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Old 2007-06-04, 21:43
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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.
 
Old 2007-06-04, 22:03
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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.
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Old 2007-06-05, 11:39
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im trying portuguese right now
 
Old 2007-06-05, 11:59
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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 Very tough language I am told.
 
Old 2007-06-05, 14:24
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Old 2007-06-05, 14:29
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Old 2007-06-05, 14:32
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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 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
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Old 2007-06-05, 14:35
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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.
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Old 2007-06-05, 14:40
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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.
 
Old 2007-06-05, 14:45
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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
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Old 2007-06-05, 14:50
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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)
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Old 2007-06-05, 14:55
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Old 2007-06-05, 15:01
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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.
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Old 2007-06-05, 17:13
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Old 2007-06-05, 17:19
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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.
 
Old 2007-06-05, 18:09
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english and spanish. i wanna learn portuguese though that would be cool
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Old 2007-06-05, 18:15
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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.
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Old 2007-06-05, 18:20
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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
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Old 2007-06-05, 18:44
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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
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Old 2007-06-05, 18:51
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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.
 
Old 2007-06-05, 19:05
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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.
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Old 2007-06-05, 19:17
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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.
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Old 2007-06-05, 19:20
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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 , i will have an easy time getting around and what not.
 
Old 2007-06-05, 20:12
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English, German and Dutch.
 
Old 2007-06-05, 21:18
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Old 2007-06-05, 21:49
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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
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Old 2007-06-06, 00:14
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Ich lerne deusch now....

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

yeah but jetzt= now
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Old 2007-06-06, 01:27
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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.
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Old 2007-06-06, 01:45
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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.
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Old 2007-06-06, 02:05
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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
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Old 2007-06-06, 08:58
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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.
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Old 2007-06-06, 19:00
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I can obviously understand Swedish and Danish.


the same about norweigan and danish for me..but speaking it..no way..
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Old 2007-06-06, 19:30
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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?
 
Old 2007-06-06, 20:27
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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
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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.
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Old 2007-06-06, 22:40
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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.


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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.
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Old 2007-06-07, 02:36
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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?
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Old 2007-06-07, 10:31
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Old 2007-06-07, 11:50
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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
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Old 2007-06-07, 12:34
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Guten Tag!

Ich lerne deusch now....

fuck....well...I started yesterday. ...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
 
Old 2007-06-07, 12:47
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I only know English and Greek,but I know swear words in many languages
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Old 2007-06-07, 16:16
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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
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Old 2007-06-07, 17:01
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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.
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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?
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Is Finnish very different from the other languages? Less similarities?

look at my post above dude
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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.
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Finnish is most similar to Estonian and has old bands to Hungarian, the Finugrian (I guess you write it like that) language group.
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Interesting... to say the least.
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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

I should be all right though....I've got two friends that speak german to help me out.
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Man, I get real sweaty after I wack my dong. Yeah, cause I headbang while I do, and I can't really "Jump" (haha ) like VanHalen in a dorm room, so I just walk back and forth....haha a couple days ago I was jumping up and down on my bed, with my pants down and my roommate came in when I wasn't looking, hahaha.


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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

hahhaha, I hit the edit button by mistake and I was like...."What the fuck?" This isn't the quote screen!

How far along are you in german speaking?
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Man, I get real sweaty after I wack my dong. Yeah, cause I headbang while I do, and I can't really "Jump" (haha ) like VanHalen in a dorm room, so I just walk back and forth....haha a couple days ago I was jumping up and down on my bed, with my pants down and my roommate came in when I wasn't looking, hahaha.


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

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


hehe thats right
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swedish: jag forstär inte


tell me if i got anything wrong


its: jag förstår inte
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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!
 
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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.
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yea i was kinda thinking the same thing
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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 .

i wanna learn some proper icelandic sumtimes, i got a good friend who lives there, and the chicks are hot!!!
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I heard that all Iceland people have an ill called: Congenital cardiac malformations.

Dutch isn't already German?
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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
 
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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
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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!!
 
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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
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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.
 
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LOL Poor misinformed Bob. Where does this guy get his knowledge from.


Lmao 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

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

Probably because they eat whale... and fucking horse meat
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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 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.
 
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go for swedish then hehe!!
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Uhm... ok!!! If I need a help can I count on you?? (Don't worry, I'm joking ihihih )
 
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go for swedish then hehe!!

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sure! and im not joking heheh
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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.
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Wowz thanks then! ...Only don't be impatient, I have to wait til July/August to start!
 
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hehe

I heard an American friend of mine say it sounds like we're drunk and talking shit. Talking shit, extremely fast.
 
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Yup. But I usually have trouble with that word order myself after a good saturday night
 
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Wowz thanks then! ...Only don't be impatient, I have to wait til July/August to start!


sure, no hurry hehhe
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