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Languages

Ask questions or just talk about different languages. Since BrainKing is an international game site supporting many languages, this board can be kind of useful.

Since we will be dealing with pronunciation of words rather than their spelling, I think it's useful to have a link to The sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet.

To see translations of some frequently used phrases and sentences in other languages see Languages

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15. July 2006, 20:34:45

King Reza

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pauloaguia:Yeah, I did think of 'intact' myself, but wasn't sure if it'd be O.K.. To my non-native ears, whole isn't proper there, but I'm not sure.

No, we don't use that sentence very often. The only situation I could think of that would make me use it i sthe following conversation:

A: Hey, your shirt is torn!
B: Torn? Naah! It's not torn. It's in fcat very much Untorn (If that's a word!)

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I was teaching my students some new adjectives and for each one I was introducing an opposite to them. When I came to 'torn,' I couldn't think of anything so thought I would like to ask the natives.