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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: "couldbecousin" on December 11, 2010, 09:36:21 PM
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Self-explanatory thread! :laugh:
All I speak is English, but I am thinking about learning Spanish. :chin:
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English only except some swears and words in Bosnian. Language has always been difficult for me took Spanish and passed it college but that was more about taking tests
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Well, not that I remember much of them, but:
2 years French, 1 year Latin in High School (can still say Twinkle, twinkle little star in Latin)
1 year of Russian and 1 semester of Spanish in College.
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English only except some swears and words in Bosnian. Language has always been difficult for me took Spanish and passed it college but that was more about taking tests
Where did you pick up the Bosnian? :orly:
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Well, not that I remember much of them, but:
2 years French, 1 year Latin in High School (can still say Twinkle, twinkle little star in Latin)
1 year of Russian and 1 semester of Spanish in College.
Which was your favorite? :)
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Well, not that I remember much of them, but:
2 years French, 1 year Latin in High School (can still say Twinkle, twinkle little star in Latin)
1 year of Russian and 1 semester of Spanish in College.
Which was your favorite? :)
Poliltical answe - Spanish was my least favorite. Guess what language came to town and didn't leave after Katrina? We have our first Miguelito (whatever that is) about 10 blocks away. I think it's for sending $ back to Mexico because I don't see anything on the shelves as I drive by.
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English, obviously, and a small bit of French
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English only . I took a a few years of French in high school, but I can't "speak" it very well. I can understand written French ok, though. When someone starts spitting it at me ten miles a minute I have a hard time understanding most of it. So, I speak it like an American :laugh:
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English only . I took a a few years of French in high school, but I can't "speak" it very well. I can understand written French ok, though. When someone starts spitting it at me ten miles a minute I have a hard time understanding most of it. So, I speak it like an American :laugh:
je ne pas parlais francais!
or something :]
sacrebleu!
viv lu frooons!
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Just english.
Did japanese for my HSC and I've forgotten every single bit :-\
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English. Went through high school without a foreign language on a glitch. Boring story though.
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English only except some swears and words in Bosnian. Language has always been difficult for me took Spanish and passed it college but that was more about taking tests
Where did you pick up the Bosnian? :orly:
Work I was a trainer and we at one point hired a lot of people through a group that sponsored refugees. I know how to say most of the tools and materials we used and a few other things besides the swears.
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i dunno how to write it, but i know "tzao" means "damn" or "shit" or something approximate in mandarin
we had chinese exchange students once, otherwise i only learned ni hao (ma), but once we slept at a cabin, we had bunk beds, and he struggled w the ladder, and kept whispering "tzao, tzao, tzao, tzao, tzao" :D
he told us later what it meant
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Ich spreche ein wenig gebrochen Deutch. ::)
Ich hatte vier jahre in hoch schulle gehabt, aber ich hat fast alles vergeissen. :-\
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Ich spreche ein wenig gebrochen Deutch. ::)
Ich hatte vier jahre in hoch schulle gehabt, aber ich hat fast alles vergeissen. :-\
i talk a wiener broken dutch.
i had a hat in the jar with hooch and a skull, after my hat fasted all the... idunno the last word :/
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Ich spreche ein wenig gebrochen Deutch. ::)
Ich hatte vier jahre in hoch schulle gehabt, aber ich hat fast alles vergeissen. :-\
i talk a wiener broken dutch.
i had a hat in the jar with hooch and a skull, after my hat fasted all the... idunno the last word :/
:rofl:
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English. I know a couple of curse words in Hungarian that I picked up from my grandmother and a couple of useful Italian hand gestures. :thumbup:
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English only . I took a a few years of French in high school, but I can't "speak" it very well. I can understand written French ok, though. When someone starts spitting it at me ten miles a minute I have a hard time understanding most of it. So, I speak it like an American :laugh:
je ne pas parlais francais!
or something :]
sacrebleu!
viv lu frooons!
Ça-va ça-vient !!
Enculer !!
La putain de ta mére.
:zoinks:
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English only . I took a a few years of French in high school, but I can't "speak" it very well. I can understand written French ok, though. When someone starts spitting it at me ten miles a minute I have a hard time understanding most of it. So, I speak it like an American :laugh:
je ne pas parlais francais!
or something :]
sacrebleu!
viv lu frooons!
Ça-va ça-vient !!
Enculer !!
La putain de ta mére.
:zoinks:
la puta madre!
