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Languages

Ask questions or just talk about different languages. Since BrainKing is an international game site supporting many languages, this board can be kind of useful.

Since we will be dealing with pronunciation of words rather than their spelling, I think it's useful to have a link to The sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet.

To see translations of some frequently used phrases and sentences in other languages see Languages

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8. December 2006, 21:41:00

King Reza

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KotDB:According to what I have learnt here in university, 'have' when used as a verb meaning to possess, cannot be contracted. So basically the sentence "I've two cats at home." is wrong. It is to be written in its full form when used as the main verb, but can be contracted when used as part of a verb like " I would've had to swim if I hadn't found my canoe."