Non-English languages discussion thread. (Formerly : 'what languages do you speak?')
BigBlindMax
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¡Hola!
I made a thread like this last year, and since there's a lot of new faces (avatars) around, I figured it was high time I made a new one.
This is a discussion of all things language related. Please tell us what what languages you speak or which languages you want to learn. If you're feeling fancy, write a sentence in each of your languages. Hell, maybe you'll find someone learning the same language, or a native speaker you practice with.
I'll start : I'm a native English speaker. I'm conversational in Spanish (easy) and Arabic (ridiculously hard). I also know a bit of French and Portuguese, mostly from courses on Memrise. I used to hate Spanish class in high school, but now that I'm learning it for myself, I think it's awesome. Indonesian is on my hit list, but I'm in no rush.
Anyway, that's it for me, et vous?
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only English but I want to learn Greek and Korean.
I can speak conversational Spanish and read it extremely well. I know some words in other languages too, particularly German and French.
Hebrew, a little French (even though I loathe it).
I speak my native language (Lithuanian), English, and I'm learning Russian
Russian, Ukrainian (both native), currently studying German.
Mon dieu! Pourquoi vous n'aimez pas Français?!
Português é difícil, não?
At least, it seems more difficult than Spanish. Sounds hella cool though.
Parce qu'ils nous forcent à apprendre le Français et je déteste la grammaire Français... L'anglais est beaucoup mieux à mon avis.
Korean is supposed to be pretty hard. The alphabet is really simple and awesome.
This is a good place to start if you want to learn the basics of the alphabet.
So, you were forced to learn it and you detest the grammar. And the English is very much something something.
Yes
Fair enough, I personally feel like I'm choking on my own tongue when I speak French. Arabic is even worse. Feels more like a throat disease than a language.
The same can be said about the guttural consonants in Hebrew.
Well, if you know some Portuguese, your practically half way there!
Spanish = Portuguese without the nasal sounds and funny rules.
Drunk English.
Spanish
But are you as fluent as this gentleman?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1-t2jhrOIQU
Learning Spanish.
German (my mothertongue) and English
English and......
I'm pathetic.
Actually, Korean letters are supposed to form the shape of the tongue as its pronounced. ㄴ is 'n' sound as your tongue goes behind your bottom teeth, ㅁ is 'm' and is supposed to be the shape of the mouth humming. ㅇis 'ng' which is a swallowing sound, as in the word song. It's actually a super easy alphabet, but the main problem is there are simply a lot of syllables which don't exist in Korean like f or z, not to mention since it's all arranged around the vowel, series of consonants are hard to represent, like the 'rst' in first.
Korean and French.
I took a semester of German, wtf... 'ein' 'einem' 'einer.' They all mean one... Why not just use 'ein.'
English and Irish go maith
Because those are separate grammatical cases. "Ein" refers to either nominative or accusative (for neuter), "einem" is used for dative case for neuter and masculine, while "einer" is used for genitive and dative cases in feminine. Also, since they are used in these cases as indefinite articles, they actually mean "a (something)".
I do apologize if you happen to be aware of all of that, just wanted to point this out.
No problem. I did know that (the distinction, not exactly which cases ones should be used over the other), but I just mean I think those are grammer rules that appear particularly complicated to an English speaker, at least at first.
Well, I guess it's because they largely don't exist anymore in English, so it's harder to get used it.
Danish and German are the languages I grew up with, then English, and a fair share of Polish.
Yup.
I only speak English but I know a little Spanish and I know swears in French and German.
Polish (native), English, a little German and Norwegian. Also I'm going to Portugal soon so I should probably start to learn Portuguese.
English is my native tongue, but I'm trying to learn Korean and li'l bit of Spanish. It's hard, man.
Interesting. I didn't know Hangul represented that.
Irish huh? I could never get over that spelling...
Somebody get this man a record deal!
Hey, it could always be worse. You could be learning Chinese.
Here's another swear for your repertoire. ¡Yo cago en la leche de tu puta madre!
Whats the best language to learn in your opinion?
I have a strong desire to learn one but im not sure which.
Kewl
I take a shit in your mom's milk!
Almost, but actually it's: I shit in your whore mother's milk.
Ah, I didn't know "Whore" in Spanish
You learn something new everyday