:D
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Well, not that I remember much of them, but:
2 years French, 1 year Latin in High School (can still say Twinkle, twinkle little star in Latin)
1 year of Russian and 1 semester of Spanish in College.
Which was your favorite? :)
Poliltical answe - Spanish was my least favorite. Guess what language came to town and didn't leave after Katrina? We have our first Miguelito (whatever that is) about 10 blocks away. I think it's for sending $ back to Mexico because I don't see anything on the shelves as I drive by.
I think you're probably right. I Googled them and they issue money orders.
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fumer le cigare , oh la la
Putain de merde!
Connasse, On n'y baise rien !!!!
ok Ive had too much beer and I should switch back to English
Dans les vignes du Seigneur
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I know only two languages: English and Bad English! :orly:
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I know only two languages: English and Bad English! :orly:
Yes, but you're fluent in both. Some folks are only fluent in Bad English. :LOL:
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Finnish, Swedish, English, German and Spanish. I understand Norwegian and Danish (and speak a little bit of both), and a little bit of Estonian and Hungarian.
And I think I can still read some Middle Egyptian.
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Dutch, and some Dutch dialects. English, German, bit of French. Can read some Latin and classic Greek, and, if I try hard, I can probably still make some sense of old Hebrew too.
Know some loose words in other languages, but not nearly enough to say that I can speak those languages.
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Finnish, Swedish, English, German and Spanish. I understand Norwegian and Danish (and speak a little bit of both), and a little bit of Estonian and Hungarian.
And I think I can still read some Middle Egyptian.
How do you stay fluent in so many languages? :orly:
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Dutch, and some Dutch dialects. English, German, bit of French. Can read some Latin and classic Greek, and, if I try hard, I can probably still make some sense of old Hebrew too.
Know some loose words in other languages, but not nearly enough to say that I can speak those languages.
That's a lot! :viking:
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Finnish, Swedish, English, German and Spanish. I understand Norwegian and Danish (and speak a little bit of both), and a little bit of Estonian and Hungarian.
And I think I can still read some Middle Egyptian.
How do you stay fluent in so many languages? :orly:
When you come from a language that is only spoken by a few, then you have to know other languages, if you want to experience anything outside the borders of your own country.
Don't know how it is in Sweden, but in the Netherlands hardly any program on TV is dubbed. So, you'll hear foreign languages almost any day you switch on the TV. Music, most of the songs are in another language. And, in school foreign languages are obligatory. It's not that you are the only one having knowledge of another language, most people do. So, there are things available in other languages too.
The non spoken languages are the hardest to keep up with for me. Then the language I hear the least. For me, that is French. But, with a kid going to secondary school, my French is getting a boost again, even when I don't help her with her school assignments for French at all.
My French never was good. My German sucked in school, but, meeting German people, and mutual visiting did a lot of good for my German. I do still mess up with the gender of words, but, for understanding what I am hearing or reading that doesn't matter. Can make me being understood right a bit hard sometimes.
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CBC, Spanish is a lovely language to learn :thumbup: Very musical.
Apparently there is Spanish blood in our family on my Mums side as well as French, so I should know more Spanish than I do. The spanish I do know, is more Colombian, as I have Colombian mates. I know more French, but my verbs and tenses are terrible! I wouldn't last 5 mins in France with what I know! ;)
The one thing with language is that you kind of have to practice it all the time, or it leaves you.
Odeon and Hyke, awesome array of languages there :zoinks:
Go for it, CBC.
Loup
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CBC, Spanish is a lovely language to learn :thumbup: Very musical.
Apparently there is Spanish blood in our family on my Mums side as well as French, so I should know more Spanish than I do. The spanish I do know, is more Colombian, as I have Colombian mates. I know more French, but my verbs and tenses are terrible! I wouldn't last 5 mins in France with what I know! ;)
The one thing with language is that you kind of have to practice it all the time, or it leaves you.
Odeon and Hyke, awesome array of languages there :zoinks:
Go for it, CBC.
Loup
Thank you Loup! I love the sound of Spanish and in fact I hear it often, since my city has
a large Hispanic population (mostly Puerto Rican afaik). It would be a helpful language to know. :viking:
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CBC, Spanish is a lovely language to learn :thumbup: Very musical.
Apparently there is Spanish blood in our family on my Mums side as well as French, so I should know more Spanish than I do. The spanish I do know, is more Colombian, as I have Colombian mates. I know more French, but my verbs and tenses are terrible! I wouldn't last 5 mins in France with what I know! ;)
The one thing with language is that you kind of have to practice it all the time, or it leaves you.
