10 entries found with tag language.

Three more languages

Nimisis.com is now available in three more languages; Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian.

Tags: Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, language

Six more languages

Nimisis.com has now been translated into Catalan, Filipino, Lithuanian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

The last two... for now

Bulgarian and Finnish have been added to the site. 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.

Four more countries added

We added a few more languages the other day and now here are four more, namely; 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

Hello Scandinavia and India

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!

Related: language, swedish, norwegian, danish, hindi

Greek and double dutch

It's all greek to me, but greek and dutch versions of this 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?

Symonds not Big Monkey

The row about Harbhajan Singh racially abusing Andrew Symonds by calling him a "Big Monkey" is still raging on, but I've just heard on the radio (so it must be true) that Harbhajan was speaking Hindi and said, "Abey bik mangey, teri maa ki" which means "Beggar, go f*** your mother". Still not very polite, but probably more acceptable. I can believe this. The Aussies grasp of Hindi probably isn't that good...

Andrew Symonds

Tags: language, cricket, Australia, Andrew Symonds, Harbhajan Singh

Learning Mandarin Chinese

I've noticed recently that more and more people are learning Mandarin here in UK. As a Mandarin speaker myself, I think it's an ambitious thing to take on, but if you fancy it, here are some useful resources. In addition to the actual language, familiarity with Chinese 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!

Related: Mandarin, Chinese, language

Learn a foreign language

Podcasts now exist which aim to help you learn a foreign language. Podcasting has been around for a while now and it's something that has been popular in countries all over the world. Here's a page with a useful list of language learning podcasts. Best of all they're free!

Now a Multilanguage Blog

Since its creation, Nimisis.com has sadly neglected the majority of the 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

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