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| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5769 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 9 of 16 06 May 2009 at 1:41pm | IP Logged |
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oops, yes. That's what I meant. I find rolled Rs even more difficult!
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| rabyte Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 6034 days ago 44 posts - 46 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Spanish, Hindi | Message 10 of 16 08 May 2009 at 9:08am | IP Logged |
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thank god as a native speaker of German I don't really have trouble with the guttural R...
but do you really think that French is a "fast" language? Especially when you compare lets say newsreaders on TV? I find it very hard to follow Spanish news. They talk so damn fast all the time and mix it all up with some lisping ;) The French news are rather easy to follow...or is it just me? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Nadien Triglot Newbie Indonesia Joined 5682 days ago 23 posts - 24 votes Speaks: Indonesian*, French, English Studies: Italian | Message 11 of 16 12 May 2009 at 5:33pm | IP Logged |
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well..thanks God, Indonesian tongue is more flexible :), i think we can speak different languages with the right accent because Indonesian don't have particular accent, except those who speak native region language fluently.
at first, i also thought that french is a fast language, but when i said this to my french teacher, she just said "you also speak very fast in Indonesian" so, it made me think that it's only a matter of habit and being used to. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5769 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 12 of 16 12 May 2009 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
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I think it might just be that English is a very slow language- so for a native English speaker everything else seems very fast by comparison! Edited by Dark_Sunshine on 12 May 2009 at 10:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6320 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 14 of 16 18 May 2009 at 9:37am | IP Logged |
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French certainly has its tricky aspects. For me it was always the verb tenses, since English and German both use auxilliary verbs to express conditional and future, so it was a new concept when I began to learn French. Having never really studied verbs for French, I found quite to my surprise, that they seemed to just "click" after listening and reading to enough of the language. The same goes for other areas of common difficulty such as pronunciation. For me, it was (and still is) all about listening and reading. Edited by ChristopherB on 18 May 2009 at 9:39am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6276 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 15 of 16 19 May 2009 at 1:35pm | IP Logged |
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Words in Romance languages often end in vowels and the words seem to glide into each other, which I think is why they sound like they are spoken quickly.
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| Le dacquois Diglot Groupie France Joined 5651 days ago 54 posts - 69 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, German | Message 16 of 16 23 June 2009 at 6:30pm | IP Logged |
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I can't say I have a problem with French pronunciation. I think having a musical ear helps. However, the speed of Spanish makes Usain Bolt look like the three-toed sloth. I watch the news on TV in Spanish and it's frightening!
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