vocabulary

I'm using an Assimil course for learning Swedish, a well known French method, but I'm sometimes not sure about their choices of vocabulary. I've now got to the sentence: "Pensionärerna tappar nästan garnityret när de grips av panik." Which I assume means "The pensioners nearly lose [all] their...

We watch a fair amount of cookery programmes, and we're currently engrossed with Masterchef Australia (series 6). When judging dishes, this kind of construction is not uncommon: 'This dish heroes the cheese'. In other words, this dish makes the cheese in it hero - the dominant or prominent...

Hi, there, forum-peeps, Does any one know the Spanish word for "grawlix"? That is the name of the whirly scribble or any other graphical representation of a profanity (i.e., I just can't find the @#$% translation!) I thought of "garabato," but that's just a plain ol' doodle. Let me know...

I want to translate the phrase "Structured Writing" into German (referring to a homework assignment). How would I say this?

Hello, Please tell me the meaning (origin if you know) and the pronunciation of the word 哈日族. Is it ha-Ni-zoku? Does it mean Japanofile or Japanification or both? Is it a synonym to 親日派 shin-Nichi-ha? Both words can be used in Chinese as well (the must be pronounced as hā-Rì-zú 哈日族, qīn-Rì-pài...

Please help me translate these two words. I could not find any equivalent in french. "Fifty persons will participate to the e-skills and e-employability workshop to be held in Lodon" traduction: "50 personnes participeront à l'atelier e-competence et e-employabilité qui se tiendra à Londre"

hola amigos me gustaría que me ayudaran con esta duda ¿Cómo se dice un poema que se realizó en el mar en Inglés? ¿Podría ser a poem that took place in a sea? ¿A poem that took place in the sea? Gracias

Hola a todos: Hablando sobre trabajos manuales, nos ha surgido una pequeña duda; es craftwork sinónimo de handicraft? Sucede que las dos compañeras envueltas en la discusión somos de distintas nacionalidades (y ninguna de las dos tiene el inglés como lengua materna). gracias a estas...

HI EVERYBODY!! I am attending the teacher training college and I have to hand in a portfolio about grammar, vocabulary and phonetics. The main problem is that I have to make a vocabulary list about the "ways of..." I have to list WAYS OF JUMPING. Do you know some??? Of course as a...

Hello, I did a search to see what had been asked on this before but there doesn't seem to be anything directly relevant. It's a general question so there really isn't any context, but I will put a sentence in for an example. ひきとり　can be written 引き取り or 引取, right? For which there is...