Easy Spanish Signs

 

Contenido - content

Spanish - English

A bordo - on board

Danza - dance

De - of (the same as French)

estudio - studio (the letter e goes in front of S at the start of Spanish words)

Garaje - garage

Isla - island

Nacional - national (the adjective follows the noun in Spanish, like French)

Parque - park

Policia - police

Servicios - services / toilets

Bilingual videos on Fred Olsen ferries:

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A few words of the Malay language from a Singapore banner

 

I looked at this poster and saw that the Malay language was used. I spotted one word straight away. Denggi. That must be dengue. I took another look. Kes was case. I know anda is your.

These are the words translated in order

terdapat - be found (there are)

atau - or

lebih - more

kes - case

denggi - dengue

di - at

kawasan - area

kejiranan - neighbourhood

anda - your

Now I shall arrange them alphabetically in both Malay and English

Malay - English

anda - your

atau - or

denggi - dengue

di - at

kawasan - area

kejiranan - neighbourhood

kes - case

lebih - more

terdapat - there are /be found/(we have) found

English - Malay

area - kawasan

at - di

case - kes

dengue - denggi

more - lebih

neighbourhood - kejiranan

or - atau

there are /be found/(we have) found - terdapat

your - anda

Useful Websites

DENGUE

www.nea.gov.sg/dengue

twitter.com/NEAsg

Downoad app myENV 

1-800 Call-NEA

1-800 2255 632

facebook.com/Stop.Dengue.Now

LANGUAGE

Facebook polyglots

translate Google

wikipedia Malay language

About the Author

Angela Lansbury, is a semi-retired travel writer still researching bucket list countries and seeking out the special, unusual, people, places,  landmarks, hotels, museums and trails, fabulous foods, recipes, clothes and online souvenir shopping.

Angela Lansbury is a member of Toastmasters International.

About the Author Angela Lansbury

The Author - Quick Quotations

Angela Lansbury B A Hons  is the author of ten books by regular publishers plus another ten self-published books. 

About Angela The Speaker & Trainer

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages to Toastmasters clubs and businesses.

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Vice President  Public Relations, Immediate Past President. VPPR

Former Area Director S3. Club Coach for Nee Soon South Toastmasters Club.

Also Member of: TCA Toastmasters Club; Singapore Online Dynamic; Harrovians UK

BHA

Past meetings have included Garen Tee on using story telling in business, on 

bha.learncool.sg/meet/bha . 

Recent meetings of BHA included an educational session on using Powerpoint for posters.

Next BHA meetings, always first Wednesday evening, 7 pm Singapore time. Next meeting is  the third Saturday afternoon, June 19th 2pm Singapore time.  Inauguration of the new committee was by the incoming Director of S, plus a lively speech on teamwork.

Next meetings will be on these dates (unless a national holiday in Singapore or worldwide)

Themes and word of the day are tentative

2021

JULY - JUBILANT JULY

Theme/WOD Jubilant

WORKSHOPS & EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS (based on level one of Pathways)

1 Your first speech or role EASY ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Articles A and The, Plurals, Tenses, Pronunciation, Singlish)

2 CHOOSE YOUR PATH

Wed July 7th 

Saturday 17th

July 4rh American Independence Day.

2021 AUGUST - AWESOME AUGUST

1 Pathway Level 1 Introductory Speeches

2 Evaluations

Wed 4th

Sat 21

2021 SEPT - SUPER SEPTEMBER

Wed 1st

Sat 18th SPEECH CONTESTS

Humorous Speech Contest

Table Topics Contest

2021 OCT - ODD OCTOBER

Wed 6th

Sat 16th

2021 NOV - NOVELTY NOVEMBER

Wed 3rd

Sat 20th Wed

Diwali Hindu Festival of lights Nov 4th.

Nov 25th American Thanksgiving.

Hanukah starts 28 Dec 8 days until Dec 6. Jewish Festival of lights, celebrated by Jesus.

2021 DEC - DARLING DECEMBER

Wed  1st (Hanukah if not previous month. Festival foods.)

Sat 18th

Speech on 

JAN 2022 - JOYFUL JANUARY

Wed Jan 5th New beginning - forget the past

Sat 15 Long-term plans = for the future/Chinese New Year (CNY for short)

2022 FEB FUN FEBRUARY

Theme Love and romance - Chinese New Year

Feb 1st and 2nd are holidays - do we move this Feb 2nd meeting date?)

Wed 2nd (Valentine's Day Mon Feb 14)

Sat 19th

2022 MAR - MARVELLOUS MARCH

Theme

Wed 2nd

Sat 19

March 1st is Christian Pancake day. 

2022 APR - APRIL'S AIMS

Wed 6th

Sat 16th

Muslim Ramadan 1-30 April.

Jewish Passover (Seder meal=Last supper) April

 16

2022 MAY - MODERNISING MAY

Wed 4th

Sat 21

2022 JUN - JUBILANT JUNE

Wed 1st

Sat 18th

Jul 6, Jul 16, Aug 3, Aug 20, Sept 7, Sept 17, Oct 5, Oct 15, Nov 2, Nov 19, Dec 7, Dec 17.

