This page gathers all the different words, expressions, vocabulary or cultural aspects that we have encountered during our trip.
Vocabulary
Weeks : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - ...
Flash cards
It is possible to download a set of flash cards (updated weekly) that you can use with the Mnemosyne Project in order to help learning and later memorizing those "Memes".
Repeated mistakes
- futur -> future
- recommandation -> recommendation
- pretence -> pretense
- treshold -> threshold
- syndrom -> syndromes
- did + past form -> did + (infiniive - to)
- words with *lly or *ly
- choose -> chose
- < UtopiahGHML> I choosed... science and reason
- < dpb> chose*
- < maxauth_work> dpb: hehe, wanted to say the same :)
- < UtopiahGHML> I didn't choooose grammar and vocabulary :P
- < maxauth_work> hehe
- < dpb> :P
- < maxauth_work> nice answer
- saciety -> satiety
New concepts
See also the New concepts page to gather all the new ideas/concepts encountered recently. They may be composed of new words or not but they express concept I never encountered before.
Tools
- most frequently used words
- in English
- Common English Words List Available as Download by TextFixer
- WORDCOUNT Tracking the Way We Use Language
- in French
- each would benefit from a GreaseMonkey script to add
- definition
- translation in another language
- pronounciation
- example in a sentence
- pictures
- in English
- Recherche d'un mot with "saisie phonétique", TLFi
- Wiktionary
- use with a shortcut to directly access a definition, like http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/exemple
- The Mnemosyne Project flash-card program to help you memorise question/answer pairs
- Image search
- Save The Words
- StudyStacks Languages Study Resources
- Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus based on Princeton University’s WordNet
- Langue française by Canal Académie
Remark
Those tools could be integrated and used with artificial languages
- Domain Specific Language
- Computer Languages
- Professional vocabularies
- Specific Ontologies
