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Leafolawl wrote:I'm learning Russian 'cause its fun.

I just think it's more fun than english, simply because its harder to pronouce than engish.

It also feels prettier than english when I speak it.
I know what you mean sometimes it just sounds so darn cool.......
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I know right?! I mean...

zhevootnaye(animal).

(I have a hard time doing the transliterated stuff, so sue me.)
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Leafolawl wrote:I know right?! I mean...

zhevootnaye(animal).

(I have a hard time doing the transliterated stuff, so sue me.)
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If I'm not skewing my facts, I believe Condoleezza Rice speaks 15+ languages.
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Teh Brawler wrote:If I'm not skewing my facts, I believe Condoleezza Rice speaks 15+ languages.
They need to teach me ALL OF THEM!!! *goes berserk because I don't know even one different language*
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Leafolawl wrote:
Teh Brawler wrote:If I'm not skewing my facts, I believe Condoleezza Rice speaks 15+ languages.
They need to teach me ALL OF THEM!!! *goes berserk because I don't know even one different language*
My point was that it's completely possible to learn so many languages. I think if you put time and effort into it, you can become fluent in as many as you like. :)

Of course, it helps to have a job that puts those into use
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I believe that Vladimir Putin (former president of the Russian Federation) knows about 6 languages or 4. I don't remember.
Oh, and don't even mention some of the Popes, they know lots of languages!
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I know quite a bit of languages, some varying from HTML to CSS and Javascript, I am currently looking to C++ or Python though *bricked*.
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English and French

(And if Pig Latin counts, I'll add that to my ally-tay)
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DISCUSSION QUESTION
What Pig-Latin rules do you guys abide by?

I've always done it by splitting the word before the first vowel, moving that first block of consonants to the end, and then adding ay, with the exception of words which begin with a vowel, in which case the second vowel is used. Words like "and" and "at" which begin with a vowel and have only one remain unchanged.

FOR EXAMPLE
Scramble ... Amblescray
Attack ... Ackattay
Arm ... Arm


Apparently, though, some people operate under the rule "First letter moves to end and ay is added." While simpler, this produces some awkward results.

Scramble ... Cramblesay
Attack ... Ttackaay
Arm ... Rmaay

SO am I the only one using my ruleset?
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well I always did it as the first phoneme (group of letters that have a specific sound such as "sh" and "ch" and "sc") goes to the end and add ay, while words that start with vowels just get "yay" added to the end.
EX:
Scram => amscray
attack => attackyay
a => ayay

then again, I rarely actually speak pig Latin.
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I'm taking a Mandarin Chinese class at my college. It's just basic level, conversational Chinese though.
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That would probably come in handy here. We have a lot of native speakers!
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I know how to say 'I do not speak Spanish' and 'I do not understand, please speak English' in Spanish, and I know very little Latin despite my having taken three years of it x3
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Spanish is pretty easy to learn, just remember that adjectives can go before or after the noun depending o. The context.
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Spanish is hard... specially if you live among people that suck at writing, talking, etc.
Well, not really (About Spanish. Spanish is not that hard)
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I'm fairly sure that Spanish is one of, if not the, easiest language for English speakers to learn because of the relatively similar pronunciations and the amount of cognates. And, for Americans at least, the amount of exposure to it relative to other languages.

Or maybe it's for completely different reasons I'm not a linguist.
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Dutch (first lang.),English, a little Swedish, minuscular Danish, a bit of French.
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CaptainPea wrote:I'm fairly sure that Spanish is one of, if not the, easiest language for English speakers to learn because of the relatively similar pronunciations and the amount of cognates. And, for Americans at least, the amount of exposure to it relative to other languages.

Or maybe it's for completely different reasons I'm not a linguist.
Spanish is also a lot more logical than English.
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Tattorack wrote:Dutch (first lang.),English, a little Swedish, minuscular Danish, a bit of French.

Swedish, eh?
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Swedish, eh?
Yeah I speak a bit because I went to school there.
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You went to school in sweden!?
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...Okay, I can't top that off...o.o

A-anyways, I'm bilingual -- English and Spanish. I'm very fluent at it -- according to many...but personally, I still need to improve on my native language... ^^;;
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Lose the 'merican accent when speaking Spanish. In Spanish speaking countries, they don't care how fluent you are, they will point and laugh if you sound American.
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I don't sound american at my Spanish. o.o
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You went to school in sweden!?
...Okay, I can't top that off...o.o
Is that... so strange?
Besides, in the last few years I've been almost all over Europe
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You all need to teach me how to speak your native and/or second languages. Especially you Russian speakers.
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Sorry, no Russian.
I (could, maybe) teach Dutch...
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...And I can teach you 'sum Spanish~ >3<!
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I said ESPECIALLY the Russian speakers, meaning that's the one I want to learn most.

I want to learn ALL the languages.
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If I had a dime for every Russian speaker coming to this forum... I guess... I'd have.. almost nothing......
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:C --W-wait...do you still wanna learn Spanish? Just a teeny bit?~ :3
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I want to learn all the languages.
ALL. OF. THEM.
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Yes, I want to learn Spanish.
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Tattorack wrote:
You went to school in sweden!?
...Okay, I can't top that off...o.o
Is that... so strange?
Besides, in the last few years I've been almost all over Europe

Nah, not really strange, but cool!

Where did you go to school?
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Frans Suell och Jorgen Choc's gymnasiet, Malmo (please don't kill me about spelling X[ )
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Frans Suell och Jörgen Kocks gymnasium in Malmö? Cool, never heard of but still cool! I hope you enjoyed sweden while you were here. :3
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I did, but not my dad though, and I was meant to live with him >.<
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If anyone can translate this, they will get a huge respect bonus from me:

Salve, quis es praenomen tibby? Ego est optime! Et tu?
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I guess your saying something like:
"why is your first name tibby? Ego is..... (better?)! and you?
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My guess is something about paranormal, and 'Ego est optime' I thing is 'and is optimal, 'Et tu' is right by Tat's guess.
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