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Post by Scalawag on Jan 18, 2005 15:03:50 GMT 2
HEY, which languages do you speak and which ones are/were you learning or will start to learn (or at least want to learn) + why ;D, besides your native language of course (but write it down nevertheless)
me:
1. native: slovenian 2. foreign: a) good knowledge: english, german, croatian, serbian (with the cyrillic alphabet too) b) poor knowledge: latin, macedonian c) learning at the moment: finnish, spanish d) used to learn: hungarian d) would like to learn in the future: basque, italian, greek, breton
why? italian and hungarian (i had to drop out due to various reasons) 'cos they're neighboring peoples, finnish, basque, breton and greek 'cos they're interesting and i like the lands, spanish 'cos it's a world-tounge and i'd like to go to the south of South America someday (and Spain of course)
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Post by Blackmoon on Jan 18, 2005 15:45:39 GMT 2
Native: Finnish Foreign: More or less good english Decent Latin (Well, I can't speak it or form sentences, but I can translate some) Bad Swedish Very, very bad German
I'm not too good at languages in general. I've studied swedish for 6 years now but I don't really know a thing about it. I - just like any other Finn - am forced to study it and when I'm forced to study something you can't expect to get too good results from me.
I've studied Latin in high school now and intend to continue studying it in university if possible. I studied some german once, but quitted it for some reason. I've been thinking of restarting it though. I'd like to learn Estonian and Saame, but we'll see if I get around to that.
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Post by Guybrush on Jan 18, 2005 17:07:14 GMT 2
native: german more or less good: german and english very bad: russian Want to learn: swedish
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Post by Sethlad on Jan 18, 2005 17:14:03 GMT 2
Native: Portuguese Perfectly fluent: English Good: Spanish and French (I'm now having spanish classes to improve it). I can also understand most italian, specially written. Would like to learn: Geigle, Swedish, Breton, Welsh, Finnish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Basque... basically every european language... well, maybe not german and dutch, I utterly dislike the way they sound.
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Post by Guybrush on Jan 18, 2005 17:24:18 GMT 2
The gerrrrrman langwitsch sounds grrrrrreat!
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Post by Helran on Jan 18, 2005 17:25:10 GMT 2
Native : French
I just undestand : Algerian Fairly : English Very bad : german Learning : Finnish and Swedish I would like to learn : Same of North and Estonian
I'm not good in language! The big problem is to remember the vocabulary
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Post by Scalawag on Jan 18, 2005 17:32:43 GMT 2
Native: Portuguese Perfectly fluent: English Good: Spanish and French (I'm now having spanish classes to improve it). I can also understand most italian, specially written. Would like to learn: Geigle, Swedish, Breton, Welsh, Finnish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Basque... basically every european language... well, maybe not german and dutch, I utterly dislike the way they sound. what's Geigle? the whistling language of the Azores? btw serbo-croatian was an invented language in the former Yugoslavia, a mix of both croatian and serbian, although not phonetically transcribed and in cyrillian (as the serbian)... the two are quite similar, but have their differences that are for the most part quite prominent, esp. if you speak any of them... many words are different, the script is different, though some dialects are more similar to eachother than others dutch? i understand something when i read it, the same goes for slovak, russian, bulgarian, ukrainian and to a far lesser extent czech... polish is beyond me though
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Post by twilightheart on Jan 18, 2005 18:26:09 GMT 2
Let`s see: I speak: Russian (since 20 years), English (since 16 years or sth.), and veeery good German! ;D I´m learning at the moment: French (since half a year) and Swedish (since 2 years) I had to learn in school: Latin (for 2 years only) I´d love to learn one day: Gaelic and Finnish.
(P.S. I hate French and Latin... it`s just that my boss pays the french-lessons, that`s why I do it... I need it for my job later.)
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Post by MaliceGarden on Jan 18, 2005 18:32:45 GMT 2
native: Portuguese
good: english
less good: french and spanish(its easy for us to understand them)
might capture a few things: italian
really bad: german
learning: irish(also know as gaelic, in spite of existing scottish) & arabic
as many as possible, but especialy to learn: mandarin (i shall learn it!), russian, finish ( :] ), swahili(just for the thrill), indian (so i can make my own musicals :] ). a few more.
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Post by Bolg Coille on Jan 18, 2005 18:50:30 GMT 2
learning: irish(also know as gaelic, in spite of existing scottish)quote] actually both irish and scottish is gaelic, but the irish gaelic is pronounced like gay-lick and scottish like gallick slainte
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Post by Hiding on Jan 18, 2005 19:07:22 GMT 2
Native: Russian Good: English, Spanish Understand: Ukrainian, Belorussian (like every Russian ) I''ve started to learn German, but i have only an 1 hour in a week and don't have a will to learn it myself. I'd like to learn all the language if I have an opportunity
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Post by Sethlad on Jan 18, 2005 19:50:24 GMT 2
Gaeilge (I misspelled Geilge) = Irish Gaelic in Irish Gaelic.
Both the Irish and Scottish languages are reffered to as Gaelic, but the Irishmen preffer to call their own language plainly Irish.
I wrote serbo-croatian cause it's what I they reffer to in Emir Kusturicas & the No Smoking Orchestra cds... they make no distinction. But yes, it's natural for them to be 2 different languages, though very simmilar.
The separation between what is a language, a dialect and an accent is something really ambiguous. For example, Swedish and Norwegian are closer together than Mainland Portuguese and Azorian Portuguese. Yet, the first 2 are different languages, while Azorian Portuguese is considered an "accent" of Portuguese.
Makes little sense, but so it is...
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Post by AngloSaxon on Jan 18, 2005 20:27:34 GMT 2
I'm fluent in English (I hope!), and I speak passable Spanish. Just a touch of French and German as well.
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Post by Talyla on Jan 18, 2005 22:35:10 GMT 2
As i see every one here know at least 2 or 3 language or more! That's so interesting tendention to the union of the world. my native is russian and tatar language but once i was learnig french that now starts to forget my english become worse and worse from day to day. Now i'm learning finnish on the base level but came to the conclusion that languages is not my thing. In Russian educational system i think languages did not take much place still((( as it is in Europe. Exuse me for my spelling - i'm still celebrating the New Year. Oh i've read somewhere that finnish considered the hardest language in studing and english in grammar. Which language is the hardest for you to learn?
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Post by Helran on Jan 18, 2005 23:17:11 GMT 2
Which language is the hardest for you to learn? FINNISH
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