Want to say increase or decrease but tired of using 增加 and 减少? Here are plenty of other alternatives that you can use:

increase - 增加 - zēngjiā Context: general increase in quantity, amount, business and economics Example: 这个月的开支增加了。 This month’s expenses increased.

decrease - 减少 - jiǎnshǎo Context: general decrease in quantity, amount, health, business etc. Example: 我想减少每天刷手机的时间。 I want to reduce the time I spend scrolling on my phone every day.

raise / improve - 提高 - tígāo Context: improving something: quality, ability, efficiency, standards Example: 她想提高汉语水平。 She wants to improve her Chinese level.

lower / reduce - 降低 - jiàngdī Context: usually refers to metrics, physical levels, goals etc. Example: 公司希望降低运营成本。 The company hopes to lower operating costs.

rise - 上升 - shàngshēng Context: natural rise in numbers, rates, temperature, prices, status, pressure Example: 最近物价一直在上升。 Prices have been rising recently.

fall / decline - 下降 - xiàjiàng Context: natural decline in numbers, quality, sales, grades Example: 效率下降了2%。 The efficiency rate decreased by 2%.

grow - 增长 - zēngzhǎng Context: usually refers to things that change over time, not suddenly e.g. economy, demand, knowledge, experience Example: 去年的销售额增长了百分之十。 Last year’s sales grew by 10 percent.

improve / enhance - 提升 - tíshēng Context: improving skills, abilities, promoting someone Example: 这次培训提升了我的工作效率。 This training improved my work efficiency.

go up / rise - 上涨 - shàngzhǎng Context: increase in quantity or degree of indicators e.g. prices/consumption, values, levels, water levels, rent etc. Example: 房租又上涨了。 The rent went up again.

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Turquoise is one of the gemstones that is highly valued in Georgian culture. The word piruzi (ფირუზი) came from the Persian firuze / piruze (فیروزه / پیروزه). In addition, the Persian word derives from the Middle Persian word pērōz, meaning "victorious."

Originally, the stone was considered a symbol of victory and good fortune. Turquoise was also used as protection against the evil eye in the Caucasus. Nowadays, both the color and the stone symbolize faithfulness, the majesty of the heavens, and divine purity.

There is a lot of traditional jewelry featuring turquoise. A prime example is Minankari (Cloisonné Enamel)—silver or gold jewelry using thin wire partitions filled with vibrant vitreous enamel.

Here are some examples:

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Most languages use relatively similar sound inventories overall, but make distinctions others don't. And the way the our language centers work is they group these sounds together, allowing us to recognize that things within a given range constitute a recognizable phoneme. If your languages groups together sounds another language makes a distinction between, your brain cannot tell.

So everyone on those posts congratulating themselves for looking up pronunciation and saying "It's Not That Hard?" Surprise, you might have still got it wrong and can't even tell. You can look up the IPA chart and still flub it completely because what sounds right to your brain and what a native speaker will understand are totally different things!

"I might have butchered that, please let me know" is sometimes an excuse for lack of research, but it is, unfortunately, also a much more accurate self-assessment than confidently fucking it up after mouthing along to a wav file a few times.

For example, in English, you don't use the sound ɐ̃ (as in pão). I have yet to meet a native English speaker who can make that sound, usually they just default to a plain a. Even though, in Portuguese, pau (pau) and pão (pɐ̃ũ) are completely different words.

The name of the country Kiribati (kɪrɪbæs) is derived from the surname Gilberts. As in, it is literally the Gilbertese pronunciation of Gilberts. Because their language lacks phonemes for G/L, the name uses the best approximation possible.

And that's if you can actually, accurately find consistent answers when you do look it up. My own home county and its towns are mispronounced frequently on the local news and weather. They're getting that shit wrong one single county away.

If you're listening to someone mispronounce your native language, you might not even be able to accurately diagnose what the other person did wrong. Sometimes people will claim some phoneme was mispronounced when the problem was the stress was so wildly incorrect that that part of the word sounded wrong, so you assumed it was the phoneme itself. If a native speaker can't correct it, how is are people supposed to figure out the correct pronunciation themselves?

When people act like this is an English speaker only problem, they're telling on themselves. You're either not noticing when this happens in other languages, or you're not listening to other languages at all. Which isn't something to be ashamed of, until you're shaming people for being monolingual. I promise people are pulling the same "I hope I'm saying that right" in other languages. Are adding sounds they don't even hear themselves adding. Are saying something almost correct and then correcting themselves to something wildly wrong.

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Words of the house

The word dame is part of a huge word family. It contains the same root as damsel, domain, to dominate, danger, dome, and despot.

In the Romance languages, it’s related to Spanish don (Mr.), French dimanche (Sunday), and Italian duomo (cathedral).

All of these words were built on the foundations of a Proto-Indo-European word meaning ‘house’.

“hana” means flower in Japanese, faucet in Finnish

“kana” is a word for the Japanese writing systems and also a girl’s name (I think?), means chicken in Finnish

“risu” means small twig in Finnish, squirrel in Japanese

“sora” means (among other things) sky in Japanese, gravel in Finnish

“kasa” means umbrella in Japanese, pile or heap in Finnish

“himo” means string in Japanese, lust in Finnish

“kutsu” means shoes in Japanese, invitation in Finnish

“aho” means clearing or glade in Finnish and is the last name of a former Prime Minister of Finland, idiot in Japanese

“Henna” is a not-entirely-uncommon Finnish female first name, means weird in Japanese

the two names above have been combined and cause hilarious results