Languages You Speak/Would Like To Speak/Are Learning
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Posted by Unknown user, 18.08.2007 - 17:35
Personally...
- (As you *might* have noticed) I speak English. Not really well, but I think I can say I know the basis. But it is not my first language: French is. I don't want to sound pretentious or anything, but I speak French really well. Yet, it is the third language I learnt.
- My mother language is Arabic, it was the first one I learnt as I am Moroccan and was born in Morocco. But my parents speak French more than Arabic, and I started going to a French school when I was 5, thus, I started forgetting Arabic. I was still as able to understand it as before, but I couldn't speak it anymore, past my 8th birthday. (Some other important factors were involded, but it is not necessary to mention them.)
- The second language I learnt was Spanish, because of/thanks to Spanish TV channels and my grandmother, who only spoke Spanish and Arabic. But when we left the city where we were living (Tanger, just in front of Spain), I stopped watching Spanish channels, and left my grandmother as well, and then, forgot Spanish too
.- That's when French comes. It became my first language around 8. As the French school system wants it, I started learning English at 11. And I unexpectedly didn't have any difficulty with it. I have always had the best mark in that subject, without making any effort for that. Unfortunately it is still not enough. I realised my level was not as good as I thought it was.
- The next year, (I was 12) I chose Latin, but I had to stop after a few months, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to start Spanish the following year. I started re-learning Spanish at 13.
- But since I took Spanish at 13, I couldn't take German at 15. I had too many subjects and the teachers wouldn't let me add German. Yet it is the language I really want to learn. I like the sonority of it, and I watch German TV channels just to hear it, even if I don't get a word of it
.- As a consequence, the two languages I can speak the best are French, and English.
As you see the topic is vast, there is a lot to say...
| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61332  |
Written by Deus Ex Machina on 23.09.2007 at 19:20 ok Im bored of you all and its time to piss you of  "Ako vam se ne svidjam, ne citajte moje postove i stavite me na ''ingone'' listu, dosadilo mi je da citam iste postove od razlicitih clanova" Gate 7+Delije = Ortodox Broters and Im proud of it
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die"  I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Ernis 狼獾 Posts: 6809  |
Written by Bad English on 23.09.2007 at 21:23 Uspokóisja.....kstáiti, éto nazaoibhaetsja "ignore list"....sto takoe "ingone"? bleait....hui eto znaet..... And actually you most prolly wish to say that you're the one who's pissed of....in your post you wrote that now it's your time to make us angry.....sorry....you're a nice person all in all but I support Deus Ex Machina in this question...she's right... Why did you write your sentence in quotation marks? Is this someone else's sentence?
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61332 |
Written by Ernis on 23.09.2007 at 21:32 Because not english, I always try write not english in ''
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die" I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Ernis 狼獾 Posts: 6809 |
Sorry, I don't see the point actually here.....you use quotation marks to mark a title of a book/song/film/whatever or someone else's sentence....
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61332 |
Written by Ernis on 23.09.2007 at 21:44 Then who's translate it   Predrag Djorgevič we drubk ouzo after OSFP won OFI by 6-2 so Im in Pireus now and he tranlate it 
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die" I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Remus Posts: 711  |
Do you guys think that in the future, say 200 years from now, everybody across the globe will speak a common language?
---- Procrastinate, NOW!
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| Deus Ex Machina Posts: 1250  |
Meh, just because I don't feel like arguing with a person that can't understand me properly or write a comeback that makes half a sense, i will not discuss this any further. But i still stand beside my point. These were facts. Not attacks. Facts. @Remus - I don't think we'll speak a common language. But it'd be nice not having to read English that looks like it came from an online translator. XD
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| Hyvaarin Posts: 1487  |
Written by Remus on 23.09.2007 at 22:56 It's not too hard to imagine, and it's a horrible thought.
---- "Summoned By Words Never Spoken Before..."
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| Sleep In Sorrow Ghost Of The Sun Posts: 1904  |
My mother tongue is Portuguese and the only language besides this one that I speak is English. I want to learn German one day, but I'm completely broke at the moment, so I don't think I can afford a good German course. It's an interesting language and there are quite some German authors that would be interesting to read in the original, especially Goethe. For literary purposes, however, I think French would be an interesting language, after all many great novelists and poets (especially the symbolists) are from France.
