5 Interesting Italian Language Facts

Listen and read daily, even if you just have time for an online Word of the Day in your email

from Transparent Language or another site. Listen to and read things you enjoy such as

songs with printed lyrics on YouTube and movies with subtitles.

The writing system Some languages use a different script or writing system and this can

have a major impact on whether a language is hard to learn or not. Many European

languages use the same script as English but also include a few other symbols not in English

to represent sounds specific to that language (think of the 'o' with a line through it in

Norwegian, or the 'n' with a little squiggly over it in Spanish). These are generally not difficult

to learn.

Commonalities in grammar don't just occur in related languages. Very different ones can

share similar qualities as well. English and Chinese actually have similarities in their

grammar, which partly makes up for some of the other difficulties with Chinese.

French translation

Aramaic is spoken by both Christians and Jews alike, but the difference between the dialects

is substantial and, as a result, they are not mutually intelligible. The Christian dialect is chiefly

influenced by the Syriac language, which is a dialect of Eastern Middle Aramaic, and was

primarily used for literary as well as liturgical purposes in many churches. Some of the

Christian dialects are often referred to as Colloquial Syriac, Suret, Suryaya, Swadaya and

Syriac.

By the way, there are examples of tone use in English but they are very few, usually used

only in specific situations, and aren't part of the pronunciation of individual words. For

example, in American English it's common to raise the tone of our voice at the end of a

question. It's not quite the same thing, but if you think about it that way, it might make a tone

language a little less intimidating.

For those who do not live in the desert southwest of Arizona, you might find it surprising to

see and witness the sheer number of Spanish speaking individuals relocating to the United

States from Mexico.

In the old days you could hire a website design and development person who knew a couple

of coding languages, throw up a site and you were in business. As the web grew more

sophisticated you hired a web design agency to update or redesign your site.