Originally posted by YEAH BOYfinnish is my mother tongue, portuguese I learned three years old, swedish from 6 onwards after moving to finland (the 2nd official language of finland, but my regional dialect is heavily influenced by swedish so maybe you could even say it's my 2nd language), english from 3rd grade, french from 7th grade. and a collection of other languages I know a bit, russian, japanese, mandarin, german, spanish, norwegian, danish, italian...... none of which I know well, but probably enough to get by.
What are the other 3 languages you speak?
Originally posted by wormwoodThat is an impressive amount of languages. Portuguese to me would be the toughest to learn.
finnish is my mother tongue, portuguese I learned three years old, swedish from 6 onwards after moving to finland (the 2nd official language of finland, but my regional dialect is heavily influenced by swedish so maybe you could even say it's my 2nd language), english from 3rd grade, french from 7th grade. and a collection of other languages I know a bit, r ...[text shortened]... ish, norwegian, danish, italian...... none of which I know well, but probably enough to get by.
Originally posted by YEAH BOYwell, as a small kid you pick up languages very easily. probably also helped a lot with the other romance languages later. just like the swedish helped with other germanic languages. lots of things still give me trouble, but probably entirely different ones compared to what an english speaker has difficulties with.
That is an impressive amount of languages. Portuguese to me would be the toughest to learn.
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Originally posted by Daemon Sindoes this count.
It's a lot more common on social networking sites as they have easy access to contact information.
Over the years I've seen it happen once here - a few people got a PM from a new user asking for an email response.
From josphine
Date Dec 09 2009 03:04
Subject Hi dear
hi,
compliment of the day i hope you are doing fine over there,i will like to introduce my self to you,my name is Ms Josphine,it is my pleassure to write you after viewing your profile which really interest me, in having friendship with you if you will have the desire to be my friend, so that we can get to know each other better and see what happened in future.i will be very happy if you can write me through my email for easiest communication and to know what you like or what you don't like,and for you to know my also to tell you more about me. my picture will also be send to you,i will be waiting to hear from you thanks and have a very wounderful day, yours new friend.
Miss Josphine Amada
pls reply me back through my email adress so that i will tell you more about my self
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Originally posted by trev33even tho you didn't write it, i bet that might win tha spookiest at tha 2010 RHP prose comp...
does this count.From josphine
Date Dec 09 2009 03:04
Subject Hi dear
hi,
compliment of the day i hope you are doing fine over there,i will like to introduce my self to you,my name is Ms Josphine,it is my pleassure to write you after viewing your profile which really interest me, in having friendship with you if you will have the desire to be ...[text shortened]... ugh my email adress so that i will tell you more about my self
(josphinex24@yahoo.com)
*shudder*
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Originally posted by trev33Why is that a bizzare statement? Can you speak all of the languages that Worm can? You can barely speak english, according to your typing. Go back to those few little acres in the north.
what a bizarre statement... have you tried to learn all of these languages? how would you know?
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Originally posted by YEAH BOYof course, when we get into question about something we lash out. very child like.
Why is that a bizzare statement? Can you speak all of the languages that Worm can? You can barely speak english, according to your typing. Go back to those few little acres in the north.
no i can't speck a lot of the languages that worm can speak.. so therefore i have no idea which would be hardest to learn. but you on the other day do seem to know which would be hardest to learn... the only way i see this possible is if you have tried to learn them.
Originally posted by trev33yeah, lets FIGHT about how hard certain languages are to learn. 🙂
of course, when we get into question about something we lash out. very child like.
no i can't speck a lot of the languages that worm can speak.. so therefore i have no idea which would be hardest to learn. but you on the other day do seem to know which would be hardest to learn... the only way i see this possible is if you have tried to learn them.
there are studies though which prove all languages are equally difficult or easy. children everywhere reach the same linguistic proficiency at the same age. on average.
Originally posted by uzlessya caught me!
I've heard that there are marketing people that sign up to sites and gather information about users. These people usually don't post anything but sit silently as they target the most popular users of the site. These collectors believe that the popular people on a site are the same people that are the trend setters in real life. They collect things like wha ...[text shortened]... e ask them for personal stuff via a PM or had chess related spam emails mysteriously appear?
ok Russ, I give up.
Mr. Useless has busted my spamming ring.
lock my away into the cyber abyss and throw away the keys!
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Originally posted by wormwoodobviously kids growing up in certain countries aren't going to have anymore or less difficulty at learning their native language... would be interested at adults learning new languages though. it's very possible that some would be harder to learn than others... at least mentally.
yeah, lets FIGHT about how hard certain languages are to learn. 🙂
there are studies though which prove all languages are equally difficult or easy. children everywhere reach the same linguistic proficiency at the same age. on average.
Originally posted by wormwoodyou have a point...
yeah, lets FIGHT about how hard certain languages are to learn. 🙂
there are studies though which prove all languages are equally difficult or easy. children everywhere reach the same linguistic proficiency at the same age. on average.
from nothing (infancy) it is equally difficult/easy to learn any language.
I could invent a language and teach it to my kid just as easily as i could teach him german (I speak neither the made up language nor german).
However, once a language has been learned, it there are varying degrees of difficulty for learning various new languages because of the inherent mental prejudics instilled in us by our primary language.
Let me conjure up an example.
It would be just as easy to teach a newborne baby french as it would be to teach him swahili, assuming that the person doing the teaching is fluent in the respective languages. On the other hand, teaching the french baby Italian would be much easier than teaching the swahili baby Italian. Hope this makes sense, because I can't simplify it much more than that. And as always, there stands the enormous chance that I'm completely wrong.
Originally posted by trev33A way to learn about difficult langauges to speak and understand is to be aware of such through research. Different societies collect and install various parts of surrounding dialect into thier own way of comunicating. Are you following? I can go back. Therefore borders do not define specific dialict. Now go get me a beer, and make it snappy!
of course, when we get into question about something we lash out. very child like.
no i can't speck a lot of the languages that worm can speak.. so therefore i have no idea which would be hardest to learn. but you on the other day do seem to know which would be hardest to learn... the only way i see this possible is if you have tried to learn them.
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Originally posted by YEAH BOYyour last post says nothing to answer my question. i simply asked how you, personally know that portuguese would be the hardest language for you to learn from the ones wormwood can speak?
A way to learn about difficult langauges to speak and understand is to be aware of such through research. Different societies collect and install various parts of surrounding dialect into thier own way of comunicating. Are you following? I can go back. Therefore borders do not define specific dialict. Now go get me a beer, and make it snappy!
Originally posted by trev33Because it would be the toughest language for me, if I chose to learn it. I don't chose to learn any other. Beer?
your last post says nothing to answer my question. i simply asked how you, personally know that portuguese would be the hardest language for you to learn from the ones wormwood can speak?