Category Archives: soft skills
To slugify?
I’m currently working my way through Practical symfony and I’m on day 5. It’s talking about the need to “slugify” column names before they can be used in URLs. However, what does “slugifying” a string actually do?
Well, it replaces non-ASCII characters with ASCII characters. You learn something new everyday.
Spanish nouns
I found a great article on Wikipedia about Spanish nouns. The most useful part details how to tell the gender of a noun by its ending.
Most frequently used Spanish words
As I’ve mentioned a few times – I’m actively learning Spanish.
A huge part of becoming fluent will involve learning a lot of vocabulary. However, I don’t want to be learning words I’m not going to be using that often – that’s where frequency lists come in.
Frequency lists allow you to “optimise” your vocabulary learning.
Found some Spanish exercises
After complaining about the lack of good Spanish exercises, I stumbled across some on StudySpanish.com.
Spanish
I enjoy learning languages. In the past I’ve learnt both French and German and currently, I’m interested in Spanish.
I’ve been using a language learning site called Livemocha to pick up the basics of the language and have been supplementing that with information from About.com: Spanish Language.
So far, I’m doing pretty well and have managed to [...]
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