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Darkangel_Bessonova
Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Posts: 625 Location: Moon Path! Mexico
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Posted: Sun, 29-Mar-2009 21:10 Post subject: |
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GymGrace wrote: | Native - Lithuanian. Other - English, German, a bit of spanish and russian. |
That's a lot of languages! _________________ Bessonova! Forever the best ^_^ |
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GymGrace
Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 48 Location: Ltu
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Posted: Mon, 30-Mar-2009 12:37 Post subject: |
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Darkangel_Bessonova wrote: | GymGrace wrote: | Native - Lithuanian. Other - English, German, a bit of spanish and russian. |
That's a lot of languages! |
Yes, but i know only english very well (from foreign languages). And i think everyone in my country knows something of russian, because here is loads of russian people.I learn german at school as my second foreign language. And my spanish lanuage knowledge came from Mexican soap operas |
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Darkangel_Bessonova
Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Posts: 625 Location: Moon Path! Mexico
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Posted: Tue, 31-Mar-2009 1:12 Post subject: |
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Really? haha like which one? I would love learning german... _________________ Bessonova! Forever the best ^_^ |
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Darkangel_Bessonova
Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Posts: 625 Location: Moon Path! Mexico
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Posted: Tue, 31-Mar-2009 1:14 Post subject: |
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I didn't know they transmitted mexican soap operas in other countries _________________ Bessonova! Forever the best ^_^ |
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RGribbonqueen
Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 942
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Posted: Wed, 1-Apr-2009 21:17 Post subject: |
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My mother tongue is English. I have been learning french since i was 10, and spanish since i was 12. Im dropping out of french (as we can only pick out of french or spanish at school and i find spanish easier) and im also learning russian. I like to speak a mixture of english and russian, as i mainly speak russian to my friend who also is learning russian. In the future i would love to learn Polish! |
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RGribbonqueen
Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 942
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Posted: Wed, 1-Apr-2009 21:21 Post subject: |
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Oh i also understand some Ukrainian |
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Darkangel_Bessonova
Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Posts: 625 Location: Moon Path! Mexico
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Posted: Thu, 2-Apr-2009 2:27 Post subject: |
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Woww that's amazing!! In which countries Polish is spoken? _________________ Bessonova! Forever the best ^_^ |
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angela_108
Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 66 Location: Hong Kong
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Posted: Sat, 4-Apr-2009 13:55 Post subject: |
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FaerieDevilish wrote: | Kaja =) wrote: | tigrenoir wrote: |
I think it's a bit like russian : the most difficult is to learn the letter, but after I think the rest is easier |
For me it's been no problem learning the cyrillic alphabet on my own... so maybe I'll find it pretty easy to learn the language (in school)! |
The problem in Chinese is that there are no letters. When you learn Russian or Greek, you learn the alphabet first - in Chinese you learn the sounds of pinyin (the way Chinese is written with western alphabet), the types of tildes, and then you begin learning words and basic structures. Each word has its own symbol (I don't remember the name in Chinese for those symbols).
I don't know yet about the systems that were used in the creation of the symbols. I just know that one of the sources is visual - they represented the word 'sun' as a circle with a dot in the middle before, but now it's evolved into a symbol that has two squares, one on top of another (or a long vertical rectangle that is divided by a horizontal line in the middle). Perhaps there is an easier way to know what a symbol means without having to memorise its meaning first, but, so far, it's only memorisation of words in my class. Hehe.
Perhaps someone who speaks Chinese can tell us? |
You know Chinese language pretty well
The creation of Chinese words is quite complicated, not every Chinese understands that. As you have mentioned, the "pictogram" as shown at wikipedia. For example, this picture( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Character_Shan_Oracle.png ) is a mountain, for mountain in Chinese, is 山, pretty much like the mountain of the picture. "Simple ideograms", that is easy to understand. like 1, 2, 3 in Chinese is 一, 二, 三respectively. As you can see, if there are 3 horizontal lines in the word, it means 3. (from 4 onwards, it is different)
And " Ideogrammic compounds",let me give an example. 木=wood, wood comes from trees. Grove has few trees when comparing with forest. So, 林(2x木= grove, )森(3x木= forest). actually, 森林 means forest. Okay, I think it is enough for basic understanding. It is hard and confusing for people to understand, I know. Yes, it is hard, but trust me, learning Chinese is so much fun, for those who are learning or interested in this language, go ahead and enjoy!
BTW, I speak Mandarin, Cantonese, English and a little bit German. =)
It helps a lot for those who are interested in words creation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_classification |
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*Kalinka*
Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 2180 Location: Italy
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Posted: Thu, 9-Apr-2009 15:53 Post subject: |
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I speak Italian and a bit of English... In my "scuola media" I studied French, other than English, but now I remember nothing of French... |
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coolmadgick
Joined: 12 Aug 2008 Posts: 2040 Location: france !
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Posted: Thu, 9-Apr-2009 16:14 Post subject: |
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*Kalinka* wrote: | I speak Italian and a bit of English... In my "scuola media" I studied French, other than English, but now I remember nothing of French... |
me it's the same but with italian
i began to speak spanish...and then i lost all i learnt in italian class _________________ instagram.com/coolmadgick1 |
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Darkangel_Bessonova
Joined: 04 Mar 2009 Posts: 625 Location: Moon Path! Mexico
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Posted: Fri, 10-Apr-2009 1:56 Post subject: |
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coolmadgick wrote: | *Kalinka* wrote: | I speak Italian and a bit of English... In my "scuola media" I studied French, other than English, but now I remember nothing of French... |
me it's the same but with italian
i began to speak spanish...and then i lost all i learnt in italian class |
So you started learning spanish but then you quit? It would be great if you could speak spanish _________________ Bessonova! Forever the best ^_^ |
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Youandi
Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 14025 Location: The Netherlands
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Posted: Fri, 10-Apr-2009 8:35 Post subject: |
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Darkangel_Bessonova wrote: | coolmadgick wrote: | *Kalinka* wrote: | I speak Italian and a bit of English... In my "scuola media" I studied French, other than English, but now I remember nothing of French... |
me it's the same but with italian
i began to speak spanish...and then i lost all i learnt in italian class |
So you started learning spanish but then you quit? It would be great if you could speak spanish |
I'm learning it a bit on myselfs actually,, hard |
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Olwince
Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 36 Location: British Columbia, Canada
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Posted: Fri, 10-Apr-2009 9:38 Post subject: |
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Spanish is on my next-to-learn list. Although being in Canada I'm really suppose to learn some French? Besides this, after almost 7 years I'm still kindergarten level with my fiancee's mother language Romanian (but she prefers to talk to her parents in English anyways, so no pressure it seems.) |
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coolmadgick
Joined: 12 Aug 2008 Posts: 2040 Location: france !
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Posted: Fri, 10-Apr-2009 11:28 Post subject: |
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Darkangel_Bessonova wrote: | coolmadgick wrote: | *Kalinka* wrote: | I speak Italian and a bit of English... In my "scuola media" I studied French, other than English, but now I remember nothing of French... |
me it's the same but with italian
i began to speak spanish...and then i lost all i learnt in italian class |
So you started learning spanish but then you quit? It would be great if you could speak spanish |
no i quited italian, but i'm still learning spanish so i can speak spanish...even if it's a really bad spanish ! i always had bad teachers unfortunatly.... _________________ instagram.com/coolmadgick1 |
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Kata
Joined: 06 Apr 2008 Posts: 324 Location: Hungary
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