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Hongkong:Chinese characters vis-a-vis Chinese learning craze 1 Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:06 am
The formidable rise of the Chinese language 1 Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:03 am
For the nonsense of it (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:05 pm
Japanese ヴィエラ 4 Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:11 pm
The Potential and Strength of Chinese 2 Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:52 am
My learning plan French and Latin. 5 Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:13 pm
I can speak the Thai language! 3 Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:29 pm
Britain: the charm of Chinese swoons British learners (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:25 pm
USA Times: If you want to stay ahead, learn Chinese 8 Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:24 pm
Educationalists: Chinese learning boom bodes well for China 5 Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:23 pm
Posts of Chinese articles 2 Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:22 pm
learn arabic in egypt 0 Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:24 am
What language is this? 12 Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:47 am
A question for French speakers 12 Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:50 pm
Dutch or Schwiizerduch? - Question for (stinknormal) Germans (pages: 1 2 ) 17 Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:49 pm
what happened in antimoon 7 Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:15 am
Russian is becoming more important in the US 7 Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:35 am
Is the French language on the decline? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 47 Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:25 am
my Learning plan. 0 Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:10 am
The most studied languages (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:47 pm
A French Pronounciation? (pages: 1 2 ) 26 Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:30 pm
Language switch in Castilia, when will happen? (pages: 1 2 ) 27 Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:37 am
How do you say this in German? 8 Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:57 am
Russian scholar: Chinese is a miraculous language! (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:34 am
NBA Star Kobe: Chinese is a beautiful language! 5 Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:43 pm
The position of Latin 14 Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:10 am
China fever triggers Chinese ferver (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:51 am
Chinese learning craze vs.Chinese teacher drought in the USA 7 Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:09 pm
RAP SONG 7 Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:34 pm
"中国热"引 1 Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:27 pm
Does Dutch commonly use jij/je for the general pronoun (pages: 1 2 3 ) 37 Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:51 pm
False Friends (pages: 1 2 3 ) 39 Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:06 pm
OLE? 6 Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:59 pm
Chinese is 343 languages? 3 Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:49 pm
German is 101 languages? 7 Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:30 pm
Spanish Speakig World is srhrikig fast 0 Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:06 am
learn arabic in egypt 0 Sun Mar 22, 2009 7:44 am
William Wallace's languages 9 Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:02 pm
Is it Ancient Romanian, Diacian or another language? 3 Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:03 am
Which language has the MOST NATIVE Words? (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:13 am
Madonna's "Like a Prayer" - confusion over lyrics 5 Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:39 pm
Your native languages (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) 90 Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:58 pm
Transcription of Chinese names to adopt PINYIN in Taiwan 3 Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:06 am
Thai: The Most Attractive Asian Language? (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:48 pm
Mallorqui 1 Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:00 am
Arabic Language 0 Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:43 am
The Celts in Great Britain: the first genocide in History? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 36 Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:55 am
French language (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 52 Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:21 pm
Is Spanish expanding? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ... 16 17 18 19 20 ) 285 Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:02 am
Mise au point 9 Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:05 pm
Latin for Romance Speakers (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 61 Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:42 am
native French speaker gives online French lessons~~ 0 Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:02 am
What does veåµe mean in English? 2 Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:56 am
Language switch in France, when will happen? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ) 131 Fri Mar 13, 2009 3:23 am
English 11 Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:24 pm
Kheihtsu géogen 4 Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:50 pm
Were Celtic people closer to Germans or Latins? (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:47 pm
To non-native English speakers 11 Wed Mar 11, 2009 2:39 am
Can songs from an 'unknown' language touch you? 12 Tue Mar 10, 2009 2:54 am
the Antimoon method to start learning 2 Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:53 pm
