Foreign Languages

[Chaossaber314]

I can speak like 2nd year level Spanish and can read a fair amount of Latin. I will admit to a passing desire to learn Arabic if only just to write it because it's a very beautiful looking language.

[Deus_ultima]

English is a foreign language to me.
French is my mother tongue.

[Nono]

Quote by: Deus French is my mother tongue.

An apt expression -- all the connotations of warmth, trust, familiarity, security, etc. that you rarely achieve in other languages.

[Nono]

Quote by: Chaos Arabic ... it's a very beautiful looking language

So true. But it sounds like hell, to me.
And there's a language well-suited to yelling (my view).

[jose]

depends on what you call ¨speaking¨i can hold a basic conversation, and be polite (or rude) in eight languages, but i can watch TV and understand without translating in my head only three

[pahl]

Quote by: Nono Quote by: Deus French is my mother tongue. An apt expression -- all the connotations of warmth, trust, familiarity, security, etc. that you rarely achieve in other languages.

Really? Cause we got the exact same expression in Swedish. Except the "tongue"-part is not the same word as a acctual tongue. (Though it could mean "goal" or in some context food/dinner).

[Nono]

Yes, the "mother" part is also in the expression in French, German and Italian, and probably a lot of other languages. Interesting, because languages generally differ on whether your land of birth is your "fatherland" or "motherland", say, but agree when it comes to the language it's what you learned at your mother's knee.

[Sarah22]

Quote by: Nono I'd vote for Italian. Certainly sounds good when sung.

I would LOVE to learn Italian- It's a beautiful language.
Josh Groban has an amazing voice. And to top it off, pasta is delicious!

[abub]

Quote by: Hmm Can you speak any foreign languages? How did you learn them? And, which language do you think sounds the best when spoken?

i'm almost fluent in german... learned it from my grandmother. she's one of those half-english-half-german-speaking kind of people.

imo, english sounds the best when spoken. the vocabulary is huge, so it's easy to make up original sentences rather than being repetitive all the time (as in german, for example)

[The Bacon Guy]

Quote by: Nono Hey, Bakin, now what about Glaswegian?

Depends who’s speaking it. I don’t tend to like one accent over another (although I do find Spanish/Portuguese to be rather irritating); rather I go by individual voices.

My general rule is that the less people speak the better.

[Gods_Mercenary]

I speak a good deal fo french, though my accent is getting a little more rusty cause I haven't been to france or quebec in a while, which is where I use it. I know enough italian to travel there, I'm attempting to learn german, and I want to learn Arabic at least a little, but that looks like a project.

[DEEJ85]

I like the Klingon language. but do not speak it. but it can be used just as easily to communicate.

Marc Okrand is a linguist who made the language for the star trek series. He actually structured it the way an real language would be made. One can actually communicate in this language quite well. It is being used for study to see how languages work and develop. MrKlingon.org - the home of the Universal Translator Assistant Project

[georgia_is_XXX]

ich bin spechen duetsch..only a little bit though
duetsch ist gute ja? "ich liebbe dich!" tell your better half that!! in german it meens i love you, he he. i dropped german cuz i wus bored but ill take it next year
im a freshman in highskool if any youses can speak german let me know? Ja?
i would love for someone to help me speak it better. i can prenounce everything correctly so if any ya'll wanna learn let me know ill be more then happy to discuss...



check out my "Whats your favorite video game" forum in "GENERAL DISCUSSION"

[phoenix_fire]

I can't speak it, but I can understand it some.

[DEEJ85]

Many in my extended family speak German and also many speak Low German (plattduetsch) pronounced "ploat deech". Low German sounds a lot like High German (normal German) except more guttural or low sounds. the two languages are different enough that you cannot understand the other.

I learned in my Linguistics class that low German is actually closely related with English. Low German is more closely related to English then it is to normal German.

My grandma tends to write emails in a mixture of low German, high German, a little Spanish and English. She also cannot spell very well at all. It makes for very interesting reading.

[Nono]

Quote by: DEEJ German is actually closely related with English. Low German is more closely related to English then it is to normal German.

Wouldn't go quite that far. English is chock full of other things, especially French but also old Norse and whatnot. However, it's true that low German closer to English in a lot of ways than high German is. And really, in some ways Danish, Dutch, Flemish and all those languages on the norht and western fringe of Germany are sorts of low German that have broken off and become independent languages in their own right.

And Swiss German -- though considered to consist of various weird dialects of German -- is virtually a separate language. Certainly Germans have a hell of a time understanding it.

And there are things in Swiss German that are reminiscent of English.

And round and round we go.

[DEEJ85]

you sorta misquoted there. I had said " Low German is actually closely related with English" no worries

when I say closely related I meant close in family group.I did not mean that it consists of German or low German affects. I understand that English has a lot of French and other languages put into it.

If the English hadn't fought with the French as much as they had, then the English language would be quite different then it is today.

[bishop]

i speak some international languages.. english, sql, accounting, finance.. heh..

i know enough spanish to survive, but nothing close to being able to hold a conversation.. if i had my choice, it would be to learn hungarian or japanese.

[Nono]

Quote by: DEEJ If the English hadn't fought with the French as much as they had, then the English language would be quite different then it is today.

It's the French (well, the Normans) who invaded Briton, not vice versa.

[phoenix_fire]

Quote by: bishop i speak some international languages.. english, sql, accounting, finance.. heh.. i know enough spanish to survive, but nothing close to being able to hold a conversation.. if i had my choice, it would be to learn hungarian or japanese.

You should try it then. That's what I'm doing. Gambatte!