Languages

Noel Breaks wrote: i'm ignorant enough only to know the queens english......shame on me!

Me too..plus Pig Latin ofcourse

arek was writing: choose some germanwings or ryanair - trip will take a few minutes, dont drive - there is too many stupidos on polish roads

...I knew that, 'cause I've a female colleague, who is from Poznan, and she's driving to her former hometown (12 hours ! ) every six weeks for a weekend, so I were told some stories...

Spotnick wrote:

Ben wrote: French (mother tongue) Dutch (second working language) English (former working language)

Dutch ou flamand? c'est la même langue?

Flemish is the Belgian version of Dutch. Theoretically it's the same language and they fully understand each other. The difference comes from some particular expression, vocabulary words and, of course, the accent. Compare your Canadian French language with French as spoken in Marseille, and you'll get it.

Greek, bad english, even worse spanish (but im slowly getting better ;) ).

Russian English German Ukranian Spanish Latin Danish & Ancient Greek (forgot already, it was in school)

I won't disclose which of the languages I know better or worse ;) But I neither speak nor understand French, Italian and Portugese whatsoever...

English (about as well as Elias' ) Irish - but not a lot I learned German for 5 years, but can't remember any now:(

english, pushto, urdu (understand it, can't really speak it), & a little spanish.

one of my best friends is a german teacher. she's been wanting to teach me for 7 years now. i think i'll take her up on the offer soon enough.

i also wasted two years in high school trying to learn latin.

choose some germanwings or ryanair - trip will take a few minutes, dont drive - there is too many stupidos on polish roads

There's no Germanwings or Ryanair if you want to go from Warsaw to Vienna. The only cheap airline is Skyeurope and they fly from Bratislava to Warsawa. From Vienna Airport there's only AUA, LOT and some other expensive Airlines going there...

kamar wrote: one of my best friends is a german teacher. she's been wanting to teach me for 7 years now. i think i'll take her up on the offer soon enough.

The cool thing about that offer is that, because she's a friend, you'll have somebody to practice with, and because she's a teacher, she'll be speaking correctly, unlike your classmates in a regular language class. I would SO take her up on that offer if I were you.

besides dutch, english, german, bit of french, bit of greek, native language is freesian. Weening hy syn tsjil krekt een bytjse earder oer de Finish yn de 8-ste etappe fan de tour de france.

Isn't Frisian Germanic, like Dutch and German?

yes; freesian is still spoken in the north of the netherlands, germany and denmark. Actually last week a new bumper sticker action was pronounced for the FRL initials (FRiesLand). This is one of those desparate actions to try and keep the language alive. For me it's not a big issue but it is fun to be able to speak a "small" language.

PCLike wrote: besides dutch, english, german, bit of french, bit of greek, native language is freesian. Weening hy syn tsjil krekt een bytjse earder oer de Finish yn de 8-ste etappe fan de tour de france.

Yoa, het-ie goed gedoan, die Pieter, joamme vor die gast vannu Kloden, heh?

Harkema!

Portuguese, English, Spanish and a little bit of Japanese....but this last one is only to have dinner at Japanese restaurants with my boss, as he is Japanese.

bLuE oRdEr wrote: Isn't Frisian Germanic, like Dutch and German?

and english. actually, frisian is more closely related to english than it is to either dutch or german.

I did some checking; according to Wikipedia, Frisian is the closest language to English. My Dictionary of European languages, however, says Scots is the closest language to English.

bLuE oRdEr wrote: I did some checking; according to Wikipedia, Frisian is the closest language to English. My Dictionary of European languages, however, says Scots is the closest language to English.

scots or scots gaelic? scots would be what robert burns wrote in so in that case, yes. but gaelic isn't a germanic language so in that case, no.

Scots (not to be confused with Gaelic) is closely related to English, according to the Encyclopedia of European Languages.**

The difference betwen the two accounts may lie in which language was most closely related (i.e., Scots) and which language is most closely related (i.e., Frisian).

**I called it a Dictionary in the previous post; it's an Encyclopedia.

Can we talk about Slavic languages here?

|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: Can we talk about Slavic languages here?

i don't have access to the cyrillic font (as far as i know), so it would look stupid for me to write in russian.

AgentWood wrote:

|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: Can we talk about Slavic languages here?

i don't have access to the cyrillic font (as far as i know), so it would look stupid for me to write in russian.

Well it didn't work here for some reason.

But let me try now (since the cyrillic is included in every Windows system):

ТЕСТ. ТЕСТ. Тест.

Атмосфера.

Looks like it works now

how did you get that? i can only figure out how to change my font on MS word.

AgentWood wrote: how did you get that? i can only figure out how to change my font on MS word.

If you've got Windows XP/2000/SE/etc., go to Control Panel > Date, Time, Language Options > Add other language > Lanugage: Details > Add (choose any language you want)...

If you choose any Slavic language, it will appear in the bar at the bottom of the screen (where time, icq, msn etc. are). Since you've got already US English - you'll get two options now: English (by default) and the other language - that you can type using your keyboard once you switch to the other language. The only trick is to know under which Latin letter a slavic letter stands :)

хорошо!

but i'm having a hell of a time figuring out where the letters are on the keyboard! when i was in high school and we wrote papers in cyrillic, i got to know the keyboard setting really well, but i've forgotten completely and don't even know if it's the same.

AgentWood wrote: хорошо!

but i'm having a hell of a time figuring out where the letters are on the keyboard! when i was in high school and we wrote papers in cyrillic, i got to know the keyboard setting really well, but i've forgotten completely and don't even know if it's the same.

Should be the same. Since the keyboard was designed after a typewriter.

`=Ё Q=Й W=Ц E=У R=К T=Е Y=Н U=Г I=Ш O=Щ P=З [=Х ]=Ъ

A=Ф S=Ы D=В F=А G=П H=Р J=О K=Л L=Д ;=Ж '=Э

Z=Я X=Ч C=С V=М B=И N=Т M=Ь ,=Б .=Ю

Good! :)

|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote:

AgentWood wrote: хорошо!

but i'm having a hell of a time figuring out where the letters are on the keyboard! when i was in high school and we wrote papers in cyrillic, i got to know the keyboard setting really well, but i've forgotten completely and don't even know if it's the same.

Should be the same. Since the keyboard was designed after a typewriter.

`=Ё Q=Й W=Ц E=У R=К T=Е Y=Н U=Г I=Ш O=Щ P=З [=Х ]=Ъ

A=Ф S=Ы D=В F=А G=П H=Р J=О K=Л L=Д ;=Ж '=Э

Z=Я X=Ч C=С V=М B=И N=Т M=Ь ,=Б .=Ю

Good! :)

all i know is my qwerty.

it's kind of weird that 'o' isn't, well, 'o'.

I'm a native bilingual (Spanish and Catalan). I also speak English, Japanese, French and some Galician.

Елена Исинбаева

AgentWood wrote:

all i know is my qwerty.

it's kind of weird that 'o' isn't, well, 'o'.

I know :) I think it has something to do with the frequency of letter use.... I think it may well have been designed that way by Sigmund Freud or Franz von Kraft-Ebing