Learning Languages

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by ranskaldan
That totally depends on what your original language is. German is quite easy for an English speaker and hellishly hard for a Chinese speaker (unless he speaks English too.)

I think German is easier than English, which is very, very irregular.

[Meticulous Man]

Originally posted by ranskaldan


That totally depends on what your original language is. German is quite easy for an English speaker and hellishly hard for a Chinese speaker (unless he speaks English too.)

I can't say that this is completely untrue, but wouldn't it imply that Apolyton posters from, say, Israel or Finland would, on average, have much worse English skills than, for example, Swedes and Dutchmen (which does not seem to be the case to me)?

[chairmanmeow]

My native language is English, but I am semi-fluent in Spanish and Latin. I prefer Latin, though, because it is totally useless (unless I decide to travel back in time to the Roman Empire). If I were to try to learn another language, I would probably try to learn Russian, just for the challenge of it.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

I've taken Spanish, Latin, Russian, and Hebrew. I seriously recommend German.

Spanish is prolly the most useful, however, German would prolly be the best to go with if you are not in a constant school setting.

[The Andy-Man]

the list i gave was of languages i intend to learn, ie, i want to know all

Russian shouldn't be to hard seeing as alot of the letters are quite similar to greek (trying to learn classical greek to )

I did spanish and french at school, but at the time wasn't really interested, but i do have a small basic in both, so neither should be to hard (and reading spanish isn't very hard).


Does anyone know any message boards for any of those languages then? that seems like quite a good idea.

or Arabic

I've been thinking abouyt that one to

thx for the help guys, and keep it coming

[Solver]

What is so difficult on Russian language? It's much easier than spoken Chinese.

Damn easy tenses in Russian, but try with the spelling. Difficult to remember when a hyphen is needed, something like iz za, izza or iz-za. Also, I know that some words confuse the heck out of everybody, native speakers included.

The word bezidejnij, is it proper to spell áåçèäåéÃûé or áåçûäåéÃûé , eh ?

[Sirotnikov]

Emperor? you know hebrew? why? and how did it help you?

[Sirotnikov]

I think that it's the latter spelling.

because of "idea"'s original spelling

[The Andy-Man]

they both look slightly meesed upto me, i think maybe i need the language fonts

[Solly]

Learn Welsh.

What could be easier than learning how to pronounce Rhosllanerchrugug properly, or Machynlleth, or Cwrt Mawr!

[The Andy-Man]

Originally posted by Boddington's
Learn Welsh.

What could be easier than learning how to pronounce Rhosllanerchrugug properly, or Machynlleth, or Cwrt Mawr!

I don't intend to meet welsh people in my life

[Solly]

You've gotta hear a south-west Wales accent...well nice.

[The Andy-Man]

Originally posted by Boddington's
You've gotta hear a south-west Wales accent...well nice.

maybe i will have to consider it.

Though the 5 listed is enough for the moment

[Solly]

Well it's actually quite easy really.

Vehicles are the easiest ones...

Taxi - tacsi
Ambulance - ambwlans
Bus = bws

[Myrddin]

How strange,

so the Russians got 'Takci' from Welsh....