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| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4854 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes  Speaks: Russian* | Message 57 of 60 21 January 2013 at 12:10pm | IP Logged | ||
That's what I was talking about. In Russian it is like in Czech if we pronounce the sentence with a neutral intonation, but the first element might be emphasized, but the sentence will sound emotional then. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yuehan Tetraglot Newbie United States Joined 4176 days ago 12 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Greek, French, Indonesian, Haitian Creole, Modern Hebrew, Somali, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 58 of 60 21 January 2013 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I cannot have very deep and complicated conversations with my Chinese friend, because
while he can understand what I say in English, I cannot understand his Chinese well enough for him to articulate complicated ideas. If I learn even a little bit more Chinese that would be worth it. Same is true for anyone who does not speak C1-C2 level English. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4156 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 59 of 60 22 January 2013 at 7:53am | IP Logged | ||
It depends on the person you would try to motivate. If they love the movies, art, poetry, travel, a particular field of science etc. That's why we all learn different languages, acording to our own interests (and tastes). I don't believe that the use of exotic grammar is a good enough reason, nor self expression as such, because most people feel at home in their native language. Which for many of us in not English. So we learn English because it is a lingua franca, but then we go ahead and learn more languages. I think that learning any new language educates you and enriches your life to an amazing extend, even if you never visit that country. Isn't that a good enough reason? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rykketid Diglot Groupie Italy Joined 4631 days ago 88 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: French | Message 60 of 60 30 January 2013 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Watching subtitled or dubbed things will never be like watching it in the original
language, reading translated books will never be like reading it in their original language. There will always be translation losses. For example, when I started watching American series in English, I found out that there were many puns and jokes that in Italian would just sound goofy and clunky. As for relationships and friendships between people from different countries, it really depends on the proficiency of English the two people have. If it is fairly high, then probably a good friendship may be established, also considering the fact that human rapports are not based solely on linguistic communication. To answer your question on a lighter note: if you study Italian, you'll realise that there are infinitely more ways to be blasphemous than there are in English :-P 1 person has voted this message useful |
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