Easy Malay words

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 Malay - English easy words (alphabetically)

anda - you

artichoke - artichoke

asparagus - asparagas

bas - bus

makan - eat

menu - menu

sandwic - sandwich

taman - garden

teh - tea

tiket - ticket

tomato - tomato

tuna - tuna

vinaigrette - vinaigrette (from the French)

Confusing words Malay - English

air - water

Confusing Words English - Malay

water - air

Useful Resources for learning Malay

Translate Google

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Malay_phrasebook

To see the differences and similarities between Malay and Indonesian :

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Indonesian_phrasebook

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Quick guide to Indonesian words - mostly the same as Malaysian

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Starting Indonesian on Duolingo is easy.

Indonesian - English

air - water (pronounced aye er, as it is written in the Singaporean placename and MRT underground railway station, Telok Ayer)

apple/ apples - apel

dan - and (the same letters in a different order)

jeruk - orang/oranges (juicy oranges, letter er, then UK)

kamu - you (I think of 'come here, you')

makan - eat

minum - drink

punya - possess/have

saya - i/My (remember the letter y in both words)

susu - milk

English - Indonesian

and - dan

apple/apples - apel

drink - minum

eat - makan

I - saya

milk - susu

orange/oranges - jeruk (remember JEruk not juruk, je like the GE in orange)

possess/have - punya

water - air

you - kamu 

False Friends

air meaning water looks like air but it isn't air, it's water, unless you think of H2O

Useful Websites

duolingo.com

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Celebrations Worldwide For The Royal Wedding -

Problem
You weren't invited to the wedding of HR Prince Henry of Wales ('Harry') and Meghan. Nor was I. Never mind. We can still see it all - even hours or years later.

Everybody was interested. The Brits, proud and curious, or homesick. The Americans, delighted. Women worldwide watching the clothes, admiring, emulating. Singers listening to the songs and music. People of mixed race celebrating. Street parties. Office parties. People glued to TV.

Answers
YouTube
I watched the royal wedding on YouTube on CNN. Loved it. Better than being there - aerial views of Windsor Castle, crowds lining the streets, close-ups of people and famous faces.

Gorgeous costumes. Colour co-ordinated. H M The queen, neat, colourful, but not upstaging the bride.

Novelty value - the gospel choir, all beautifully dressed.

Office Parties
My family in the UK sent me photos of an office party in London. They stopped work at 5 on Friday and had a buffet tea.

The photo looked as if the royal couple had visited.

The Union Jack - yes, we are still united. Lots of chocolate - the British are famous, infamous for their sweet tooth. I hope there were some glasses of water and maybe some fruit.

Another photo looked as if the royal couple had visited.

On closer look, and thought, I realised the organizers must have used a totally realistic - fooled me at first glance - cardboard cut-out of the royal couple. Notice the red, white and blue balloons and the flags draped across the room.

That really adds a royal them to a family party. I've seen the same done at a wedding in Singapore, Chinese Singaporean bride, Indian Singaporean groom, where a photo of bride and groom greeted you at the entrance, although the couple were present but inside. Very effective and welcoming.

This can be done any time when you are honouring a couple who are not present, or want a welcome sign for multi-national visitors.

Now it's over, don't throw away your newspapers and souvenirs. Save them or sell them on ebay.

That chocolate might go off in the heat. Better eat it - or sell it.
See next post about Salcombe, Waitrose and Tesco worldwide.

Useful Websites
visitbritain.com
visittheusa.com
https://www.royal.uk

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.

How To Learn And Remember A Few Words of Basic Food In Portuguese

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Problem
I had another go at learning Korean on Duolingo and it doesn't work for me. Others on the forums recommend that learners should persist. But I feel my time is better spent on learning Korean from a dedicated Korean website. Duolingo, however, is just right for learning Portuguese. So what have I learned today in Portuguese?

Answer
The trick is to keep repeating words. Duolingo is good at this. The main site has a revision after every lesson. Today I was almost too tired to do the revision. Normally I go through it once or twice, until I can get all the answers right, fast. This time I just looked at the questions and then the answers.

However, I am going to write out what I have learned.

