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Favourite language(s) you've learnt?
Topic Started: Jul 27 2009, 09:56 AM (236 Views)
Lookerisawesome	Jul 27 2009, 09:56 AM Post #1
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	I must say, French and German were very cool.



Falconhawk	Aug 1 2009, 12:42 AM Post #2
Golden Eagle Posts: 6,638 Group: Global Moderators Member #15 Joined: Jan 23, 2009 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Male Favourite quote? Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!	I know a lot of French. I love it! I know a bit of german as well. Oh, and i know latin pretty well also.



Lookerisawesome	Aug 1 2009, 03:39 AM Post #3
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	I wish I could have learnt Latin.



Taipan Reincarnated	Aug 1 2009, 09:49 AM Post #4
Buizel Posts: 52 Group: Trusted Members Member #31 Joined: Jul 3, 2009	I only speak English and Pig Latin (:P) but I plan on learning (real) Latin and French or German.



Lookerisawesome	Aug 1 2009, 11:12 AM Post #5
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	German and French are exceptionally easy.



Kingfisher	Aug 2 2009, 02:13 AM Post #6
Arceus Posts: 10,009 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #6 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Reptiles/Amphibians Gender Male Favourite quote? "Name an animal with three letters in its name." "Alligator." - Stupid Family Feud contestant	Spanish, probably. I just think it's a nicer language to speak than French, maybe because it's easier to spell .



Panda Lover	Aug 2 2009, 02:17 AM Post #7
Azelf Posts: 2,840 Group: Global Moderators Member #16 Joined: Jan 25, 2009	I'd say Latin is the most fun for me, but I also enjoyed doing French.



Lookerisawesome	Aug 2 2009, 02:17 AM Post #8
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	I don't like Spanish for obvious reasons...



Kingfisher	Aug 28 2009, 09:55 PM Post #9
Arceus Posts: 10,009 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #6 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Reptiles/Amphibians Gender Male Favourite quote? "Name an animal with three letters in its name." "Alligator." - Stupid Family Feud contestant	Sorry, but I don't understand why not. What are the reasons?



lamna	Aug 29 2009, 02:27 AM Post #10
They will all be destroyed! Posts: 5,352 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #3 Joined: Dec 29, 2008	Her step mom speaks it, so it's evil now.



Lookerisawesome	Aug 29 2009, 11:32 AM Post #11
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	Exactly



Kingfisher	Aug 29 2009, 11:20 PM Post #12
Arceus Posts: 10,009 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #6 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Reptiles/Amphibians Gender Male Favourite quote? "Name an animal with three letters in its name." "Alligator." - Stupid Family Feud contestant	Oh...I think I remember now. She doesn't try speaking Spanish to you, does she :S ?



Lookerisawesome	Aug 30 2009, 01:09 AM Post #13
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	Umm no not really



Kingfisher	Aug 30 2009, 04:46 AM Post #14
Arceus Posts: 10,009 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #6 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Reptiles/Amphibians Gender Male Favourite quote? "Name an animal with three letters in its name." "Alligator." - Stupid Family Feud contestant	Oh, good. I know CG's mum is a good Spanish speaker.



Lookerisawesome	Aug 30 2009, 08:35 AM Post #15
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	I know a few Romanian words (hi and thank you), and Romanian is amazing.



Kingfisher	Aug 31 2009, 11:10 PM Post #16
Arceus Posts: 10,009 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #6 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Reptiles/Amphibians Gender Male Favourite quote? "Name an animal with three letters in its name." "Alligator." - Stupid Family Feud contestant	I don't know any at all, unfortunately .



Lookerisawesome	Sep 1 2009, 07:44 AM Post #17
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	It's very similar to French Really simple website: http://www.romanianlessons.com/basicTravelRomanian.htm



Kingfisher	Sep 2 2009, 02:36 AM Post #18
Arceus Posts: 10,009 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #6 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Reptiles/Amphibians Gender Male Favourite quote? "Name an animal with three letters in its name." "Alligator." - Stupid Family Feud contestant	Thanks - that's a very good start . And yes, I can see some similarities to French.



lamna	Sep 14 2009, 03:26 AM Post #19
They will all be destroyed! Posts: 5,352 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #3 Joined: Dec 29, 2008	Wow Romania? I would really like to go there. I wonder if Hungarian is hard to learn?