How is my French? (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:01 pm
What was Audrey Hepburn's first language? 6 Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:24 pm
How to say "My name's Socrates" in Ancient Greek? 7 Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:49 am
The booming of the Chinese language on English homelands (pages: 1 2 3 ) 30 Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:47 am
French in Portugal/Brazil (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 46 Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:46 am
French in England (pages: 1 2 3 ) 39 Fri Mar 06, 2009 7:33 am
"A Handful of Kooks" 6 Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:26 pm
Why did Castilian become Spanish language? 7 Thu Mar 05, 2009 11:39 am
French people trying to speak English 1 Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:37 am
What do you think about their accents? 13 Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:12 am
Tired vs. sleepy in German 5 Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:07 pm
language switch in France, when and why did it happened? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ) 92 Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:23 am
The Norwegian Project 12 Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:34 pm
French pronounciation question 9 Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:22 pm
Latin and Romance languages 6 Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:10 pm
A site teaching Swedish 2 Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:06 pm
What is this language? 2 Sun Mar 01, 2009 6:58 pm
Australian and American Accents 7 Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:08 am
Which of These? 7 Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:02 am
A Japanese comedians attempt at fake languages. 9 Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:03 am
Antimoon Translation wiki (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:21 pm
Which was harder for you to learn, English or French? 1 Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:09 am
Understanding level 2 Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:08 am
Please suggest words from different languages.... 3 Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:13 am
The Chinese language stole the show at Expo-langues of Paris (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:58 am
Chinese leader opens first Confucius Institute in Caribbean (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:58 pm
French article 0 Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:38 pm
Colores : English + Spanish is a plus? 5 Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:24 pm
equitorial guinea 8 Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:19 pm
What fourth language should I learn? (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:31 am
Creole 1 Fri Feb 20, 2009 8:56 pm
Why such big differences between Brazilian and European? (pages: 1 2 ) 23 Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:43 am
Phonemes 0 Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:26 am
Does Quebecois French really sound old-fashioned? (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Tue Feb 17, 2009 8:56 pm
Is Romanian the Most Difficult Romance Language? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 40 Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:10 pm
Want to learn Polish? Cook Pierogi! 1 Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:32 am
Foreign words in Chinese 11 Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:24 am
cheaper nike dunk,nike shox,Coach handbags,nike dunk,Gucci s 0 Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:54 pm
How Is French A Romance Language? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 37 Sun Feb 15, 2009 1:25 pm
How is his accent (French)? 9 Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:49 am
Foreign language for monolinguists who speak no other 0 Sun Feb 15, 2009 4:57 am
Icelandic and Lithuanian 12 Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:07 pm
The masculine gender (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:45 am
bilingual novels 0 Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:57 am
Mostly for US citizens (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:28 pm
Japanese more difficult than Korean, or vice-versa? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 62 Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:07 pm
Toughest European Language (pages: 1 2 3 ) 37 Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:40 pm
Hindi and Urdu 13 Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:37 pm
The Status of Serbo-Croat/Serbo-Croatian (pages: 1 2 3 ) 40 Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:46 pm
Portuguese Language TV (pages: 1 2 ) 20 Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:39 pm
Arabic Curse words in Arabic Script 0 Thu Feb 12, 2009 12:35 pm
Spreekt u vreemde Talen? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 43 Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:35 am
Why does Greek sound Spanish? (pages: 1 2 ) 27 Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:02 am
Latin and Greek (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:31 am
Getting Paid to Learn Languages 10 Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:57 am
How Much French Is Spoken in Quebec? 8 Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:24 pm
what language is it? (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:46 pm
A few questions 5 Tue Feb 10, 2009 6:13 pm
Six to Eighteen Months 13 Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:00 pm
World lingua franca (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 60 Fri Feb 06, 2009 8:25 pm
French in Quebec 11 Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:08 am
English vs Swedish or Norwegian (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:44 pm
The Decline of French. Chapter LXXV 7 Tue Feb 03, 2009 2:06 pm
About to tour europe? 8 Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:30 pm
