Languages

[Requiem]

Does anyone here speak multiple languages and/or are learning a new one. I'm going to try to learn Dutch. But it is rather hard because I will have to do it in my own free time. And Rosetta Stone is far to expensive. So any suggestions on how I should learn it. I'm not for speaking as much as I'am for learning its syntax and learning the vocabulary.

[BOB_ZE_METALLEU]

I speak french, english and few words in Dutch.

I suggest you to buy a book and go on internet for the pronounciation (if you wanna learn it by your own) That is what i did and it's quite possible.

[Infinity]

im trying portuguese right now

[christianiastheshit]

I speak English and Danish. The best way to learn a language is to fully immerse yourself, surround yourself by Dutch speakers. This is a lot to ask, but in my opinion is the only way of becoming fluent in a language. Go to Holland or Belgium for a year, experience the culture, see something totally different, and try to speak as little english as possible. You'd learn a lot. Although Dutch speakers might tell you, you might not learn it in a year :p Very tough language I am told.

[jetblack]

swedish, finnish, english and a little german

[davie_gravy]

I can speak ebonics, redneck, borat, and retard.

[Transient]

I speak English and Danish. The best way to learn a language is to fully immerse yourself, surround yourself by Dutch speakers. This is a lot to ask, but in my opinion is the only way of becoming fluent in a language. Go to Holland or Belgium for a year, experience the culture, see something totally different, and try to speak as little english as possible. You'd learn a lot. Although Dutch speakers might tell you, you might not learn it in a year :p Very tough language I am told.
danskere? skål


anyway everyone here knows me as the language slut. im so fascinated by language that im transferring to suny albany in the fall as a linguistics major. not the most useful major, but language is the only thing besides music i can get excited about.

ive taught myself some danish, i took four years of latin, i took my first year of german this year, and thats it for any language i have a shot at communicating in. i love picking up random words in languages though.

im also fascinated by accents. i can totally see myself archiving accents of english speakers, or doing something like that in the future

[moe_blunts]

I can speak ebonics

moi aussi, nigga. my hick comes out when i go to little, remote texan towns. I start bein' all polite with southern charm. "mam's" and "ya'lls" a plenty.

[Infinity]

danskere? skål


anyway everyone here knows me as the language slut. im so fascinated by language that im transferring to suny albany in the fall as a linguistics major. not the most useful major, but language is the only thing besides music i can get excited about.

ive taught myself some danish, i took four years of latin, i took my first year of german this year, and thats it for any language i have a shot at communicating in. i love picking up random words in languages though.

im also fascinated by accents. i can totally see myself archiving accents of english speakers, or doing something like that in the future

that sounds very cool.

[Transient]

regarding accents, i saw an awesome website a few years ago but i doubt ill ever find it again. it was this long paragraph, basically nonsensical, that was read by people whose second language was english. then it would have analysis of how they read it

[Mardraum]

Dutch (doh), german and english fluently, un petit peu french, and small bits of Scandinavian languages, Frisian too. I understand most of the dialects of germanic language groups on seeing them. And some Limburgian (the dialect of the region I live in)

[Bones98]

Speak armenian, spanish, farsi, english, and russian.

[moe_blunts]

Speak armenian, spanish, farsi, english, and russian.


I know some Armenians.....crazy fucks they be. If I ever want an AK-47 or a cheap cheap Armani suit, I'll go see them Armenians. However, they are nothing compared to the Bosnians I know.

[blizzard_beast]

Just Russian.

[PST 88]

You fake English pretty damn well, then.

At this point I really can't speak any other languages anymore, though I can still understand every Romance language pretty well. I still retain some bits of German, Hungarian, and Czech, but I never learned them properly, so even when I could speak them somewhat I wouldn't say I could speak them.

[YOUR_GOD_IS_DEAD]

english and spanish. i wanna learn portuguese though that would be cool

[BassBehemoth]

I can speak ebonics, redneck, borat, and retard.

Yeah same here! HIGH FIVE!

I speak Eastern-Canadian.

edit - I know some french as well, just from mandatory learning in school.

