TomS
Clansman
Keeping "The Spirit" alive
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Post by TomS on Jan 19, 2005 0:18:40 GMT 2
Well, let's see here: Native: Dutch (and most of the Flemish dialects ) Fluently: English Not too bad: French Not so good, but should be able to pull myself out of a situation : German Bad: Latin I'm practicing to improve my German and French, because I'll need them. I'm hoping to learn Gaelic one day, and in the last years of my life move to Scotland.. but that's still many years from now..
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Post by DaveTheRake on Jan 19, 2005 10:27:07 GMT 2
Native: Spanish Foreign: English at good level with occasional blanks of memory (it doesn't matter too much to me, it's the same in Spanish though being my mother tongue) Learning: Finnish (well, it sounds as a joke to say that I'm learning it... I just attend to classes, but I don't learn it ) Understand: Appart from different dialects from Spain, I can understand Italian; I also studied it seven years ago for a year; it was easy to pass the exam and since I didn't need to study more than a year, I quit. Studied: I sutdied German when I was 16, but I quit on sixth month; I had also started on secoundary school Latin and Greek by this time, and it was too much for me, so I quit German. I'd like to learn it, but I don't like the way it sounds either. WHy all this? well, I didn't need to study English, I just learnt it without work, I was lucky. I started German 'cos not too much people learnt it 9 years ago, and I though it would be a great help to get a good job in the future, but I quit. Latin and Greek are two subjects that every Spanish student who chooses to learn what we call "humanity" (you've got to choose between humanity, arts, economics, technology and sciences) has to study for two years. Italian? I had to take a second language at university, so I chose an easy one. And I always had a strong curiosity for this big country with so much Rally pilots whose surnames end in -nen, so when I came to university, I saw that I may choose Finnish as free ellection subject, so I started "studying" it
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Post by Scalawag on Jan 19, 2005 11:29:51 GMT 2
Which language is the hardest for you to learn? suomen kieli, but then again it'd be much easier if i could receive a finnish TV programme, it's how i learned german, from the freakin TV hungarian was difficult too (the few times i attended classes) - not similar at all these two... maybe the suffixes, and accent marks allover ;D i hope i'll be able to understand and form basic finnish 'till the year runs out
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Post by DanFuckingLucas on Jan 19, 2005 15:59:52 GMT 2
Primarily English. Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut. Ne pas secher a la machine. La cuenta, por favor. I know small bits of French and Spanish - VERY small bits. Not enough to get by on. And I know that 'pyrus' is Polish, for either potato or wine, but I'm not sure which. And 'drug' is Russian for friend, I believe. So it's true that drugs are your friends!!
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Post by HerraHirwi on Jan 19, 2005 17:03:47 GMT 2
1. native: Finnish 2. foreign: a) good knowledge: Estonian, English b) poor knowledge: Swedish, German, Livonian c) would like to learn in the future: North Sami, Latvian, Russian, Karelian, Võru, Votic, Veps
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Post by twilightheart on Jan 19, 2005 17:24:35 GMT 2
Karelian, Võru, Votic, Veps What`s that all??
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Post by Scalawag on Jan 19, 2005 18:33:00 GMT 2
Karelian, Votic, Veps and Võru are langauges closely related to finnish and estonian (ugro-finnish langauges?), though some argue that Võru is just a dialect of estonian... from the few differences between estonian and võru i've seen i think it's a language by itself
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Post by Scalawag on Jan 19, 2005 18:37:01 GMT 2
And 'drug' is Russian for friend, I believe. So it's true that drugs are your friends!! drugs are your friends in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina too! though we balkanese are incidentaly known throughout Europe as being drug-dealers and criminals... the thing is that the europeans don't know the real meaning of 'drug' tsk tsk... (the pronounciation is droog ;D)
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Post by Southern Troll on Jan 19, 2005 18:56:45 GMT 2
Native:Brazilian Portuguese! I read english very well but i still have problems with grammar! I made one test with 3 sub tests: Read, Write and Listen! The results are! Read: 100% Write: 30% Listen: 0% But it's a very good result cause i learned english with one dictionary and metal lyrics! So i always hurt your eyes with my bad english, but i understand you very well!
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Post by Grimner on Jan 19, 2005 19:36:50 GMT 2
Native:Brazilian Portuguese! I read english very well but i still have problems with grammar! I made one test with 3 sub tests: Read, Write and Listen! The results are! Read: 100% Write: 30% Listen: 0% But it's a very good result cause i learned english with one dictionary and metal lyrics! So i always hurt your eyes with my bad english, but i understand you very well! You can understand us, and we can understand you, and that's all that really matters in the end. Just think of it as part of your charms.
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Post by DanFuckingLucas on Jan 19, 2005 22:05:40 GMT 2
drugs are your friends in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina too! though we balkanese are incidentaly known throughout Europe as being drug-dealers and criminals... the thing is that the europeans don't know the real meaning of 'drug' tsk tsk... (the pronounciation is droog ;D) Woot!!!
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Post by MaliceGarden on Jan 20, 2005 13:08:52 GMT 2
hardest to learn? without counting portuguese,maybe irish, but i'm not sure.
i like to hear finishes people speaking, in part, because of the "l". it seems that there is a lot of words with "l".
dave: we have the same areas, apart from technologies.
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Post by twilightheart on Jan 20, 2005 13:34:28 GMT 2
i like to hear finishes people speaking, Me too... I could listen for hours to finnish people speaking... or to people of northern Sweden... sounds great as well...
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Post by HerraHirwi on Jan 20, 2005 18:04:35 GMT 2
(ugro-finnish langauges?) It's Finno-Ugric languages.. though some argue that Võru is just a dialect of estonian... from the few differences between estonian and võru i've seen i think it's a language by itself Võru or South-Estonia or Tartu language differs from main Estonia more than Finnish and Karelian languages. It's a thin line between a language and a dialect. For example Meä language (spoken in North-Sweden, Norrbotten near Finnish border), Finnish dialects, and Ingrian (spoken in Russia, Ingermanland between Estonia and St. Petersburg) are most commonly considered as a one Finnish language.
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Post by Scalawag on Jan 20, 2005 18:08:09 GMT 2
It's Finno-Ugric languages.. ok, we're next to Hungary here and so they get the lead
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