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🚨🚨🎙️| Rasmus Højlund on Casemiro: "He just said something in Spanish: 'vamos'. He was happy that I gave the team a dynamic maybe a little bit different from Martial's. He's maybe "...
1/ do you know there are many countries around the world who have their own name in their own language? thread 🧵 what we know their name in english is 'external' name see if you...
HOW TO SPEAK ENGLISH WITH CONFIDENCE:
European colonies generally use their colonisers’ language. French and British colonies still use French and English as their main official languages. However, Indonesia, a former...
Did you know that in Arabic, there are 12 levels of friendship? For every level of friendship, there is an Arabic word to describe it. From Sadeeq to Khaleel, it is rare to find...
CHIDỊNMA OR CHIDỊMMA: WHICH ONE IS SPELT CORRECTLY AND WHY? Over the years, grammatical anomalies have been committed regarding ways to write some Igbo names or words. On social...
Infinitive Verb in Igbo Language: a Grammatical Perspective. In this article, we are going to discuss infinitive verb in Igbo language. What is infinitive? Infinitive is the bas...
AHIK PANINI 480-410 BCE There have been many languages that flourished and changed. So many languages, which even though vanished, resurfaced, and several others do not exist in an...
Eloquence is such an interesting concept, fraudulent also. You can be a clueless, shallow, sector-nitpicking, mentally lightweight fellow & you'll get people to "hmmm hmmm", "true...
What has always intrigued me is that. The bible was translated in all our African languages. But Science, Finance, Law, Economics, Engineering etc still remained in English. http...
A person from Botswana is called a Motswana. A group of citizens is called Batswana. The local language is Setswana, and Botswana was named after Tswana. A citizen of Lesotho is...
PR Ramachander: I am an 81-year-old retired scientist from Kerala and settled in Bangalore. I am an expert in Sanskrit, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi and have working knowledge of Kan...
The most degenerating word I've ever heard in Nigeria school system is "Vernacular is prohibit" Really??? Like u build school in native land and tell the native tribe not to spea...
New paper in Science magazine concludes that "Indo-European" languages emerged 8k years ago i.e. 3k years before earlier linguistic theories. It also suggests southern origin in Mi...
Ismail Hashim a Hausa native who is exceptionally fluent in English and Arabic, also a Hafeez (Qur'an memorizer) has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Morocco where Sheikh Ja...
5 Words People Use Wrong All the Time (Including You): https://t.co/P9xPmQuxou
1. Why aren't we taught the alphabet like this. https://t.co/Fg5hFicKcD
In African schools, English is compulsory while Agriculture is optional. That's why we speak good english but no food 💔🙄
#Assam In my extended family circle, all the kids study in English medium schools. One thing prominent among them is the voracious preference for Korean and Chinese entertainment....
You won’t see this in North India PS - I did face something similar by Ola, Rapido Auto Drivers a few times in Bengaluru for Hindi https://t.co/5CT58aLQu0
Yup. I beat the craziest of deadlines and you see PASSION, I have it. I pour out my heart to any task I’m given. https://t.co/Vdl6iXz77R
Old English had two words for "army", those being "fyrd" and "here". After the military reforms of King Alfred the Great they began being used less strictly, sometimes interchangea...
A thread of excerpts from Daniel Everett's book 'Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes' about his time with the Amazonian Pirahãs. I don't think there's another people quite as unusual a...
‘Africa has culture. Whites are bland’ Culture is not akpu, Ijele masquerade, umu ada groups, Ichafu and co. Culture is really the excellent application of talent and ingenuity....
