Palabras puertorriqueñas
Ésta es una lista de palabras puertorriqueñas que yo uso y que he escuchado a otros usar. Intento incluir palabras que sean exclusivas de Puerto Rico o que hayan tenido su orígen en Puerto Rico. a chavo* – se refiere…
Category Linguistics
Classical Greek Lesson 3- Verbs: Present Active Indicative
Properties Greek verbs have seven properties: person, number, voice, mood, tense, aspect, and time. Greek verbs have one of three persons: first (the subject is the speaker), second (the subject is the listener), or third (the subject is someone other…
Classical Greek Lesson 2- Accents
Accent Marks Ancient Greek was spoken with variations in pitch. During the 3rd Century B.C., Aristophanes of Byzantium developed a series of accent marks to help non-native Greek speakers pronounce the pitch variations of the language. These accent marks are…
Classical Greek Lesson 1- Alphabet
Notes These notes correspond to an upcoming course I am preparing in Classical Greek. This course will follow Anne Groton’s From Alpha to Omega: A Beginning Course in Classical Greek. Buy here. Background Greek is an Indo-European language that has…
Free Resources to Improve your Portuguese
Today, I want to talk about some of the free resources that I use to practice Portuguese. These resources are freely available to the general public and they have provided me with much needed help when I was starting to…
Handspeak: An online ASL resource
Back in August I started learning American Sign Language in order to have more fluent conversations with one of my co-workers. Having someone to talk with five days a week really helps out when learning a new language, and in…
Chinese Skill- First Impression Review
During my quest to learn a new language, I came across Duolingo. The nifty app+website does a great job of introducing learners t o a new language through practice and repetition. Though it is clear that Duo is not a comprehensive single…
Ancient Greek #7: Nouns- Introduction
As with verbs, Greek nouns consist of a stem and an inflection that denotes the gender, number, and case of the noun. There are five cases in Greek, each describing the role of a noun within a sentence. Thanks to…
Ancient Greek #6: Negative Adverbs
In Greek, there are two forms of the negative adverb “not”: one for indicative verbs (e.g. He is not teaching.) and one for imperative verbs (e.g. Do not teach.) The negative adverb is placed immediately before the verb. The following table shows the two…
Ancient Greek #5: Verbs- Present Active Imperative
Present Active Imperative verbs give commands. These commands have an imperfective aspect. In other words, they command for an action to happen continuously or repeatedly. In English, there are imperative verbs in second person singular and plural, but they are identical…