Thread: languages

Denise. You look like a gangster in your picture. Your like "Ёу ёу, где the vodka at? ёу ёу. It's cool.

Originally Posted by Евгения Белякова

You're fluent in English. What do you mean 'good enough'?

My spoken english is not as good as I want it to be

You will get better

I don't look like as much of a gangster as i would like to.

Govoryou po anglysky, frantzusky i irlandsky. But Russian is the dream!!

Niamh, speaking Irish, does it mean you can understand Scottish aswell. How mutually intelligible are they?

English - native

Latin - good, but a whole lot of good that does

Spanish - bad (which doesn't make sense because my grandma was fluent, but my dad never learned it from her)

Russian - errm...getting there

Sioux - taught to me by family

Armenian/Croatian - conversational; taught to me by friends

Dutch*, German, French, Italian - dabbled in


* dutch is probably the funniest language you will ever hear or see...there are words with three "e"s in a row... "eee..."



Whoever said that languages should be taught earlier is absolutely right. I always envied this one girl whose parents sent her to language school at a very young age, so she was fluent in 7 languages by the time she was 10. If we learned them younger, when the part of our brain responsible for language is more active, things would be so much better...

Helloooooooo again
I can speak (Spanish) quite well, a decent english ( I guess), I was able to speak Arabic in my childhood (said my relatives) because until 8 y.o I was living in Morocco but now I can not I have forgotten everything. I can understand and speak ( a little) french, Italian and Portuguese ( is close to spanish). Russian is my next goal.

Originally Posted by brett

Niamh, speaking Irish, does it mean you can understand Scottish aswell. How mutually intelligible are they?

There's no such language as Scottish. The Celtic language closely related to Irish is simply called Gaelic in Scotland. Scots, on the other hand, is/ was a germanic language closely related to English. The latter gradually usurped the former as the de facto national language, just as it was itself later usurped by modern English after the Union.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language

Originally Posted by nightfaerie

* dutch is probably the funniest language you will ever hear or see...there are words with three "e"s in a row... "eee..."

Big deal
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I think Niamh is goodlooking

Yes dutch is just weird, I was at a restaurant in Rome a while a go, and when there was dutch guys next to me, hadn't I known it was dutch i'd say - a crossing of English German and arabic

Originally Posted by brett

Niamh, speaking Irish, does it mean you can understand Scottish aswell. How mutually intelligible are they?

Any that I have has been similar but I haven't heard much. Scotcher- whats the phrase for your cheers? Slainte barr or something? Well there we'd say i mbarr na Slainte but I think they both mean the best of health so yea, similarites to the point of maybe Italian and Spanish now I reckon.
Zhenya- spasibo bolshoi

Zhenya- spasibo bolshoi

Yahooo I'm being adressed to by a woman!

By the way, "Baile atha cliath" - Dublin right, but what's the litteral translation?

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

I don't look like as much of a gangster as i would like to.

A little but shorter haircut, some tattoo, a few gold tooth and a heavy gold chain (about a pound or two).

Originally Posted by alexei

Originally Posted by Dogboy182

I don't look like as much of a gangster as i would like to.

A little but shorter haircut, some tattoo, a few gold tooth and a heavy gold chain (about a pound or two).

You forgot to mention about one mandotory accessory of a real russian gangster :a golden cross with a gymnast .

Originally Posted by DenisM

You forgot to mention about one mandotory accessory of a real russian gangster :a golden cross with a gymnast :mrgreen:.

I think it's not a good idea to blaspheme at Christmas.

Originally Posted by alexei

Originally Posted by DenisM

You forgot to mention about one mandotory accessory of a real russian gangster :a golden cross with a gymnast .

I think it's not a good idea to blaspheme at Christmas.

Take it easy, I didn't mean to offence anyone...
I'm not religious and I just forgot about it.

Originally Posted by Zhenya

By the way, "Baile atha cliath" - Dublin right, but what's the litteral translation?

Get this---Wattleford..........

Wattleford...hm........