[guitar_demon]

english and spanish. i wanna learn portuguese though that would be cool
i thought they were basically the same?
i have been learning norwegian for a while

[sqol]

English, German, a little Spanish (but i've forgotten most of it), and i'm learning Polish (and re-learning a lot of my German, but it's coming back quickly :)) Once i'm done with Polish, hopefully it'll be easier to pick up other eastern European languages, and Russian would be cool too :)

[xgrafcorex]

just engrish and a little bit of spanish.

i would recommend you learn spanish...unless of course you are intending on working in a particular country. otherwise, spanish would probably be the language you will come across most often.

[BassBehemoth]

just engrish and a little bit of spanish.

i would recommend you learn spanish...unless of course you are intending on working in a particular country. otherwise, spanish would probably be the language you will come across most often.

Yeah I definitely agree with that.

[tmfreak]

i thought they were basically the same?
i have been learning norwegian for a while
Nah spanish and portuguese are about as different as Italian is to French, or spanish.

[timedragon]

i can read spanish, but people speak it too fast, for me. if i were to learn another language, it would probably be finnish, so that if i ever do visit the land of metal :p, i will have an easy time getting around and what not.

[Cassius]

English, German and Dutch.

[powersofterror]

Guten Tag!

Ich lerne deusch now....

fuck....well...I started yesterday. :p...was that even congegated right?

[BOB_ZE_METALLEU]

moi aussi, nigga.

lolll Alors toi aussi tu parles Français.

Between, it's not ebonic!!

[/QUOTE=Mardraum] un petit peu french.[/QUOTE]

Un petit peu is like A little bit. That make me laugh because all english people say it!! Here, this kind of sentence is call:Pleonasme

[Transient]

Guten Tag!

Ich lerne deusch now....

fuck....well...I started yesterday. :p...was that even congegated right?
yeah but jetzt= now

[Bones98]

I know some Armenians.....crazy fucks they be. If I ever want an AK-47 or a cheap cheap Armani suit, I'll go see them Armenians. However, they are nothing compared to the Bosnians I know.


I hate that whole stereotypical rabiz armenian thing with them wearing armani clothes.

[tmfreak]

I hate that whole stereotypical rabiz armenian thing with them wearing armani clothes.
Yeah i know an armenian. Hes in the marine corps, is almost deathly conservative and avidly hates russians.

[blitz906]

Does anyone here speak multiple languages and/or are learning a new one. I'm going to try to learn Dutch. But it is rather hard because I will have to do it in my own free time. And Rosetta Stone is far to expensive. So any suggestions on how I should learn it. I'm not for speaking as much as I'am for learning its syntax and learning the vocabulary.

I downloaded Rosetta Stone for free, with ALL languages included... Not legally of course ;)

[humancorpse]

Well, I speak Norwegian and English, and Im trying to learn Spanish. I can obviously understand Swedish and Danish. Lots of German as well, but there's no way I can actually speak that myself anymore.

[jetblack]

I can obviously understand Swedish and Danish.

the same about norweigan and danish for me..but speaking it..no way..

[Requiem]

I downloaded Rosetta Stone for free, with ALL languages included... Not legally of course ;)

I already tried that through torrents. The installation file worked but I couldn't find the language packs that I downloaded. Could you help me out?

[humancorpse]

the same about norweigan and danish for me..but speaking it..no way..
Yeah, but we don't really need to anyway, we usually can just use our own languages towards each other ;)

[powersofterror]

yeah but jetzt= now
Ja, Ich auch schreibe den Deutsche schlecht!

We're going so fucking fast in these 10am-4pm M-R classes.....

Monday we learned the "treasure of words," the alphabet, colors, objects around the classroom, more phrases, counting, clothing, weather, days of the week/seasons/months, telling time, and dialogue.

Tuesday we started with a quiz, then learned the whole family, nationalities like where do you live and come from, and singular/plural forms of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd persons.

Today we had Exam 1, asking for many different foods and drinks at supermarkets, and last but not least......we just zipped through nominative and accusative verb forms.

[Transient]

Ja, Ich auch schreibe den Deutsche schlecht!

We're going so fucking fast in these 10am-4pm M-R classes.....

