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Yeah, I have trouble with certain sounds in some languages. I hate the simple U in French (my au-dessous sounds like au-dessus, and the meanings are entirely different! ), and the R, L, whatever it is in Japanese.
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05-27-2003, 11:16 AM | #2 |
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The Official Languages Thread
yup, I know that all of you love to practise the other languages and show off with your abilities.
And I know that we shouldn't spoil other threads with it. So here it is: The Official Languages Thread! Post in any language you want to. There will be someone who is able to understand and correct it or even reply. Ah, I should begin. I am a native German speaker, so don't hesitate to ask me anything or to write something in German.
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10-04-2005, 05:17 PM | #3 |
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bedankt. Ik was van plan om de andere thread te lezen, maar ik ben te lui. Nu kan ik iets in het Nederlands zeggen zonder de hele ding te moeten doorlezen.
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10-05-2005, 02:47 AM | #4 |
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Je hoefde de andere thread niet te lezen om iets in het Nederlands te kunnen zeggen. Iedereen praatte er toch door een en in alle mogelijke talen.
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10-05-2005, 05:48 AM | #5 |
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Elemm*rë-chan! Hisashiburi desu ne! Ogenki? Stil remember your Japanese?
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10-07-2005, 03:52 PM | #6 |
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Has anyone read Lord of the Rings in another language? I want to read the Dutch version but I can't afford it. If you've read one, what did you think of the translation?
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10-10-2005, 05:53 PM | #7 | |
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Myeh. I'll put it in French so I can talk to other people too. Ma camarade de chambre et FOLLE et je ne l'aime plus. Je pense que je deviens malade. ...et j'ai besoin d'écrire un dissertation mais je suis trop peinée.
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10-20-2007, 12:32 PM | #8 |
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The Arabic language has the most beautiful alphabet I've seen. I want to learn it someday, too. After I get fluent in Russian and Portuguese, and learn French, probably.
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Quelle belle langue!
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10-20-2007, 12:42 PM | #10 |
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That's definitely true. I love the sound of French; it has a certain...je ne sais quoi!
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10-21-2007, 01:07 PM | #11 | |
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I would really like to learn Russian as well, so I can finally read the sources on the Russo-Japanese (1904-05) war myself.
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11-28-2007, 06:24 PM | #12 |
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Well that's depressing :/
I think you're right about "Ich spreche kein Deutsche" though. It's been way to long since I took German and it's...becoming true... |
11-29-2007, 04:16 PM | #13 |
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idk bbs language.
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05-07-2008, 04:11 PM | #14 |
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Bonjour! Mon nom est Antoine. Mon français est atroce, et je est-ce que connaître grammaire.
I'm proud that I knew about five of those words without looking them up, and sad that the ones I know are probably being used incorrectly, somehow . |
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I think the first part looks correct, you even have a ç in Français! But I'm not sure what you wanted to say in the last part of the sentence. The 'est-ce que' is to my knowledge used in a question. And you used the infinitif of 'to know' instead of conjugating it.
Bonjour Antoine, je m'appelle Sarah. Mon Français n'est pas atroce (j'espère) mais en même temps, je fais encore beaucoup des erreurs.
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Et moi, je m'appelle Jonathan. Je crois que j'ai oublié la plupart de mon français, parce que je utilize la langue trop rarement...
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05-09-2008, 07:58 AM | #17 |
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*shrugs* Sounds (/reads) good enough to me
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05-13-2008, 12:28 PM | #18 |
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Alors, nous sommes trois qui avons besoin des exercises.
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08-27-2008, 06:01 AM | #19 |
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As I was trying to fall asleep the other night, I came to think of a language oddity. In the English language, all nationalities on the British Isles have the suffix -man:
Englishman, Scotsman, Welshman, Irishman. Also just across the English Channel, we have Frenchman and Dutchman. Apart from this small portion of the world, there are no nationalities which ends in -man. There are just Spaniards, Swedes, Turks and whatnot. Well, there is Chinaman but it's considered a bit pejorative and we say Chinese these days. Chinaman and East Indiaman were also names given to trading ships bound for Asia hundreds of years ago. Just some observations!
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I am reviewing my German these days. It's fun. Can't say much yet but I can read ok . I'll probably have lots of questions later.
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