Conquer Club

btownmeggy wrote:

Russianfire8371 wrote:I grew up learning German and Bulgarian. Then i moved to America, learned English, and forgot the German. Im not perfectly fluent in Bulgarian seeing how i only speak with my parents (i speak in English to my brother). As for the German, Im relearning it by taking German in high school

So did you grow up in Germany or Bulgaria?

i grew up in Germany, though my entire family (except for me my brother, and my parents) is in bulgaria

Spanish is my first language, met English when I was 4. I was born in California, moved back to Mexico, then came back when I was 4.

misterman10 wrote:i also speak gibberish, dumbfuck, pikachu, taiwanese, pig-latin, and moasdfsadfre

misterman10 are you taiwanese? If not please don't make fun of it by putting it with "gibberish" or "dumbduck" nor to degrade it as something random. There are people who actually speak Taiwanese out there for your information.

American English (Southwest Dialect) is my primary language

I speak read and write fluent Spanish for two reasons, 1.It was the language I took in high school 2. I grew up in Colorado it will be the primary language there soon. No way to tell most of the employees what to do unless you speak Spanish.

Fluent ASL (American Sign Language) my son is deaf

Semi-Fluent Latin

Some Arabic (Egyptian Dialect)

Simonov wrote:i speak croatian - it's my mothernal language. (that means i can speak and understand serbian - they're much alike expect they write in cyrilic and we in latinic alphabet).

i learned slovenian while watching their TV channels.it's also similar language.

learned english in my elementary and high school and from movies and internet naturally.

attended course of french and learned it at high school but haven't spoken it for a quite some time so my speech's a little rusty but can understand a lot of common talk.

and finally i learned latin at highschool but remember only the basics now.

by the way never learned it but i understand a lot of spanish - much word are similar with french and latin words.could probably understand basic talk but don't know to speak it.

would also like to learn russian in the future so i have all three major european language groups covered - romanic, germanic and slavic.

cool. I know russian but I wouldn't know how hard it would be.

Since I live in Israel my first language is Hebrew. I believe my English is fluent enough to be considered a second mother tongue. I would say my dialect is closer to American English than anything else since I watch American TV more than British. I wish I knew some cool British jargon

Finnish is my first language,but I speak and write quite fluent English and Swedish also.Learned basics of English when I was about 5,haven't had too much opportunities to speak it,though.And I learned Swedish when my mother remarried a Swedish guy,I was about 8 years old then.

Bertros Bertros wrote:Finnish is a crazy language. Any language where the noun changes based on the usage is just plain wierd!

I've heard that Finnish is one of the most difficult languages to learn.It is actually the only language in the world where the words are pronounced exactly as they are written,as far as I know.Crazy?Yes,maybe.

Heretic wrote:It is actually the only language in the world where the words are pronounced exactly as they are written,as far as I know.Crazy?Yes,maybe.

What do you mean? What do you mean? I think Spanish is like that, but maybe we're thinking in different terms.

English, some spanish and some germany + some french

English (fluent)

G Talk (fluent)

Spanish (3 years of it and I remember colors)

German (enuff to order a beer)

like bertros said, i feel most in the uk are to ignorant to learn a different language(probably me included). when on holiday in spain i try to use a bit of spanish here and there, when going to the till in the shop i always say hola and por favor(very polite and manners cost nothing).

back in england i talk a load of bollocks when i`m drunk.

Heretic wrote:I've heard that Finnish is one of the most difficult languages to learn.It is actually the only language in the world where the words are pronounced exactly as they are written,as far as I know.Crazy?Yes,maybe.

wrong, most slavic languages pronounce words exactly as they are written.
(phonetic and graphic writing are the same, unlike english for example)
but doubt you can pronounce all letters in finnish as written since you probably don't have letter for voices š (sh) č (ch) ć ž đ and dž

ps meggy it think spanish wouldn't fit into that group

wrong, most slavic languages pronounce words

this text in fonetic:
vrong, moust slevik lengviđiz pronauns vrds..
(this is croatian phonetic not english)

Simonov wrote:

Heretic wrote:I've heard that Finnish is one of the most difficult languages to learn.It is actually the only language in the world where the words are pronounced exactly as they are written,as far as I know.Crazy?Yes,maybe.

wrong, most slavic languages pronounce words exactly as they are written.
(phonetic and graphic writing are the same, unlike english for example)
but doubt you can pronounce all letters in finnish as written since you probably don't have letter for voices š (sh) č (ch) ć ž đ and dž

ps meggy it think spanish wouldn't fit into that group

The only exception for a sound that is used in Spanish that doesn't have a a single letter to represent it is Ch, but many people consider Ch to be just one letter in Spanish. In many dictionaries, words that start with Ch come in their own section after the C section. Otherwise, Spanish is totally phonetic.

I'm comparing Spanish to the other languages I'm most familiar with, English, Portuguese, and French, all of which have highly irregular orthography.

could be.just probably we don't pronouce some letter the same.

ex. you write: vaya con dios
but when i read and then try to write it makes: baja kon dios

but is definitely more phonetic then english

Spanish is by far one of the more phonetic languages out there, with out question.

But in my personal experience, there are some words in Spanish that aren't exactly phonetic. But all of these words were slang, so I suppose that they don't count.

