I wanted to know any different languages (not programming) you guys might speak. Personaly, I've had quite a bit of Spanish, but what about you?
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I wanted to know any different languages (not programming) you guys might speak. Personaly, I've had quite a bit of Spanish, but what about you?
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so are you from manchester? cause thats not very far from where im at, i thought these boards were just full of americans?
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No, I'm American, but I lived in England for five years. [ON TOPIC] Any languages?
I speak 1337 and English.
o yeah, we learned a bit of that in school. ist hello "0213"?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sentral
Yo no conozco.
I live in canada (new brunswick), so I speak english and french.
>I wanted to know any different languages (not programming) you guys might speak.
I know enough Spanish to direct the guys who do my landscaping, and I'm functional with Japanese.
>I speak 1337 and English.
I speak leet too, but I don't put it on my resume. ;)
Nice, Japanese. How hard was that to learn (I've done Spanish and, IMO, it's not very hard, same alphabet and all)?
>How hard was that to learn
Not very. My biggest problem was getting a handle on sentence building. You have to think harder about what you're going to say before you say it because you can't just tack on extras like English.
>I've done Spanish
Japanese is similar to Spanish, but it's also more regular. You'd probably find it pretty easy.
so not only are you guys programmers, you also speak different languages!
you guys/gals must have done some serious swatting.
Yeah, and I have a play coming up :)
I speak English. I'm supposed to speak French, but I don't.
My native language is German.
i like Germany. im gonna move there when im older if i get chance. my fav cars are BMW's and Audi's. sorry off topic again. last time i promise.Quote:
Originally Posted by CornedBee
@CornedBee: Really? You speak pretty good English.
I live in Austria, not Germany.
manutd: Writing English is easy ;)
But I've been around quite a few English-speaking people all my life. Business partners of my father's, mostly. I mostly read English books, I try to watch all movies in their original versions, and so on. You pick stuff up. So yeah, I actually speak pretty good English, too.
As I understand, English is also supposed to be a pretty easy move from German since it is a Germanic language.
Nice. It doesn't show, in fact, you speak better than some native speakers on this forum :rolleyes:
It is. Lots of words are very close or even the same. There's a heavy word exchange, too.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom
The thing with learned languages is that you're a lot more careful about grammar and stuff like that than native speakers.Quote:
Originally Posted by manutd
wut r u tawking aboot?Quote:
Originally Posted by manutd
I hate that combined with asking for homework.
Anyone here heard of hindi ?? its my native language, so i speak hindi very well, apart from that, i mainly use english..wanna learn german, but no time :(
One of the ... 13? ... official languages of India I believe. Hindi is sort of considered the Indian language outside India. Or at least here where I live.
Yeah, I've heard of it.
I took like 3 years of German in high school, but I forgot most of it. I might be able to read it still if I'm lucky.
What script does Hindi use?
Devanagari.
And make that 22 official languages.
That's a lot.
Does anyone speak Russian?
I took spanish and french in highschool, but almost failed both.... I want to try my hand a french again but just do not have the time...
Both? Wow. I had to take both Spanish and Chinese for 1 year, then I was able to drop Chinese.
American here, but I speak enough German to get by. My girlfriend is a lot better at it than me, I can comprehend more words than I know how to use (which I have found is pretty typical.) My written German is pretty horrid, since I haven't used it in a couple years.
well, not both at the same time. I took a year of spanish my freshman year and 1 semester of french in (I think) my junior year
Yeah, that's the way with many languages. You know enough to get by, but not enough to understand the intricacies of what someone is saying.
Btw, on the comment about Engish and German being close, I agree with CornedBee, it was amazingly simple to pick up a lot of the basics of german one thing that I am sure I will never get right is the der/die/das (word genders) almost everyone I have spoken to about it says you learn the common ones but to get it right almost all the time you have to be a native speaker.
I know some High School Spanish. It's wierd. There are different words for EVERYTHING! Such as, there is a different word for "can" as in soup in a can, and can as in "I can jump!". But in English, it is assumed what you are talking about. I like English.
i'm pretty sure almost every language is similar to that, which is why most people have such a hard time learning english.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sentral
If you're a non-native speaker, English is also stupid in its grammar. It's a matter of view. In fact, the difference in "can" is helpful for new speakers, not hurtful. But then again, I like Spanish.
Most languages in the world have homographs. It's a common thing.
Yep. I remember Chinese: *random symbol* this means to be, flesh, the moon, and the number 1. What?
At the moment, I'm learning German:
Ich spreche Deustch nicht sehr gut. Ich lerne es. :eek:
I speak English and Italian.
I am actually thinking about teaching Italian right now. I have heard they let undergrads who are upper-level in Italian teach the lower-level Italian classes....I must check more into that.
Yes yes, India has quite a few official languages, that is basically because there are so many people with diverse cultures staying here :( too many people i should say..lol. Well, apart from hindi, i do know 2-3 others, but then hindi is the language spoken by majority of the people here.
Yeah, I have always heard that English is a very difficult language to learn for people not born in America. Of course, we don't exacly speak English either... More slang than anything else.
I can speak the national language, Indonesia, and English. Also a little Japanese. I had passed Noryoku Shiken (like a TOEFL for Japanese) level 4 (the lowest level) with a little over the passing boundary (67%) a few years ago. Forgot most of 'em now. :D
I speak Estonian (my native language), English (6th year of English in school) and Russian a bit (3rd year).
My native language is Serbian, But i've learned English, as you can see.
Yeah... about 280 million people... ;)Quote:
Does anyone speak Russian?