Monday we learned the "treasure of words," the alphabet, colors, objects around the classroom, more phrases, counting, clothing, weather, days of the week/seasons/months, telling time, and dialogue.

Tuesday we started with a quiz, then learned the whole family, nationalities like where do you live and come from, and singular/plural forms of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd persons.

Today we had Exam 1, asking for many different foods and drinks at supermarkets, and last but not least......we just zipped through nominative and accusative verb forms.

ja wohl, es kann schwierig sein.

[tmfreak]

Ja, Ich auch schreibe den Deutsche schlecht!

We're going so fucking fast in these 10am-4pm M-R classes.....

Monday we learned the "treasure of words," the alphabet, colors, objects around the classroom, more phrases, counting, clothing, weather, days of the week/seasons/months, telling time, and dialogue.

Tuesday we started with a quiz, then learned the whole family, nationalities like where do you live and come from, and singular/plural forms of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd persons.

Today we had Exam 1, asking for many different foods and drinks at supermarkets, and last but not least......we just zipped through nominative and accusative verb forms.

Summer school.. haha fucking nice. Thats definitely how it is.

[blitz906]

Well, I speak Norwegian and English, and Im trying to learn Spanish. I can obviously understand Swedish and Danish. Lots of German as well, but there's no way I can actually speak that myself anymore.

Can you understand Finnish too?

[Wolfsherz]

English fluently
Dutch fluently
French fluently
I can read German, but speak it poorly, same goes for Swedish.

[guitar_demon]

Can you understand Finnish too?
i cant speak for him personally but if you know danish/swedish/norwegian you can understand the other two pretty well but unless you have studied finnish you cant understand it just by knowing one of the previous mentioned three

[The Doctor]

Guten Tag!

Ich lerne deusch now....

fuck....well...I started yesterday. :p...was that even congegated right?

Jetzt lerne ich Deutsch!

i speak dutch (duh), english and german fluently and i could get around in france (though french is a sucky language).

i also had a couple of years of greek and latin, but it sucked :beer:

[HELLBLASTER-666]

I only know English and Greek,but I know swear words in many languages
and that's the most usefull words to know anyway

[Transient]

i cant speak for him personally but if you know danish/swedish/norwegian you can understand the other two pretty well but unless you have studied finnish you cant understand it just by knowing one of the previous mentioned three

a bit of elaboration

danish and norwegian are VERY similar, swedish uses a different alphabet but is understandable to someone who speaks any of those three

finnish is completely unreleated. finland is a part of scandinavia (denmark norway sweden finland iceland faroe islands) however the language is not germanic like D,N, and S. finnish is a finno-ugric language, its relatives being hungarian and estonian. not only is it a different alphabet, the sentence structure is vastly different because it is agglutinative, meaning is affixed to nouns with suffixes.

a basic example
english:i dont understand
danish: jeg forstår ikke
norwegian: jeg forstår ikke
swedish: jag forstär inte
finnish: en ymmärrä


tell me if i got anything wrong

[Hidrio]

I am only fluent in English. My French has got progressively worse since I left school but I can still read a fair bit of it. I can also count in Thai and know about 8 words.

[blitz906]

i cant speak for him personally but if you know danish/swedish/norwegian you can understand the other two pretty well but unless you have studied finnish you cant understand it just by knowing one of the previous mentioned three

Is Finnish very different from the other languages? Less similarities?

[Transient]

Is Finnish very different from the other languages? Less similarities?
look at my post above dude

[humancorpse]

Transient and GD are right. Finnish is pretty much completely incomprehensible to me, with the exception of a few words. Hell, German is much more similar to Norwegian than Finnish.

[Mardraum]

Finnish is most similar to Estonian and has old bands to Hungarian, the Finugrian (I guess you write it like that) language group.

[blitz906]

Interesting... to say the least.

[powersofterror]

Today....we did more negations of sentences regarding shopping auf Deutsch. Me thinks we're slowing down until exam 2 next wednesday....anyhoo, it's Monday thru thursday so I get a 3 day weekend to study vocabulary! yayyyyy:rolleyes:

I should be all right though....I've got two friends that speak german to help me out.

