language related entries http://www.nimisis.com/tags/language copyright 2007 Finnish because it is a Scandinavian language after all and was missed off previously (oops!) and Bulgarian in honour of the ex-national player who comes to our little London volleyball meet-ups. Tenuous, but a good enough reason for us.

Tags: language, Finnish, Bulgarian]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/the_last_two_for_now Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:33:31 GMT Croatian, Czech, Polish and Romanian. Incidentally they're also competing in Euro 2008 at the moment. Czech Republic beat Germany today so congratulations to them!

Tags: language]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/four_more_countries_added Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:34:35 GMT Greek and Dutch were added a few weeks ago, now Nimisis.com is also available in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Hindi. That makes 18 languages all together so far!

Tags: language, swedish, norwegian, danish, hindi]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/hello_scandinavia_and_india Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:42:43 GMT multilingual blog can now be found via the links at the top of the page.

From Seinfeld - The Butter Shave
George: What is Holland?
Jerry: What do you mean, "What is it?" It's a country right next to Belgium.
George: No, that's the Netherlands.
Jerry: Holland is the Netherlands.
George: Then who are the Dutch?


Tags: language, greek, dutch]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/greek_and_double_dutch Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:54:49 GMT


Tags: language, cricket, Australia, Andrew Symonds, Harbhajan Singh]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/symonds_not_big_monkey Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:39:25 GMT idioms and proverbs is very useful and comes up in everyday conversation. And if you come across a character you're not familiar with, you can try this site, which cleverly converts it to a phonetic form for you.

As a side note. Every Chinese person knows how to play Mahjong. They seem to know this from birth. So if you're serious about mixing with the locals next time you're in China/Taiwan, it might be worth checking it out... I wouldn't play for money, but it is quite fun!

Tags: Mandarin, Chinese, language]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/learning_mandarin_chinese Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:35:14 GMT Here's a page with a useful list of language learning podcasts. Best of all they're free!

Tags: language, education, podcast]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/learn_a_foreign_language Fri, 25 May 2007 09:23:04 GMT world's internet users by being an English-only site. That has now all changed!

New language links are now at the top of each page. Hopefully everyone will feel a bit more included by being able to read the content in their native language. As a mandarin speaking person, I might actually start slowly translating certain pages (more popular ones first, like my project pages) myself. All pages not personally translated are going through Google's online translator. Reviews I've read seem to suggest that they're ahead of the game compared to Babelfish and WorldLingo. Though I realise that none of these are brilliant (just try translating to say Spanish and back again), they can only get better!

Tags: multilanguage]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/now_a_multilanguage_blog Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:04:44 GMT