The U.S. State Department reports that American companies lose billions of dollars a year due to poor-quality translations. Typically, the translations are not only...

As an English language student advances in his or her study, it is important that he or she learns how adjectives are being used. He or she also has to know the degrees of comparison and the most common adjectives in the English language.

There is no strict or definitive rule to make a word plural in Moroccan Arabic; also referred to as Darija. Sometimes plurals are formed in Moroccan Darija by adding the suffix "een" to the end of words that are masculine.

When speaking Moroccan Arabic there is a masculine and a feminine form for many words. Other languages, such as Spanish, share this similarity with Moroccan Arabic.

Why do you want to learn to speak Spanish? Are you about to travel to a Spanish speaking country? Do you have a Spanish speaking partner? Are you studying Spanish and need better resources to make your learning task easier? Do you want to earn more money at your job by being bilingual? Perhaps you simply want to learn for personal pleasure.

In English, the words 'cousin, uncle, aunt, niece and nephew' are used when referring to a family member. In English, when these words are used by the speaker, in most cases it is up to the listener to inquire as to the exact relationship of the relative to the speaker's mother or father. In Moroccan Darija this is not the case.

The names used for the days of the week, in Moroccan Arabic, and the numbers used for counting in both Standard Arabic and Moroccan Arabic are similar. This is because words for some days of the week are the same words or similar (derivatives) as the ones used for counting. We will clarify this point with some examples.

People often ask 'how do you say so and so in Jamaican Patois.' They would be surprised to find out that although they may consider Jamaicans to be walking Jamaican dictionaries, even they sometimes don't know what some terms and expressions mean. They too can be stumped when trying to give the Jamaican to English translation for certain Jamaican words.

The word stoosh (also spelled 'stush') has several meanings in the Jamaican language. Sometimes the exact meaning of the word is difficult to pinpoint. To add to the confusion, there are also other variations of the word. One such variation is the word 'stoshous.' We will take a look at these words and some of their usages.

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