without getting bored, then try doing it with the help of the advanced interactive audio to get you engaged in the whole process. If you are still thinking how to learn Italian in a short time, italian language audio training can be as fast as any other course in the business of language teaching.

Find out the best online course for learning Italian at Learn Italian. This course will have you speaking Italian in as little as 2 weeks!

Bryan Hufford

http://www.articlesbase.com/languages-articles/learn-how-to-speak-italian-how-to-master-the-italian-language-750395.html

The german language is the Old High German language which originally dates back in the 8th centuries. Today, standard German is used by countries like Germany, Austria, Switzerland, a place in France called Alsace-Lorraine, Northern Italy, East-Belgium, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and many others.

The standard German language is now also known as the “Hochdeutsch” or “High German” in English. This form of language can now be found on any reading material everywhere in Germany. Although there are still dialects that exist on some parts of Germany, Hochdeutsch is widely used by educated people in the country. The scattered dialects which were influenced mostly by the Old Dialects used centuries ago are now slowly falling further behind compared to how often Standard German is used today.

The style of writing in German is called Fraktur which is leaned towards the Gothic and traditional way of writing the language. Fraktur is the gothic style of writing the German words and letters since the 14th century but on 1945, the Roman letters replaced Fraktur in all forms of writing or printing. This is how we’re now able to read and understand the German language although admittedly, don’t have a clue what some words mean.

Learning a second language or another language takes some time but it is the natural process of learning. People with memory problems can use memorization techniques to exercise the brain’s functionality and capacity; it is one way of allowing the brain to work with creativity at the same time, focusing on the concerned information that feeds the brain.

One memorization technique can be used to learn German. In saying this, we need to set an example. Let’s use the German word Löwe (ler-veh) which means lion in English. Take a look at the example below:

A lion patrols the wild each morning to check if everything is okay, his last stop is always at the Larvae Park enjoying a cup of hot cocoa.

Now the relation of the word Larvae here is to represent the German word for lion. The reason is because the larvae and Lowe when pronounced, has a distinct similar sound. It’s not important what English word you match with the German word, as long as it sounds good together and you maintain the humor and connection between each words, you’ll be able to learn the German language all the way.

Shareen Aguilar
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If you want to learn the chinese language, some Learning Chinese Software can help you. Some integrated learning Chinese softwares with words, sounds, pictures, animations and music. These Learning Chinese Softwares are user friendly designed, content rich, comprehensive tutorial program. These interactive learning Chinese programs will make you enthusiastic about learning Chinese.

Chinese Practice 3.0.2, This program helps you learn Chinese. It offers text-to-speech synthesis or recorded voice, multimedia features, merging and editing lessons, skinning support, vocabulary organizing, a Brain Flash feature, talking Chinese-English-pinyin dictionary and Chinese text reader.

ABCconcept ABC Chinese Learning Tools 1.0, animated Chinese Characters, Radicals – stroke by stroke; Mandarin pronunciations (Pinyin); Cantonese pronunciations (Jyutping); More than 20,000 characters; Chinese-English, English-Chinese dictionaries.

Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin 2.6, users guide themselves through over one hundred lessons. Each lesson contains a real world conversation between two native speakers. Conversations are broken down into individual sentences, pronunciation, meaning, pinyin, characters and the literal translations of the words that make up the sentences.

Learn Chinese 6.0, It includes pronunciation for all sentences, characters, words and phrases in real natural audio. Text-To-Speech is not used, so you can hear the changes in intonation. All Chinese characters, words and phrases are shown with tone marks, Pinyin, for reference. There are 66 lessons and 95 sense dialogues which cover normal situations such as daily life, working, study, traveling and hospitalization. There’s an English-Chinese double language dictionary which includes over 12,000 Chinese words and phrases. You can search the new words with Englishor Chinese as well as strokes of the Chinese character or Pinyin. There is a Chinese characters writing demo, featuring over 3,500 of the most common words. There is a Chinese phonetic alphabet whichincludes the 1,300 Chinese Pinyin. There is an Examination Module. You can test your understandingof Chinese and Pinyin. Speech Chinese can help you to read texts on Web sites or your clipboard in English, simplified and traditional Chinese. You can convert texts to WAV or MP3 files.

EzChinese Road 1.0, This is an oral textbook for short-term training programs focusing on daily communication. It’s adapted to the latest choice textbook Road: Chinese Conversation For Foreigners, which is published by Beijing Language and Culture University Press. Each Chinese character, word and sentence in this software is recorded by professional announcer. It covers more than 30 communicative functions, approximately 900 new words, as well as more than 100 basic key points of language and explanations of daily words and phrases.

One good Chinese Software is a good start for Chinese learners. These multimedia programs are fully interactive, using the most contemporary language learning technique. From teaching modern Chinese PinYin phonetic system to writing Chinese character stroke by stroke, learn Chinese interactively.

Robert Snoog
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can you give me links of websites that teaches the italian language
from the beginig aslo i would like sites that i can learn how to pronounce the words
thanks

http://learnitalianhere.com/

i’m italian…!!
if you want ask me something … i’m here!!

how can I learn chinese language on the iternet?

Try to find a friend online (yahoo answers) who is patient and willing to teach you. For you most likely won’t be able to learn enough on your own with the internet manuals. It can be pretty frustrating trying to learn a new language all by yourself through a book, and I’d imagine even more so online.

I received an answer to a question written in the japanese language.Has anyone had that experience?

Yeah, all the time. Japanese is my second language so it’s not a biggy… Let me know if you need any help translating…

Does anyone know any good books or websites that teach the German language? Any help would be appricated.