Odeon and Hyke, awesome array of languages there :zoinks:
Go for it, CBC.
Loup
Thank you Loup! I love the sound of Spanish and in fact I hear it often, since my city has
a large Hispanic population (mostly Puerto Rican afaik). It would be a helpful language to know. :viking:
Do you have a colleague or friend to practice the language with? Using a language is the best way to learn it. Getting a Spanish-Spanish dictionary may help you too. Will keep your mind in the Spanish mode, also when you look into the meaning of a word.
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CBC, Spanish is a lovely language to learn :thumbup: Very musical.
Apparently there is Spanish blood in our family on my Mums side as well as French, so I should know more Spanish than I do. The spanish I do know, is more Colombian, as I have Colombian mates. I know more French, but my verbs and tenses are terrible! I wouldn't last 5 mins in France with what I know! ;)
The one thing with language is that you kind of have to practice it all the time, or it leaves you.
Odeon and Hyke, awesome array of languages there :zoinks:
Go for it, CBC.
Loup
Thank you Loup! I love the sound of Spanish and in fact I hear it often, since my city has
a large Hispanic population (mostly Puerto Rican afaik). It would be a helpful language to know. :viking:
Do you have a colleague or friend to practice the language with? Using a language is the best way to learn it. Getting a Spanish-Spanish dictionary may help you too. Will keep your mind in the Spanish mode, also when you look into the meaning of a word.
*thinks about it* I can't think of anyone I know who speaks Spanish, but I will try to track someone down! :viking:
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CBC, Spanish is a lovely language to learn :thumbup: Very musical.
Apparently there is Spanish blood in our family on my Mums side as well as French, so I should know more Spanish than I do. The spanish I do know, is more Colombian, as I have Colombian mates. I know more French, but my verbs and tenses are terrible! I wouldn't last 5 mins in France with what I know! ;)
The one thing with language is that you kind of have to practice it all the time, or it leaves you.
Odeon and Hyke, awesome array of languages there :zoinks:
Go for it, CBC.
Loup
Thank you Loup! I love the sound of Spanish and in fact I hear it often, since my city has
a large Hispanic population (mostly Puerto Rican afaik). It would be a helpful language to know. :viking:
Do you have a colleague or friend to practice the language with? Using a language is the best way to learn it. Getting a Spanish-Spanish dictionary may help you too. Will keep your mind in the Spanish mode, also when you look into the meaning of a word.
*thinks about it* I can't think of anyone I know who speaks Spanish, but I will try to track someone down! :viking:
Find shopkeepers or a hairdresser who speaks Spanish. Every little bit will help. And if you say you would love to practice your Spanish, they will, very likely, be less quick in answering you in English, willing to help you.
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Finnish, Swedish, English, German and Spanish. I understand Norwegian and Danish (and speak a little bit of both), and a little bit of Estonian and Hungarian.
And I think I can still read some Middle Egyptian.
How do you stay fluent in so many languages? :orly:
Well, the first three are no problem since I use them every day. German is a bit of a problem since I use it so rarely, but it turns out that I forget languages fairly slowly. :laugh: Spanish I'm actively studying.
As for the rest, I hear them often enough to retain some skills.
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Well, the first three are no problem since I use them every day. German is a bit of a problem since I use it so rarely, but it turns out that I forget languages fairly slowly. :laugh: Spanish I'm actively studying.
As for the rest, I hear them often enough to retain some skills.
I thought that German and Swedish were pretty close? :dunno:
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I can only speak English and sometimes not even that very well. :D
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Well, the first three are no problem since I use them every day. German is a bit of a problem since I use it so rarely, but it turns out that I forget languages fairly slowly. :laugh: Spanish I'm actively studying.
As for the rest, I hear them often enough to retain some skills.
I thought that German and Swedish were pretty close? :dunno:
Not that close, no. They have similarities, though.
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Well, the first three are no problem since I use them every day. German is a bit of a problem since I use it so rarely, but it turns out that I forget languages fairly slowly. :laugh: Spanish I'm actively studying.
As for the rest, I hear them often enough to retain some skills.
I thought that German and Swedish were pretty close? :dunno:
german and swedish are as close as german and english
both are "germanic"
both can be vaguely understood of read carefully
house, haus, hus
water, wasser, vatten
etc, etc, etc
:D
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Just english.
