H4run
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I really hope so, but I cannot get easy with my English, as it growing to be more crucial for both my life and future than my own language.
Random Rants LIII: F My Life
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sophie
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Agreed with the others. That sort of stuff happened to me all the time when I was taking German/French/Spanish classes back-to-back-to-back. They'll partition eventually and it'll get much easier with time.
God, hope that's true.
Some wrong influences from English into my German really worry me, and I guess with my Dutch classes that will not get easier ^^.
That's easier said than done sometimes.
I rarely use German at all at the moment.
Some wrong influences from English into my German really worry me, and I guess with my Dutch classes that will not get easier ^^.
That's easier said than done sometimes.
I rarely use German at all at the moment.
H4run
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Yes, because my wife also speak English, she has a good English better than mine, and I usually hand her my paper before I submit it to my lecturer. That's because she is a genius while I'm just an average guys. Sorry for becoming too personal I just like you to imagine how English language becoming more crucial than my own native language.
So in daily conversation we use English, in university we use English sometime Turkish sometime Arabic, in the street we use Turkish. But I never had chance to use my own native language, and most of my friends are speak English or Turkish. So yea as you said, easier said than done. Maybe I should start to write an essay in my own native language, and send it to my country local news paper.
Someone invited me to a party for Easter yesterday and she called me again that same night and I realized she's interested in me. She doesn't know I'm gay and it's going to be really awkward if I go. I'd like to go but I'm worried its going to be a disaster. The party is in 2 1/2 hours and she hasn't called me yet, maybe she won't.
On the other topic above, I used to always mix Turkish with Kurdish but now I end up speaking them both a lot and I don't do it as much. They do have a lot of shared vocabulary which can make it tricky.
On the other topic above, I used to always mix Turkish with Kurdish but now I end up speaking them both a lot and I don't do it as much. They do have a lot of shared vocabulary which can make it tricky.
Yes, this happens. Dinnae fash yoursel's.
If things had gone right when your ancestors came to borrow some bicycles, that wouldn't be the case.
I'm at the party now. Everyone at my table is dancing but I'm not drunk enough, well I've barely had anything really. I'm way too inhibited to dance under virtually all circumstances. Anyway it's going fine, not too much pressure.
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I don't know what language to learn after Mongolian (I plan on taking it next year in Germany and continuing with it). I will always feel linguistically inferior unless I know a bare minimum of five languages, and besides, I love language. The trouble is that I like the ones that won't do me much good and am disinterested in the useful ones. Hungarian, Lithuanian, Breton, and Georgian are all pretty exciting and top my list. Russian's a nice balance of useful and interesting. Arabic is also very useful but slightly less cool. Occitan isn't very useful, but it at least would give me a nice start on other Romance languages if I ever had to learn them, since it's so similar to most of them.
Greek, Arabic, Gaelic, Finnish, or any language from India, if you're brave enough.
cybrxkhan
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I suggest Khoekhoe, middle Egyptian, Sogdian, or the Khotanese dialect of Saka.
H4run
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An advice from me, unless you have a really urgent need to learn Arabic, or you have a huge motivation and commitment to learn it, forget Arabic. The grammar is horribly difficult, not to mention the pronunciation, and there are a very distinguishable difference between the classic fusha(h) (for art, religious exegesis, philosophy, etc) and standard Arabic (and each regions difference from one and another).
If I able to chose language that I learn (and if I have time and capability to add more), Russian will be my next aim after mastering Arabic and English (I'm not planning to master my Turkish). With these three language I can pretty much communicate with large population of the world and access many modern literature.
For classical studies I guess Latin and Greek is crucial, but I think for me it is too risky to invest my time to these two language, because it is only highly use in academical field, but I don't think it have a wide influence in our contemporary time in comparison with Arabic, English and Russian.
You wouldn't believe it, but practically all languages are indigenous to the place where they're spoken.
Interesting.
You wouldn't believe it, but some Greeks insist on speaking Greek, even in spite of centuries of Tourkish occupation.haroon said:
H4run
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I always thought it is like that. However if I learn Greek, I maybe only able to use it in quite limited region. But if I learn Russian, I can communicate with Kavkaz peoples, or some ex-sovyet region that some of their population are still able to speak Russia, says, Kazakhistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, etc.
The other interesting language is French, I found peoples from Africa (an ex French colony) they are more relax to speak with each other in French language than English. I remember having myself in the middle of the African peoples from different region, they insist to speak French instead of English (all of them know English), when one of them start to protest that they should speak English instead of French because I was there, one of them ask me a question "why don't you learn French?" I mean what?
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