Bonjour,
Je suis Vinie, j'ai actuellement 29 ans. I seek a native english "correspondent" living in Martinique, to improve my english. I'm french and living there too. It would be a pleasure to help you to learn french by e-mailing first, by using skype and the msn network.... Then perhaps we could meet at tea time.
Feel free to contact me to get more informations.
Merci, et à bientôt de te lire.
Vinie.
1 Which spoken dialects are closest to the Standard Fusha: Syrian, Saudi, Egyptian?
2 Where is the knowledge of Standard Fusha widespread due the education: Egypt?
3 Is there any use of knowing Fusha while traveling in Arab countries?
What is the origin of this expression?
Does it literally mean the width of the world?
So can you add -wide to other words to get the same meaning?
Should this be spend or spent? I always though - and a quick search on hits on google seems to confirm that - it should be spent.
Reason why I ask is that I recently saw an advertisement and where the t was, a sticker was placed with a d.
We_don'thave_an advertisement_removing_thread_on_Speaking_in_Tongues_yet. _The_function_in_TT3_that_put_a_cap_on_the_length_of_a_word does_not_work(yet?)_on_TT4.
Edited by: rooosterboy
during a conversation, I had last week-end people were arguing that Iranian/Farsi was much easier than arabic. above all the pronunciation & vocabulary+gram.
any comments on such an allegation.
thanks
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