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                                                                             Language Guide

                 Italian - English Guide       
                                          courtesy of Red_Rose


 Here's my alphabet
 
A: a  Albero (tree)

B: bi  Birra   (beer)

C: ci  Ciliegia (cherry)

D: di  Dito     (finger)

E: e   Elefante (elephant)

F: effe Farfalla (butterfly)

G: gi    Giraffa  (giraffe)

H: acca Hotel 

I: i     Insieme  (together) 

L: elle  Lana  (wool)

M: emme  Mano (hand)

N: enne    Nano (dwarf)

O: o    Osso ( bone)

P: pi    Piede (foot)

Q: q    Quadro ( picture)

R: erre  Rana  (frog)

S: esse  Sole   (sun)

T: ti    Titano  (Titan)  

U: u   Uva (grape)

V: vi   Viso  (face)

Z: zeta Zoccoli (clogs)

Dutch - English Guide 
           Bucky will not be with us this month, so this guide is
courtesy of Pim

Het Nederlandse alfabet

(the Dutch alphabet)

A: Aardbei ( strawberry)

B: Bloem (flower)

C: Charmant (charming)

D: Dorp (village)

E: Eten ( to eat)

F: Fiets (bicycle)

G: Gehakt (ground meat)

H: Heuvel (hill)

I: imponeren (to impress)

J: Jager (hunter)

K: Kwaliteit (quality)

L: Leven (to live)

M:  Molen (mill)

N: Nederland ( the Netherlands)

O: Oor (ear)

P: Plein (square)

Q: no real words with q in dutch language

R: Rotonde (roundabout)

S: Suikerspin (cotton candy)

T: Tijger (tiger)

U: Ui (onion)

V: Vis (fish)

W: Wol (wool)

X: no dutch words with x only from other languages like xtc

Y: no real dutch words with y only from other languages like yoghurt

Z: zout (salt)

                Arabic - English Guide
                                         courtesy of Kate

A=Ã alef we pronounce it aa like in apple

B=È ba ,book

D=Ï dal  door

F=Ý fa food

G=Ì geem ,germany

H=å  ha house

K=ß kaf ,kind

L=á lam ,lamb

M=ã meem ,moon

N=ä noon , new

R=Ñ ra,room

S=Ó sa,stars

T=Ê ta,telephone

W=æ wa,window

Y=í ya,yemen

Z=Ò za,zoo

 




 

         Japanese - English Guide
                                         courtesy of aki  


There are 46 hiragana characters for 46 different sounds.
We have only 5 vowel sounds and have no individual consonant sound except N.
 

A

I

U

E

O

Aka

(red)

Ie

(house)

Ushi

(cow)

Eki

(station)

Oji

(uncle)

K

KAsa

(umbrella)

KIta

(north)

KUro

(black)

KEshigomu

(eraser)

KOe

(voice)

S

SAme

(shark)

SHIro

(white)

SUzume

(sparrow)

SEkken

(soap)

SOto

(outside)

T

TAifuu

(typhoon)

CHI

(blood)

TSUme

(nail)

TE

(hand)

TOkei

(clock)

N

NAshi

(pear)

NIshi

(west)

NUigurumi

(stuffed toy)

NEko

(cat)

NOdo

(throat)

H

HA

(tooth)

HIgashi

(east)

FUe

(whistle)

HEnkou

(change)

HOugaku

(direction)

M

MAme

(bean)

MInami

(south)

MUshi

(insect)

ME

(eye)

MOkuhyou

(goal / sign)

Y

YAne

(roof)

 

YUme

(dream)

 

YOru

(night)

R

RAkuen

(paradise)

RIron

(theory)

RUsu

(absence)

REnshuu

(practice)

ROuka

(hall/senility)

W

WAiro

(bribe)

(I)

*old jp

 

(E)

*old jp

O

* 1

N

*2

 

 

 

 

 

 

* 1 : Writing WO exists but pronuncing it "o" is correct as present Japanese (although I still pronounce it "wo").
         Please take a look the Forum where I mention about this, for further reference. 
 
* 2 : This N is the only Japanese individual consonant sound and different from NA NI NU NE NO. 
        There is no Japanese word beginning with "N" sound except the capital of Chad, Ndjamena.
        This N is used in the middle of word as in "heNkou" (= change) and the end of word as in "keikeN" (= experience).

