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montmorency
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Speaks: English*, German
Studies: Danish, Welsh

Message 25 of 28

15 August 2013 at 1:16am | IP Logged

Theycalme_Jane wrote:

I have a friend who is currently studying Welsh as well. She
says she's originally
English, but has fallen in love with Wales and likes teaching herself these kinds of
things. She also taught herself Japanese and is now very fluent, so I have no doubt
that
she will manage Welsh. I found her idea of learning a very rarely used language very
inspiring and intriguing but couldn't really identify so much with the culture and
sounds. Being a German native speaker and having had some practice in Dutch, Afrikaans
seemed to reach out to me. I guess picking a language to some extent is also an
emotional
and highly subjective choice, otherwise committing will be a problem

It's good to hear of English people learning Welsh. I don't have any connections with
Wales by birth, only by marriage, but even my wife's family was originally English.
They just happened to find themselves living in Wales at a certain time, and became
interested. Some still live there and their Welsh is being kept active.

Living where I do, I feel that my heritage has obviously been affected by Germanic,
Scandinavian and Celtic cultural influences, and that has probably affected my choice
of languages to study.
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Theycalme_Jane
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theafrikaanschalleng
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Speaks: German*, English

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28 August 2013 at 12:50pm | IP Logged

montmorency wrote:

Living where I do, I feel that my heritage has obviously been affected by Germanic,
Scandinavian and Celtic cultural influences, and that has probably affected my choice
of languages to study.

I think the languages I chose to start studying were very varied, but the ones I actually kept up were the ones I could actually identify with the most and those were the ones where I felt the speakers had a similar mindset to my own. It's not far off to assume that's based on your roots to begin with. Though I have to admit, I'm half Algerian, but cannot identify with that part of me at all, so it's surely not roots as in "genes".
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Bruno87
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Argentina
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Speaks: Spanish*, English
Studies: German, Portuguese

Message 27 of 28

29 August 2013 at 4:03am | IP Logged

Speaking of African Languages, I was searching on Youtube for videos which contain pieces
of the African Languages, just for know how they sound, but I didn't find anything.

There are a bunch of videos which contrasting the Romance and Germanic Languages and it
would be nice that one of you guys, who must have these kinds of resources, share it with
us :)
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LanguagePhysics
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Speaks: English*

Message 28 of 28

02 September 2013 at 1:20pm | IP Logged

Afrikaans is just a standardised Dutch creole in my opinion.

It is similar to the way in which colloquial Brazilian Portuguese is spoken in Brazil and how it varies from Standard Brazilian Portuguese, which is mostly based on European Portuguese.

It's interesting how the Afrikaaners decided to cut their ties with the Dutch speaking world and declare their own separate language and identity, while the Brazilians still maintain their ties to the Portuguese speaking world, despite the fact their colloquial language is as different to European Portuguese as Afrikaans is to Dutch.

Edited by LanguagePhysics on 02 September 2013 at 1:21pm

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