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| CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5127 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German | Message 17 of 19 09 January 2011 at 9:09am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Haha it is? :D I've never heard anybody describe Dutch as cute :O hehehe You like nasal vowels? Wowow you have interesting taste in languages ^_^ I'm going to check out that video now.
Ahh okay, well actually French is a really perfect phonetic system, save for the -ent on the 3rd person verbs. But even then the -ent endings do still affect the verb if it is not an "er" verb. I think if you have no problem with Italian then French will not be too hard :) At first I was pulling my hair out because nothing was read the way it was written!!! But once the rules of liason are learned then you see that the spelling system is 500 more efficient and 1000 times more regular than English! :D But, learning to write French... Now that... That will be difficult because there's just so many ways to spell something. But download a spellchecker and have a dictionary handy and you should be fine ^_^ Edited by CheeseInsider on 09 January 2011 at 9:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Tenebrarum Groupie United States Joined 5411 days ago 84 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi | Message 18 of 19 09 January 2011 at 8:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I definitely plan on learning others to varying degrees, assuming I'll be happy enough with my Hindi to start another language at the same time! Cantonese would definitely be my next choice. Arabic and Japanese also interest me very much, so we'll see what happens! I want to travel to every place in the world haha, but one that interests me especially is Thailand. So if I do get a chance to go there, I'd definitely try to learn some Thai (and this goes for any country I would travel to). And then there are some languages I really like, but that may not be of much use to me (for example, I love the sound of Vietnamese, but don't know how much I'd actually use it in my life). As for Indian languages... the Dravidian languages are pretty interesting, probably in part because they're more foreign to me. I love the sound of Malayalam and others in the family (I'm in love with those retroflex L's!!!), but sadly the lack of resources will probably prevent me from learning any of them well (unless of course I travel to the respective states in India). Finally, Bengali too interests me, and if I ever want to learn Marathi, I at least have a very close friend who speaks it!
Ok yeah I can understand that! And haha yeah, good song from one of my favorite movies, Dil Chahta Hai. Edited by Tenebrarum on 09 January 2011 at 8:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| gravytrain Newbie Germany Joined 5069 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: EnglishC2 | Message 19 of 19 13 January 2011 at 1:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I speak English, French and German. My motivation for learning languages is to improve employment potential, to sharpen cognitive and life skills and to improve chances of entry into college. Edited by gravytrain on 15 January 2011 at 7:18pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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