Did japanese for my HSC and I've forgotten every single bit :-\
Except for "Konnichiwa!" :laugh:
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English. I know a couple of curse words in Hungarian that I picked up from my grandmother and a couple of useful Italian hand gestures. :thumbup:
Aren't grandmothers wonderful? :prude:
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CBC, Spanish is a lovely language to learn :thumbup: Very musical.
Apparently there is Spanish blood in our family on my Mums side as well as French, so I should know more Spanish than I do. The spanish I do know, is more Colombian, as I have Colombian mates. I know more French, but my verbs and tenses are terrible! I wouldn't last 5 mins in France with what I know! ;)
The one thing with language is that you kind of have to practice it all the time, or it leaves you.
Odeon and Hyke, awesome array of languages there :zoinks:
Go for it, CBC.
Loup
Thank you Loup! I love the sound of Spanish and in fact I hear it often, since my city has
a large Hispanic population (mostly Puerto Rican afaik). It would be a helpful language to know. :viking:
Do you have a colleague or friend to practice the language with? Using a language is the best way to learn it. Getting a Spanish-Spanish dictionary may help you too. Will keep your mind in the Spanish mode, also when you look into the meaning of a word.
*thinks about it* I can't think of anyone I know who speaks Spanish, but I will try to track someone down! :viking:
Find shopkeepers or a hairdresser who speaks Spanish. Every little bit will help. And if you say you would love to practice your Spanish, they will, very likely, be less quick in answering you in English, willing to help you.
Shopkeepers, yes, there are neighborhoods in my city that are very Spanish! I could shop there! :thumbup:
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Funny thing is that I need to be in a mindset for a language.
A couple of years ago, I heard people talk in the train, and I had no idea what language it was. It wasn't German, it was no Scandinavian language. But, the rhythm of the words and sounds indicated somewhere to that direction. I did not understand a word.
Then something triggered me recognising it. The dialect my Mother has been raised in. And, I could understand everything they said. And, give me a day, I can speak it fluent again too. (Was fluent enough for people to wonder if it was my mother tongue or not)
If I have been thinking and talking in English for too long, I find it hard to talk Dutch. And, nowadays I use the spell-checker more for Dutch than for English, I hardly write in Dutch, and I make all kinds of English mistakes in my own language.
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Funny thing is that I need to be in a mindset for a language.
A couple of years ago, I heard people talk in the train, and I had no idea what language it was. It wasn't German, it was no Scandinavian language. But, the rhythm of the words and sounds indicated somewhere to that direction. I did not understand a word.
Then something triggered me recognising it. The dialect my Mother has been raised in. And, I could understand everything they said. And, give me a day, I can speak it fluent again too. (Was fluent enough for people to wonder if it was my mother tongue or not)
If I have been thinking and talking in English for too long, I find it hard to talk Dutch. And, nowadays I use the spell-checker more for Dutch than for English, I hardly write in Dutch, and I make all kinds of English mistakes in my own language.
I heard a language being spoken on the bus one day, and it wasn't familiar at all. I asked one of the speakers, and she told me it was Albanian. :orly:
I had a Haitian roommate in college, and at the same time she was struggling with English, she noted that when she called home and spoke Creole,
her relatives told her she was making mistakes there too. My father spoke German as well as English growing up, but forgot it due to lack of use. :chin:
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Funny thing is that I need to be in a mindset for a language.
A couple of years ago, I heard people talk in the train, and I had no idea what language it was. It wasn't German, it was no Scandinavian language. But, the rhythm of the words and sounds indicated somewhere to that direction. I did not understand a word.
Then something triggered me recognising it. The dialect my Mother has been raised in. And, I could understand everything they said. And, give me a day, I can speak it fluent again too. (Was fluent enough for people to wonder if it was my mother tongue or not)
If I have been thinking and talking in English for too long, I find it hard to talk Dutch. And, nowadays I use the spell-checker more for Dutch than for English, I hardly write in Dutch, and I make all kinds of English mistakes in my own language.
I heard a language being spoken on the bus one day, and it wasn't familiar at all. I asked one of the speakers, and she told me it was Albanian. :orly:
I had a Haitian roommate in college, and at the same time she was struggling with English, she noted that when she called home and spoke Creole,
her relatives told her she was making mistakes there too. My father spoke German as well as English growing up, but forgot it due to lack of use. :chin:
An emigrated aunt and uncle of mine are starting to talk more and more Dutch, now the kids have left the home. Their daughter regrets not knowing Dutch, she worries about one day her parents not being fluent in English any more.