[Requiem]

If you don't mind me asking, powersofterror, what College do you attend?

[powersofterror]

University of North Texas. You should know that, little Mr. Corsicana if I remember correctly....

[powersofterror]

Jetzt lerne ich Deutsch!

i speak dutch (duh), english and german fluently and i could get around in france (though french is a sucky language).

i also had a couple of years of greek and latin, but it sucked :beer:
hahhaha, I hit the edit button by mistake and I was like...."What the fuck?" This isn't the quote screen!:p

How far along are you in german speaking?

[Transient]

Finnish is most similar to Estonian and has old bands to Hungarian, the Finugrian (I guess you write it like that) language group.
finno-ugric

[Mardraum]

finno-ugric
Thank you.

[Requiem]

I got Rosetta Stone finally and I've begin to learn Dutch. But the way that Rosetta Stone teachs I'll only be able to read it and be able to understand it in speech but I won't be able to speak it. Other than that it is going quite well. :)

[jetblack]

Yeah, but we don't really need to anyway, we usually can just use our own languages towards each other ;)

hehe thats right ;)

[jetblack]

swedish: jag forstär inte


tell me if i got anything wrong

its: jag förstår inte

[Transient]

kiiti

[jetblack]

kiiti

hehe ole hyvä!

[Murcie]

Italian (mother language) and English fluently (even if a bit rusted now). I understand also a bit of written Spanish. I started studying a bit of Norwegian last year (first time by comparing Norwegian lyrics and their English translation - I'm crazy), but for several months I stopped due to lack of time. During holidays I'm going to start again, and to start also Swedish. I'd like also to learn Finnish, but I fear that learning three new languages together is too much. I've already serched for some dictionaries and grammar rules but, apart from the first rudiments, lot of material is in language so... I'll start learning by translating them!

[Dyvim Tvar]

English, Spanish (though I've forgotten a fair bit I can still be understood), a little German. I want to learn German properly sometime, should be a laugh!

[humancorpse]

Italian (mother language) and English fluently (even if a bit rusted now). I understand also a bit of written Spanish. I started studying a bit of Norwegian last year (first time by comparing Norwegian lyrics and their English translation - I'm crazy), but for several months I stopped due to lack of time. During holidays I'm going to start again, and to start also Swedish. I'd like also to learn Finnish, but I fear that learning three new languages together is too much. I've already serched for some dictionaries and grammar rules but, apart from the first rudiments, lot of material is in language so... I'll start learning by translating them!
I'd say trying to learn Swedish and Norwegian at the same time would be very, very confusing especially if you're pretty new to both. I would think you would be better off trying to get at least a decent understanding of one of them before trying to learn the other.

[guitar_demon]

yea i was kinda thinking the same thing

[k13m]

dutch is my mother language, i speak some german, pretty well english, and i can say, ''fuckyou'', ''go into an asshole'', ''you are an asshole'', and ''fuck you demonic whore'' in icelandic (or sumtim close anyway), so what more do i need :D.

i wanna learn some proper icelandic sumtimes, i got a good friend who lives there, and the chicks are hot!!!

[BOB_ZE_METALLEU]

I heard that all Iceland people have an ill called: Congenital cardiac malformations.

Dutch isn't already German?

[Murcie]

Yeah I know they're very close, but I hoped that starting them almost together I could check better the differences and fix the dubts that may occur in "real time", at least for reading and writing, but for listening... yeah it may be a great mess! However, if I see it's too caotic I'll wait before starting the second one. Thanks for advice!! Or better... Tusen takk ;)

[jetblack]

Yeah I know they're very close, but I hoped that starting them almost together I could check better the differences and fix the dubts that may occur in "real time", at least for reading and writing, but for listening... yeah it may be a great mess! However, if I see it's too caotic I'll wait before starting the second one. Thanks for advice!! Or better... Tusen takk ;)

if you want to learn two languages at the same time, i suggest that you try with finnish and norweigan/swedish.. because finnish are very different so if you take two languages which arent very close (like swedish and norweigan)it wouldnt be too caotic! because i speak both swedish and finnish i suggest those languages ;) but thats just my opinion ;)

[Murcie]

Ehehehe thanks for suggestions! Having already started with a bit of Norwegian that's the one I thought to continue to, but I have also to say that there's much more material for Swedish... It will be a difficult choice!!

