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| pohaku Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5654 days ago 192 posts - 367 votes  Speaks: English*, Persian Studies: Arabic (classical), French, German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 233 of 297 26 October 2009 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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minus273--Thanks for the Japanese literature references. I read Japanese literature (in English translation) in college. If I had an infinite amount of time, I'd love to work on Japanese exactly so I could read, in Japanese, the types of books you recommend. Who knows? It might happen yet!
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| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5768 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 234 of 297 26 October 2009 at 10:54pm | IP Logged | ||
Ah, I meant the graphic aspects. Chinese write private letters in cursive. But the Japanese! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elwing Tetraglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5511 days ago 43 posts - 51 votes Speaks: Swedish, Finnish*, English, French Studies: Norwegian | Message 235 of 297 26 October 2009 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Elvish (Sindarin) is the most beautiful in spoken form but I suppose I'll have to pick between spoken languages as well.
I've always loved Swedish (the standard Swedish in Sweden and the Northern Swedish accent in particular). It's just a language I could listen to for hours; the singing quality of it and the soft sounds are so beautiful. I also like Norwegian because it sounds happy with the rising tone. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Envinyatar Diglot Senior Member Guatemala Joined 5539 days ago 147 posts - 240 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 236 of 297 27 October 2009 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
Sindarin was conceived by Tolkien as the "vulgar" language of the elves while Quenya as the literary, sophisticated and beatiful sounding language so maybe you're talking about Quenya and not about Sindarin. In the first Lord of the Rings movie, Arwen (Liv Tyler) speaks some words in Quenya and yeah, it sounds nice. By the way, Quenya phonology is mainly based on Finnish and to some lesser extent, Latin, Italian and Spanish. Its writing form is also very beautiful (Tengwar). Unfortunately there's not much material about this fascinating language. Info about Quenya here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quenya And for the language aficionados, a free Quenya course here: http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/qcourse.htm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Qinshi Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5756 days ago 115 posts - 183 votes Speaks: Vietnamese*, English Studies: French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 237 of 297 27 October 2009 at 6:48am | IP Logged | ||
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All languages are beautiful especially the language of love.
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| Elwing Tetraglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5511 days ago 43 posts - 51 votes Speaks: Swedish, Finnish*, English, French Studies: Norwegian | Message 238 of 297 27 October 2009 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||
No, I'm talking about Sindarin, I've studied it for a while already :) I don't like the sound of Quenya due to the fact that it's based on Finnish, which is my native tongue so I can't sort of see the beauty of it in the same way non-Finnish speakers can. To me Quenya sounds quite harsh with all the consonants. However, I think written Quenya (not only when written in Tengwar but also with the Latin alphabet) looks very pretty :) Edited by Elwing on 27 October 2009 at 12:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Thatzright Diglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5675 days ago 202 posts - 311 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: French, Swedish, German, Russian | Message 239 of 297 27 October 2009 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Am I truly reading a post by a Finn who has managed to actually learn Swedish up to a level of basic fluency O.o You'd make the government so proud : D
Oh it's even advanced, holy moly... Edited by Thatzright on 27 October 2009 at 8:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elwing Tetraglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5511 days ago 43 posts - 51 votes Speaks: Swedish, Finnish*, English, French Studies: Norwegian | Message 240 of 297 27 October 2009 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
:D Well, it's not like I started learning it in secondary school. I've always spoken Finnish at home with both of my parents but I went through a total early immersion programme (kielikylpy/språkbad) so I spoke Swedish with teachers in nursery and with most teachers in primary school as well. My mum also had an interest in the language so I ended up reading a lot in Swedish and taking part in Swedish speaking clubs in my free time (e.g. drama club, handball team). So in a sense, it's not really a foreign language to me. I'll be very happy to help you with your Swedish by the way if you need a hand :) Edited by Elwing on 27 October 2009 at 8:53pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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