What Does It Mean?
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Five phrases of the original and their English, shuffled. Pair each original with the English that renders it.
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Close or Free?
One passage and three English versions: word for word, a century old, and plain English today. Which is which?
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False Friends
Latin and Greek words that look like English ones, in real sentences. Does each mean what it looks like?
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Recipes, farm work, animals, fables and lessons in Greek, Latin, Chinese and Japanese
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How people named the months and days, fixed the year and kept a diary
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