Try Berlitz. There are schools (many Lutheran churches have them affiliated with them) that teach german language classes for adults, as well.

i really want to learn to speak Spanish and one day travel to Spain, south America, and the Spanish parts of America.
i couldn’t find any computer disks or booklets on th language so i looked on ebay and there are a few to buy.
i was wondering whats the difference between Latin Spanish and Spanish because on ebay it has those 2 options to buy.
are they much the same or would i need to get both.
would ebay language things even help you or be right?
(btw im from Australia)
thankyou.xo
so do most people in spain, mexico, south america and the spanish parts of america all speak spanish not latin spanish?

I think what you have to do is take a comprehensive course that integrates both Castilian Spanish (of Spain) and Latin American Spanish (and yet this is a generalization, because Argentinians speak a whole different dialect).

Let me help you clear up some confusion. There are many dialects of Spanish, including Castilian or European Spanish (of Spain), Latin American Spanish (not Latin Spanish, because Latin is a language in its own right), and there is Argentinian Spanish, where there are different slang words and they use "vos" instead of "tú" (both meaning "you" informally).

So, if I were you, I’d either take a Spanish language course (if you’re still in school). If not, I just recommend taking Spanish classes that integrate the culture and the grammar and the vocabulary in them from all over the Spanish speaking world. The reason why you should take a formal spanish language course is because Spanish grammar, in particular, is very different from English. In Spanish, each verb (divided into three groups: -ar, -er, and -ir) is conjugated for the six (seven if you count "vos") pronouns, and learning all of the conjugations is essential for effective communication.

If you need help, just ask me or anyone else on Yahoo! Answers.

Podcasts are very helpful, too. That way, you can hear the language. However, you should also read Spanish, too, so you know how to spell the word and say it at the same time.

Buena suerte, y ¡espero que puedas hablar en español!

Edit x1:
Let’s use "comer", meaning "to eat", as an example.

In South America, vos is sometimes used (heavily in Argentina), and it is conjugated by replacing the last r with an s and putting an accent mark over the vowel next to the r. Thus, it would be "vos comés", as opposed to the conventional "tú comes".

In Spain, "you guys" can be translated informally as vosotros, or formally as ustedes. Everywhere else, it is conventional to only use ustedes. Vosotros is conjugated with -áis, -éis, and -ís endings for the -ar, -er, and -ir verbs, respectively. Because we are using "comer", an -er verb, it would be conjugated "vosotros coméis". In Latin and South America, it is conjugated "ustedes comen".

…and don’t get me started on the vos and vosotros commands…

¡Comé la cena! – Vos command for "Eat your dinner!"
¡Comed las cenas! – Vosotros command for "Eat your dinners!" (replaced the final r with a d)
¡No comáis mi pelo! – Vosotros negative command, meaning "Don’t (you guys) eat my hair!" (lack of a better example)

Edit x2:
To answer your question, I would go with Latin American Spanish. Many hispanohablantes would understand you. If you go with Castilian Spanish, Latin Americans may snicker or not understand you well. Yet, if you go to Spain and speak Latin American Spanish, I think they’d be fine with it.

Edit x3:
Sorry this is so long, but Castilian Spanish also has a lisp-like accent. Their z’s are pronounced like th’s. For example, "conozco" is not "ko-NOS-ko", but "ko-NOTH-ko". My classmate does that because her teacher taught the kids Castilian Spanish.

There was this person who was amazed by the intricate patterns of the Chinese language and he was totally confused trying to understand the same. He tried out the various translation sites on the net in order to gain further knowledge about the Chinese language but always came up against a wall. For the uninitiated there are 3 different languages that are used in china and they are Mandarin, Cantonese and Traditional. Unless one goes into depth about the Chinese language, it will be tough for them to have more knowledge about the same, regardless of the translation sites they visit. The best option for them will be to approach someone who are well versed in the linguistics of that language and seek their help.

Before you set forth to visit China on a business trip, it is important that you know a bit about their language and study a few common phrases like greetings and salutations and pronounce them correctly. This might sound tough, it being an alien language, but if the Chinese visitors to your country can speak your language, why not you. There is no doubt that English is far easier to learn that Chinese but that does not mean you cannot pick up a few words if you try hard enough. There are many online courses that help you to master this language and most of them offer a basic course for business travelers that will help you while you are visiting China to seal up that important business deal.

After English, the chinese language has the second most following in the world. Unlike the English language that contains of just 26 characters, the Chinese language is made up of hundreds of graphical representations that make up each the words and sentences. You will be amazed to know that typing 10 words per minute on a Chinese typewriter is considered to be very fast. If required you can ask your online friend to guide you to learn common phrases and how to pronounce them correctly. The most you need to know when you are embarking on a business trip are a few phrases like `hello’, `greetings’, `good morning’, `good evening’, `good night’ along with some more complicated terms like `where is the’.

Having a decent knowledge about the Chinese language will open up many avenues for you and you can find yourself with the job of a translator. Unlike some Western & Eastern European languages like German & Russian, (or to be more specific, the Deutsch & Cyrillic script and the written term is called), that are guttural; the Chinese language is soft and musical. There are many people who try to jump into and directly try to learn the phrases by heart. While this might be fine, would it not be better if you try to understand the scientific and the grammatical nuances of the language? All it needs is some time and patience and if you are dedicated enough, you should start picking it up easily.

Michael Song
http://www.articlesbase.com/education-articles/the-mysteries-of-the-chinese-language-707859.html