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Native American Nations - Introduction

by Patty Inglish, MS

Blackfoot Tipis...Thank you, niawen (in Mohawk), for asking this question,jimmythejock. The answer will comprise more than one Hub and I hope that you find the short series informative and enjoyable. It will be... published 11 months ago

20 comments    education travel languages

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Which Language is Easiest for an English Speaker to Learn?

by Lissie

Unfortunately in Australia and New Zealand it appears that fewer and fewer students are studying foreign languages at school or tertiary level (college). Australian's appear more bemused than proud that... published 7 months ago

8 comments    education how to travel

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politically correct language: "The destruction of words is a beautiful thing"

by Move your Class

The above quote from ‘1984’ originally referred to the diminishing vocabulary of ‘Newspeak’, the politically correct language in Orwell’s famous dystopia. Applied to ‘Santa Speak’, it means... published 9 months ago

3 comments    travel literature christmas

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Slang and Language Change

by Patty Inglish, MS

This is information about langages, their relatedness, and how languages change. Slang is a part of this change process over the decades and centuries and really very interesting. published 15 months ago

0 comments    education language english

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Native American Nations of Brazil (Part XX)

by Patty Inglish, MS

Before the Spanish and Portugese came to South America, there were over 1,000 separate tribes living in Brazil alone - over 13,000,000 people. published 9 months ago

7 comments    brazil native americans mohawk

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World Languages

by Rmnathan

We all know now, language is very important medium of communication. It is one of the most important inventions that accelerated the development of human race to the present level. Almost all the communities... published 13 months ago

4 comments    writing world communication

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A Fourth Grade Curriculum: Spelling

by Aya Katz

During the first week of school, there was no spelling test. The spelling curriculum got under way during week two. The children in my daughter's class were given a list of words to learn. There would be a... published 6 weeks ago

2 comments    family education homeschooling

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How to Count In the Russian Language

by Patty Inglish, MS

Russian is a great language and it is fun to hear and learn the alphabet and to count. There are other fun things about Russian as well... published 11 months ago

25 comments    entertainment family education

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Language is Learned

by Aya Katz

You may have heard it said that all babies have the same linguistic abilities at birth. This is true. They have no linguistic abilities at birth. No child is born knowing language, and early infancy and... published 4 weeks ago

19 comments    education grammar linguistics

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Is the Sky really Blue? Are the Trees really Green?

by KT pdx

This is a question I grew up asking. Not as a child asks the normal questions about the world, but as a true informational question. My parents, highly educated but experimental-thinking, debated before I... published 2 weeks ago

6 comments    advice education life

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