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anders

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I'm currently learning Chinese (2nd University semester), and my next projects are rehearsing Hindi and Sanskrit (same level).

Being a Scandinavian, I'm fairly fluent in English, German and Dutch, and I make do in the major Romance languages. (I translate professionally from French as well as from English, German, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish; always into Swedish.) I would like to improve on my Russian, because there are so many excellent dictionaries between Russian and other languages. There is for example an Arabic/Russian dictionary that colleagues say is fantastic.

I really would love to live long enough to learn classical Tibetan. (Not having more than just begun at 60+, the chances are slight, considering the many languages of India that precede Tibetan on the priority list.) But Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Chinese, would have been a fantastic combination for Buddhist studies.
 
LeNinjaChic

LeNinjaChic

Member
Should we start a new thread for each language?

Xander - My great-grandfather was Norweigian and spoke some 9 languages fluently. I always thought that was just the coolest thing.

Druidus - I want to learn Latin!

huajiro - Por que lo (tuve)* que aprender de la nada?
*I don't remember the correct conjugation for 'did you'
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Druidus

Druidus

Keeper of the Grove
Maybe we could start one for each language. As long as there is adequate pairing. I'd be willing to learn Latin, but I'm concentrating on perfecting German right now. It gets difficult when you try more then one at once (French and Spanish. Didn't learn much for either because I kept confusing them!). I think we could use the chatroom predominately anyway.
 
LeNinjaChic

LeNinjaChic

Member
huajiro said:
cuenta: account

In that statement "por mi cuenta" actually it is just "on my own", "for myself".
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Right...doh! I knew that. :) I was able to gather what you were saying from context, but I get a bit anal about each word sometimes. :bonk:
 
Engyo

Engyo

Prince of Dorkness!
Anyone interested in Portuguese? I may be posted to Brazil for a while soon; so I have an ulterior motive.

Other than that I have always wanted to learn Klingon. And yes, I did know what Sindarin is.
 
xander-

xander-

Member
Druidus, though i'm not really great at German(c+), i belive you wrote; "What is the airport". What i think you meant to write is "Wo ist das flughafen"(and i dont know about the spelling either. :D
LeNinjaChic - Do you have any form of IMing? So you would like to learn Norwiegen? Or Swedish? Or Danish? Danish is possibly the most complicated of all, but its my first launguage, so i would be better teaching that.
And i would love to learn modern-hebrew!

-Xander
 
tumble_weed

tumble_weed

Member
Guten Tag Ich bin Tumble Weed
Ni Hao wo shi Tumble Weed

XD

I learnt both Chinese and German at School, and I know random words from a whole bunch of other languages.

Xander ;)- I wanna learn Modern Hebrew too...and I probably should too...I only vaguely know some Hebrew, from when I had by Barmitzvah
 
meogi

meogi

Well-Known Member
If anyone needs help with Japanese... let me know. I am kinda... (t)here.

I also took 2 years of latin in high school... my vocab isn't good, but I'd be interested in picking it up again.
 
mrscardero

mrscardero

Kal-El's Mama
meogi said:
If anyone needs help with Japanese... let me know. I am kinda... (t)here.

I also took 2 years of latin in high school... my vocab isn't good, but I'd be interested in picking it up again.
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I have a best friend from Japan. She is like my sister. She lives in Ohio and I would like to be able to talk to her in Japanese. Plus I am half Japanese so learning the language would be very interesting. Could you help me meogi?
 
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huajiro

Well-Known Member
I am about to enroll in Japanese courses again, I could use some help ( I studied for 5 years and really don't speak as much as I understand)
 
croak

croak

Trickster
Anyone want to learn Arabic? I'm not exactly good in it, but i know basic Lebanese dialect and a bit of Egyptian.

انا احبّ اللّغة العربية

Want me to tell you some hard things about Arabic?
1. Like French, Spanish, etc. there is no it; everything is either masculine or feminine. That is why Allah is masculine: it means pretty much the same as it in some cases.
2. The letters are sometimes written different according to where they're placed.
3. The T sound can be written in two ways, ة and ت , depending on whether it's a verb or noun. However, there are some exceptions.
4. Signs such as َ ُ ِ may change the whole meaning of a word.
5. Some letters are hard for English speakers to pronounce. :bonk:

I could add more, but this should be enough. If you would like to learn Arabic, I could teach you enough to get around places in the Middle East; however, if you want to learn Gulf or North African (not including Egyptian, I'm okay at that) dialects, get a native speaker. They aren't a piece of cake. North African is harder. Seriously, Egyptian is fast, but in Moroccan, for example, they say 10000000000 words a minute!:confused:
 
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