Accepted a job offer

[onodera]

I think if you know french, learning italian is very easy.
BTW german is the only language (AFAIK) that has a dativ sense, same as ancient greek had (but modern greek has phased out)
I also heard that in english, lots of unprocessed foods have a germanic root, whereas lots of processed foods have a french (latin) origin. Something which signifies a difference of socioeconomic class (in the old days)

Most Slavic languages have dative.

[Nikolai]

Norwegian has frozen dativ, most don't realize it's a dativ, but it's still used in those frozen instances.

[Lorizael]

Isn't Norway always frozen?

[Nikolai]

It rains quite heavily today, so I'd say no.

[kentonio]

Isn't Norway always frozen?

It's actually pretty lovely in the summers.

[Lorizael]

Look, I'm a dumb American. I assume all other countries are essentially single-biome Star Wars worlds.

[molly bloom]

english seems precise but lacking in nuances

Try our rich vocabulary related to weather conditions and wetness.

Also we frequently have the option of romance or germanic terms for the same thing. And of course those words derived from Norman French, Hindi, Arabic, Italian....

Savvy, me old china ?

[Bereta_Eder]

And most turkish words for fishes are greek and most greek words for those delicious syrop desserts are turkish which are in turn arabic

And now a nice arabian song

[molly bloom]

It's not processed versus unprocessed, it's what would have peasant food versus what would have been noble person food back in the days of William the Conqueror.

Raw:

sheep, oxen/kine/cow, deer, pig - Germanic derivation (Anglo-Saxon/Dutch/Frisian)

The cooked: mutton, beef, venison, pork- French derivation

[Dauphin]

Dual languages and a tradition of doublets (or more).Some even from the same language.

Wrack and ruin.
Will and testament.
Peace and quiet.
Fit and proper.
.....

[Bereta_Eder]

Also apparently from the only three major non-indoeuropean languages (esthonian, finnish and hungarian), a fin can understand a hungarian and vice versa if speaking slowly.

BTW here is a monumental speech in english but it's all in greek and it's great because probably noone understood anything so everyone started clapping at the end just to be sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophon_Zolotas

[Hauldren Collider]

Can we swing this thread back around from being about languages to being about taking a trip? (The threadjack is admittedly interesting.)

[N35t0r]

Go to Europe.

There, done. Nothing more to discuss.

[Hauldren Collider]

OK. Which countries in Europe?

[Hauldren Collider]

I see you lurking the thread alby. Would you like to recommend that I join the Marine Corps so they can pay for me to eat corn on the cob in Romania? Or do you want to post a cryptic gif again? Come on, don't be a tease.