There have been times that you'd find ads in Dutch magazines for employees in old folks homes overseas, because of people losing other languages than the one of their origin.
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Funny thing is that I need to be in a mindset for a language.
A couple of years ago, I heard people talk in the train, and I had no idea what language it was. It wasn't German, it was no Scandinavian language. But, the rhythm of the words and sounds indicated somewhere to that direction. I did not understand a word.
Then something triggered me recognising it. The dialect my Mother has been raised in. And, I could understand everything they said. And, give me a day, I can speak it fluent again too. (Was fluent enough for people to wonder if it was my mother tongue or not)
If I have been thinking and talking in English for too long, I find it hard to talk Dutch. And, nowadays I use the spell-checker more for Dutch than for English, I hardly write in Dutch, and I make all kinds of English mistakes in my own language.
I heard a language being spoken on the bus one day, and it wasn't familiar at all. I asked one of the speakers, and she told me it was Albanian. :orly:
I had a Haitian roommate in college, and at the same time she was struggling with English, she noted that when she called home and spoke Creole,
her relatives told her she was making mistakes there too. My father spoke German as well as English growing up, but forgot it due to lack of use. :chin:
An emigrated aunt and uncle of mine are starting to talk more and more Dutch, now the kids have left the home. Their daughter regrets not knowing Dutch, she worries about one day her parents not being fluent in English any more.
There have been times that you'd find ads in Dutch magazines for employees in old folks homes overseas, because of people losing other languages than the one of their origin.
I always wonder how multilingual people maintain all their languages. I had a history professor, years ago,
who spoke English, German (the Swabian dialect, according to the book he wrote), French and Arabic. :orly:
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Well, the first three are no problem since I use them every day. German is a bit of a problem since I use it so rarely, but it turns out that I forget languages fairly slowly. :laugh: Spanish I'm actively studying.
As for the rest, I hear them often enough to retain some skills.
I thought that German and Swedish were pretty close? :dunno:
german and swedish are as close as german and english
both are "germanic"
both can be vaguely understood of read carefully
house, haus, hus
water, wasser, vatten
etc, etc, etc
:D
Ah, gotchya! :thumbup:
How close are Swedish and Norwegian? how close are either of those to Danish? Flemish?
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I'm surprised that no one has claimed to speak the Language of Love. I guess that although we're intense, we're also autistic in that language.
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Ah yes, that language alludes me.........as wonderful as it sounds, your majesty! :thumbup:
I love in my own way......just hard for other people to understand it :green:
Loup
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It's a language I can speak with a few people.
Pissed me off big time, in the report about me being an Aspie. Said something like me having no real notion of love. Quite offensive I think. They may not get the way I express it, but, the people who matter, they do get it. That's what counts.
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Funny thing is that I need to be in a mindset for a language.
A couple of years ago, I heard people talk in the train, and I had no idea what language it was. It wasn't German, it was no Scandinavian language. But, the rhythm of the words and sounds indicated somewhere to that direction. I did not understand a word.
Then something triggered me recognising it. The dialect my Mother has been raised in. And, I could understand everything they said. And, give me a day, I can speak it fluent again too. (Was fluent enough for people to wonder if it was my mother tongue or not)
If I have been thinking and talking in English for too long, I find it hard to talk Dutch. And, nowadays I use the spell-checker more for Dutch than for English, I hardly write in Dutch, and I make all kinds of English mistakes in my own language.
I heard a language being spoken on the bus one day, and it wasn't familiar at all. I asked one of the speakers, and she told me it was Albanian. :orly:
I had a Haitian roommate in college, and at the same time she was struggling with English, she noted that when she called home and spoke Creole,
her relatives told her she was making mistakes there too. My father spoke German as well as English growing up, but forgot it due to lack of use. :chin:
An emigrated aunt and uncle of mine are starting to talk more and more Dutch, now the kids have left the home. Their daughter regrets not knowing Dutch, she worries about one day her parents not being fluent in English any more.
There have been times that you'd find ads in Dutch magazines for employees in old folks homes overseas, because of people losing other languages than the one of their origin.
I always wonder how multilingual people maintain all their languages. I had a history professor, years ago,
who spoke English, German (the Swabian dialect, according to the book he wrote), French and Arabic. :orly:
Reading helps. These days the net is sometimes enough to boost a language.
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Well, the first three are no problem since I use them every day. German is a bit of a problem since I use it so rarely, but it turns out that I forget languages fairly slowly. :laugh: Spanish I'm actively studying.
As for the rest, I hear them often enough to retain some skills.
