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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 17 of 20 23 May 2012 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
Hahaha. Are the systems really that different between those langs???
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4844 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 18 of 20 23 May 2012 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
Serpent wrote:
Hahaha. Are the systems really that different between those langs??? |
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Yes, they are. Swedish and Norwegian numbers are basically the same as in English. And Danish... well, Danish is simply crazy! :)
Edited by Josquin on 24 May 2012 at 12:33am
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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5178 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 19 of 20 23 May 2012 at 10:49pm | IP Logged |
I agree, I find them hard to manage, especially the lack of word 'million' in Japanese.
I can read articles in wikipedia using CJK, but I have to lookup the English version, to check the numbers -_-"
Swahili: number of speakers: 40 man
wait a minute... 40 man... that means ... 400 000, right?
I am also discouraged by the fact that CEFR requires me to learn the months.
months at A1?
I don't need to know words like 'because' and 'if', but I am supposed to learn names of the months!?
Fortunately I have realized that I already knew them in the language I was talking about - Lao!
You don't need to learn anything - just say 'month one', 'month two' etc.
but I am still left with days of the week :(
I am sorry, may it's just somethin wrong with my reading skills, maybe A1 does not require this, and it actually requires 'because' and 'if', I don't know.
This self-Assesment is quite hard to get.
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 20 of 20 23 May 2012 at 11:23pm | IP Logged |
clumsy wrote:
I agree, I find them hard to manage, especially the lack of word 'million' in Japanese. |
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Odd, I get the feeling that German and English lack the concepts 'man' and 'oku'. :)
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