 Turkish - English Guide
                                   courtesy of Tiger

  Well, if you know Spanish it could be easy to pronounce Turkish letters for you. I will give some examples in Enlish and write its pronouncing in Turkish. Thanks to that you can find out how to read the letter.In Turkish a letter is a sound and same pronouncion everywhere."e" is the letter helps the other when you try to read the alphabet and ð is a letter that you can not use it when you start a word.
 Turkish alphabet has got 29 letters and 8 of them are vowel. You can not write a sylable without a vowel in Turkish.
 the number of the vowels give you the number of the sylable :) it makes turkish to read easily.

 Aa: a    ( a of antique or u of umbrella(ambýrela)
 
Bb: be  

 Cc: ce   ( sounds like g and j in English georgia(corciya) joy(coy))
 
Çç: çe   ( ç= ch or English children(çýldýrýn)

 Dd: de

 Ee: e     ( sounds like the A in English alphabet)

 Ff: fe     (f and ph of English)

 Gg: ge    ( g of great in English)

 Ðð: ðe    ( french R)

 Hh: he    

 I ý : ý       ( Children(çýldýrýn))

 Ýi  : i       ( i of invite(invayt)

 Jj  : je     ( J of Jupiter)

 Kk : ke    

 Ll  :le

 Mm:me

 Nn :ne

 Oo :o     (Oh-O-Au of English Australia (osturalya)

 Öö :ö     ( girl (görl)- murder(mördýr)

 Pp pe

 Rr: re

 Ss: se   (c-s of english September(Septembýr) Cindy(sindi))

 Þþ: þe   (sh of english She (þi))

 Tt :te

 Uu : u    ( oo of english Good(gud)

 Üü : ü    ( ý can not find a word to explain it lol between like ö and u)

 Vv : ve  ( v of vet (from teeth and lip) not like wet(from lips))

 Yy : ye   ( y of yesterday and also the sounds makes  u 
              to not behave as a vowel Uniter( yunaytýd)

 Zz: ze     (Z of  zebra and z of is (iz)
 
 Some extra examples with English-how to read in turkish-and the mean-how to read in English
 
 Welcome (velkam) : Hoþgeldin (Hosh-gaal-deen)
 Orange (orýnç)      : Turuncu   (Too-roon-jooh)
 Tiger (taygýr)       :  Kaplan  (Cap-lan )
 Cartoon(kartun)   :  Çizgi dizi (chees-gee dizy)

                           Russian - English Guide
                                               courtesy of Mermaid

The Russian alphabet consists of 21 consonants, 10 vowels, and two letters without sound (soft sign and hard sign) – 33 letters in total

V- Vovel

C – Consonant

NS - No Sound

There is a pronunciation of the name of the letter in the brackets

And the transliteration will be after them (there can be more than 1)

 

So: LETTER – (pronunciation of the name) – transliteration – example/comment - TRANSLATION

V: Аа – (ah) – a – Арбуз - watermelon

C: Бб – (beh) – b – Билет - ticket

C: Вв – (veh) – v – Весна - spring

C: Гг – (geh) – g – Гараж - garage

C: Дд – (deh) – d – Дом - home, house

V: Ее – (yeh) – e,ye - Ель - fir-tree

V: Ёё – (yoh) – e, yo, jo – Ёж - hedgehog

C: Жж – (zheh) – zh,j – Живот - stomach

C: Зз – (zeh) – z – Зуб - tooth

V: Ии – (ee) – I – Игра - game, play

C: Йй – (ee kratkoye [short И]) – I,Y,J –  Йод - iodine  

C: Кк – (kah) – K – Курица - chicken

C: Лл – (ehl) – L – Лимон - lemon

C: Мм – (ehm) – M – Муж - husband

C: Нн – (ehn) – N – Нож - knife

V: Оо – (oh) – O – Окно - window

C: Пп – (peh) – P –Пирожное - cake

C: Рр –  (ehr) – R – Рука - hand, arm

C: Сс – (ehs) – S – Снег - snow

C: Тт – (teh) – T – Туман - fog

V: Уу – (oo) – U – Улица - street

C: Фф – (ehf) – F – Фильм - film, movie

C: Хх – (khah) – H – Хомяк - hamster

C: Цц – (tseh) – C,Ts - Цирк - circus

C: Шш – (cheh) – Sh - Шапка - cap, hat

C: Щщ – (shah) – Sch, Shch - Щенок - puppy

NS: ъ – (tvyordyi znahk [hard sign]) – is used in Russian spelling only as a separation
sign, never at the beginning of the word

V: ы – (i) –  never at the beginning of the word

NS: ь –  (myagkeey znahk [soft sign]) – is used in Russian spelling only as a separation
sign, never at the beginning of the word

V: Ээ – (eh) – E – Эра - era

V: Юю – (yoo) – Yu – Юла - peg-top

V: Яя – (yah) – Ya - Яма - hole, pit

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