For example, the word "Kitab" is Arabic for "book" and you find it in use in Urdu, Farsi, Turkish, Indonesian, Bosnian, Malay, Rohingya, Swahili, etc. Also, the word "Fa'idah" is Arabic for "Benefit" and you find that in Urdu (and Hindi), Turkish, Farsi, Swahili, Indonesian, Bashkir, etc. I was wondering if anyone knew of more words like this.
The top 4047 german vocab list is a great starting place, but i think we should work to create a definitive top 10k list. It would be hugely beneficial for people who are serious in learning enough german vocab to understand any text and to talk about any topic.
It would be nice to have sort of a grassroot approach to this. I've looked many places for such a top 10k list but i haven't found anything promising.
I think a good starting point can be the top 50k words from opensubtitles:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords/master/content/2016/de/de_50k.txt
where we can try to remove similar words that are simply just different conjugations and such.
/u/iamemployed99 has compiled the first 20k lemmatized words in this list here: https://pastebin.com/8kqY0jVU. Meaning that the same word doesn't appear multiple times in different conjugations and such.
Now we need something like a google spreadsheet open for people to edit, where people can enter information in various columns. Example:
Column 1: german word
Column 2: english word
Column 3: link to image illustration
Column 4: link to voice
Column 5: mnemonic
Column 6: The word in a german sentence
Column 7: The sentence in english
Column 8: IPA
Column 9: word type (verb/noun/prep etc)
Column 10: Category (colors, school, nature, human body etc)
Column 11: Reason for removal
Column 12: comments/discussion
I took inspiration from the anglish Wordbook We can also add translations to other languages!
Many of the words in the list are placenames that shouldn't be included, that's why i suggest column 7 where people can come with reason why the word shouldn't be on the list. Since the list has 20k words, we can continually prune the top 10k so that only the most useful top 10k words will be there for others to learn.
People who are good at managing data might come up with a way to add translations, voice, images and sentences automatically. Everyone should try to create mnemonics. If you don't know what i mean by mnemonics, check this: https://blog.memrise.com/2017/05/18/how-to-use-mnemonics-to-remember-new-vocabulary/
Some other tips, there's a difference between active and passive vocabulary. The active vocabulary is the words that you should be able to use yourself, p
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"the cats out of the bag"
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"heart of oak"
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"taken aback"
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"blow me over"
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"the cut of your jib"
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"cut and run"
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"shake a leg"
I'd like to learn german for that profession. And if you could help me get some of the common words used that'd be great. Or at least point me to a place where i could see the words used
A recent NPR article said the German Coast Uprising was the largest slave revolt in U.S. history, but I must confess ignorance of the entire matter.
What events led to the German Coast Uprising? How was the uprising successful/unsuccessful? What were the repercussions, both for local enslaved populations, and the larger national battle over slavery?
Thanks in advance!
I abridged the English branch that may date back to the mid seventeenth century in North America.
Sidney Rigdon's Final Confession About
Joseph Smith and The Origin of
The Book of Mormon
John W. Rigdon, Sidney's son, asks his dad if he wrote The Book of Mormon or if Joseph's story about golden plates is true.
In 1863, John W. Rigdon, the son of Sydney Rigdon visited Utah and spent the winter among the Mormons. He was not favorably impressed with LDS religious life, and also came to the conclusion that the Book of Mormon itself was a fraud. He determined that if he was able to return home while his father was still alive (Sydney being 70-years-of-age by this time) then he would ask him what he knew of the origin of the Book of Mormon, "although," he adds, "he had never told but one story about it, and that was that Parley P. Pratt and Oliver Cowdery presented him with a bound volume of that book in the year 1830, while he [Sidney Rigdon] was preaching Campbellism at Mentor, Ohio."
John wrote "I concluded I would make an investigation for my own satisfaction and find out if I could if he had all these years been deceiving his family and the world, by telling that which was not true, and I was in earnest about it. If Sidney Rigdon, my father, had thrown his life away by telling a falsehood and bringing sorrow and disgrace upon his family, I wanted to know it and was determined to find out the facts, no matter what the consequences might be.
"I reached home in the fall of 1865, found my father in good health and (he) was very much pleased to see me. As he had not heard anything from me for some time, he was afraid that I had been killed by the Indians. Shortly after I had arrived home, I went to my father's room; he was there and alone, and now was the time for me to commence my inquiries in regard to the origin of the Book of Mormon, and as to the truth of the Mormon religion. I told him what I had seen at Salt Lake City, and I said to him that what I had seen at Salt Lake had not impressed me very favorably toward the Mormon Church, and as to the origin of the Book of Mormon I had some doubts.
"'You have been charged with writing that book and giving it to Joseph Smith to introduce to the world. You have always told me one story; that you never saw this book until it was presented to you by Parley P. Pratt and Oliver Cowdery; and all you ever knew of the origin of that book was what they told you and what Joseph Smith and the witnesses who claimed to have seen the plates had told you. Is thi
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Today I learnt the origins of the word 'grilagem' (illegal land occupation, typically in the Amazon ). This is from episode 229 of the Mamilos podcast at about 26 minutes.
In the past people would write false land titles, then place them in a box with crickets grilos, after some time the paper would look old.
Just a random factoid about a word that always puzzled me 😊
