James Little @ NZfusion.com

Wood, it is either boring, or a little naughty… and you are unlikely to ever need to know it, unless you are a builder. And if you were, you might use it to build a house; today’s word is “House”. The first word was “Sun“, a basic word and many languages less than 4 characters. Yesterday’s word was “Water“ and we added another 5 languages to our set: Vietnamese, Portuguese, Korean, Italian and Bulgarian. Learning that water in Bulgarian and Russian was the same “вода”; which seems a little like bona to me, bring the paragraph back to wood?

Today, is House.

And now we have a good list of languages, except we should probably also include an east European language… hmmm actually it is becoming a little too hard. This will do!

“nhà ở” in vietnamese actually translates to dwelling. “房产” in simplified chinese/(Mandarin?) is translated by Google translate to premises and suggests “房子” for House, the earlier comes from Answers.com.

Compiling this list, I used Answers.com translations, Google translate, the Kamusi project, vdict.com and LingVoZone.com have some really good free translation tools available

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