Falconhawk	Sep 24 2009, 01:48 AM Post #20
Golden Eagle Posts: 6,638 Group: Global Moderators Member #15 Joined: Jan 23, 2009 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Male Favourite quote? Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!	I know French, German(a little), Latin, A teensy weensy bit of hebrew and greek, a bit of japanese, and a few words in polish. The last 4 i know hardly at all btw. But, seriously French is by far my fave.



lamna	Oct 1 2009, 11:32 PM Post #21
They will all be destroyed! Posts: 5,352 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #3 Joined: Dec 29, 2008	I found out, Hungarian is the hardest European language to learn apart from Finnish. It's got more in common with Mongolian than any other European language. Anyone else interested in Constructed languages? Sindarin sounds very interesting, it was created by Tolkien as the Elven-tongue and he used Celtic Languages, Old English and Old Norse to make it.



Lookerisawesome	Oct 15 2009, 12:11 AM Post #22
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	Wow that sounds like an interesting language. Oh how I'd looove to learn Old English... Hwæt! Wē Gār‐Dena in geār‐dagum þēod‐cyninga þrym gefrūnon, hū þā æðelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scēfing sceaðena þrēatum, monegum mǣgðum meodo‐setla oftēah. Egsode eorl, syððan ǣrest wearð fēa‐sceaft funden: hē þæs frōfre gebād, wēox under wolcnum, weorð‐myndum ðāh, oð þæt him ǣghwylc þāra ymb‐sittendra ofer hron‐rāde hȳran scolde, [10] gomban gyldan: þæt wæs gōd cyning! þǣm eafera wæs æfter cenned geong in geardum, þone god sende folce tō frōfre; fyren‐þearfe ongeat, þæt hīe ǣr drugon aldor‐lēase lange hwīle. Him þæs līf‐frēa, wuldres wealdend, worold‐āre forgeaf; Bēowulf wæs brēme (blǣd wīde sprang), Scyldes eafera Scede‐landum in. That's how far it goes, but there is more.... Swā sceal geong guma, gōde gewyrcean, [20] fromum feoh‐giftum on fæder wine, þæt hine on ylde eft gewunigen wil‐gesīðas, þonne wīg cume, lēode gelǣsten: lof‐dǣdum sceal in mǣgða gehwǣre man geþēon. Him þā Scyld gewāt tō gescæp‐hwīle fela‐hrōr fēran on frēan wǣre; hī hyne þā ætbǣron tō brimes faroðe. swǣse gesīðas, swā hē selfa bæd, þenden wordum wēold wine Scyldinga, [30] lēof land‐fruma lange āhte. Þǣr æt hȳðe stōd hringed‐stefna, īsig and ūtfūs, æðelinges fær ā‐lēdon þā lēofne þēoden, bēaga bryttan on bearm scipes, mǣrne be mæste. Þǣr wæs mādma fela, of feor‐wegum frætwa gelǣded: ne hȳrde ic cȳmlīcor cēol gegyrwan hilde‐wǣpnum and heaðo‐wǣdum, billum and byrnum; him on bearme læg [40] mādma mænigo, þā him mid scoldon on flōdes ǣht feor gewītan. Nalas hī hine lǣssan lācum tēodan, þēod‐gestrēonum, þonne þā dydon, þē hine æt frumsceafte forð onsendon ǣnne ofer ȳðe umbor wesende: þā gȳt hīe him āsetton segen gyldenne hēah ofer hēafod, lēton holm beran, gēafon on gār‐secg: him wæs geōmor sefa, murnende mōd. Men ne cunnon [50] secgan tō soðe sele‐rǣdende, hæleð under heofenum, hwā þǣm hlæste onfēng. Lo, praise of the prowess of people-kings of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls. Since erst he lay friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him: for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve, till before him the folk, both far and near, who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate, gave him gifts: a good king he! To him an heir was afterward born, a son in his halls, whom heaven sent to favor the folk, feeling their woe that erst they had lacked an earl for leader so long a while; the Lord endowed him, the Wielder of Wonder, with world’s renown. Famed was this Beowulf:[1] far flew the boast of him, son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands. So becomes it a youth to quit him well with his father’s friends, by fee and gift, that to aid him, aged, in after days, come warriors willing, should war draw nigh, liegemen loyal: by lauded deeds shall an earl have honor in every clan. Forth he fared at the fated moment, sturdy Scyld to the shelter of God. Then they bore him over to ocean’s billow, loving clansmen, as late he charged them, while wielded words the winsome Scyld, the leader beloved who long had ruled.... In the roadstead rocked a ring-dight vessel, ice-flecked, outbound, atheling’s barge: there laid they down their darling lord on the breast of the boat, the breaker-of-rings,[2] by the mast the mighty one. Many a treasure fetched from far was freighted with him. No ship have I known so nobly dight with weapons of war and weeds of battle, with breastplate and blade: on his bosom lay a heaped hoard that hence should go far o’er the flood with him floating away. No less these loaded the lordly gifts, thanes’ huge treasure, than those had done who in former time forth had sent him sole on the seas, a suckling child. High o’er his head they hoist the standard, a gold-wove banner; let billows take him, gave him to ocean. Grave were their spirits, mournful their mood. No man is able to say in sooth, no son of the halls, no hero ’neath heaven, -- who harbored that freight! Edited by Lookerisawesome, Oct 15 2009, 12:58 AM.



