LILT Languages for interest, learning, travel WILL World International Language Lovers

 Messages addressed to "Meeting Group Chat" will also appear in the meeting group chat in Team Chat You 2:53 PM Good evening. Welcome. Dwi Nazarudin Amrullah joined as a guest You 2:55 PM My speech is Christmas Around The World. Research Project Level 3 increasing knowledge. Edward is doing Christmas in Belize, a mon Pathway project. mon should be non Dwi 2:58 PM +6281227283582 Mike joined as a guest You 3:09 PM A jumper UK is a sweater in the USA. Q what is your favourite winter drink. Hot toddy because it is cold in England. which is why I am wearing a jumper (sweater). Q to Edward my favoutie drink at xmas rum popo, rum egg nog. Edward Young 3:12 PM Rum Popo You 3:14 PM the ingredients sweet and condensed milk, evaporated milk, raw egg, nutmeg, which is grown in Belize, and cinnamon also grown in Belize. Popular in the season. From English ancestry. Emphasis on the rum. Some like high 40 per cent others 10 per cent proof rum. sitting around xmas eve eating ham waching xmas...

 I started learning Finnish on Duolingo for LILT in December 2023. So far I have learned a few words which I am listing alphabetically for my and your convenience. Start by learning an easy word, hei for hello, like the American and increasingly Briish hi. Double it for goodbye. Hei hei. and is ja. Hello and goodbye would be hei ja hei hei. Does that mean that if you are on the phone and say hello, hello, hei hei, you are saying goodbye? Better stick to the alternative word for hello, terve. Another oddity, for us English speakers, is that terve is hello, and tervetuloa is welcome. Hello and welcome is terve ja tervetuloa. English - Finnish (Pronunciation in brackets) and - ja cathedral - katedraali cheers - kippis congratulations - paljon onnea funny - hauska river, bridge new, town, city, cathedral gate - portti goodbye - hei hei / moi moi hello - hei (hay) moi / terve hotel - hotelli merry Christmas and happy new year -  Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta !  ...

 Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year is the traditional British English greeting. But the Americans have added a new seasonal greeting Happy Holidays. You may think they have expanded their audience to cover all religions and none. You might think they have diluted this religious greeting. or you may think it is handy to have a greeting covering both christmas and New Year.  What do other countries say?  Santa is a saint, so he is used by all the Catholic countries. The French say Pere Noel. Father Christmas. We have a British hymn, Noel, Noel, the angels did say. However, Spain and other countries celebrate Christmas on the day which the British call 12th night, the last of the 12 days of Christmas, which is January 5th evening and January 6th Christmas Day. You may be familiar with the song, on the first day of Chistman y true love sent to me, a partridge in a pear tree. That's is a handy song for learning numbers. Ordinal numbers. Numbers in order, not one two, but f...

 The short term advantage of being bilingual is that it gives you confidence in other countries. Imagine the world is a giant jigsaw puzzle. Each time you learn a few words of another language, you are adding a new country to your list of places where I understand and am understood. Long term, being bilingual can postpone Alzheimer's for five years. That is wonderful for the individual and their family. With an ageing population in much of the world, this has to make life easier, and save money for families and governments. Useful Websites https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club Please share links to your favourite posts. And follow me on this blog.