Portuguese - English
amango - bitter (this is so bitter, I'd rather have a sweet mango)
atum - tuna
a banana - the banana (note that the is a, and that the can be masculine o or feminine a)
bolo de chocolat - chocolate cake (yes, I would like a bowl of chocolate cake)
eles - they
eles comen - they eat
eu - I
eu gosto - I like
os homens  - the men (os is plural masculine)
o molho - the sauce (the Portuguese looks like the English word moisture)

English - Portuguese
the banana - a banana (four times letter a)
bitter - amango
chocolate cake - bolo de chocolat
I - eu
I like - eu gosto
The - o (masculine); a (feminine); os (masculine plural)
the sauce - o molho
they - eles
they eat - eles comen
tuna - atum

Useful websites
Free languages for beginners:
https://www.duolingo.com (Portuguese and several other languages)
English in Tinycards for speakers of Portuguese:
https://tinycards.duolingo.com/users/DuolingoPT
https://www.memrise.com/course/1121957/portuguese-portugal-1/

Paid for courses:
https://www.memrise.com/course/1121957/portuguese-portugal-1/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=berlitz+portuguese&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=188201508211&hvpos=1t1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16051061403562216167&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=e&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045970&hvtargid=kwd-500446475&ref=pd_sl_4e6324zqs0_e
https://www.rosettastone.co.uk

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

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Travel Or Stay At Home, Drive And Live stress-free

Problem
I can't drive when I'm stressed. Just as well. If you are distracted, you are likely to have an accident. So I always calm myself before getting behind the wheel or taking a journey. Some people like to travel.

Others feel nervous. I get anxious just before I leave the house. To my astonishment, a very organized and much travelled person told me he feels the same.

Calming
I have a glass of water. I go to the toilet. I wear comfy shoes. If I need a pick-me-up, maybe eat or take with me a biscuit or chocolate bar or banana.

Loving The Past
Tell your life story, only the good bits.
1Your lovely family.
2 Your favourite childhood toy.
3 Your great discovery.

Pick three small things you love about your home or your clothes or yourself.
1 Your favourite dress.
2 Your favourite cup(s).
3 Your chair or curtians.
4 The view, the garden, the birds, the busy, lively street.

The weather
The sun is shining today. Bright green grass. Blue sky.

Optimism
Write down three things you are looking forward to - such as
holidays,
day trips,
restaurants,
seeing friends.
(If you have time, phone a friend. Note 3 good things to tell them about. Find three amusing things in the news. Three medical breakthroughs.)

A mother of small children has devised a system which worked for her, to help others.

A Diary
I keep a travel diary. You could divide it into three columns. Two for good things. One for mishaps which make amusing sotries or speeches.

Anne Frank went nowhere, but managed to write a diary. If you have the internet, you are never short of news and travel stories.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5333755/Is-key-unlocking-happiness.html
www.resetthp.co.uk

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

How to recognize and remember Welsh words for: eat, cauliflower, parsnips, trifle

Problem
How do you reocognize and remember the spelling and pronunciation of Welsh words?

Answers
(Spaces inserted to thwart the automatic spell checker and to help you to see the differences between Welsh and English.

Welsh - English
b a r a - bread
c o f f i - coffee
bwyta - eat (the last two letters are the same reversed bwyTA - eAT; I remember BolT your food=eaT)
oren - orange
pannas - parsnips (first two letters and last letters are the same, so is the N in the middle PAnNas - PArsNipS
reis - rice
te - eat
treiffl - trifle

English - Welsh
bread - b a r a
coffee - c o f f i
eat - bwyta
orange - oren
parsnips - pannas
rice - reis
te - tea
trifle - treiffl

Tips
1 Photograph menus
Photograph a menu at a coffee bar on a Welsh station or in a Welsh high street. Look at it on the train home. Look at the website of a Welsh restaurant or café. (Americans say Main street. In England people say high street.)
2 duolingo.com
(Free on line learning website for many languages from English and from several languages to learn English)
3 Translate using Google
google translate
4 Translate using second source
http://mymemory.translated.net/en/Welsh/English/

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, teacher of English and other languages. You will find several more posts on learning Welsh and other languages. Please share links to your favourite posts.

Learn a few Italian words easily

I like words which look similar to English or French. Italian is derived from Latin which I learned at Grammar School. Italian is also similar to Spanish and Portuguese and sometimes French.

You probably know that the film title La Dolce Vita translates as the sweet life.

La Dolce Vita in Hatch End.

