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Family Words in Irish: Máthair, Athair, Deartháir and More
The Irish words for family members, how to say 'my mother' with the correct mutation, and useful sentences for talking about your family.
Read article →Food and Drink in Irish: From Tae to Prátaí
Everyday Irish words for meals, food and drink, with phrases for being hungry, ordering tea and talking about what you like to eat.
Read article →Greetings and Good Manners in Irish: Dia Duit, Go Raibh Maith Agat and More
The essential Irish greetings, the correct replies, and polite phrases such as please, thank you and sorry, with notes on their meaning.
Read article →Colours in Italian, and When They Don't Change
Italian colour words, how they agree with nouns, and which ones stay the same, such as blu, rosa and viola.
Read article →Days, Months and Seasons in Italian
The Italian names for days, months and seasons, why they are written in lowercase, and how to say dates and 'every Monday'.
Read article →Family Words in Italian, and the Nipote Puzzle
Italian words for family members, the difference between genitori and parenti, why nipote means both grandchild and nephew, and how possessives work.
Read article →Telling the Time in Italian: Che Ore Sono?
How to ask and tell the time in Italian, including the special forms for one o'clock, noon and midnight, and the 24-hour clock.
Read article →Tu or Lei? Formal and Informal Italian
When to use the informal tu and the formal Lei in Italian, how greetings change, and how to be polite with strangers.
Read article →Building a Basic Japanese Sentence: です and Verb-Final Order
How Japanese sentences are structured, with the verb at the end, how です works, and how to make questions and negatives.
Read article →Japanese Adjectives: い-Adjectives and な-Adjectives
The two types of Japanese adjectives, how each is conjugated for negative and past, and how to use them before nouns.
Read article →Japanese Particles: は, が, を, に, で, と and の
The small words that mark the role of each word in a Japanese sentence, with clear examples for the most important particles.
Read article →Polite Verb Forms: ます, ません, ました and ませんでした
How to conjugate Japanese verbs in the polite form for present, negative, past and past negative, with the two main verb groups.
Read article →Telling the Time in Japanese: 時, 分 and 半
How to say hours and minutes in Japanese, the sound changes in 分, and the words for a.m., p.m., half past and now.
Read article →Asking Questions in Kannada: ಏನು, ಯಾರು, ಎಲ್ಲಿ and ಯಾವಾಗ
The main Kannada question words, how to form yes/no questions, and the everyday questions for meeting people and getting around.
Read article →Days and Months in Kannada
The Kannada names for the days of the week and the months, plus the traditional lunar months and the new year festival Ugadi.
Read article →Kannada Pronouns and Verb Endings for He, She and They
The Kannada personal pronouns, how the verb ending changes with the subject, and the difference between ನೀನು and ನೀವು.
Read article →Kannada Sentence Structure and Case Endings
How a Kannada sentence is built with the verb at the end, and the suffixes that mark object, destination, place, source and possession.
Read article →Telling the Time in Kannada: ಗಂಟೆ, ಕಾಲು and ಅರ್ಧ
How to ask and tell the time in Kannada, including the words for a quarter and a half, and the parts of the day.
Read article →Latin Adjectives: Agreement in Gender, Number and Case
How Latin adjectives match their nouns, with bonus, bona, bonum as a model and examples of the third-declension type.
Read article →Latin Personal Pronouns and Verb Endings: Ego, Tū, Nōs, Vōs
The Latin personal pronouns, how verb endings show the person, and why Latin usually omits the subject pronoun.
Read article →Latin Prepositions and the Cases They Take
The common Latin prepositions, which take the accusative and which take the ablative, and how 'in' can take either.
Read article →Roman Numerals: How They Work and How to Read Years
The seven Roman numeral symbols, the rules for adding and subtracting, and how to read dates on buildings and film credits.
Read article →The Roman Calendar: Kalends, Nones, Ides and the Days of the Week
How the Romans named months and days, what the Ides of March means, and the Latin origins of our weekday names.
Read article →Asking Questions in Malay: Apa, Siapa, Di Mana and Adakah
The Malay question words, how to make yes/no questions with adakah or just intonation, and the everyday questions to use when meeting people.
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