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Days, Months and Seasons in English and Hindi (and the Tricky Word कल)
Learn the English and Hindi names for weekdays, months and seasons, and why the Hindi word कल means both yesterday and tomorrow.
Read article →Family Relationships in English and Hindi: Why One Word Becomes Many
English family words such as uncle, aunt and cousin map to several different Hindi words. Learn the pairs and how to choose the right one.
Read article →Food and Kitchen Vocabulary: English to Hindi
Everyday English food and kitchen words with Hindi meanings, plus useful sentences for restaurants, markets and home cooking.
Read article →Broad and Slender Vowels: Caol le Caol agus Leathan le Leathan
The key spelling rule of Irish explained: why words gain extra vowels, why 'bád' becomes 'báid', and how it affects pronunciation.
Read article →Counting in Irish: From a haon to a deich and Beyond
Learn the Irish numbers 1 to 20, plus 30 and 100, and see why counting and using numbers with nouns follow slightly different rules.
Read article →Days, Months and Seasons in Irish
The Irish names for the days of the week, the months and the four seasons, with pronunciation notes and their links to traditional festivals.
Read article →Pronouncing Irish: bh, mh, dh, gh and fh in Real Words
Irish consonants with h look confusing. This guide shows what they sound like, using well-known names and everyday words.
Read article →The Irish Alphabet and the Fada: Why Accents Change Meaning
Irish uses 18 traditional letters and the síneadh fada accent. Learn how the fada works, and why leaving it out can change a word completely.
Read article →Italian Accents and Apostrophes: È vs E, Dà vs Da, Sì vs Si
When Italian words carry accents, what they mean, and the small pairs of words where an accent changes the meaning.
Read article →Italian Articles: Il, Lo, La, L' and Their Plurals
Italian has more forms of 'the' and 'a' than English. Here is the pattern, with a simple rule for choosing between il and lo.
Read article →Italian Noun Gender and Plurals: Il Problema, Le Mani and Other Surprises
How Italian nouns show gender and form plurals, with the exceptions that catch learners out.
Read article →Italian Numbers from Zero to One Hundred, and How to Say Prices
Learn Italian numbers up to 100, the patterns for 21 to 99, and how to say prices with a decimal comma.
Read article →Italian Pronunciation Rules: C, G, GN, GLI and Double Consonants
Italian spelling is far more regular than English. Learn the handful of rules that tell you how to pronounce almost any word.
Read article →Days, Months and Dates in Japanese
The Japanese weekdays and their elements, how months are formed from numbers, and the irregular readings used for days of the month.
Read article →Japanese Numbers from One to Ten Thousand, and the 万 System
Learn Japanese numbers 1 to 100, the sound changes in 300, 600 and 800, and why large numbers are grouped in tens of thousands.
Read article →Japanese Sounds: Long Vowels, Small つ and the Syllable ん
The key sound contrasts in Japanese that change meaning, from long vowels and doubled consonants to the special syllable ん and pitch accent.
Read article →Katakana in Practice: Foreign Words, Names and Look-Alikes
What katakana is used for, how the long-vowel mark and extended combinations work, and how to tell similar characters like シ and ツ apart.
Read article →Learning Hiragana Row by Row with the Gojūon Chart
A practical guide to the 46 basic hiragana, how the gojūon chart is organised, and how dakuten, small kana and the particles は, を and へ work.
Read article →Conjuncts in Kannada: Ottakshara and the Virama
How Kannada joins consonants together into clusters, using subscript forms called ottakshara and the virama, with examples in everyday words.
Read article →Kannada Consonants: The Vyanjanas Organised by Sound
How the Kannada consonants are arranged by where they are made in the mouth, with the five classes, semi-vowels and extra letters.
Read article →Kannada Pronunciation Tips for English Speakers
The sounds that Kannada has and English lacks: retroflex consonants, aspiration, vowel length and the letter ಳ, with practice tips.
Read article →Kannada Vowels: The Swaras with Pronunciation
A guide to the Kannada vowels (ಸ್ವರಗಳು), their short and long forms, and how each is pronounced, with example words.
Read article →Vowel Signs in Kannada: How ಕ Becomes ಕಾ, ಕಿ and ಕು
How Kannada attaches vowel signs to consonants, with the full pattern for ಕ, and why the inherent 'a' matters.
Read article →How to Pronounce Latin: Classical Versus Ecclesiastical
Two standard ways to say Latin aloud, the reconstructed classical pronunciation and the ecclesiastical pronunciation of the Church, with the key differences.
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