Kingfisher	Oct 15 2009, 03:37 AM Post #23
Arceus Posts: 10,009 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #6 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Reptiles/Amphibians Gender Male Favourite quote? "Name an animal with three letters in its name." "Alligator." - Stupid Family Feud contestant	It looks very interesting - and certainly very different from modern English! It's pretty much unrecognisable, in fact .



Lookerisawesome	Oct 15 2009, 11:07 AM Post #24
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	It's related to Icelandic and Old Norse (Old German), etc. Edited by Lookerisawesome, Oct 15 2009, 11:07 AM.



lamna	Oct 15 2009, 12:16 PM Post #25
They will all be destroyed! Posts: 5,352 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #3 Joined: Dec 29, 2008	Well it would be, English at it's heart is Germanic, brought here by the Saxons. It's just had so many influences since it has diverged a lot. Did you know Shampoo comes from a Hindi word for head massage?



Kingfisher	Oct 16 2009, 10:07 PM Post #26
Arceus Posts: 10,009 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #6 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Reptiles/Amphibians Gender Male Favourite quote? "Name an animal with three letters in its name." "Alligator." - Stupid Family Feud contestant	ConjunctionShipper Oct 15 2009, 11:07 AM It's related to Icelandic and Old Norse (Old German), etc. Actually, it does look a bit Icelandic, now that you mention it.



Lookerisawesome	Oct 17 2009, 10:03 AM Post #27
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	lamna Oct 15 2009, 12:16 PM Well it would be, English at it's heart is Germanic, brought here by the Saxons. It's just had so many influences since it has diverged a lot. Did you know Shampoo comes from a Hindi word for head massage? Wow cool, doesn't surprise me.



Kingfisher	Oct 17 2009, 04:03 PM Post #28
Arceus Posts: 10,009 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #6 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Reptiles/Amphibians Gender Male Favourite quote? "Name an animal with three letters in its name." "Alligator." - Stupid Family Feud contestant	No, I didn't! I had no idea where it came from, actually.



lamna	Oct 17 2009, 07:33 PM Post #29
They will all be destroyed! Posts: 5,352 Group: Co-Super Admin Member #3 Joined: Dec 29, 2008	Yeah their has been a lot of intermingling between Hindi/Urdu and English.



Lookerisawesome	Oct 18 2009, 03:06 AM Post #30
EATS HIM UP <3 Posts: 10,623 Group: Super Admin Member #1 Joined: Dec 29, 2008 Favourite type of animal? Birds Gender Female Mood Happy Favourite quote? “Jesus Christ, Émile, it’s 4:00 AM!” Rico blinked and rubbed his eyes.	Wow interesting.



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