I thought that German and Swedish were pretty close? :dunno:
german and swedish are as close as german and english
both are "germanic"
both can be vaguely understood of read carefully
house, haus, hus
water, wasser, vatten
etc, etc, etc
:D
Ah, gotchya! :thumbup:
How close are Swedish and Norwegian? how close are either of those to Danish? Flemish?
Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are fairly close but Danish to me is harder than Norwegian because of the way they pronounce it.
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It's a language I can speak with a few people.
Pissed me off big time, in the report about me being an Aspie. Said something like me having no real notion of love. Quite offensive I think. They may not get the way I express it, but, the people who matter, they do get it. That's what counts.
:plus:
Loup
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It's a language I can speak with a few people.
Pissed me off big time, in the report about me being an Aspie. Said something like me having no real notion of love. Quite offensive I think. They may not get the way I express it, but, the people who matter, they do get it. That's what counts.
Offensive indeed! Sounds as if they speak DUH! :duh:
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Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are fairly close but Danish to me is harder than Norwegian because of the way they pronounce it.
Something reeks in Denmark...
::)
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Norway was in a forced union with Denmark for more than 400 years. Thus the spelling is more similar between those two languages, but spoken Norwegian is much more similar to Swedish.
The most funny thing of all is that in theory Swedish and Danish are closely related (East Nordic languages) and Norwegian an Icelandic are also closely related (West Nordic) but in reality Danish is always harder to understand for a Swede and Icelandic is just a bit more understandable than English or German for any other speaker of Nordic languages.
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Icelandic is pretty hard to understand for me, but if they speak it slowly I tend to get the big picture.
Still interested in learning Czech. I, erm, acquired some mp3 files off the net the other day so we'll see.
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Icelandic is pretty understandable if you read it and/or if you have some knowledge of Old Swedish.
The Czechs are :viking:
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Icelandic is pretty hard to understand for me, but if they speak it slowly I tend to get the big picture.
Still interested in learning Czech. I, erm, acquired some mp3 files off the net the other day so we'll see.
I hope you didn't have to spend too much money! :snowman:
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Icelandic is pretty understandable if you read it and/or if you have some knowledge of Old Swedish.
The Czechs are :viking:
Yes, I can read it fine. Not as well as I would want but I get by.
And yes, the Czechs really are :viking: . I like them.
Icelandic is pretty hard to understand for me, but if they speak it slowly I tend to get the big picture.
Still interested in learning Czech. I, erm, acquired some mp3 files off the net the other day so we'll see.
I hope you didn't have to spend too much money! :snowman:
I managed to keep the costs down. :P
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i peaksa igpa atinla rettypa oodga
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Bumped for new posters/new information. I also have heard some Russian (on TV and at work)
and I like the sound of it, lots of "shhh"-type sounds as I recall. Years ago, we had a Russian father and
daughter at our workplace --- the daughter ahd come to the States as a young child and spoke English
with barely any accent, but her father's English was basic at best --- and they spoke Russian to each other
at work, which I loved hearing. I kind of wish our father had raised us bilingual, as he was raised. :apondering:
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My father grew up speaking both English and German with his Austrian immigrant parents.
I wonder if they would have taught us German, if they had lived long enough to meet us. :prude: :oldman:
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You know how animal sounds are pronounced differently in different languages? (Couldn't Adam to figure out how to make that question clearer.)
Do people's farts sound different in different languages?
Autistic minds are really, really weird.
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You know how animal sounds are pronounced differently in different languages? (Couldn't Adam to figure out how to make that question clearer.)
Do people's farts sound different in different languages?
Autistic minds are really, really weird.
:apondering:
Maybe farts really do sound different in different countries, not only in the way the sound is mimicked in the language, because of difference in diet.
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I can fart in a dozen languages. :zoinks:
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I can fart in a dozen languages. :zoinks:
How many languages do your Moominettes know? :moomin:
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I can fart in a dozen languages. :zoinks:
How many languages do your Moominettes know? :moomin:
The kids? Two each.
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Scandinavians have an automatic "bonus" of their fellow intelligibles, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish - but we can't necesarily speak these languages. They are too similar, so it would be like an English speaker perfectly mimicking another accent - Australian, Nigerian, Jamaican, something that requires a lot of skill, despite those languages being perfectly understood.
Through Spanish, I can also read Italian and Portuguese, but I can neither talk nor understand them very well when spoken naturally (if they slow down, and over-pronounce word by word, then yes, but nobody does that :D)