Angela The Blogger 

Angela has several blogs speeches, comedy and song writing and organizing, writing intermittently, but writes almost daily on these three:

travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

See many varied posts such as the post on sculptor Tom Harvey.

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More Portuguese words - mais is more - occupations and shops

English - Portuguese

(the) journalist - (o) jornalista
a photographer - um fotógrafo

more - mais

artist - artista
baker - padeiro
the bill - a contra
breakfast
buy - comprar
butcher - açougueiro
cheap - barato
coffee shop - cafeteria
chemist / drugstore - farmácia
concert - show

Portuguese - English
the journalist - o jornalista

a photographer - um fotógrafo

mais - more

artista - artist
padeiro - padeiro
a conta - the bill
café da manhã - breakfast
comprar - to buy
açougueiro - butcher
barato - cheap
cafeteria - coffee shop
farmácia - chemist / drug store
show - concert

English - Portuguese
dinner - jantar
free - livre
greengrocer - verdureiro
hotel - hotel
how much
I have lost
I need
I want to buy
I want to order
leaflet / brochure

Portuguese - English
jantar - dinner livre - free verdureiro - greengrocer (green as in Verdi) hotel - hotel quantos - how much eu perdi - I have lost (like perdition) eu preciso - I need (I'm a very precise person and I need this) eu quero comprar - I want to buy Quero encomendar - I want to order ( a bit like the words commend and command) folheto / brochura - leaflet / brochure (forget folheto and stick to the easier word brochura

English - Portuguese
lunch - almoço
luxury / deluxe - luxo /luxo
May I take this? posso levar isso?
May I keep this? Posso manter isso?
May I photograph this?
market - mercado
the menu - o cardapio (notice card - a - pio a menu is a card which makes me happy)
painter - pintor
pianist- pianist
price - preço

Portuguese - English
almoço - lunch luxo / luxo - luxury / deluxe Posso levar isso? - May I take this? (Is it possible to lift this and go off with it) Posso manter isso? - May I keep this (manhandle it and keep it on my mantelpiece)? posso fotografar isso? - May I'is it possible to photograph this? mercado - market o cardápio pintor - painter pianista - pianist preço - price (this item must be very precious if you press me to pay that price - oh, you're joking!)

The Portuguese don't seem to distinguish between the polite request for permission, may I, and the more modern, can I.

English - Portuguese
the price list - a lista de preços
guide - guia
guided tour - visita guida
guitarist - guitarist
restaurant - restaurante
supermarket - supermarcado
the waiter - o garçom

ticket - bilhete

reservation - reserva

Where is ... ? - Onde é ... ?

Tell me the word for this - diga-me a palavrar para isso

palavras - words

Useful Websites
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-portuguese/headlamp

Portuguese - English

a lista de preços - price list
guia - guide
visita guiada - guided tour
guitarrista - guitarist
restaurante - restaurant
supermercado - supermarket
o garçom - waiter
bilhete - ticket
reserva - reservation
Onde é ...? Where is ...?http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/how-to-remember-23-portuguese-words-or.html

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

Today's Easy German Words - Arriving Somewhere Whilst Travelling

Problems
1 How do you fill the time whilst waiting at a station?

2 You are too jet lagged to do anything.

Answers
Learn a language on Duolingo. At least you will have made some progress with your day and your life.

What is the word progress in German?
Fortschritt
How do you remember it? Go forth or forwards. FORT - progress go forth
Fortschritt - the letter r appears twice in both words pRogRess foRtschRitt
progress ends with double ss progreSS and fortschritt ands with double tt fortschriTT
Germans take the s sound from the end of progress and put it in the middle
progreSS fortSCHritt
now we can recognise the German word
fortschritt is progress
all we have to do is say it three times until we can create it from the English
fortschritt - progress
fortschritt - progress
fortschritt - progress
progress - fortschritt
progress - fortschritt
progress - fortschritt

As I was saying, we are making progress, fortschritt.

That was a diversion, an interesting diversion, from easy words of the day which I picked out from a set on Duolingo.

(Italian is even easier. The Italian for Diversion is d i v e r s i o n e. The Italian for progress is progresso.)

Today's Easy German words:
German - English
die Firma - the firm or company
Garantie - guarantee
Industrie - industry
jeder - everybody (notice the D in the middle j e D e r everyboDy and the er evERybody jedER
Logistik - logistics
Leiferung - delivery (the middle the word is L (e) i f - L I V and the German g looks like a English y
m e h r - more (sounds similar; letters M and R are in more words. Look again. E is in both words. M E h R - M o R E; it sounds like a mare or horse but no letter a, letters H and E as in the english word H o R s E.)
Produktion - production
Service - service
Versicherung - insurance (what looks after you when you are sick - very good sickness insurance)

English - German
delivery - Leiferung (just remove the de from delivery and start with L; add liv life deliver life L.FER..g
firm or company - die Firma
industry - Industrie
more - m e h r
guarantee - Garantie (remember that German nouns have a capital letter)
production - Produktion
service - Service
insurance - Versicherung (such s u C H a good idea - a very good idea VER Sich ER ung )

Author
Angela Lansbury, teacher of English and other languages.