Aye, I am certainly no expert on Caspian languages and their dialects, but as I understand it, there are over a dozen different dialects which is quite unusual in such a small ethnologue.
It all fascinates me.
How many languages can you speak
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Aye, I am certainly no expert on Caspian languages and their dialects, but as I understand it, there are over a dozen different dialects which is quite unusual in such a small ethnologue.
It all fascinates me.
Soldato
English, don't need to learn other languages, that's for foreigners to do
This. Even told my girlfriend the same thing and she agreed, even though she's Bulgarian
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I loathe people who genuinely think everyone should speak English.
Man of Honour
Say something dirty in Klingon.
It's because they are all backwards why do you think I am over here.
That might come back to haunt you..........
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I speak English and bad German, Russian and Afrikaans. Russian is extremely difficult, I have been learning it myself for years (my other half is Russian). I have the grammer pretty much down, just vocabulary is a pain to learn. It's an inflected language, so every word has different endings depending on use, and there are exceptions to all the rules. German is pretty easy since it's similar to old English and Afrikaans.
In level of competence:
English - Native
Czech - Intermediate - been learning for two years for 3hrs per week and living in the country.
Spanish - few words, verbs and grammar
Russian - a few words and phrases
Many people consider Czech a difficult language to learn and they'd be right, as evidenced by my poor but entirely normal progress. Of the 4 genders, 7 cases and 5 verb classes, the cases are hardest to remember as there is just so much to remember as you can see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_declension
English - Native
Czech - Intermediate - been learning for two years for 3hrs per week and living in the country.
Spanish - few words, verbs and grammar
Russian - a few words and phrases
Many people consider Czech a difficult language to learn and they'd be right, as evidenced by my poor but entirely normal progress. Of the 4 genders, 7 cases and 5 verb classes, the cases are hardest to remember as there is just so much to remember as you can see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_declension
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English, drunkish and I wish I was more cleverish.
Soldato
I hated learning French at school, mainly because I knew I would never need it and thought it was a waste of my time. It was also because every language teacher at our school was pure evil.
As someone else mentioned, it's a bit embarrassing in an online game when you're playing with all French/ German players and you're the only English person and they're all speaking English for you
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As someone else mentioned, it's a bit embarrassing in an online game when you're playing with all French/ German players and you're the only English person and they're all speaking English for you
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Soldato
some people just have a knack for picking them up..I know a few basic phrases in 4, but my missus can speak french, german, italian and spanish, she wants to learn japanese and russian...she just has this basic ability to pick them up that is beyond me, I suppose everybody is wired differently...she knows nothing about computers and could burn a boiled egg
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English: native
Polish: fluent, read and write poorly
Africans: average, read and write better than I speak
Spanish: few phrases and can count till "cinco" (five)
Polish: fluent, read and write poorly
Africans: average, read and write better than I speak
Spanish: few phrases and can count till "cinco" (five)
Caporegime
Natively i speak English, Urdu and punjabi...fluent in all 3, reading and writing. Also can speak a bit of Arabic as well...comes in handy when im in Dubai or in the middle east on business or pleasure.
Learned a bit of french back at school but have forgotten most of it.
Learned a bit of french back at school but have forgotten most of it.
As someone else mentioned, it's a bit embarrassing in an online game when you're playing with all French/ German players and you're the only English person and they're all speaking English for you
If there are french and germans on the server surely the english isn't for your benefit, they need some shared tongue (oooer).