Are there any similarities between English and your home language?
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Unfortunately none.
There are quite a number of similarities between English and my home language and most of the words which we use are borrowed from the English language. They both have grammatical gender, for example, masculine and feminine nouns. They also both have a (subject. verb, object) word order. There are also similarities in the vocabulary, like the words for numbers and colors.
Hi My native language is Italian a romance Language. William Duke of Normandy took Latin in English through French language so many English words and latin we share in Italian language too Best Regards
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Yes, there are some specifically vocabulary. Since India was a British colony, English language adopted some words from Hindi. Some of them are Bungalow, Pajamas, Loot, Thug, Jungle, Cashmere and so on.
Yes as I've got three Hungarian born children, they are now all bilingual, in English, Some words in Hungarian are either French ,which are used in the English language, for example example garage"
Yes, there are similarities and also differences depending on the location and family upbringing. Those living in the city and also who have had English education from pre-school are fluent in English. Parents who are educators, doctors and lawyers speak English to their children although they come from different ethnic group. This can't be said for those living in the rural areas. Most of them use their mother tongue especially Bahasa Malaysia (National Language) The schools too do not use English as the medium of teaching. These children and adults do not have an opportunity to speak English as all of them speak in their mother tongue such as Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese or Tamil.
Unfortunately non.
Unfortunately none. However, lately, many languages including Ukrainian adopted English words. Especially when it comes to recent technical inventions, science terminology, and slang words
English has borrowed many words like Urdu which is our home language.
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Its (without an apostrophe) is a possessive pronoun, like his or her. for nouns that don't have a defined gender. In contrast, It's (with an apostrophe) is the shortened form, or contraction, of it is or it has.
- "I could be a morning person, if morning happens around noon".
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- What does "as above so below" mean?Sarrah
I met this phrase in the book and I was wondering about the meaning of "as above, so below." Here is the context where I met this phrase: In the meticulously designed garden, the arrangement of the flowers and paths reflected the harmony of the stars above, truly embodying the principle "as above, so below."
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It simply compares the harmony of the flowers to that of the stars... meaning same harmonous path the stars portray above (in the sky), it's same with the flowers below.
