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| aabram Pentaglot Senior Member Estonia Joined 5536 days ago 138 posts - 263 votes  Speaks: Estonian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Mandarin, French | Message 25 of 26 17 November 2014 at 3:18am | IP Logged | ||
My Norwegian is rudimentary, but I very much enjoyed the video. Perhaps I need to bump Norwegian up on my hit list. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4616 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 26 of 26 19 November 2014 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | ||
Scottish English is ever so..special. To say the least. At work most of my colleagues are Scottish, though I've noticed that almost all of them speak in a very different way, despite being from the same or nearby cities. For instance, around 45% of them speak like English, 5% sound very very English despite being actually Scottish, 25% slightly Scottish though nothing that incomprehensible. Now the last 25% speak Doric, which, for the untrained ear is something that can make you feel very miserable when it comes down to you being in doubt whether you really speak English well or the people chatting with you are speaking gibberish. For instance, hearing the following sentence: "Aye, tell that lassie she dinnae ken fit she's dooin and gie her a wee example." sounds way more intimidating when you actually hear it. Fortunately, or dare I say unfortunately one of the two colleagues in my office speaks in a very very heave Doric accent that is further enriched by a specific, let's say tongue, which has developed in the southern part of my city. Having said that I now have no trouble whatsoever understanding Scottish English, though the other day it took me a while to adjust to a phone call from the head office down south. :D For me personally, having had experience with the before-mentioned Danish and Korean, they sound not at all daunting after, say half a year of intense studies, which probably is the case with pretty much every language. This however does not apply to Swiss German for me. God knows I tried..and failed to understand Swiss German, after having had a solid exposure in Hochdeutsch. It just sound like a completely different language. On the other hand, however, there are the languages that I have found to be very easy indeed to listen to and they are Hebrew and Greek. Having never studied them in depth, I found them to be very accessible to my ear after only a few weeks of practice. Edited by Einarr on 19 November 2014 at 10:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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