magyar nyelv (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:24 pm
Latin is easy? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 68 Sun Feb 01, 2009 11:26 am
spanish radio with transcripts 1 Sat Jan 31, 2009 12:33 am
what language are these words? (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:27 pm
Pour ceux qui ne parlent pas ma langue (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:55 am
Spanish Gives Way to Quechua and Aymara in Peru and Boilivia 3 Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:36 am
How different are Yiddish and German language? 4 Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:23 pm
Spanish Overwhelmed by Guarani in Paraguay 1 Wed Jan 28, 2009 1:56 am
What language is this? 7 Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:20 am
JLPT Levels II and I 6 Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:46 am
Is the Spanish suffix -orro of Iberian origin? 0 Tue Jan 27, 2009 1:52 am
sex and languages (pages: 1 2 ) 28 Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:21 pm
Hispanic in the US Switch To English 0 Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:52 pm
Para los que hablan mi idioma (pages: 1 2 ) 26 Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:10 pm
The Disintegration of Spanish 0 Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:04 pm
Do you think German is more difficult than Chinese? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 42 Mon Jan 26, 2009 1:06 pm
Mayan Languages and the Mayan Movement in Guatemala 1 Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:54 am
Portuguese In Asia 14 Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:58 am
Spoken Spanish - very hard to understand? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 32 Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:11 am
Romance languages (pages: 1 2 3 ) 40 Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:20 am
Very easy French texts 3 Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:22 am
Hispanic Cyber Sabotage and Cyber Terrorism Agains French 14 Sun Jan 25, 2009 3:13 pm
French in Netherlands 3 Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:29 pm
I'm fed up with all these Spanish and French threads 11 Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:26 pm
What to Read in Portuguese (pages: 1 2 3 ) 41 Sat Jan 24, 2009 11:03 pm
Musicality in languages and vowel-consonant ratio 3 Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:27 pm
Guest... 0 Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:01 pm
Visitor... 0 Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:30 pm
For the few learners of kiristav 10 Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:36 pm
What YOU learn first 10 Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:29 pm
Proxy Servers Abroad 0 Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:20 am
Expressões lusitanas e brasileiras 4 Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:24 am
Christina Aguilera & Jennifer Lopez Speak No Spanish (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:44 am
If you speak Arabic 2 Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:33 pm
301 Basic Conversational Patterns 2 Wed Jan 21, 2009 5:06 pm
Which language pair do you think translates most easily? (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:11 pm
What's simpler, noun declinations or prepositions? (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:36 am
most weird language (pages: 1 2 3 ) 33 Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:27 am
Spanish question 4 Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:32 pm
Your opinion about women's sound ... in spanish 1 Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:14 pm
Which language do u think is less easy, Japanese or Chinese? 14 Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:41 pm
What do you find most difficult in learning Chinese? (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:48 pm
Germanic languages from the easist to the most difficult (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:00 pm
In the Languages of Bond 1 Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:15 am
Do You Mind Learning Really Inflected Languages? (pages: 1 2 ) 29 Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:33 am
How popular is the Chinese language in your country? (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 85 Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:30 am
Fun Words (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:59 am
grammar 6 Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:58 pm
Top ten languages 12 Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:23 am
neologism 2 Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:37 pm
Learner's Dictionaries in languages other than English 0 Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:47 pm
Brazilian vs. Portuguese 5 Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:51 am
FRENCH : Easy 2 Understand & Learn 14 Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:09 am
Should I Stop Taking French Classes? 12 Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:49 am
Question about percentages of Latinate vocab. in Gmc. langs 13 Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:22 am
Daijisen VS Nihongodaijiten (pages: 1 2 3 ) 30 Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:25 am
Funny experience with languages 8 Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:22 pm
A Short Introduction 2 Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:43 pm
formas de tratamento (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 73 Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:00 am
A Spanish question. (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:10 am
Why German is unpopular (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 80 Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:23 am
Fluency in English and other Germanic languages (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:19 am
Which are your functional languages? (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Sun Jan 11, 2009 4:00 am
