Language

Ive been told that most riffs are pentatonic scales. Would learning all the major scales first take up my time before I can recognize and play riffs?

The pentatonic scale is easier to learn because 2 notes are left out of the major scale for each octave. Also, don’t learn all the major or pentatonics scales all at once. It will become a mind numbing chore and no fun. Learn a scale in a key of a song you like and play along with the song. This reinforces the scale and then you can move out from there.

I don’t want web sites, just your own knowledge or experience please.

There are two main ethnic groups in Sri Lanka – the Sinhalese and the Tamils, and they speak Sinhalese and Tamil respectively. Most educated people know English.

Most Sinhalese are Budhhists, and most Tamils are Hindus. However, there are Christians and Muslims in a good number too.

The question about culture is too general, so it would be good if you looked at the Wikipedia site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka

I understand how to answer "spiritually speaking, where do you go when you die?" but for something like "spiritually speaking, do you like eggs?" either you do or you dont. its not like if your speaking spirtually speaking you are going to change your position on eggs.

Im going to guess "spiritually speaking"is when said when the asker wants answers only from spiritual people, IE, retards/anti-rational people?

It’s a way from keeping the Yahoo! filter from catching a question that is off subject, i.e., it isn’t about religion or spiritually.

If they came right out and asked "So do you like eggs?" the chances are greater that some report-bot somewhere in the Yahoo! Answers HQ would find it, delete it, and give that person a violation notice.

The theory is, when the word "spiritually" appears in the question, it’s less likely that it’ll be found out.

I’m Asian and my husband is European. We both are not English native speakers but we use English to communicate to each other even though we speak the other’s native language.

I have an arguement with my husband which language we will speak to the baby. I’m now pregnant.

I think we should speak in each of our native language. He thinks that we should speak English to the baby as it’s a more important language and it’s the language that binds the two of us.

I argue that the baby can go to English education system later and will learn English. He thinks it would confuse the baby having to speak in too many languages. But I think as long as one is consistent with the language that one speak to the baby, the baby can understand. Besides the baby will take my husband’s nationality so it makes sense to speak in the language according to his/her passport. And the baby will be at least perfectly billingual if not trilingual.

Any thoughts?

Mother should speak her native language, father his, the baby will learn English listening to the two of you and by playing. Your child will pick up all three simultaneously and not even know he is learning it. If not, he won’t be able to talk to his grandparents and will miss out on a lot.

I am thinking about learning to speak fluent Spanish however long it takes but i dont want to go to classes as i dont have the funds to do so, so i was wondering if anyone could recommend any websites that they used to learn Spanish?

I’ve improved my English using the Internet and I think that you can do the same with your Spanish. A couple of free websites are:

http://www.livemocha.com/

http://www.italki.com/

http://www.babbel.com/

I’d recommend you as well:

http://tuspanish.com/

where you can learn Spanish while having fun (watching videos, listenig to podcasts, reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar and more).

Cheers.

I finished school last year and starting uni soon but can’t do French as a course. However, I love the language and I want to keep learning it. I have a penpal from France so I still write, but my listening is still below par. I try to watch french news, even though I am terrible at it. Are there other things that I can do to continue learning French.

try to listen to radio, record it and try to write what you understand.

have a look at www.frenchspanishonline.com and learn French in London at www.lsfrench.com

I really need to learn French, and I go to school in Montreal.

Its an english school, but I dont want to fail my whole year of French.

I dont really want to look for a tutor, and I think I could do just fine learning the language by myself. I have all the resources.

Which way should I proceed on learning French?

A private teacher
listening to French television

I’ve always been interested in working on cars ranging from building a beastly corvette to building a rock crawler from the ground up. I’m about to graduate with a degree in chemical engineering and after I graduate I don’t plan to go to go back to school somewhere like UTI or what ever. How can I learn how to build an engine, learn about the underside of a car, learn different parts blah etc?

do they not have adult learning or evening classes where you are , in england you can do either in mechanical engineering

Dear Friends, Please suggest me how Can I improve My English spoken and written skill. I had also done english speaking course from bsnl before 2 yrs. at that time i found some improvement. but after complettion of course. slowly slowly I again blank. Now in my professional profile every company hire that person who speak and write english with execlleny . Please suggest . I want to learn this within one-two month. urgently.

When i was in tenth grade i came to this country from mexico, i didn’t know any english at all. You know what helped the most?? READING BOOKS, no matter what kind of book, just read and read and read, you’ll learn how to write with excellence, plus you’ll learn tons of new words.

I’ve always wanted to learn a new language. This month I began teaching myself German (just for fun). However, I’ve recently learned about the different dialects in Germany and how, for the most part, they have a hard time understanding one another. So, if I learn traditional German, will it have any practical use – will I understand anyone in Germany.

While there may be dialects, the basis for the language is the same and you should learn the "proper German". If a German cannot understand you then it would be that person’s problem, nt yours.

The same problem exists in almost any language and the dialects are essentially variations from a specific standard basis.

P.S. If you had ever studied Latin you would find learning German much easier from the standpoint of grammar rules (not vocabulary). They are nearly identical.