Duolingo Progress with Vietnamese and Hebrew

Spotlight on Vietnamese

I have been dabbling in Vietnamese on and off. I love this language but struggle with typing the accents on my phone in Duolingo lessons when I am out and about. I wish I could figure out how to type in Vietnamese on Blogger. I find it fascinating that very similar words mean somthing else with different accent marks in contrast to the acents I am more familiar with in Italian.

Vietnamese -  Di co moy cai o. (I has an umbrella (cai o = (2 words) 

English - Aunt has an umbrella. 

 Reflection: 'cai o' means 'umbrella'. I guess that is the full word for umbrella. In another question, o (alone without cai o) was a match for umbrella. 

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - umbrella German - Regenschirm Danish - paraply Dutch - paraplu Swedish- paraply Norwegian - paraply Italiano - ombrello  Francais - parapluie Romanian-umbrelă Haitian Creole - parapli Esperanto - ombrelo Latin-umbella Welsh - ymbarél Irish - scáth fearthainne Scottish Gaelic - sgàile Zulu - isambulela Hawaiian - malu Swahili-mwavuli Czech - deštník Hungarian-esernyő Polish-parasol Turk-şemsiye Indonesian - payung Japanese-우산 usan Korean 우산 usan Hindi -छतरी chhataree Yiddish - שירעם shirem Ukranian-парасольку parasolʹku Vietnamese- ô Greek- ομπρέλα ompréla Russian зонтик

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   Spotlight on Hebrew

Hebrew -  see pic for Hebrew lettering ( a cake eat I am) 

English - I eat a cake 

 Reflection: The link on dictionary in Duolingo shows me the breakdown of the sentences structure. I work very hard to think about writing right to left in my notebook. So, putting that aside the word order is very similar to English: I / eat / a cake. 

   Vocabulary comparison across languages: 

English - cake German - Kuchen Danish - kage Dutch - taart Swedish- kaka Norwegian - kake Italiano - torta  Francais - gateau Romanian-tort Haitian Creole - gato Esperanto - kuko Latin-libum Welsh - cacen Irish - cáca milis Scottish Gaelic - cafaidh Zulu - Ikhekhe Hawaiian - kaka Swahili-keki Czech - dort Hungarian-torta Polish-ciasto Turk-kek Indonesian - kue Japanese-ケーキ Kēki Korean -케이크 keikeu Hindi -केक kek Yiddish - שטיקל shtikl Ukranian-ТОРТ TORT Vietnamese- bánh Greek- κέικ kéik Russian кекс keks

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