четвер, 13 квітня 2017 р.

Word families. Word formation.
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How to play lego with words

Being a philologist it is not only about learning language issues and rules, but also about having an incredible chance to create your own words with new meanings. You see, the methods we use to generate new words are quite simple.

 As you may know, England was rulled by different countries throughout its great history. The thing is that each country influenced England and its language and phonetics in a multitude of ways. For example, according to historical chronology, England was under the rule of Roman Empire for nearly 400 years and during this time Romans remarkably influenced English language by adding to active usage such Latin and Greek roots as: vid-, psyco-, pone-, con-, phon- and many others.



So, if you are up to synthesize some new words, be sure to revise all of them and develope your potential to the maximum. Also, wether you are a mono- or multilingual person, don't be afraid of experimenting with various of those roots and even prefixes transfered from other languages, in such way you will have more chances to create something really unique and authentic.


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