A list of every Word of the Year selection released by Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com’s first Word of the Year was chosen in 2010.

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Want to learn a new language? The easiest languages for English speakers to learn are generally those languages that use the same Roman alphabet and have a similar grammar structure.

Port Manteaux churns out silly new words when you feed it an idea or two. Enter a word (or two) above and you’ll get back a bunch of portmanteaux created by jamming together words that are conceptually related to your inputs.

Kirill Kedrinski/123rf.com. Congratulating your friends is a good idea, but you need to be careful when you do it in French. “Tu es bonne”, said to a teen will often be interpreted as “you are good…in bed”, and that’s the most polite interpretation.

Tibeto-Burman languages: Tibeto-Burman languages, language group within the Sino-Tibetan family. In the early 21st century, Tibeto-Burman languages were spoken by approximately 57 million people; countries that had more than 1 million Tibeto-Burman speakers included Myanmar (Burma; about 29 million), China (some 17.2

Tenses : Verbotempoj All Esperanto verbs are conjugated the same way so once you understand how the verb ami, to love, works, you understand them all.It was only when I encountered Esperanto did the English tenses begin to come clear.

Would you all be amenable to this? Is there anything you’d like to do differently? For example, should we indicate on the page somewhere that this is an obsolete (or at least archaic) historical spelling?

Lojban language logo; Many science fiction novels have noted how difficult, illogical, unscientific, and inefficient the English language is (did you know that “ghoti” should be pronounced “fish?”).

The Korean language isn’t as hard as you may think it is and here’s 10 reasons why.