dostoyevsky Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 5600 days ago 9 posts - 9 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Japanese
| Message 9 of 11 28 July 2009 at 6:00pm | IP Logged |
laban wrote:
Ohh..and btw, why did you find it interesting on the first place? |
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I want to learn Hebrew one day, so I was amazed when I saw that there might be some similarities to Japanese which I am currently learning.
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laban Triglot Groupie Israel Joined 5822 days ago 87 posts - 96 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English, Italian Studies: Norwegian, German
| Message 10 of 11 28 July 2009 at 8:17pm | IP Logged |
sorry to disappoint you then :)
could have been pretty useful for me as well :), and another thing i might add - Hebrew has almost no intelligibility or overlapping with any other language - we can't even get arab which is supposedly the closest language to us (double meaning here :)).
Edited by laban on 28 July 2009 at 8:20pm
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J-Learner Senior Member Australia Joined 6030 days ago 556 posts - 636 votes Studies: Yiddish, English* Studies: Dutch
| Message 11 of 11 18 August 2009 at 6:29pm | IP Logged |
Aramaic would likely be closer. Also some of the older Canaanite languages at least to the biblical form.
If you have a look at Arabic and Hebrew you find many cognate which always helps me learn.
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