I speak French pretty well and I flirted briefly with German but that was indeed shortlived. Spanish I tried but I got too confused with French - some of the words look very alike but are pronounced entirely differently

Apart from English, the only language I have a smattering of is German, although I'm currently trying to learn Italian. I'm starting classes in September, because self-teaching is driving me effin' pazzo.

But what I really wanted to reply to was this:

KiwiTaker wrote:Lol I speak english oviously, 3 years of German in high school and I can speak a little bit of Dundonian. It isn't completely a language more of a dialect.

Dundonian? Whit, Dundee!?! Eh had a wee check on Google, tae mak sure eh wisna misunnerstaunin ye, an eh canna fund any reference tae "Dundonian" in any ither context than Dundee, so eh'm assumin that's whit ye mean. It's no a separate language or nuhin, ma man, it's jist thit maist pippil fae there canna talk proper, like. Meh parents, fur twa.

EDIT: Oh, an takkin o incomprehensible dialects in isolated, backwads areas, ah can tak Geordie an aal. Like.

Stopper wrote:Apart from English, the only language I have a smattering of is German, although I'm currently trying to learn Italian. I'm starting classes in September, because self-teaching is driving me effin' pazzo.

But what I really wanted to reply to was this:

KiwiTaker wrote:Lol I speak english oviously, 3 years of German in high school and I can speak a little bit of Dundonian. It isn't completely a language more of a dialect.

Dundonian? Whit, Dundee!?! Eh had a wee check on Google, tae mak sure eh wisna misunnerstaunin ye, an eh canna fund any reference tae "Dundonian" in any ither context than Dundee, so eh'm assumin that's whit ye mean. It's no a separate language or nuhin, ma man, it's jist thit maist pippil fae there canna talk proper, like. Meh parents, fur twa.

EDIT: Oh, an takkin o incomprehensible dialects in isolated, backwads areas, ah can tak Geordie an aal. Like.

i don`t think it is Dundee he was talking about, it is a place in New Zealand. i think it is called Dundonan(forgive me if i`m wrong with the spelling). anyway it`s a place in NZ.

Stopper wrote:I'm starting classes in September, because self-teaching is driving me effin' pazzo.

Oh, I am so proud. I think that's just wonderful!

DAZMCFC wrote:like bertros said, i feel most in the uk are to ignorant to learn a different language(probably me included).

I said nothing of the sort! I said most people in the UK would like to have better language skills than they do which is very different from being too ignorant to bother. There are a lot of those sort everywhere, not just in the UK, but I believe they are in the minority for us. It really gets my back up the way brits are so quick to degrade ourselves without thinking, especially where language is concerned. I've said it before in these forums but what the heck. The reason that the number of people fluent in a foreign language in the UK is low is becuase nearly every other person who doesn't speak English and whats to learn a second language learns English. Its the international language; Portuguese businessmean speak to Danes in English, not Danish or Portuguese. The motivation just isn't there to learn another language in the same way as it is for those who don't speak English already as we are so much less disadvantaged by it. Thats not ignorant or lazy, its just common sense.

DAZMCFC wrote:

Stopper wrote:Dundonian? Whit, Dundee!?! Eh had a wee check on Google, tae mak sure eh wisna misunnerstaunin ye, an eh canna fund any reference tae "Dundonian" in any ither context than Dundee, so eh'm assumin that's whit ye mean. It's no a separate language or nuhin, ma man, it's jist thit maist pippil fae there canna talk proper, like. Meh parents, fur twa.

EDIT: Oh, an takkin o incomprehensible dialects in isolated, backwads areas, ah can tak Geordie an aal. Like.

i don`t think it is Dundee he was talking about, it is a place in New Zealand. i think it is called Dundonan(forgive me if i`m wrong with the spelling). anyway it`s a place in NZ.

You mean Dunedin? That had occurred to me, but the term for people from Dunedin seems to be "Dunedinite", which I found by googling. So, I don't think he means there. Unless you mean somewhere else? This mystery's got to be solved - my money's still on KiwiTaker's having Dundonian parents or something. What with the all the people that have left the place in the last 30 years, I'd still put my money on that...

btownmeggy wrote:

Stopper wrote:I'm starting classes in September, because self-teaching is driving me effin' pazzo.

Oh, I am so proud. I think that's just wonderful!

I wonder what I've let myself in for...

Stopper wrote:

btownmeggy wrote:

Stopper wrote:I'm starting classes in September, because self-teaching is driving me effin' pazzo.

Oh, I am so proud. I think that's just wonderful!

I wonder what I've let myself in for...

Learning Italian, that's what!

And, then, of course, traveling to Italy, seeing amazing sites, eating delicious food, being surrounded by beautiful women who ride mopeds in high heels.

btownmeggy wrote:What other languages do you speak and how well? Feel free to tell details about how you learned the language, or how you like it compared to English, or if English is not your native tongue, etc etc etc et al. Do tell.

I speak Spanish now because most of my ESL students are from Mexico & S. America...so I had no choice but to learn it in order to bridge the gap with my beginners. Spanish is much easier than English in my opinion.

I am slowly learning Tagalog since my wife is Filipino. I think I'm pretty good at saying "Yes, dear", "I was wrong", and "Please forgive me" in her native language.

luns101 wrote:I think I'm pretty good at saying "Yes, dear", "I was wrong", and "Please forgive me" in her native language.

That's all you really need.