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| maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5916 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian*, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese | Message 81 of 204 11 December 2008 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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eddina, what inspired you to take such an interest in Germanic languages?
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| eddina Triglot Newbie Poland Joined 6177 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Polish*, NorwegianC1, English Studies: German, Danish | Message 82 of 204 11 December 2008 at 5:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had to learn English and German at school and I enjoyed a lot studying both (what I can't say about my short but painful flirt with French back in primary school), so it looks like it's just some kind of undefinied attraction to the way Germanic languages sound, I guess. Another argument for this may be that I instantly fell in love wih Norwegian the moment I first heard it, and decided to make it into my future profession. Now I've been studying Norwegian at the university for almost 5 years and recently I started working as a translator.
The melody of the Scandinavian languages is simply adorable - apart from Danish perhaps, as it has no proper melody, or tune for that matter, but still it sounds nice to me. And yes, I'm taking up Swedish next week. Can't wait for that already! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hype Triglot Newbie Norway Joined 5828 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Swedish Studies: French | Message 83 of 204 11 December 2008 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm actually new to this forum, hoping to learn something :)
I speak Norwegian, it's my mother tongue. I speak both Bokmål and Nynorsk able to speak with quite a few accents as well. I speak English fluently, I'm currently trying to pick up a Scottish accent. I also speak French, German and Swedish. (and I'm also able to understand everything Danish people say, but can't pronounce the words since they got this weird twist) I know the Russian alphabet, My current goal is to continue learning French to a fluently level and then Latin and Russian and/or Japanese. And I'm 17 years old. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dizzycloud Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6599 days ago 88 posts - 109 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Turkish | Message 85 of 204 12 December 2008 at 8:43am | IP Logged | ||
Welcome to the forum :) :) May I ask why you're trying to pick up a Scottish accent??? :S That seems bizarre to me..I understand that it's one of the hardest varieties of English to understand (to most English natives) so it'd be easier to understand other English accents, but English pronunciation is hard enough alone without trying to make life harder for yourself! Sometimes the natives have trouble understanding the Scots, so I can't imagine a foreigner with a Scottish accent will make many people able to understand you as well? I'm not attacking you by saying this, it's just my 2 cents! Edited by dizzycloud on 12 December 2008 at 8:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| arbigelow Tetraglot Groupie Canada Joined 5883 days ago 89 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1, German, Spanish | Message 86 of 204 12 December 2008 at 9:05am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm 16
English: Native French: started learning it at 7 years old like most every Canadian but really didn't learn much at all until I was 12 when I moved to Ottawa. From 12-14 I went to a french school and got to about basic fluency. Before that I would've been hard pressed to say "I'm wearing a t-shirt" ;) Unfortunately, at 15 I moved back to the same small town in BC which is about as unilingually English as it's possible to get. I didn't use my french at all for a year and lost quite a bit of it. Fortunately, this year I came to french-speaking Switzerland as an exchange student and have become even better at french than I was in Ottawa. Btw Switzerland is one of the most BEAUTIFUL countries in the world and if you're looking for a unique immersion experience with very kind people, this is the place to go. My only negative comment about coming here is that I now find it harder to understand the Quebec accent than when I lived in Ottawa, but I think that'll come back if/when I choose to study there for university. German: My host family here in Switzerland, although living in the french part, speaks swiss German as well as high German and they've been helping me with the language. I also finished MT and am about halfway through Assimil and have started FSI. I'd say I'm around advanced beginner. Spanish: I take it in school here but won't do too much studying of it until I have a good grounding in German. Btw sorry if I'm making tons of mistakes in English but since coming here, my English has really gone downhill, which I think is a good thing;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5899 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 87 of 204 12 December 2008 at 9:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi arbigelow
we're the same age :-) It sounds great that you're an exchange studnet and live with a family in Switzerland. I've a German penpal and we want to make an exchange as well, but I don't know when, and it would be only one week. For how long time will you be in switzerland? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| arbigelow Tetraglot Groupie Canada Joined 5883 days ago 89 posts - 95 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1, German, Spanish | Message 88 of 204 12 December 2008 at 10:11am | IP Logged | ||
I'm here for the full year - till July 2009. Edited by arbigelow on 12 December 2008 at 10:14am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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