Thread: languages

Hah ! yes. Well that would be cool. Most people give up (exept me and pravit, the 1337 guys).

I get to "help" russians learn english in my 2nd period class since i am a senior and i already did all my other hard classes. Although most of the time we just mess around.

Maybe he wasn't a year old, I just know he was young. And he was surrounded by his Russianspeaking parents, he spoke perfect English, I never said he didn't, but he remained to speak with a Russian accent. I don't know how strong or little...

My Polish friend was born in America and lived here her whole life, but from speaking Polish with her family/parents she has an accent in English. She speaks English perfectly, a lot better than me, though she has a Polish accent.

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майк, you have way too much time on your hands.

Originally Posted by TiaraNEug

майк, you have way too much time on your hands.

! |<|\|o\/\/ lol

майк:
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Originally Posted by Pravit

майк:
we0r sp34k0r diffr0r dial0rts.

*sigh* I'm surrounded by them.

Originally Posted by Pravit

майк:
we0r sp34k0r diffr0r dial0rts.

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No-one learning good-ol' Nordic languages anymore like Finnish or Swedish?

Why learn Swedish when you can learn 1337?

hmm it's-a nice-question
native-turkish+advanced-english+intermediate-german+elementary-russian(hope-to-improve-very-soon )

Ok, I was so confused. I'm like, "WHAT?" And then I realized that Wednesday was actually answering the question. Isn't it nice when people follow the rules?! спасибо, wednesday.

French: mother tongue
English: fluent
German: good
Italian: very good
Spanish: very good but rusty
Russian: 60% of my target level

I speak english. Norwegian and spanish!

My spanish Is excellent hehe. . i think! Sometimes have a few problems but when i am in spain which is always. . i can speak spanish forever hehe

Is ADJ

A very 1337 excerpt from a conversation...

(13:07:5 Me: How about, "Government Secrecy Cripples Thai Economy"
(13:08:01) Joe: 1337
(13:08:04) Joe: you hax3d me
(13:08:20) Joe: we can just talk about like
(13:08:25) Joe: how every economy got pr0n[ed]

I am teaching myself English, German and Russian, but i still can't speak German and Russian, because they are very difficult. Well, I can write and read English, but I still can't understand spoken English...

Why I learnt Russian= The dark art and emotion.I been brought up in a smiley country(Australia), and I like to find expression that's under-pursued.(This darkness is why I love the Nordic culture too).My fave art is mysteriously always Russian.Tchaikovsky and co. in the classical music.The Eastern European native music, and gypsy.Kandinsky is my fave artist.Russian literature is bluntly cynical, therefore offsetting my upbringing suggesting "we must smile all the time".WE must live through the negative emotions too.
Zhenya, yes there are people learning good old Nordic languages anymore.Mig, for en! Finnish is what I feel to be the most aesthetically pleasing language in the world.J.R Tolkien also said as much. 'Suomi'(Finnish) being the inspiration of his 'Elvish' in Lord Of The Rings.My Swedish, Danish and Finnish interest came through my perception of Scandinavia being successful at Western Society.And their respect of nature.I love wolves and wilderness.There's one Norwegian here on the forum.I ask you, is it neccessary that I buy any dictionary or grammar book for Norsk, or will my substantial Svenska och Dansk items get me by in Norge?
I'm closing in on fluency in French.My concentration is often poor, but when I ease up, I feel I'm almost fluent.I'm learning all the basic phrases in as many languages as I can.3-CPO from Star Wars is my idol.Though, 3000 languages is unlikely.But who says we must restrict ourselves to the possible? Not me! 3-CPO, watch your back, I'm comin'! (pphht, yeah right!)
I'd like to take care of all the major languages in my community- Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi etc.But my pet favourites always get me going to them instead.And due to concentration issues, I tend to go for the easier ones first, like Swedish.For an English speaker, that's baby stuff.Vice-versa.That'd be why many Swedes don't have obvious accents.Only if they say a 'long' sentence, can one tell they're not native English speakers.
What think you all of Esperanto? (Incase you're unaware, its an attempted 'global language', but hasn't taken off).Does the world benefit from a universal language? My view= Never should mother-tongues be replaced.But, in schools and government, a global language would help break down some barriers.The UN shoulod push for a neutral (hence not English) global language for future generations of officials, and students.Though, it is exciting not knowing each other's languages, it makes travelling that much more exotic and mysterious.So, if there weren't so much political troubles in the world, I'd scratch that idea of a global language.
I'm 28 years old.My reason for learning languages is an expression of me trying to make the place friendlier.So the local immigrants don't feel that we locals don't care about their culture.It's helped me realize that ethnic people who seem rude and cut off, are only that way because they think 'we' don't care about them.So, it's helped my relationship with the community, and I think it make them feel that much more included.If I smile at them, they usual smile back.All it takes is for one person to havre the courage to initiate first contact.That's my reason for linguistics.

Dark art and emotion? Never thought of it that way. When I think of "Russia", I never really think "dark", but I guess everyone has their own ideas about it.

Anyhow, welcome. Have you learned any other languages before? And how do you plan to learn Russian?