Recent questions tagged language and literature

Description : Does it bother you when you see the wrong spelling of a word in an article or text?

Last Answer : Sumtymes.

Description : What is the difference between ‘Roman letters’ and ‘Latin letters’?

Last Answer : answer:Often Roman' simply refers to the normal variant of a typefont. A font's roman' form is the most like printing, whereas a font's italic' form is more like script [slanted and ... thing, although it is possible that Roman refers to a more finalized version. Latin letters evolution here

Description : How do BBC reporters get instructed on pronunciation?

Last Answer : The BBC has a pronunciation department who defines the “correct” way for all their employees to pronounce any word which could have any variation/difficulty.

Description : Has anyone used fluenz program to learn alanguage? does it work good? I'm desperately trying to learn italian.

Last Answer : I used Rossetta stone for italian, russian, and I’m starting arabic. It works fairly well for me because I can’t stand sitting down for 4 hours a day reading out of “yadda yadda for dummies” sort of books.