I just don't like the language, it's too weird, even being a native speaker, and a grammar "Nazi," per se.
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I just don't like the language, it's too weird, even being a native speaker, and a grammar "Nazi," per se.
Maybe that's because you lived in England for too long?Quote:
English simply has more words and more ways of saying a particular thing.
So what's wrong with English then!? I am glad to have spoken it from childhood because it must be a devilishly tricky language to learn in later life. Our spelling, phonetics and pronounciation are all over the place and made no better by other versions of English to be found all over the world and especially in South Africa/ Kenya, the USA/ Canada, the Indian sub-continent, Australia/ New Zealand not to mention regions of the British Isles, where amazing differences are to be found a few miles apart. Grammatical structure is a constant source of debate even among us Brits. Now Russian, on the other hand, is really beautiful! It is easy on the ear, very structured and the grammar is like the inside of a Rolex watch,- a delight to behold! Tell me Дастин, what does English sound like to a foreign ear?
English.
Doomer -Interesting! I can relate to that. And I find British accents sexy too :) They sound more educated/intelligent than Americans, to me.Quote:
dry, stiff and official
English (Amer.) is the only language I know, but I am trying to change that by learning Russian.
Russian. And now I`m learning English.
My native language is Greek. I know English and I have started learning Russian.
моротхи
My native language is Russian. I know English, but not at the desired level..so I want to improve it. And I also learning German (it is even more interesting for me than English), but I only recently started and know about 100 word's and a little bit of grammar.
Russian/Ukrainian are my native languages (I'm from Ukraine but I speak in russian). Now i'm trying to learn English, that's why i'm here on this forum. I will be glad to have a conversation with different english speaking people, and will be glad to help you with russian language.
Russian,Ukrainian!!!
меня мароти и хиндий
да. потому что , я иэ (мумъои) индия
My native language is Serbian (BCS), if someone needs help with it... I've been learning French and German, now I want to start with Russian.
Tagalog with dialects Visayan and Chabacano..
Привет!
My mother tongue is English. The language of the country I've lived in most of my life is Swedish. I've used both at a high professional level every day for more than 40 years. My daughter's mother tongue is Finnish. I've used German professionally. The language I get the biggest buzz from using is Serbo-Croat, but I've only got a rough working knowledge of it :-( The language I most regret not knowing or devoting time to learning is Chinese. The language I've been most pig-headed about wrestling to the ground (after Finnish) is Latin.
Russian I've always wanted to learn, but never really got to grips with until a few years ago. Close personal contacts with Kazan', Kemerovo (now moved) and St Pete. Preferred methods of learning - good textbook, bilingual mail and chat (my friends write in Russian, I write in English), and close combat with Pushkin and Bulgakov. That is, I read a chunk in Russian noting what I don't understand and looking some of it up, then read a faithful translation, then reread the chunk in Russian.
I've just spent a few days in Riga in Latvia. When people didn't understand English, I asked them to explain in Russian - it worked on the whole, so I suppose you could say I've got a working knowledge of Russian.
Why? Or mother tongue = mother's tongue?Quote:
My daughter's mother tongue is Finnish.
In this case, both. Except that she has three mother tongues - besides Finnish, English (father's tongue), and Swedish (local, social and national environment, ie all day every day, from birth).
We used to have fun on the tube. Mum, speaking Finnish to her two daughters and them speaking Finnish to her. Mum and my stepdaughter speaking to me in Swedish (against my wishes, but что делать?), and me and my daughter speaking English to each other. All of us understanding everything that was said, and switching in mid-flow, sometimes in mid-sentence. Little things :-)
english.
Portuguese
Soviet)))
hi everyone i'm olya, my first language is english and chinese, but i'm trying to learn some russian since my grandpa is russian :)
English (mom) and Hebrew (national+social)
I'm tackling Russian because of the population overflow of Soviet/Russian Jews (and non-Jews) immigrants in my country
Russian
Serbian
If you need any help with it, you can send me PMs I suppose, but I'm not much of a teacher really.
Will try my best though
Nice to see you all
Dutch
Russian
Russian.
Dutch
Ukrainian, Russian
My native language is Ukrainian, but I'm originally from Sumy (this Ukrainian city is near to Russia) so I know Russian very well :)
And my mother was born in Siberia, Russia.
Dutch :)
Whoa, there's a lot of Dutch people here. Didn't expect that :-P
My native language is Chinese-Mandarin. I can speak english though but not that good.
My native language is English. My mother is Greek, and my grandmother on my father's side was German. I do not speak, write, or understand any Greek at all. I do not speak or write German, but I am able to understand small bits of it, either in writing, or in a conversation. I am also able to understand some Spanish, either in writing or in a conversation, but I cannot speak or write in Spanish.
My native language is American English. That's also the native language of my whole family.