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| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5901 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes  Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 17 of 39 13 June 2009 at 11:54am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Yes, exactly.
I don't understand why they say that Chinese is the language of the future, and anyway Chinese isn't a language I suppose they refer Mandarin, or Cantonese (?) But I heard that there are many of chinese languages. English = the global language, for sure during all our lives, and yes I think as well it will get even more important. Edited by Jar-ptitsa on 13 June 2009 at 11:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| lecorbeau Diglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 6023 days ago 113 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Turkish | Message 18 of 39 13 June 2009 at 2:57pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
This discussion was simply meant to be an "out of curiosity" and "for fun" post. I apologize to the HTOLAL community if I happened to waste a few minutes of your day. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| jbbar Senior Member Belgium Joined 5803 days ago 192 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English | Message 19 of 39 13 June 2009 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Lecorbeau, there's no reason to get cranky over this. I didn't say you were wasting our time, what I meant is that the question is useless because it's all too hypothetical. From the way you responded to Tombstone, I thought you were serious about this and that you'd rather have had another lingua franca. No offense meant. jbbar 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Rmss Triglot Senior Member Spain spanish-only.coRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6567 days ago 234 posts - 248 votes 3 sounds Speaks: Dutch*, English, Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 20 of 39 14 June 2009 at 2:41am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Dutch has no slang?! EVERY (natural) language has slang. No really, EVERY. I invite you to come to the Netherlands and hang out with some friends of mine and me. Let's see if you can follow every conversation, even though your native language is Dutch. Same counts for me though; I'm a bit lost at times with Flemish speakers. A 'negative' side of Dutch is that the avarage person uses many expressions which are unique to Dutch and are quite difficult to explain. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ptrk7 Newbie United States Joined 6660 days ago 29 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 21 of 39 14 June 2009 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I would wish that Greek was more widely spoken than English.
I plan on learning Greek sometime, for some reason I absolutely love the way it sounds. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5901 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 22 of 39 14 June 2009 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
No, my native language's French, not Dutch but I can understand very well Dutch. Of the Dutch /Flemish TV I can understand about 95% or 100%. In Dutch there're dialects differences, but almost no slang. English and French have MUCH more slang in comparison with Dutch and German. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| jbbar Senior Member Belgium Joined 5803 days ago 192 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English | Message 23 of 39 14 June 2009 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Actually I can understand why you say that. French has its 'argot' and English has its 'slang'. Flanders, however, is extremely dialectical compared to the Netherlands. Most people prefer to speak in a regional dialect or the one they grew up with. So we don't think of slangish expressions and words as being associated with the Dutch standard language, but with the regional dialects instead. However, I think that what Rmss says about the Netherlands is correct. I also agree that native Dutch-speakers generally tend to use quite a lot of figures of speech. jbbar 1 person has voted this message useful |
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