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  List of Spanish expressions in common English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here are some words or phrases from the Spanish that are sometimes used in English slang, but have not entered the standard lexicon.
There is also a list of English words of Spanish origin.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Spanish_expressions_in_common_English   (527 words)

  
 german
Germans contributed substantially to its growth: By 1841, 28 percent of the total population was German; 10 years earlier the figure was only 5 percent, By 1850, when Cincinnati was known as the "Queen City of the West," the German community (including those born in America) made up half its population.
German involvement in the labor movement did not sit well with nativists, who, in the last decades of the 19th century, were again seeking support for anti-immigration laws.
German Americans, the societies members insisted, were neither "mongrels with a divided allegiance" nor "hyphenates." In keeping with this goal, they named their organization after Baron Friedrich von Steuben, a hero of the War of Independence.
www.theseverts.net /German.htm   (13046 words)

  
 Choosing the language you want to learn : English
English, even bad, is the standard language of scientific publications, aviation, tourism, finance, and diplomacy.
Some Germans are especially disconcerting when they show off their english and look back at their fellow Germans with a satisfied grin.
I advise the learner to review lists of common verbs to save time, because they are especially tricky to look in the dictionary.
www.micheloud.com /FXM/LA/LA/english.htm   (889 words)

  
 Translator: German-English-German & Spanish-English: Language
But German is experiencing a renaissance in Eastern Europe and China, a trend that may have to do with the fact that in these countries, people still see Germany as a country of poets and philosophers and therefore want access to its language and culture.
Germans and Austrians tend to be quite full of themselves and believe that they "can English" (as they put it, without realizing how foolish they are).
Some of them think that their "English" is better than that of a native English speaker (English translators get a taste of that quite often when a German client tries to show them how their (native) English translation could have been phrased better).
germantranslator.blogs.com /translation/language   (7535 words)

  
 WHY LEARN GERMAN?
German continues to be one of the main languages of scientific publications.
Most German handwriting prior to 1941, was done in "old German script." At the 1996 Society of German-American Studies Symposium in Madison, WI, teachers presented units involving German script.
Research projects are usually a part of 3rd and 4th year German instruction, and follow an emphasis on mastery of language as form, and expressions of everyday culture, emphasized in the earlier grades.
www.serve.com /shea/germusa/ygermusa.htm   (2206 words)

  
 ALU: Common Lisp Implementations
ECoLisp (ECL, Eco Common Lisp) is a Common Lisp implementation which compiles Lisp functions into C functions that use the C stack and standard procedure call conventions.
Common Lisp compatibility macros are provided, and most of the examples in "Lisp" by Winston and Horn have been run on RefLisp.
The mailing lists are said to be bidirectionally gatewayed to comp.lang.lisp.mcl, but this seems to be unreliable.
www.lisp.org /table/systems.htm   (3661 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: English
Alphabetical listing of commonly used English phrases and expressions.
Enter a word and the server will return a list of words with which your word rhymes, along with synonyms, homophones, and other similar or related words.
English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept.
www.ipl.org /div/subject/browse/ref28.05.00   (1611 words)

  
 SPASS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Most longer German Russian jokes that I’ve collected contain many of the same elements as in “Not Until the Combine is Paid.” The narrative, or story line, is in English, German, or a combination of the two languages.
The punch line is invariably in German dialect; and the joke includes a number of references to rural prairie life, along with a few key English words, which are clear indicators that the joke takes place in America.
Further study of German Russian humor, and ethnic humor in general, is important because, as citizens of a multicultural democracy, we are all concerned with finding the best way to live together, to become full members of American society.
www.nd-humanities.org /html/spass.html   (5024 words)

  
 COGNATES
German pf, ff, and f sometimes change to p in English, as in Pfeife: pipe or reif: ripe.
German b sometimes remains b in English or changes to f or v as in Biber: beaver.
I once overheard a student convince a German that Chicago is on the ocean because she insisted that it was "an einer See." By the same token, a student once asked a German where his "Residenz" was; the German felt somewhat enobled by the question.
www.serve.com /shea/cognates.htm   (1859 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Collins German Unabridged Dictionary, 4th Edition: Books: Peter Terrell,Veronika Schnorr,Wendy V.A. Morris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
With its emphasis on current German and English, both written and spoken, including all areas of modern life and featuring regional usages, the dictionary also gives you the edge in appropriate translation.
This may be explained by the characteristical feature of the german language which allows us to construct composite words from basic words, thus making a kind of word competition to see the largest german word avaiable (the greatest I have read is 34 letters long).
While abbreviations are listed in alphabetical order in the text, their definitions are not given to you immediately.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0062702351?v=glance   (2390 words)

  
 Learning German Language, Books, Resources German expressions, German newspapers, subscribe German magazines, German ...
German is spoken primarily in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein.
German and English share much of their vocabulary, for example: Finger, Hand, Arm, warm, Wolf, making German fairly easy for English speakers.
German / English translator A Translator from Russia.
www.touniteamerica.com /languages/german.shtml   (799 words)

  
 Dies Domini
The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its "fountain-head".(39) The Eucharist feeds and forms the Church: "Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread" (1 Cor 10:17).
It has nothing in common with the cosmic cycles according to which natural religion and human culture tend to impose a structure on time, succumbing perhaps to the myth of eternal return.
A particularly efficacious expression of this is the Sunday gathering of the entire community, obedient to the voice of the Risen Lord who calls the faithful together to give them the light of his word and the nourishment of his Body as the perennial sacramental wellspring of redemption.
www.adoremus.org /DiesDomini.html   (14968 words)

  
 WannaLearn.com: Learn German
German on the Web - a collection of supplemental material for beginning and intermediate students of German as a foreign language, that makes use external, authentic German Websites to contextualize exercises and questions
BUY IT The Berlitz Self-Teacher : German - Considered one of the best learning tools for German available, this instructional book is officially recognized by the University of Virginia's German Department and has been used in many of their course offerings.
Here is a list of german-related programs that can be taken via the Internet, offering you the freedom to study anytime, anyplace.
www.wannalearn.com /Academic_Subjects/World_Languages/German   (1020 words)

  
 Foreign Words and Phrases
Whether the expression is familiar or unfamiliar, however, is a matter of judgment.
In this list, all foreign words have been italicized for the sake of emphasis.
A familiar German expression that is not italicized, however, should be lowercased, following the English conventions of not capitalizing common nouns.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0001619.html   (1450 words)

  
 Fluent French
The word anomaly came into English and anomalie into French from Latin at roughly the same time (the earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1571, the earliest in Le Petit Robert from 1570), yet the word seems to be more common in French.
English has the word arbitrageur which looks French, but the word in French for someone who simultaneously buys and sells in two different markets to make a profit or speculates in takeover stocks is arbitragiste.
English vowel sounds are generally diphthongized-the tongue and jaw glide from one position to another as you are pronouncing the vowel.
www.signiform.com /french   (16103 words)

  
 Glossaries by Language
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QuickDic is a German English Dictionary with more than 200000 words and idioms in each language.
The entries are primarily in English, French, Spanish and sometimes Russian (transcribed), although some may also contain Italian, German and Portuguese.
www.lai.com /glossaries.html   (3279 words)

  
 Ariga: A Glossary of Yiddish Expressions
Additions -- and corrections -- to this list are welcome, and should be sent to yiddishkeit@pass.to
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