You know you’re a language nerd when... (General discussion) Language Learning Forum

You know you’re a language nerd when...
Tags: Language Geek
Share with: Delicious Digg reddit Facebook StumbleUpon
Language Learning Forum : General discussion

3737 messages over 468 pages: << Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ... 381 ... 467 468 Next >>

Henkkles
Triglot
Senior Member
Finland
Joined 4253 days ago
544 posts - 1141 votes

Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish
Studies: Russian

Message 3041 of 3737

26 July 2013 at 11:29am | IP Logged

dtvrij74_ wrote:

Henkkles wrote:

dtvrij74_ wrote:

..when you can remember details about times long
past through what languages you were
studying at that time and what levels you were at. I listen to songs in my target
language too and the bands I listen to tend to change over time. I associate Finnish
with memories of my time spent in lower secondary school because I was studying it
then.
The first Finnish band I listened to was Apulanta, specifically the song Jumala. I
associate that song with the city that I used to live in when I listened to it
religiously (the two things are just connected in my mind). I also associate songs from
the band Pariisin Kevät with the winter of 2012, because that's when I started to
listen
to them (their band name actually means Parisian Spring though..). I could go on with
these examples.

You haven't listed Finnish as one you study nor speak though, is this really the case?

Yeah, I stopped learning around last year during mid-year school exams because I didn't
get far and because I really needed to concentrate on French instead (which is
mandatory for my school). Now, I only know some words and no grammar, so this is pretty
much useless; for example I know that a word that starts with raka(s)- might have
something to do with the word "love" but I don't know what exactly.

(Also, I had many troubles with the R sound and thought/think that it would hinder
intelligibility)

I'm sad to hear you gave up. Yes indeed, "rakas-" is the stem for "love", such as "rakastaa", to love, "rakas", love as in when you call someone your love, "rakkaus", love as a concept and so on. There are many natives who can't pronounce the r due to something and while I admit they are sometimes a little hard to understand most of the time it doesn't matter at all.
1 person has voted this message useful

dtvrij74_
Diglot
Groupie
United States
danielhonline.cRegistered users can see my Skype Name
Joined 4180 days ago
51 posts - 62 votes

Speaks: Mandarin, English*
Studies: French, German, Russian, Norwegian

Message 3042 of 3737

26 July 2013 at 4:47pm | IP Logged

Henkkles wrote:

dtvrij74_ wrote:

Henkkles wrote:

dtvrij74_ wrote:

..when you
can remember details about times long
past through what languages you were
studying at that time and what levels you were at. I listen to songs in my target
language too and the bands I listen to tend to change over time. I associate Finnish
with memories of my time spent in lower secondary school because I was studying it
then.
The first Finnish band I listened to was Apulanta, specifically the song Jumala. I
associate that song with the city that I used to live in when I listened to it
religiously (the two things are just connected in my mind). I also associate songs from
the band Pariisin Kevät with the winter of 2012, because that's when I started to
listen
to them (their band name actually means Parisian Spring though..). I could go on with
these examples.

You haven't listed Finnish as one you study nor speak though, is this really the case?

I'm sad to hear you gave up. Yes indeed, "rakas-" is the stem for "love", such as
"rakastaa", to love, "rakas", love as in when you call someone your love, "rakkaus",
love as a concept and so on. There are many natives who can't pronounce the r due to
something and while I admit they are sometimes a little hard to understand most of the
time it doesn't matter at all.

I've been meaning to restart learning because I'm on summer vacation from my French
lessons. I just haven't been able to take the plunge (partially because I have since
read many articles about why Finnish is impossible).
1 person has voted this message useful

MarlonX19
Diglot
Groupie
Brazil
Joined 4165 days ago
40 posts - 51 votes

Speaks: Portuguese*, English
Studies: French

Message 3043 of 3737

04 August 2013 at 5:00am | IP Logged

... When you have like 60 DVDs that you just borrowed from your aunt and you check the languages that are available in each one of them and watch them in your target language.

...When you watch ''american dad'' (my favorite cartoon) in English just because you like the personages' original voices in English.
1 person has voted this message useful

Henkkles
Triglot
Senior Member
Finland
Joined 4253 days ago
544 posts - 1141 votes

Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish
Studies: Russian

Message 3044 of 3737

04 August 2013 at 9:29am | IP Logged

dtvrij74_ wrote:

I just haven't been able to take the plunge (partially because I have since
read many articles about why Finnish is impossible).

Those are the devil. Think about it this way; it's very regular, there's only one auxiliary verb, uhh... yeah. The direct object thing is wonky I must admit but even I mess up with it like at least once a day.

The point is, if you really want to, you'll learn it.
6 persons have voted this message useful

BlaBla
Triglot
Groupie
Spain
Joined 4129 days ago
45 posts - 72 votes

Speaks: German*, English, French
Studies: Nepali, Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin

Message 3045 of 3737

08 August 2013 at 5:19pm | IP Logged

... your appartment looks like mine.
3 persons have voted this message useful

Serpent
Octoglot
Senior Member
Russian Federation
serpent-849.livejour
Joined 6597 days ago
9753 posts - 15779 votes

4 sounds
Speaks: Russian*, English, Finnish^C1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish

Message 3046 of 3737

08 August 2013 at 6:09pm | IP Logged

Finnish is not impossible :-) For me it's been much easier than German, and the grammar was much easier and makes more sense than the Romance one (except Latin).

I love Apulanta and many other bands. I have many fond memories like that too :-)

Go for it. It will be amazing :')
2 persons have voted this message useful

Teango
Triglot
Winner TAC 2010 & 2012
Senior Member
United States
teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name
Joined 5556 days ago
2210 posts - 3734 votes

Speaks: English*, German, Russian
Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona

Message 3047 of 3737

08 August 2013 at 8:54pm | IP Logged

When you're delighted to discover that the labels on your clothes are written in several languages.

Go on, I dare you not to look after reading this... ;)

Edited by Teango on 08 August 2013 at 8:56pm
5 persons have voted this message useful

Cavesa
Triglot
Senior Member
Czech Republic
Joined 5009 days ago
3277 posts - 6779 votes

Speaks: Czech*, French^C2, English^C1
Studies: Spanish, German, Italian

Message 3048 of 3737

08 August 2013 at 9:10pm | IP Logged

Teango, I don't need to look now, I read them quite often. And on food packages. And things from Ikea. And electronic devices.

4 persons have voted this message useful

This discussion contains 3737 messages over 468 pages: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 Next >>

Printable version

You cannot post new topics in this forum - You cannot reply to topics in this forum - You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum - You cannot create polls in this forum - You cannot vote in polls in this forum

This page was generated in 0.5615 seconds.