Languages

[Harlow]

How many and which languages do you handle?

My answer is 2; Spanish as a first, English as a second. May add a third, but I'm unsure of which...

[Xortberg]

Only English for me. I'd like to learn some more, but we only had Spanish in high school and the teacher was boring as hell

Also, good job on typing as clearly as you do despite English being a second language. Hell, you're better than some of the English speakers we have here on this site :P

[Guest Mr. Nintendo]

I speak English (One), Japanese (Two), and partially German (Three).

[Steve]

Spanish is my First , and English is my second, the interwebz is a happy place to learn stuff :P

[Harlow]

Also, good job on typing as clearly as you do despite English being a second language. Hell, you're better than some of the English speakers we have here on this site

Thanks . I've done English as an extra-activity since I was three, and most of the stuff I do (reading, music, movies) are in English (On the latter, cause dubbing sucks XD). Although I sometimes get stuck and have to resort to Google (as innacuarate as it can be sometimes XD) and my speaking per se may be a bit rusty, since I don't use it that much.

Spanish is my First , and English is my second, the interwebz is a happy place to learn stuff

Hola! :P

[Nope.]

Two. First language, Italian. Second language, English.

What's funny is that sometimes I speak to myself in English.

[Asper Sarnoff]

First and foremost Norwegian, and with that, also Swedish and Danish, and English.

[Harlow]

First and foremost Norwegian, and with that, also Swedish and Danish, and English.

I thought Swedish was strikingly different from Danish/Norwegian, albeit needing to learn it.

P.S: How do you pronounce æ, ø and å? (English pronunciation)

[Asper Sarnoff]

They are all quite similar actually.

Æ is pronounced like the A in the name: Stan.

Ø? Try pronouncing "Urn".Congratulations, not only have you pronounced an english word, but also the Norwegian "Ørn". (Which means "Eagle".)

Ã…. As the O in Bored.

[Vy'drach]

I know English and some Greek and Spanish insults.

[Zzz]

English, German, Assyrian, Spanish, French and a lil bit of Persian.

[Harlow]

They are all quite similar actually.

Æ is pronounced like the A in the name: Stan.

Ø? Try pronouncing "Urn".Congratulations, not only have you pronounced an english word, but also the Norwegian "Ørn". (Which means "Eagle".)

Ã…. As the O in Bored.

So, "Ah", "Urn" and "Oh", easy enough

Useless fact: The little stripe sometines shown on Spanish vocals (á,é,í,ó,ú) denotes that the syllable that has it's the "stornger" syllable from the word, changing the pronunciation, normally usen to differentiate between words...

[Zzz]

That's the point where learning Spanish is much easier than French, I'd say!

There we've got both ` and ´, where you have to differentiate the way you pronounce stuff.

[Harlow]

That's the point where learning Spanish is much easier than French, I'd say!

There we've got both ` and ´, where you have to differentiate the way you pronounce stuff.

It's said Spanish is one of the hardest to learn, since every verb changes depending of the time you're using it, unlike English.

And ´ doesn't really affects the pronunciation of the letter, just denotes that that is the stronger syllable.

Now, I don't know how French works XD

[Xortberg]

It's said Spanish is one of the hardest to learn, since every verb changes depending of the time you're using it, unlike English.

And ´ doesn't really affects the pronunciation of the letter, just denotes that that is the stronger syllable.

Now, I don't know how French works XD

Really? Because I've heard that English is the hardest language to learn, since so many of our rules have weird exceptions. Like the word 'weird'. "I before e, except after c" my ass.

[Zzz]

Looks like everyone is saying that about their mother tongue.

German is fucking crazy tho, don't you think? The grammar is so damn hard, even Germans themselves have problems with it.

And yeah, in French it's extremly important to pay attention to ` and ´.

["User"]

Really? Because I've heard that English is the hardest language to learn, since so many of our rules have weird exceptions. Like the word 'weird'. "I before e, except after c" my ass.

From my own research into that matter a while back I'm going to have to agree with this. Even though a large part of the ability to learn a new language depends on what you are already fluent in. For example, it's easier for me to learn French because of it's similarities with English words and the fact that it uses the same characters. Something that involves completely different characters like Cantonese for example would be harder for myself to learn but would be easier for someone who speaks Chinese.

English is also difficult to learn because we have among the most (if not the most) irregular verbs. The language is constantly changing with TONS of new words being added to Oxford on a regular basis so keeping up to date with the language is more difficult than others.

[Harlow]

German is fucking crazy tho, don't you think? The grammar is so damn hard, even Germans themselves have problems with it.

I agree, short words are a no-no in german XD

[Zzz]

This is the longest word in the German language btw:

Donau­dampfschiffahrts­elektrizitäten­hauptbetriebswerk­bauunterbeamten­gesellschaft

79 letters, thats right...

[Nope.]

Really? Because I've heard that English is the hardest language to learn

Aaaactually, it's pretty subjective.

Take, as an example, an Italian learning English. They're two pretty different languages, and to speak them, you can't think in the same way you think for the other when it comes into communication. You just need to get used to it.

Some Italians find Spanish a lot easier than English, because they're similar languages. Look at me now, I don't know shit about Spanish, but I can understand it a bit.

Yeah, I know it's obvious, but when you hear some Italians trying to speak in English, I realize it's not.

[Zzz]

That's coz both Italian and Spanish are "Romance languages".

To Germans it's actually quite easy to learn English, beacause we have lots of words that are either extremly similar or straight out the same thing, only pronounced differently. Both German and English are "Germanic languages".

["User"]

This is the longest word in the German language btw:

Donau­dampfschiffahrts­elektrizitäten­hauptbetriebswerk­bauunterbeamten­gesellschaft

79 letters, thats right...

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

Again however, like other languages, the longest word in a particular language depends on many factors.

[Sarita]

I speak English as a first language. I understand most Spanish (as a necessity), but I can't speak it well. I know the alphabet and a few curses in German. :3 I love German, I think it's on of the more beautiful languages.

[Zzz]

Having such long words are clearly indications of unstructured and modern idioticy.

I understand that we need words that are meaningful, and with extreme accurateness.

But OUR examples are just needless butchering of such wonderful languages.

[DoctorAllosaurus]

Only English, I'm too stupid to learn another language what with my terrible memory and all.