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200 Words a Day! Newzine13-03 Oct 04 October 02, 2004 |
Hi -------------------- 200 Words a Day Newzine #13 - -------------------- Contents 1. CD-Rom give-away each month 2. Spanish Tip: Dozens more words in an instant 3. French Tip: Dozens of French Words in a Flash 4. German Tip: Making Professions feminine 5. The Language Show
We've initiated a monthly draw for a '200 Words a Day' CD-Rom of your choice. Anyone can enter, and you can get your friends to enter as well. Each one of them that tells us that you referred them, adds your name to the draw again. So if you have 5 friends tell us you referred them, you get another 5 entries. To enter click on the link Enter the Draw. You'll need to answer some easy questions (we even give you the answers...!).
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Take most English adjectives ending in '-ical' and make the Spanish equivalent by changing the ending to '-ico'. For the female adjective (where the adjecive is describing a feminine noun, the suffix becomes -ica).
tactical becomes táctico, táctica. I’m sure you can think of loads of others.
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Take most English adjectives ending in '-ical' and make the Spanish equivalent by changing the ending to '-ique'.
tactical becomes tactique. I’m sure you can think of loads of others.
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Many German professions are made feminine by adding '-in' to the male form.
der Kellner - the waiter becomes die Kellnerin, the waitress
-------------------- Come to the Language Show in London. We'll be there manning booth #31.. The Language Show is going to be on at the Olympia, in London, United Kingdom from Friday 5th November to the 7th November 2004. It opens at 10 am daily. There will be over 80 exhibitors, 60 free seminars, and 'language taster' courses, for beginners, in 13 languages. Be sure to grab a f=r=e=e ticket to the 'Language Show' whose website is www.thelanguageshow.co.uk. Go to that website for your ticket. On the day tickets will be £10 (that's about $27USD). For additional complimentary tickets you can call 0870-011-9436 in the UK.
-------------------- That is it for this newsletter. See you next time. Hasta la vista...À bientôt...Bis bald.
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