Yep...ya gotta love our past continuous and past perfect tenses.Quote:
Originally Posted by TATY
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Yep...ya gotta love our past continuous and past perfect tenses.Quote:
Originally Posted by TATY
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Yep...those are irregular.Quote:
Originally Posted by Friendy
spanish past tenses are a pain in the @ss too
I certainly agree, but the future tense is oh-so-easy! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Lt. Columbo
-Fantom
but no amount of easy future can make up for the various subjuntive past forms, in fact, just talking about it makes me both angry and sad at the same time :)
Spanish has pretty much the same tenses as English in the pastQuote:
Originally Posted by Lt. Columbo
I played - Jueg
[quote=TATY]Spanish has pretty much the same tenses as English in the pastQuote:
Originally Posted by Lt. Columbo
I played - Jueg
Some Spanish compound tenses are conjugated for gender. E.g.:
[quote=Jeff]Some Spanish compound tenses are conjugated for gender. E.g.:
There was a study done on languages as to which is neurologically the most difficult and easiest languages to learn.
Despite English being one of the easier languages to learn (and I don't know because I'm a native speaker), it is neurologically the most difficult language to learn, along with French. Reason being pronunciation. For example, the lettering combination can be pronounced one way with one word, but is pronounced different another, such as bomb and comb. Don't forget "gh" combination sounds like "f", and so does "ph". French is obvious. For many, you never know where the end of the word is, like Versailles or mignon. Even with verbs it can be difficult -- ils connaissent.
Italian is said to be the easiest neurologically.
I thought this was interesting. What do you think?
What other way is there to learn, exactly ?Quote:
Originally Posted by rgkatyaisashaukr
Was that study published in Italy ? :?Quote:
Originally Posted by rgkatyaisashaukr
This reminds me of my favorite poem, that I will recite here for the pleasure of English learners (try to read this with a french accent):Quote:
Originally Posted by rgkatyaisashaukr
A fresh hack at an old knot - Charles Battell Loomis
I'm taught p-l-o-u-g-h
S'all be pronounc
Well at least he didn't kill him with a cough.
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Originally Posted by startwindow3
You know what? We did it on purpose - to make your life harder, nothing to do with the way of life. :lol: :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by fantom605
"""Hi, why is Russian unique from other languages??""""
I was watching some show on TV where they used a lot of Native American speakers. They were speaking what I think was Lakota Souix tongue.
The sound of their speech was very similar to sounds in Russian, I thought. These sounds are the reason that I decided to learn Russian in the first place. I thought to myself, "Perhaps I should learn Lakota next".
I wondered if it was just me that thought that Russian had similar sounds to Lakota. Then yesterday I was sitting with a friend that I had not seen in many years when someone told her that I was learning Russian. Without hesitation she picked up the phone and called her best friend and then handed me the phone. Her friend is Russian. This was a test to see how well I could speak or perform. Not very nice of her!
Anyway, after I had finished speaking with her friend, a guy who had overheard my conversation in Russian said to me that he thought that it sounded like Native American tongue.
Does anyone else see a similarity?
Speaking of native tongues...
I wish Cherokee's alphabet wasn't so damned ugly. :)
— ? (glottal plosive)
б b
бь —
в —
вь —
— w
г g
(гь) —
(h) γ
— h
д —
дь —
ж ž
(ж:) —
з z
зь —
й j
к k
(кь) —
— k?
— kh
— (kx)
л l
ль —
м m
мь —
н n
нь —
— ŋ
п p
пь —
— p?
— ph
— (px)
р —
рь —
с s
сь —
т t
ть —
— t?
— th
— (tx)
ф —
фь —
х x
(хь) —
чь č
— č?
— čh
ц —
ш š
щь —
а э о и ы у
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Profound, Jeff, very profound!