Your Favourite Language

[Rossiya]

I downloaded a song by Jonovatti character however you spell it. And the song was called 'Tanto' and I really did not like it.

try "mi fido di te" by jovanotti

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

Hope to go through my whole kanji dictionary in the summer and be able to read novels by the end of the year.

You're hoping to study the kanji using a character dictionary? I wish it was that easy. I've been studying the kanji for about 8 months and know the meaning and writing of 1500, but I haven't got into readings and compounds yet, beyond those I've picked up day-to-day. I reckon it will be 18-24 months all-in-all before I can actually read a novel out loud. I highly recommend this series of books:
http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/miscPublications/Remembering_the_Kanji.htm

 

[Fox Mccloud]

I am surprised that you have included trivial and insignificant languages like Swedish and Portuguese and Latin but have not included even a single Indic language ( no Hindi , Marathi , Bengali . . . . . ) .

How is Portuguese insignificant?

English, then Californian.

There is no such language.

 

[YNCS]

J.R.R. Tolkein thought that Finnish was the most pleasant language to listen to. He liked it so much that Quenya (High Elvish) is partially based on Finnish.

 

[MjM]

There is no such language.

Bogus, dude! I think your toking something bad brotha. Definitely something fishy man. Ya can't see this gnarly talk?

 

[Rossiya]

Bogus, dude! I think your toking something bad brotha. Definitely something fishy man. Ya can't see this gnarly talk?

no i can't either

 

[Fox Mccloud]

MjM, if that was "Californian" I completely understood it.

 

[CaptainF]

I am surprised that you have included trivial and insignificant languages like Swedish and Portuguese and Latin but have not included even a single Indic language ( no Hindi , Marathi , Bengali . . . . . ) .

What is the official language of India?

 

[Left]

What is the official language of India?

Wikipedia says:

"Article 343 of the Indian Constitution recognises Hindi in Dēvanāgari script as the official language of the union [2]; the Constitution also allows for the continuation of use of the English language for official purposes. Article 345 provides constitutional recognition to "regional languages" of the union to include any language adopted by a State Legislature as the official language of that state. Until the Twenty-First Amendment of the Constitution in 1967, the country recognised 14 official regional languages. The Eighth Schedule and the Seventy-First Amendment provided for the inclusion of Sindhi, Konkani, Manipuri and Nepali, thereby increasing the number of official regional languages of India to 18 [3]. Individual states, whose borders are mostly drawn on socio-linguistic lines, are free to decide their own language for internal administration and education. The Constitution of India recognises 22 "national languages", spoken throughout the country, namely Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Hindi, apart from being an official language of the Union of India, is the official language of the states Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. English is the co-official language of the Indian Union, and that each of the several states mentioned above may also have another co-official language."

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

 

[MjM]

MjM, if that was "Californian" I completely understood it.

I could do much worse, dude.

And, it was a joke. Haw haw, he he.

 

[CruddyLeper]

Hmm... of all the "foreign" languages, I'd say French was the simplest to get some ideas across. Fewer words (English has lots of redundant, repeated words). I just find it easier than Dutch (Dutch is simple rules butpronounciation is hard).

Although you can't beat Russian for cussin'. Better for strong emotional response.