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Post by frostheim on Jan 20, 2005 18:16:23 GMT 2
Hmm, the languages I've studied and/or been in further contact with:
My mother tongue: - Finnish (namely the dialect spoken in the Turku's region on the south-western coast)
Other Finno-Ugric (Uralic) languages: - Northern-Sámi - Tundra- and Forest-Nenets (Samoyedic languages)
The Scandinavian (North Germanic) languages - Swedish - Norwegian - Danish - Islandic - Faeroese (- Old Swedish) (- Old Islandic = Old Norse)
The other languages of Germanic origin: - English
Slavonic languages: - Russian - Polish
Baltic languages: - Latvian
Romanic languages: - Spanish
Oriental languages: - Japanese (I've got judo as my hobby since '89)
The most difficult languages so far are the Samoyedic languages; go and try, you'll get surprised if you thought that Finnish is difficult for some ways, hehe.
I'm studying my 3rd year now at the Helsinki University; I used to study Nordic linguistics as my main subject for the 2 first years, but in the beginning of the 3rd year last autumn, I changed the Nordic languages as my side subject, and took the Finno-Ugric linguistics as my new main-one. Now I've become extremely pissed of about the whole existence of the Finno-Ugric institution and its people, and besides the studies haven't started as I had planned, but now during the spring I'll have a new level test and I'm trying to apply for admission to begin whole new studies with my mother tongue, that interests me most of all languages, and besides, when thinking about what I'll do after the studies, the Finnish language has more future and more to offer for me than all the darn bunch listed above. =)
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Post by twilightheart on Jan 20, 2005 18:24:00 GMT 2
Frostheim... don`t you sometimes mix up words from some languages, if you speak so many?
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Post by frostheim on Jan 20, 2005 19:03:01 GMT 2
Frostheim... don`t you sometimes mix up words from some languages, if you speak so many? Sometimes yes; especially between Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, and also between Russian, Polish and Latvian; darn annoying when remembering words and grammatical matters from a language not in question at a certain moment, but not remembering anything about the language that was supposed to use right then; "nice" to notice that "yes, I can write or say this-and-this ie. in Polish, but not in Russian as it was meant here" and so on. This is one of the many reasons why I'm heading off from most of the languages above, and striving for concentrating to the language I have complete mastery of, namely Finnish. The foreign languages are surely nice to check out, but they all take their time and work to be adopted and learned, and the more I've come further in my studies, the more I've interested in completely other matters and issues, found much new and advanced in all that, and as I've become familiar with so much new in my life and grown as a mind and a person as the time has passed, it's time to focus only on the essential for now.
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Post by MaliceGarden on Jan 20, 2005 19:08:12 GMT 2
by the way, hungarian reminds me of finish. a hungarian guy told me that they have the same "root". does anyone knows more about it?
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Post by frostheim on Jan 20, 2005 19:21:27 GMT 2
by the way, hungarian reminds me of finish. a hungarian guy told me that they have the same "root". does anyone knows more about it? Finnish and Hungarian are both Finno-Ugric languages, which are the other branch of the two in Uralic language family (the other is the Samoyedic branch). Here are some useful links concerning the issue: www.helsinki.fi/~jolaakso/fgrlinks.html
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Post by Svartalv on Jan 21, 2005 12:59:03 GMT 2
native: slovene (yes, cez les, we are three now (i think), no reason to get all hullunpolka)
almost as good as native: croatian, english, german
good knowledge: serbian, serbo-croatian, bosnian
managable: slovak, dutch (reading only)
poor knowledge: latin, italian, spanish, finnish
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Post by Scalawag on Jan 21, 2005 13:42:44 GMT 2
yes, cez les, we are three now (i think), no reason to get all hullunpolka bah, as good a reason as any ;D and he merrily hullunpolkas away with the tunes of Korpiklaani, Orlek and Flogging Molly accompanying him ;D ;D ;D
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Post by illumina on Jan 21, 2005 14:27:38 GMT 2
Native - English
Can just about get by in - French, German (learnt at school, but am forgetting )
Know a few phrases in - Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Albanian, Finnish, Swahili.
Why - I love languages, but can never decide which one I want to learn the most, so I end up being able to say a few things like Hello and How are you in about 6 languages, but being fluent in none of them. I think i would probably most like to learn Italian, but I have this fascination with Eastern Europe that keeps telling me to learn stuff like Croatian. *sigh*
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Post by Amorgue on Feb 27, 2005 19:22:38 GMT 2
My native language is Finnish, which I command rather well. I speak fluently English and Swedish, German I used to understand very well but I have forgotten much. I have also studied French and Russian, but my spoken skills in them are quite poor.
I don't think that I have the energy to start studying any more languages, but I try to improve my native language by playing with words whenever I write something. There's so much to learn in Finnish, even if you're a native speaker. I like to practise my English as well, I write poems and lyrics for myself and translate texts sometimes for fun.
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Post by Soljarka on Feb 27, 2005 20:27:18 GMT 2
Mothertongue: russian Good: latvian, english Studying: german
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Ewiges
Wolfcub
They just wanna get drunk and party
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Post by Ewiges on Mar 1, 2005 17:22:31 GMT 2
native: French more or less good: english very bad: spanish Want to learn: finnish
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Post by DaveTheRake on Mar 2, 2005 12:04:30 GMT 2
There was a guy who wrote some weeks ago something in Spanish, asking me some questions... who was he? I don't know where the post was and I wanted to answer him. PLease, if he reads it, talk to me again!
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Fjola
Eagle
AKA the blonde airhead :)
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Post by Fjola on Mar 3, 2005 12:01:27 GMT 2
native: Finnish & English (bilangual : good: Swedish less good: German want to learn: Icelandic, French
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Post by DaveTheRake on Mar 3, 2005 12:05:37 GMT 2
Where's that pic in the avatar in which you were so much pretty, Fjola? Nice to see you around here again!!!!!!!!
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Fjola
Eagle
AKA the blonde airhead :)
Posts: 80
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Post by Fjola on Mar 3, 2005 12:10:40 GMT 2
Thank you... I'm blushing. I lost it so I added a new one.
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