Gelateria - ice cream shop

caffe café or coffee shop (or tea shop)

pasticceria - pastry shop / confectionary

borsa - handbag (I was struggling to remember this one. Then I saw it begins like bag with a b, and ends with RS like purse. B.RS. Like so many Italian words you add a on the end. But the other letter is a modified a, an O. Borsa. Borsa. Borsa.
cane - dog - (like English canine teeth)
Cappotto - coat (like cape, the little kid looks cute in his cape and Otto is cute in his cappotto)
dolce - sweet - (like dulcet tones and la dolce vita)
la - the
mangio - I eat - (like French manger to eat)
riso - rice (sounds and looks similar to the English)
vino - wine (like vineyard and vine)

How do you remember plurals? Squash the last vowel. So o becomes i, and a becomes e.
ragazzo - boy
ragazzi - boys
ragazza - girl
ragazze - girls
stivali - boots (I was struggling to remember this until I thought of stirrups. My memory aid sentence is: You need stirrups for your boots to ride up the valley.)

Angela Lansbury, travel writer, Language teacher and tutor.

Learning Russian: how to remember at daybreak you eat

I am rushing to learn Russian. As I follow the Russian course on DuoLingo, I try to make up memory aids.

Utro, the start of the day, like uterus, the start of life. But think that the Russians, like the French, and indeed the English, like to abbreviate words. So uterus becomes u  t r o.

The very to eat in English, German and Russian starts with the letter e. In German it is essen. In Russian it is em. I eat everything.

Duolingo.com

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Quotations about travel, food, wine and wine bottle labels

As you sip your coffee, you may recall:

APHRODISIACS
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words.
Isabel Allende in Of Love and Shadows.
QQ

APPLES
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. An onion a day keeps everyone away.
QQ
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
QQ

BREAD
In the Lord's prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. Nobody can worship God (or one his neighbour) on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson (28 Dec 1865-3 Feb 1924, 28th US President.)
WSWW

CHAMPAGNE
In victory you deserve it; in defeat you need it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
QQ

COOKS
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
QQ

COFFEE/TEA Quotations about coffee
As you sit researching your travels, sipping coffee or tea, you might recall:

If this is tea, bring me coffee. If this is coffee, bring me tea.
US President Abraham Lincoln.

You can have any colour, so long as it's black.
Henry Ford (about motor cars).
QQ

DENTISTS

If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken more care of me teeth.

Pam Ayres

QQ

DINING and DINNER
Show me another pleasure like dinner, which comes every day, and lasts an hour.
QQ

DIRT

A little dirt never hurt anyone.

QQ

Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

QQ

You'll eat a heap of muck before you die.

QQ

DRINK AND DRINKING
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die.
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may diet.
QQ

Stop at two.
(Said of children and drink.)

I recall W C Fields:

When I read that drinking was bad for you, I gave up reading.

QQ

I drink therefore I am.

WC Fields

QQ
WSWW (WC Fields 29 Jan 1880-1946 Dec 25.)

One more drink and I'll be under the host.

Dorothy Parker/Frank Sinatra.

QQ

DOCTORS

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. An  onion a day keeps everyone away.

QQ

EAT AND EATING
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you may die.
Eat drink and be marry, for tomorrow you may diet.
QQ

One should live to eat, not eat to live.
Moliere
QQ

You are what you eat.
Brilliant-Savarin.
WSWW

FOOD / FEED/ MEALS / DINNER Quotations about food
I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food.
W C Fields
QQ

Let food be thy medicine. Let thy medicine be food.
Hippocrates.
QQ

If you can't feed, don't breed.
QQ

KITCHEN
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
QQ

MEAT
One man's meat is another man's poison.
QQ

OYSTERS
He was a bold man that first ate an Oyster.
Jonathan Swift 30 nov 1667-19 Oct 1745) Irish author of Gullivers travels. Died age 77.

TRAVEL Quotations about travel
It is better to travel in hope than to arrive.
R L Stevenson (Author of Treasure Island.)
QQ
(Many more in Quick Quotations for authors and speakers Page 92)

WATER
I never drink water. I am afraid it may become habit forming. Fish f... in it.
WC Fields
WSWW (29 Jan 1880-1946 Dec 25)

WINE Quotations about wine
A glass of wine and thou.
QQ
Good wine needs no bush.
QQ
Wine, women and song.
QQ
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GLOSSARY
QQ quoted in my book Quick Quotations (Lulu.com)
WWSW quoted in my book Who Said What When (Lulu.com)

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer,  author, researcher, speaker.