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How Does the Chinese Government Work?

Politburo - Standing CommitteeThe Chinese government manages the operational, administrative, domestic enforcement and military policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). At the top of the pyramid is the Standing Committee. The committee has five to nine members (varying by generation...

How to Make the Most of Black Friday

Black Friday is the mecca of shopping days. It is the single day of the year that all retailers hope to pull their books out of the “red” and into the black. It just so happens that this day falls on the Friday after Thanksgiving. With all that turkey and pumpkin pie lurking in your sy

W. Nelson Francis on the Three Meanings of Grammar

In this excerpt from the article "Revolution in Grammar," W. Nelson Francis points to some of the problems that occur when usage (which he calls "Grammar 3") is confused with either mental grammar ("Grammar 1") or descriptive grammar ("Grammar 2").

How to Find Korean Names

Korean names are composed of two parts: a family name and a first name. Korean names do not have a middle name. Most family names are one character long and most first names are two characters long. Thus, a typical Korean name can be identified by looking at whether the name is three characters long

How to Learn Simple Polish

Polish is a western Slavonic language that is spoken by about 40 million people around the world, according to the Ethnologue language report. The official language of Poland, Polish speakers can also be found in neighboring countries such as the Czech Republic, Germany and Slovakia. If you are plan

Human and Humane: Answers to Practice Exercises

The noun "human" refers to a person. As an adjective, "human" means showing the distinctive characteristics (good or bad) of people, as distinguished from animals. The adjective "humane" means characterized by kindness, compassion, or sympathy.

Neiger - to snow

Learn how to conjugate neiger, an impersonal and spelling change French verb.

appropriateness (communication)

In linguistics and communication studies, the extent to which an utterance is perceived as suitable for a particular purpose and a particular audience in a particular social context.

Make-Believe Grammar, by Gertrude Buck (page two)

Vassar professor Gertrude Buck rejected "mechanical" methods of teaching "make-believe grammar"--meaningless drills and exercises that divorce language from life. Instead she encouraged the teaching of a "real grammar" based on English speech and informed by the scienti

Reasons to Learn Portuguese

According to San Jose State University, Portuguese is the native language of approximately 240 million people around the world, as of 2011. It is no surprise then that Portuguese ranks as the third most widely spoken European language in the world, just behind English and Spanish. Learning Portugues