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    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.
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    As I understand, English is also supposed to be a pretty easy move from German since it is a Germanic language.
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    Nice. It doesn't show, in fact, you speak better than some native speakers on this forum
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    Quote Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom
    As I understand, English is also supposed to be a pretty easy move from German since it is a Germanic language.
    It is. Lots of words are very close or even the same. There's a heavy word exchange, too.

    Quote Originally Posted by manutd
    Nice. It doesn't show, in fact, you speak better than some native speakers on this forum
    The thing with learned languages is that you're a lot more careful about grammar and stuff like that than native speakers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by manutd
    Nice. It doesn't show, in fact, you speak better than some native speakers on this forum
    wut r u tawking aboot?
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    I hate that combined with asking for homework.
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    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
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    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.
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    Yeah, I've heard of it.
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    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.

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    What script does Hindi use?
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    Devanagari.

    And make that 22 official languages.
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    That's a lot.
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    Does anyone speak Russian?
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    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...
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