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I've noticed that the acronym KO in French and Italian informal communication can mean simply "not OK" without particular relation to the original meaning "Knock Out".

Specifically, in French at work (OK = "test passing", "KO" = "test failing"), and in Italian here (scroll down for the history of Russian revolution in hand-drawn cartoons with ( Read more... )

Hi! I came across this community and am intrigued. I'm getting my MA TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) right now in a program that requires a lot of credits in linguistic disciplines. I've taken classes in phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, first language acquisition and second language acquisition. I also lived in Japan ( Read more... )

I'm an occasional contributor to fanlore.org, a wiki about fandom - fan fiction, fan art, conventions, etc. based on books, films, TV etc. At the moment the overwhelming majority of posts are about English-language fandom and activities, but one of its aims is to broaden the coverage and cover source material and activities in other countries ( Read more... )

Hi, guys! First time poster here :D My name is Hope, and I have a question ( Read more... )

Aiutami, per favore!

I’m trying to translate this angsty, terribly liberal arts student poem about my unhealthy feelings about opera into Italian for part of my final project (which I have gotten little to no instructions about other than some vague thing about looking into my heart and doing mind exercises which are NOT appropriate instructions ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of learning Spanish, but I'm not sure how well that would go given the level of proficiency I have in other languages. I'm an Italian major who has been studying German, too, for years. Roughly how difficult would it be to add an intensive beginning Spanish course? Would it be easy to get it mixed up with Italian? I know I managed to ( Read more... )

Hello there! This is my first post here so, I'll make a small introduction.
I'm an Italian girl that loves languages, cats and indie music.
I'm a graduated student and my major at university is Japanese.
I can also speak English and French, some Chinese and a little German and that's because I love learning about languages that I'm here.
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