---- "It's not funny, my ass is on fire..."
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| iMPERiAL_iCE Weeping Heart Posts: 1127  |
I'm currently learning French, and the other language that I want to learn is Hebrew??? but I have no idea how I'm gonna do that
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| Bad English Tage Westerlund Posts: 61332 |
Quote: You live werry close to Izreal go and learn
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die" I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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Written by [user id=26379] on 14.10.2007 at 22:29 Hvala Lets say I understand serbian but all serbs speek greek
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die" I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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Written by [user id=26136] on 15.10.2007 at 12:43 How aboit german ??> sometimes i can guess dutch when watch TV
---- I stand whit Ukraine and Israel. They have right to defend own citizens. Stormtroopers of Death - "Speak English or Die" I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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| Bulletdodger Posts: 463  |
Besides my native language i speak Bulgarian and English and can understand when somebody speaks German(learned just by watching German TV and old Yugoslav WWII movies). Pishi kao shto govorish , chitaj kako je napisano! - Vuk Karadzic ( Write as you speak , read as it is written!) That is the base of Serbian language.
---- Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können. David Hilbert
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| Bulletdodger Posts: 463 |
Doubt it , by the way is your language based on the same( or a similar ) rule?
---- Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können. David Hilbert
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| Ernis 狼獾 Posts: 6809 |
Written by Bulletdodger on 18.10.2007 at 20:50 Sort of I guess.....though in spoken language these rules are usually ignored....for instance we have a word "diivan" but people still pronunce it as "tiivan" or "läheme" is pronunced as "lähmä" or even "lehma"....lol....it's like using "превед" instead of "привет"....otherwise yeh....I think that our alphabet corresponds to yours more or less.....
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| TDFX Posts: 96  |
Hmmm, didn't know that Serbian is that close to Russian (or at least that sentence was...). Fluently I can only speak Russian and English. Learned some German and French, but they're rusty at best because I don't get a chance to practice them. On the next-to-learn list is probably Spanish...if I ever get enough time/motivation. :-P
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| Ernis 狼獾 Posts: 6809 |
Written by TDFX on 18.10.2007 at 23:01 Nah, it's actually as similar to Russian as Finnish is to Estonian.....I speak Estonian and suck at Finnish....in fact I don't understand a shite....same situation when I try to speak proper Serbian....I can't....you can't just rely on the fact they are related languages.....
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| TDFX Posts: 96 |
Ah I see, yeah I guess the fact that there are quite a few similar-sounding words can be misleading.
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| Judas The Amputator Posts: 2043  |
I think it's far better to have a more or less entirely phonetic alphabet for a language than have the idiosyncratic irregularities that we have in English writing and pronunciation.
---- "Once the game is over, the king and the pawn both go back into the same box."
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| Deus Ex Machina Posts: 1250 |
I agree with that entirely. By the way, do you all think that English is easy to learn? I'm interested in this because i was told no. A lot of times. But when you think about it. 90% of us here, who are not from English speaking countries can speak and write it very well. Also a lot of us, including me just picked it up when they were kids, from TV etc. I've never actually spent a day in my life studying English. This is all from television. So, what do you think? Is it easier than most languages? As i said, it seems it is, yet people keep saying no.
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Written by Judas on 19.10.2007 at 04:06 Well it's easier to learn how to speak and write the language like that , but if you really want to learn the language(all the little rules ) ,and stuff like that, Serbian is one of the hardest in the world because there are so many grammar rules ( many of them don't exist in western European countries )
---- Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können. David Hilbert
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| Torelli Posts: 1280  |
Written by Deus Ex Machina on 19.10.2007 at 04:32 Well, it's said that english is one of the most borrowed languages in the world. I'm sure if you think about it, you easily find some words that spells and sounds roughly the same in you language as the english equalent. We also fed by it daily, just think of how many webpages you have visited today. How many was in english and how many was in your own language? And in most countries learning english is mandotory in the schools. I've read english since first grade, so I've had plenty of time to get used to this subject. To get to the point, english no harder or easier to learn then any other language. It just that we are constantly is exposed to it, that we find it easier. You can ask a person who have learned english as an adult, and you immediately notice that it's alot harder for them to express themselves, and also they tend to have a much greater accent.
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