Can Chinese be the lingua franca of Asia? (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:41 am
Will English or French... (pages: 1 2 ) 28 Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:36 am
Catalan a Frankish-Romance+Gothic-Romance hybrid? (pages: 1 2 3 4 ) 53 Sat Jan 10, 2009 8:21 am
Which are the 3 most useful languages? (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:22 pm
Brazilian vs LA Spanish divergence 4 Fri Jan 09, 2009 10:49 am
Felicidad,Paz y Amor: Happy New Year 2 Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:41 pm
FRom what ITALIAN reggione is this...? (pages: 1 2 ) 25 Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:55 pm
during cold war, russian vs english (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:43 am
K. T. 9 Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:03 am
Spanish -> English Help Needed 3 Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:00 am
人によって 3 Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:41 pm
How Many More Languages Could You Learn IF 10 Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:11 pm
School assignment on Russian loaning 4 Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:43 pm
loaning from russian 14 Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:14 pm
English in Decline as a First Language (pages: 1 2 3 ) 35 Wed Jan 07, 2009 8:24 am
How did it start? (French & Italian) 3 Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:55 am
Language Schools in Your City and Languages 5 Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:50 am
God Jul to the Germanic Family 8 Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:49 am
Latin used in academia, wrong? 8 Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:48 am
How Many? (pages: 1 2 ) 29 Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:34 pm
Natural Language/Grammar-based 1 Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:56 am
Russian language's importance in the future Europe (pages: 1 2 ) 24 Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:55 am
Any ambiguity between between french verb endings 11 Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:10 am
language reveals culture??? 5 Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:28 pm
Modern Greek 2 Sat Jan 03, 2009 4:12 pm
Question for any Scandinavian speakers about Old Norse 6 Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:27 pm
financial crisis affects languages (pages: 1 2 3 ) 32 Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:31 am
Stu Jay Raj (pages: 1 2 ) 22 Sat Jan 03, 2009 1:09 am
Please write down german message from mp3 4 Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:44 pm
Different English :It's very kawaii! 2 Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:16 am
Question for Russians 8 Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:59 pm
Only 15 % of Indians speak English (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ) 85 Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:59 am
<manuscrit autographe> /manysk&#641;i&#660;oto 8 Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:45 pm
Which languages are riding a wave of popularity? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 31 Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:50 am
tenses in indo-euro langs (pages: 1 2 ) 18 Sat Dec 27, 2008 3:20 pm
Language Dictatorship in Belgium (pages: 1 2 3 4 5 ) 72 Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:08 pm
Merry Christmas to all Romance speakers. (pages: 1 2 ) 27 Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:14 pm
The True Status French in Canada (pages: 1 2 ) 19 Fri Dec 26, 2008 8:02 am
World Languages 4 Fri Dec 26, 2008 2:43 am
Avril Lavigne , the French descendant, never sings in French (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Fri Dec 26, 2008 12:01 am
New Year/New Languages (pages: 1 2 ) 15 Thu Dec 25, 2008 10:24 pm
Yinglish rap 2 Thu Dec 25, 2008 3:13 am
Irish language 11 Thu Dec 25, 2008 12:56 am
Need help with this 6 Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:47 pm
What language did East Prussians speak? 10 Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:20 am
Inglés sin Barreras/Other courses (less expensive) 0 Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:57 am
O JUGAMOS TODOS O PINCHO EL BALÓN 6 Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:03 am
Does Supermemo UX is the next version of Supermemo2006? 3 Tue Dec 23, 2008 12:48 am
What the hell is a wonnercapper? 3 Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:39 pm
Spanish, The Next Macro-Language 6 Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:52 pm
Popular Christmas/Holiday Songs (Winter, for example) 2 Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:56 am
Why was Korean Kanji/Hanja abandoned? (pages: 1 2 3 ) 40 Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:07 pm
Schoenberg's Pierrot 2 Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:58 pm
what language is this? 1 Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:19 am
Looking at Slavic Languages: Parts of the body 9 Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:59 am
Which language is more important on the Moon? (pages: 1 2 ) 23 Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:10 am
How important Scottish is! (pages: 1 2 ) 16 Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:09 am
Messenger 7 Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:02 am
Using the Internet to study languages (other than English) (pages: 1 2 ) 21 Thu Dec 18, 2008 11:45 am
Why is English syntax so easy compared to th Romance tongues (pages: 1 2 3 ) 32 Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:47 pm
Ironic tales from Antimoon: The French spam answer (pages: 1 2 ) 23 Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:41 pm
List of languages by number of "foreign learners" (pages: 1 2 ) 26 Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:22 pm
Distinguishing between B and V in Spoken Spanish.Good , bad? 11 Mon Dec 15, 2008 6:29 am
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