pi_of_9 Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 Geode...they should have cast you for the Hoshi character on Star Trek Enterprise. Know any Zindi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_Phoenix87 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 pri vyet, kak de'la? i am learning three langauges, russian, japanese, and chinese :P i know no one who speaks russian so practicing it is quite hard but i know the basics of the three and getting quite into learning them do svi danya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 "i am learning three langauges, russian, japanese, and chinese :P" If you lived next to Russia, you wouldn't like to learn their language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boris_73 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 why wouldnt you like to learn there language im going to learn there language Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 When a country retreats from a war with a country that's like 30 times smaller, you won't probably want to learn the language. Especially when you live in the country that was the smaller one! Edit: This might be comparable to an American who doesn't like to learn Vietnamese (or whatever they speak in Vietnam ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boris_73 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 ok but some of that is quite crap sorry to sound rude but for example world war 1 and 2, yet in england it is compulsory to learn either french or GERMAN who we were at war with you can not stop learning there language because of the past, if that was so nearly every country in the world would not even bother trying to learn english because we went to war with about 70% of the world give or take a few percent, instead english is a language which is world known, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 "instead english is a language which is world known" It's awful how the English language is raped in Japan (and China too). :< http://www.engrish.com - oh dear Edit: Btw, Russia is much better now than it was back in the Soviet Union days, and before that. But I still don't like the language, it even sounds angry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boris_73 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 LOL i know i have seen some posters from japan and china i dont know why they carnt spell properly even though all the other countries can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 http://www.engrish.com/image/engrish/carefully-fall.jpg What an awful country! Hope you don't have to fall in to EVERY river there, just this particular one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 pri vyet' date=' kak de'la? do svi danya [/quote']it`s Privet kak dela (you don`t need the gaps and stuff) hello to you too and I`m doing great thnx or should I say, zdrastvoyte, eto vse ochin horosho v moyom dome, spasibo, a ty? do svidanja, is often too formal and better to say Poka or Tipa. ty ponimaesh? edited for simplicity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo32 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Sigh, started a lot of languages only speak 5 more or less in an acceptable way... Ever started, no speak: latin, greek (classical), russian, classical Japanese, classical chinese, chines, korean Speak more or less: dutch, english, french, german (to be prepared ;-), Japanese And yes, I majored in Japanese, and I loooooved the engrish site! Most funny thing I saw was a slightly naive and looking young Japanese girl with a T-Shirt saying "Take me I'm yours" over the chest... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Hey, what if we had one sentence (a weird one, along the lines of "I want to eat badgers with cranberry sauce"), and tried to translate it into as many different languages as possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 ya hochu est barsuk c (cranberry) sous. sorry, I dunno what cranberry trans is, but that would be what I`de ask for (if I wanted to eat such a thing LOL). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gilded Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Finnish version: Haluan syödä mäyriä karpalokastikkeen kera. Swedish version: Jag vill äta grävlingar med tranbärsås. Yay, I only had to look up the "badgers" and "cranberry sauce" for the Swedish one. Edit: By the way, did you know that the latin name of cranberry is Oxycoccus quadripetalus? Fascinating! ... *end useless info mode* Edit 2.: клюква for cranberry (no, I don't know Russian letters myself, dammit :< ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 hehehehe give me a few days (if I rem) and I`ll ask the Polish girl at our gardens what her lang version of same sentence is. a little Trivia never hurt anyone. oh yeah! and I`ll try find out what it is in Italian too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted October 21, 2004 Author Share Posted October 21, 2004 私はクランベリーソースを持つアナグマを食べたいと思う Hrmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_Phoenix87 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 cryillic is surprisingly easy to learn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice_Phoenix87 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 and besides my russian langauge books are in cryillic, so i have no choice if i wish to learn russian to learn cryillic :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YT2095 Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 indeed it is although at face value it seems complicated when there`s about 33 leters and some don`t even have a sound. and something like 8 Vowels too! but when you get past your "Conditioning/indoctrination" with English, it all makes perfect, if not more sense than English does (or so I find anyway). the problem arises with things like Masculine, Feminine, Neuter. past pressent future, formal informal etc... but on the whole, I`de say English would be the hardest to learn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWJian Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 I can speak English,Chinese and Bahasa Malaysia quite proficently.(cause there are all mandatory in my country,Malaysia).Currently,I"m trying to learn Japanese,Spanish and German.I can read Japanese a bit but i find it hard to pronounce.Ditto for the other languages too.Can anybody help me?I know several words of greeting in German,such as guten morgen,guten abend, hallo etc.. I can read Japanese because a lot of the kanji resemble chinese characters.Spanish..guess I learn a bit about Latin. My mastery over these languages are basic though.can anybody help me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkman Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 I know Russian, Ukrainian, and English. Learned French in school, but forgot most of it. It is hard to learn how to write in Russian due to all of the strange letters not normally found in the English language like ь (myagkiy znak) and ы (tverdiy znak). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sepultallica Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Learning Spanish. I do know BASIC... ah spanish, the official language of the US. i know that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
husmusen Posted January 12, 2005 Share Posted January 12, 2005 Now I'm in the right place. English and Swedish(Fairly well) German(Getting a grasp of it, understand o.k. speak so-so). Japanese(Still learning). Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babbler Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 I am good at English and I know a little French, although I wish I knew more, and could speak better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted January 13, 2005 Share Posted January 13, 2005 I'm good at English, but I with I could speak a little better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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