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| mspen1018 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5332 days ago 36 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English, German, Sign Language Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 17 of 35 21 April 2010 at 8:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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I like German Grammar because it is like English with 2,000 rules, it is better than English in it's depth and meaning
and most American college students think it is really hard when it is the same as English except rather than going in an order to emphasize what a sentence means, it conjugates verbs and has cases that correlate with the Gender of the nouns to emphasize what it means. I tutor the German students because if they can get the grammar part of the German Language and understand that much, they will learn a lot about English grammar. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Aquila123 Tetraglot Senior Member Norway mydeltapi.com Joined 5307 days ago 201 posts - 262 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: Finnish, Russian | Message 18 of 35 17 May 2010 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I would vote for Italian. It is much more complex grammatically than most people realize with really intricate predicate cotsructions, and it is very different from Germanic languages also sematically, even that it is an European language.
Finnish and Hungarian are also funny languages 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Wise owl chick Senior Member Ecuador Joined 5319 days ago 122 posts - 137 votes Studies: English | Message 19 of 35 17 May 2010 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
Different from Germanic languages, but not very different from Romance languages like French or Spanish, and those are European also.
I agree, but they're great I think :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6043 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 20 of 35 27 May 2010 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I love love love love Modern Greek!!!!
The infinitive doesn't exist. Boris na to kanis = you can (na) you do it. Boro na to kano = I can (na) I do it. The word order is exotic. I adelfi mou = the sister my. The dative has been replaced by the genetive (not 100% sure about this one, any Greek speakers out there?) There is no such thing as a language with an exotic grammar though. An exotic language is just a language that is completely different to your native language. What you find exotic depends on what you think is normal. What you think is normal might not be as "normal" as you think. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| chirel Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5311 days ago 125 posts - 159 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: French | Message 21 of 35 27 May 2010 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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To me Russian seemed crazy when I first started to learn it. What's the need for different grammatical categories
for nousn if you don't have articles to make it easier to recognize them? And the verbal system is just amaising! I loved how it had some similarities to Finnish system but it was still complitely different. A real challenge! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 22 of 35 28 May 2010 at 2:22am | IP Logged | |||||
Yay, someone likes Greek. :D In cases like where English or Romance languages would use the infinitive form, Greek uses να [na] plus the conjugated subjunctive form: Θέλω να παίξω. = I want to play. (παίξω [pexo], subjunctive of παίζω [pezo]) Πρέπει να γράψεις κάτι. = You have to write something. (γράψεις [ghrapsis], subjunctive of γράφεις [ghrafis]) I don't believe the dative has been replaced by the genitive, but rather that it and the accusative just merged together to make the "objective." There are only the four cases now: nominative, genitive, accusative, and vocative: MASCULINE ο φίλος // οι φίλοι του φίλου // των φίλων το φίλο // τους φίλους φίλε // φίλοι FEMININE η γυναίκα // οι γυναίκες της γυναίκας // των γυναίκων τη γυναίκα // τις γυναίκες γυναίκα // γυναίκες NEUTER το βιβλίο // τα βιβλία του βιβλίου // των βιβλίων το βιβλίο // τα βιβλία βιβλίο // βιβλία Edited by ellasevia on 28 May 2010 at 2:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6769 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 23 of 35 28 May 2010 at 2:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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What's amazing is that even though you can group languages into different categories by genealogy and
similarities, every language seems to have something unique about it no other language shares... an unusual grammatical concept, an unusual phoneme, words that have no equivalent in other languages, etc. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ubik Senior Member United States ubykh.wordpress.com/ Joined 5317 days ago 147 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin, Arabic (Egyptian), German, Spanish | Message 24 of 35 28 June 2010 at 2:48am | IP Logged | |||||
I agree! I had never seen an example of Swahili before and now that I see that Im VERY intrigued and I now want to look into it more. Thank you for posting it! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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