[Transient]

I heard that all Iceland people have an ill called: Congenital cardiac malformations.

Dutch isn't already German?
god no, bob
dutch is a germanic language


dutch is not german though. the word for german, in the german language is "deutsch" which is maybe where your confusion is stemming from

[Requiem]

god no, bob
dutch is a germanic language


dutch is not german though. the word for german, in the german language is "deutsch" which is maybe where your confusion is stemming from

LOL Poor misinformed Bob. Where does this guy get his knowledge from.

[blitz906]

LOL Poor misinformed Bob. Where does this guy get his knowledge from.

Lmao :D Even I knew that when I was like fucking twelve. Probably cause my mum's family is Dutch though

Anyways... Does anyone here know Welsh? My fathers side of the family is Welsh, I've heard them speak it, very interesting language... seems insanely difficult though :confused:

I heard that all Iceland people have an ill called: Congenital cardiac malformations.
Probably because they eat whale... and fucking horse meat :sickface:

[Pineappleystuff]

english and german, but i want to learn dutch really soon as i have some friends in amsterdam where my husband and i are moving once he gets out of the army.

[Def]

I speak English and Danish. The best way to learn a language is to fully immerse yourself, surround yourself by Dutch speakers. This is a lot to ask, but in my opinion is the only way of becoming fluent in a language. Go to Holland or Belgium for a year, experience the culture, see something totally different, and try to speak as little english as possible. You'd learn a lot. Although Dutch speakers might tell you, you might not learn it in a year :p Very tough language I am told.

This is very true. I allready knew how to speak German but I only got 'good' at it from beeing around Germans for a while!

Dutch is a very tough language to learn but Germans usually have less problems with it then people from other countries. This is because a lot of words and the way we build sentences are alike. (IE the germanic language)

I speak Dutch, Flemish, German and English. Most of them fluently, ask PST88. ;)

I know a fair bit of French and Spanish as well. I can speak/write/read both of them. Though I must say I am far from fluent in these languages.


Pineappleystuff, you don't need to speak Dutch to live in Amsterdam, 90% of the people there speak English. But we instantly know who are the tourists and who are not. :p

[jetblack]

Ehehehe thanks for suggestions! Having already started with a bit of Norwegian that's the one I thought to continue to, but I have also to say that there's much more material for Swedish... It will be a difficult choice!!¨

go for swedish then hehe!!

[Murcie]

Uhm... ok!!! If I need a help can I count on you?? :D (Don't worry, I'm joking ihihih ;) )

[humancorpse]

¨

go for swedish then hehe!!
Hell no, you'll end up living in Svinesund ;)

[Murcie]

Ahahahahaha! :rofl:

[jetblack]

Uhm... ok!!! If I need a help can I count on you?? :D (Don't worry, I'm joking ihihih ;) )

sure! and im not joking heheh ;)

[Transient]

LOL Poor misinformed Bob. Where does this guy get his knowledge from.
probably because this whole forum is in a language that isnt his native.
i can see how that could get confusing. do you know the words for the languages spoken in different countries in any language other than english? its confusing.

[jetblack]

Hell no, you'll end up living in Svinesund ;)

hehe better than nothing ;)

[Murcie]

sure! and im not joking heheh ;)

Wowz thanks then! ...Only don't be impatient, I have to wait til July/August to start! ;)

[Transient]

Dutch is a very tough language to learn but Germans usually have less problems with it then people from other countries. This is because a lot of words and the way we build sentences are alike.

"ass backwards" :p

[Def]

hehe ;)

I heard an American friend of mine say it sounds like we're drunk and talking shit. Talking shit, extremely fast.

[Transient]

i was referring more to the word order..not the sound. word order is just nuts... have to wait til the end for the main verb sometimes...

[Def]

Yup. But I usually have trouble with that word order myself after a good saturday night ;)

[jetblack]

Wowz thanks then! ...Only don't be impatient, I have to wait til July/August to start! ;)

sure, no hurry hehhe