Languages
See another section of this site:
Transliteration of cyrillic
On-line converter. Tool for transliteration cyrillic to latin alphabet.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? – more languages
Audiorecords of the song Where Have All the Flowers Gone? in various languages (links to the YouTube). Czech (3 singers), English (author P.Seeger; M.Dietrich), German, Russian-English, Russian, Polish, Spanish, Italian. Řekni, kde ty kytky jsou. Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind. Ты скажи мне, где цветы. Gdzie są kwiaty z tamtych lat? Donde estan las flores?
Leaning Tower of Pizza
Leaning Tower of Pizza. Torre pendente di pizza. Linguistic photo-joke.
Links
Language codes by standard ISO 639
Language jokes and interests
Language vs. dialect
Which is difference between a language and a dialect?
The language is the dialect with an army.
Usability of names of countries in English
To tourists at ropeway station
„Heute schluss, du musst zu fuss, tschus.”
Panda
A panda walks into a bar, sits down and orders a sandwich. He eats, pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter dead. As the panda stands up to go, the bartender shouts, „Hey! Where are you going? You just shot my waiter and you didn't pay for the food.”
The panda yells back, „Hey, man, I'm a panda. Look it up!”
The bartender opens his dictionary to panda: „A tree-climbing mammal of Asian origin, characterized by distinct black and white coloring. Eats shoots and leaves.”
Who is the winner?
A priest and an Australian shepherd met each other in the final of a quiz show. After answering all the normal questions, they were neck-and-neck with the same number of points and the quizmaster had to set a deciding question. The question was to compose a rhyme in 5 minutes including the word „Timbukutu”.
After 5 minutes, the priest presented his poem:
I was a father all my life,
I had no children, had no wife,
I read the Bible through and through
on my way to Timbuktu …
The audience was thrilled and celebrated the churchman as the certain winner.
However, the Aussi stepped forward and recited:
When Tim and I to Brisbane went,
we met free ladies cheap to rent.
They were three and we were two
so I booked one and Tim booked two.
On a ship
- Captain, do you even know where you are going?
- Off course.
(Concordia, 01/2012)
2011
10 years ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash.
Now we have no Jobs, no Hope and no Cash.
Miscellaneous
Three swiss witches and watches
English for beginners
Three witches watch three Swatch watches.
Which witch watches which Swatch watch?
English for advanced students
Three switched witches watch three Swatch watch switches.
Which switched witch watch which Swatch watch switch?
English for professionals
Three swiss witches, which wish to be switched swiss witches, wish to watch three swiss Swatch watch switches.
Which swiss witch which wishes to be a switched swiss witch, wishes to watch which swiss Swatch watch switch?