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Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Watching the Pope, as with other Popes, it amazes me the multi-lingual capabilities of some people. I took French in high school and college, but struggled with it. On the other hand, I loved English, diagramming sentences, and feel I'm fairly articulate using it. What languages other than English can you read/understand/speak? p.s. I wish sign language had been offered when I was in school. I think it would have been a great thing to learn. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Watching the Pope, as with other Popes, it amazes me the multi-lingual capabilities of some people. I had a try at French in high school, many years ago. It amazes me still, having done that and failed, that some can somehow process in their minds more than one language. I applaud those that are so able. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I've always thought starting the process in an immersive way when we're kids is how to create fluency, but I had friends in high school and college who picked French up, nonetheless. I can sort of watch a French movie and get some of it, if they're not talking too fast, and I can comprehend written French at a very basic level. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
I know 3 languages without schooling. Swedish, Danish and Norwegian:) English is very easy to learn to us because it's a Germanic language. The Vikings talked very much the same language in Britain as the British did 1200 years ago. However the Sami language is very difficult. Only word I know is Oddasat that means News and Lappsi that means Child. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
I've always thought starting the process in an immersive way when we're kids is how to create fluency, but I had friends in high school and college who picked French up, nonetheless. I can sort of watch a French movie and get some of it, if they're not talking too fast, and I can comprehend written French at a very basic level. In Denmark they want danish speaking movies subtitled:) Especially the serie Bron! I tried to see the first episod without subtitles and I was lost:) |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
I studied English as a student. I'll get it one of these days! |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
Fluent in German and English French and Dutch is buried somewhere in my brain. Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
Since my mother is hungarian we are grown with more than One language. I think this helps With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Since my mother is hungarian we are grown with more than One language. Finno-Ugric languages:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages Now that is a VERY hard language to learn. The sami people and the Finn immigrants speaks that here. The most famous Finno-Ugric languages is Hungarian (13.6 million speakers ), Finnish (5.2 million ) and Estonian (1.1 million ). Hyvä Päivi and Kippis:) |
Ralph Send message Joined: 17 May 99 Posts: 304 Credit: 2,485,135 RAC: 3 |
I took classes in Latin, French and Spanish in high school and one of the English teachers who was German taught German to a small group of us at lunch time. I also learned finger spelling. In college it was technical German, French and Russian. And since I spent time in Italy, I learned a little Italian. Bottom line: I am fluent in English. I flounder in the other languages. Do you want to count computer languages? |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Do you want to count computer languages? There is only one computer language. English:) However the US dont understand this. A BIG problem is that the IT buisness have to understand what localization! is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localization |
Jim Martin Send message Joined: 21 Jun 03 Posts: 2475 Credit: 646,848 RAC: 0 |
I read Der Spiegel, every week, at the local library. Not a perfect read, but gets easier, every year. Not much practice listening to or speaking German, as most German-speakers are either in Pennsylvania, or the upper Midwest. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I used to love to hear my grandparents spar at each other in fluent German. They always spoke English until one of them got a bit perturbed about something or other. I know it's not a love language, considered by some to be in the gutter.\\\\ But, it is quite a wonderful, expressive language. I am a man of the earth, as are most German immigrants. I took a try at it once, failed miserably at it, as I did at French. Picked up more German at home than I did French at school.....LOL "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
German English fluent.... Latin French would need some freshen up and then there is russian and polish but those prolly would take a couple month before i could get around with it again ... for a while i got pretty good with japanese since the phone i had was an import and only had one language haha so had to learn to read that but it was a pain in my a** and i dropped that real quick I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Gramdpa could yodel, like so......... "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
almost sounds like this https://youtu.be/sTSA_sWGM44 I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
And the Germans at times idolized the Swiss, who, rather than the Germans; kinda invented the yodel from one peak to the other. And little Tyler Ware nailed it one fine day...............LOL...my favorite. The Mod crew, if I may say so, just shits their drawers upon the first braak voice she does. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
Zombu2 Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 1615 Credit: 49,315,423 RAC: 0 |
i dunno how that can be so popular here in the US nobody in their right mind would voluntarily listen to that over there unless they like 90-150 years old haha I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
i dunno how that can be so popular here in the US nobody in their right mind would voluntarily listen to that over there unless they like 90-150 years old haha I am 58, dude. You are stepping in it,. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
I would not say it is 'popular' here in the states. Yodelling is not 'popular' anywhere except maybe in the Swiss alps region, and even there, I suspect it is a regional treat, not an every day ocurrence. One of my links stored is given to a wonderful lady name of Jewel, who also has not forgotten her roots. Chime Bells...............wait for it. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
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