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IPA/Spanish. < Help:IPA. This is the for transcriptions of Spanish on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Spanish in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any ...
Duolingo, Inc.[ b] is an American educational technology company that produces learning apps and provides language certification. Duolingo offers courses on music, [ 5] math, [ 6] and 43 languages, [ 7] ranging from English, French, and Spanish to less commonly studied languages such as Welsh, Irish, and Navajo. [ 8]
The Duolingo English Test ( DET) is a standardized test of the English language designed to be internet-based rather than paper-based. DET is an adaptive test that uses an algorithm to adapt the difficulty of the test to the test-taker. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It was developed by Duolingo in 2014 as Test Center [ 4] and grew in popularity and acceptance ...
Qʼeqchiʼ is the first language of many communities in the district, and the majority of Maya in Toledo speak it. Terrence Kaufman described Qʼeqchiʼ as having two principal dialect groups: the eastern and the western. The eastern group includes the varieties spoken in the municipalities of Lanquín, Chahal, Chahabón and Senahú, and the ...
The Klingon language (Klingon: tlhIngan Hol, pIqaD: , pronounced [ˈt͡ɬɪ.ŋɑn xol]) is the constructed language spoken by a fictional alien race called the Klingons in the Star Trek universe. Described in the 1985 book The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand and deliberately designed to sound "alien", it has a number of typologically uncommon ...
Esperanto ( / ˌɛspəˈrɑːntoʊ /, /- æntoʊ /) [ 7][ 8] is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it is intended to be a universal second language for international communication, or "the international language" ( la Lingvo Internacia ). Zamenhof first described the ...
Spanish naming customs include the orthographicoption of conjoining the surnames with the conjunctionparticle y, or ebefore a name starting with 'I', 'Hi' or 'Y', (both meaning "and") (e.g., José Ortega y Gasset, Tomás Portillo y Blanco, or Eduardo Dato e Iradier), following an antiquated aristocraticusage.
Teaching English as a second ( TESL) or foreign language ( TEFL) and teaching English to speakers of other languages ( TESOL) are terms that refer to teaching English to students whose first language is not English. The terms TEFL, TESL, and TESOL distinguish between a class's location and student population, [1] and have become problematic due ...