11-04-2006, 06:54 PM | #81 |
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Oui, c'est la rivière près duquel il y a des gens qui parlent meänkieli!
Peut-être par contraste avec et une bonne traduction de "as opposed to". Et je dirais * la difference de pour dire "unlike". Example: Eärniel, * la difference de Nurvingiel, parle néerlandais. Eärniel, qu'est-ce que tu pense de ces traductions? Oui, je suis fluent en anglais, français et suédois. Je peux parler un peu d'espagnol aussi ("Puedo hablar un poco de español también") Je ne suis pas étonné qu'une Belge et une Canadienne ont appris le français
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Tu as raison quand tu dit qu'avec l'Anglais on peut s'entirer presque toujours. Il y a beaucoup de monde que parle l'Anglais. Je pense que seulement 30 millions des personnes dans le monde, plus ou moins, parlent le Néerlandais. Et la Belgique est au milieu des language plus grandes, donc on dois étudier des autre languages quand nous voulons sortir de notre pays. Et en notre petit Belgique nous avons déj* trois langues officielles! C'est très different dans les États Unis ou Canada, comme tu l'a dis. Quote:
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11-12-2006, 08:58 AM | #83 | ||
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And, and, I'm also supposed to understand all the French you three wrote... *bangs head on desk* *concentrates hard* Okay... J'ai étudié le français pendant 4 ans, mais je l'ai quitté - pas de mon décision mieux. Dans une année, j'ai oublié beaucoup... mais je ne voulait pas oublier tout, alors maintenant j'attends un cours de français á l'université. On va voir... Des accents - Nurv, est-ce que tu peux utiliser AltGr pour quelques des lettres? Par example, AltGr + 3, et après a, et voilá: â. Mais ce ne fonctionne pas pour ^e... J'ai é et á parçe qu'on les a en hongrois aussi, je peux écrir ç, â, ë, ä avec AltGr, mais pas è (je l'ai copié)... ça dépend du clavier, je pense. And I don't know much about the Alt codes either. They aren't the same everywhere, anyway. It was annoying when I downloaded a Tengwar font and half of the codes for special characters didn't work. It's easier if I write them myself... Ah, l'anglais, c'est plus facile...
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11-13-2006, 08:32 AM | #84 |
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Bonjour, littleadanel. Je n'avais aucun idée que tu parles aussi en Français.
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Je suis si heureux que tu as retourner Littleadanel! J'espère que tu as quelque chances a practiquer en Français. C'étais une bonne idée de l'étudire * l'université.
I don't have an AltGr key on my keyboard, but I know what you're talking about. However, if I copy the character from Character Map, it will paste into Entmoot. Heh, duh.
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11-15-2006, 10:13 AM | #86 | |
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Nurv - oui, c'était une bonne idée, et un possibilité aussi - pour deux semestres, mes classes sont gratuit. And I'm somewhat of a language freak, really. I extremely enjoy most of my linguistic classes now (am a proud second-year English major at uni)... more than it would be normal. I have taken up French again... I also learn about the Finno-Ugric language family... lush. I'd have a question - are there any languages you'd really like to learn (if you had the time/energy/possibility etc)? As for myself, I know I'm supposed to be focusing on French now, and I like it too... but this summer I decided that I want to learn Croatian someday. My family thought I was joking when I mentioned it to them during our holiday there... but I seriously mean it. It'd be cool to speak a neighboring country's language too.
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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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10-20-2007, 12:42 PM | #89 |
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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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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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10-21-2007, 02:11 PM | #91 |
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Dutch-speakers don't have a say of what is beautiful about a language...
Just kidding
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Speaking of my Slovakian friend, the Slavic languages are also very beautiful; for me, of course, that primarily means Russian. Latin is also quite beautiful sounding, especially with the Italian pronunciation, or (and I may be a bit biased here ) the medieval English. I will admit that Portuguese is not a particularly beautiful language, but it's fun; I'm rather fond of its quirks. I'm surprised you find Japanese to be soft-sounding, Mari; it has a rather sharp sound to me.
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10-22-2007, 06:09 AM | #93 | |
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Sounds rather like angry geese to me...
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10-22-2007, 08:37 AM | #94 |
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The Japanese language to me is rather sharp and, to an extent, pretty angry sounding as well.
After I learn Arabic, I'd love to learn Turkish and Romanian, to better understand their histories.
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Well Mari and I both understand what languages are cool, and which ones aren't.
Mari, don't listen to these foolish folks. People say that German is "harsh", yet it is quite lovely when compared to French and Italian, which are both out-of this-world wacky languages.
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To me Japanese is very soft, perhaps in comparison to Dutch, but also a bit compared to English. But a lot depends on the occasion and the language used. I find that women speak softer and the less formal the conversation, the more emotion you can put in the words. I can think of several short sentences having different meanings depending on the pronounciation. In Dutch you pretty much say what you say with words. Russian in an interesting language I would love to learn, but I can't say I think it sounds pretty
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German is just fine though. And don't worry, I'm not a good listener
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Right, do I kick all your butts and posts to the old and now-feeling-very-unloved Language thread of will you lot go quietly?
edit: Aaaaand, you've been kicked. Curtesy of your friendly neighbour mod.
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Romanian is a romance language, supposedly, but I dont know enough about it to make the call. Arabic to me sounds very musical, not harsh. I guess it is a matter of the personal opinion.
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