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phoenixreborn
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posted August 31, 2008 03:37 PM |
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A little French, a little Spanish, and Italian is clone of Spanish with a different sound. That's what they teach in the schools in America. There was also a strong Russian program.
I also once tried Esperanto but gave up when I realized nobody else knew it.
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baklava
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posted August 31, 2008 03:55 PM |
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Italian is clone of Spanish with a different sound. That's what they teach in the schools in America.
That's some heck of schools...
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Kronos1000
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posted August 31, 2008 08:01 PM |
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You speak Frisian? How much like English is it? (Considering that it's the closest language to English except for Scots and extinct languages.)
In some ways they are pretty similar and in other ways they are completely different as it has been influence by Dutch. I can make a summary if you want me to.
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Hwær cwom maþþumgyfa? - 'The Wanderer'
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mvassilev
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posted August 31, 2008 08:48 PM |
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Yes, if it wouldn't be too hard for you. Seems interesting.
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posted August 31, 2008 09:25 PM |
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-Mandalorian (okay, its fictional language, and proves my geekiness)
Hey between us geeks, that's cool. Now if you can just get me one of those basilisks... 
Gar, Nar dralshy'a.Have fun trying to figure out what it means 
PS:thanks Ash, it took time to learn (and remember ) all those languages.
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posted August 31, 2008 09:31 PM |
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You have to try harder? or Try harder?
Pretty well, eh?
I'm suprised Mvass. I would have thought you knew more languages than your natives. Well you always learn something new.
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mvassilev
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posted August 31, 2008 10:06 PM |
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I haven't had much opportunity at school. You see, here I only had two years of Spanish in high school, and that's it. Pathetic.
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Doomforge
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posted August 31, 2008 10:25 PM |
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In Poland we have two obligatory foreign languages at high school, but in most cases it's just a failure. Too much emphasis on vocabulary, too little on the construction of sentences. Who cares if I know how is a toilet cistern called in French if I can't even understand or say the simplest sentence?
As for English, too much grammar, too little speaking. A random Pole knows english, but when he tries to speak, he starts to stutter after half of the sentence, and as he dramatically tries to recall the forgotten word, he makes a big and stupid pause. It sounds horrible. I guess that the knowledge of how the mixed conditionals work is less important than simple formulating, without stutters. Myself, I think I'm pretty fluent in speaking, no stupid pauses, but it came to me naturally. I never really trained or something of course my accent sucks and I have a hard time pronouncing some words ("wrath", "scythe".. I know how to say it but it hurts my tongue every time I try ), but I don't stutter every three words. Maybe all that cartoon network watching when I was five has paid off.
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JoonasTo
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What if Elvin was female?
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posted August 31, 2008 10:27 PM |
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Too bad. But it might be better than here because you have to study swedish. It ain't so bad but it makes most people revolt swedish even more than they did before.
The possibilities for learning languages should be always present in school. Our town is pretty small and because of that we only have a few choices. Those being English, swedish and finnish that are obligatory and then there are german(strongest foreign language in Finland, many older people studied german instead of english as a major foreign language), french, russian(very bad teacher right now), italian, spanish and latin(high school only).
I had both english and german as major foreigns but german got pretty much destroyed by a bad teacher in upper grade and my school skipping.
Swedish is the easiest one of all the languages I know btw. It should be possible to learn good swedish in a short time if you put some effort at it.
I always wanted to learn russian but I never had time for it. That's something I'm really sorry for. I would have learned russian over swedish any day if I had had the chance.
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posted August 31, 2008 10:37 PM |
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Both of you are very fortunate in this respect. I hope you realize that.
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JoonasTo
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posted August 31, 2008 10:44 PM |
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In a way yes we are but when it comes to it I'm only actually fluent in one language. No, I'm not talking about what you english speaking people call fluent. I'm talking about we call fluent here. So I know a little from german, swedish and english but can only actually speak finnish. You on the other hand, mvass, are actually fluent in both russian and english. Now that's something worth of envy. Not some half linguistism. 
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posted August 31, 2008 10:59 PM |
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Same here, I consider myself fluent in both English and Romanian, because I know only these two (and VERY little French, almost nothing at all)
Too bad nobody likes Romanian and it's no use to know it, except talking to other Romanians
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posted August 31, 2008 11:48 PM |
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North Dobrudja
Dobrogea, eh? 
Dobrogea in Romanian as I know, the Bulgarian name is Dobrudja 
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posted September 01, 2008 02:09 AM |
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Too bad nobody likes Romanian and it's no use to know it, except talking to other Romanians
Romanian is probably a pretty useful language to know if you want to learn other languages. I mean, if you know Romanian, you could probably learn any Romance language relatively easily, and it has a lot of vocabulary from Slavic languages as well.
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posted September 01, 2008 09:54 AM |
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Dobrogea in Romanian as I know, the Bulgarian name is Dobrudja
Ok,but your location is Dobrudja,Bulgaria (I see that on your Profile)
So finally you live in North Bulgaria,near the borders with Romania?
(sorry here for the bad english)
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posted September 01, 2008 10:03 AM |
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It's take it you live near Silistra?
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razor5
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posted September 01, 2008 10:09 AM |
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You asked this question for Volkial or me?
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watcher83
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posted September 01, 2008 10:14 AM |
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romanian, english, french
some japanese
I can't speak, but due to similarities I understand italian pretty well
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posted September 01, 2008 10:15 AM |
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Vokial, since Silistra lies in Bulgaria, not Romania
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Mytical
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posted September 01, 2008 10:19 AM |
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I know enough to say I don't speak your language and a few other phrases in French, Spanish, German, and of course am fluent in American (which is different from 'proper' english hehe).
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