It depends... Then you go from using 6 tenses to just four - It's no so complex...Quote:
I am sure I will never get right is the der/die/das (word genders) almost everyone I have spoken to about it says you learn the common ones but to get it right almost all the time you have to be a native speaker.
There are no genders in Estonian. :)
Ok-ok, I also know about thing that can be found in German but has no equivalent in russian... (I mean 3 past times)
Max, how hard is Russian?
Yeah, those Brits have a really hard time with English :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Dark_Phoenix
That's the thing, of course. English isn't any easier for you - you just don't bother ;)Quote:
Of course, we don't exacly speak English either...
I didn't have any problems with learning English. I'd not consider it an hard language to learn. It sure helps one is bombarded by it from everywhere, from TV to magazines and books and the internet. But when I was studying it in school, there wasn't that much exposure to the english language as there is nowadays. And yet, the learning process still wasn't that hard.
Now, French? That's an hard language to speak correctly. At least for me.
Currently I'm seriously considering learning Japanese. That, for some reason I can't explain, was always my dream language. Always wanted to learn it. I simply love the way it sounds. There's a school nearby where I can learn it. Price is fair and they promise all the way to level 5.
I speak English. Yeah.
I failed German when I was in school and never had the chance to learn French (not that I want too, but I guess I may need to some day)
Actually that's not true. I'd say it was quite easy for me.Quote:
Yeah, I have always heard that English is a very difficult language to learn for people not born in America.
I know english. Ma français est très terrible.
off topic:GO MANUTD!!! they will surely win the premiership!
on topic: i studied french for 2 years... je m'appelle §áßø†æ™. Thats the only thing that i can remember T_T. French is really confusin coz they have feminin and masculin nouns or w/e. u speak spanish? cool...what does "tontos" mean? some guy in desperado the game says that word a lot...
o dam i didn know that page 2-4 existed...
can u speak indonesian language fluently? i can speak it a bit...apa kabar?Quote:
Originally Posted by g4j31a5
FWIW: I found spanish to be much easier to learn than Japanese. Japanese is nice because the rules are so well defined and there are very few deviations (in "proper" japanese anyway). Spanish is nice and easy because of the similarities to english.
I studied japanese for a year in uni, but I haven't kept up with it in the past few years. I've been learning Spanish for a year or so now and I can carry on basic conversations and understand most of what i hear from native speakers. I have a great resource (as in living people) to help me with spanish so that might be why i found it easier to learn.
Yes, I don't think it will be easy considering I will have very few people to talk to in Japanese. However, I can for sure practice the writting on japanese based newsgroups and forums.
Spanish doesn't interest me as I can mostly understand it all (Portuguese and Spanish are sister languages).
You should learn spanish so that u can flirt with latino chicks...the ones who dont speak english anyway...:D
Stupid, plural.Quote:
Originally Posted by §áßø†æ™
I wouldn't say stupid. Stupid is Estupido. Tonto means a joyful silly, or harmless joker.
Or foolish.
yeah, foolish. was looking for the word.
Rather random: IMO two best verb conjugations in Spanish: gastaste and dormimos :)
It was for me too.Quote:
Now, French? That's an hard language to speak correctly. At least for me.
I always thought it was funny, in the Spanish class I took in High School, It seemed like the ones who mostly failed the class were the Hispanic students. I don't know if it was because the Mexican that they spoke was different from the Spanish that was taught or if some of them just took the class thinking it would be an 'Easy A' for them.
There are some differences between the areas of Spanish speakers, especially between Spain/South America.
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Originally Posted by Mario F.
Depends on what part of the world your in... in most of South America "Tonto" is more like "idiot" or "stupid" than it is "silly" or "joker" (it has a negative connotation)
Exactly. I learned the South American style. Nonetheless, in both tonto has a less negative connotation than estupido.
Yes. In Spain estupido is more negative. It is actually highly offensive. Tonto, on the contrary, is often used as a compliment.
It's the same in English: you can use an apparently negative word (say, idiot) in a positive connotation.
Portugal and Brazil have the same issues around the word Sacana. In Portuguese it means nothing much really. It's even used affectionately to adress a wise guy. But In Brazil, you will probably get smacked :) Sacana for them is a crook of the worst kind.
I guess its pretty common.
I've heard many stories like that. There is a spanish word (can't remember off hand, d'oh).. but in Columbia it means "Waitress" and in most other countries it means "prostitute".... *oops* :)
Same with Indonesian. So in Indonesian there aren't any "he" or "she", rather "the person". IMHO the most difficult language would be Japanese. The kanji is too much to handle (I can only memorize 50 of the hundred of thousands), expressing emotion with enders like "ne" or "yo", etc. But I guess that's the beauty of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxorator
@Dave_Sinkula: Yeah, we had a discussion of that and racism in spanish class once.
Yoruba is somehow the same. There are no genders and no difference between singular or plural ( he = o and she = o, I = mo,they = o ), verbs are not conjugated, etc...Quote:
Originally Posted by g4j31a5
So the only way to know who they are talking about when listening to a conversation is to get the name of the person, or indirectly, because they might say something like "she was wearing a skirt" which in most cases would be a girl.
Its a funny language really, for instance "I'm going to the market" is: Mo fe lo si aja.
Which literraly translated means "I want go to market".
Also the same word can have mulitple meanings depending where you put the emphasis on ( like a house is ile and a bathroom is ile as well ).
I took five years of German in high school and college. I barely remember any of it :(
Das ist schrecklich. Schande!! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Govtcheez