Do you like your native language?
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I speak english, being born in Canada, I'm an english speaker by birth. I like it because it's encorporated so many other parts of other languages, makes it an extremely versatile language, great for use in all forms of art, and a great language for international commerce. 
Meh... English is all right, I guess.
I sometimes think it's a little... plain. But no big issues with it.
I sometimes think it's a little... plain. But no big issues with it.
Tja. I det mindste lyder i bare som om i er lidt fulde imens vi (ifølge jer) lyder som om vi har munden fuld af kartofler (der er vel hvad man får for at prøve at udtale ordene tydeligt istedet for at få det til at lyde melodisk).TheNamlessGuy said:
Anyways. Ja jeg kan godt lide mit sprog. Dansk er da sejt.
And for foreigners.
Well. At least you guys just sound slightly drunk while we (according to you) sound like our mouthes are full of potatoes (I guess that's what you get when you try to pronounce words clearly instead of making it sound melodic).
Anyways. Yes I like my language. Danish is frikkin' cool.
It's a horrific grammatical mess and all, but I like English
It's much easier to get to grips with than Latin and Ancient Greek, let me tell you that!
It's much easier to get to grips with than Latin and Ancient Greek, let me tell you that!
Hmmmm, not bad. "Shit" has always been my favorite swear word, so I'm trying to think of one that starts with "s". "Skaskit", maybe?Evil Smurf said:
It kind of depends where you live. In the cities like Amsterdam, English is a language you'll be happy to know. Otherwise, Dutch brings you everywhere. Lots of colleges here are raher English heavy too.LetalisK said:
Thanks, lulijzer!Ti0k0 said:I like the Dutch language, yes.
It doesn't sound too aggressive or too passive and it doesn't have as many exceptions as English does.
In any case, good luck with your exams, flapdrol
(Ok, I'll admit that swearing is pretty fun in Dutch.)
Well I am the Norwegian One...so:
Vis du har noe imot norsk så kan vi ta det opp i en duell, men du er advart, du kommer opp mot ett tidligere medlem av Kongshirden.
Vis du har noe imot norsk så kan vi ta det opp i en duell, men du er advart, du kommer opp mot ett tidligere medlem av Kongshirden.
Yes indeed. Dutch has crazy grammar and is practically impossible to pronounce properly for non-native speakers, but it has some amazing words in it. What other languages has words with eight or nine consecutive consonants?Ti0k0 said:flapdrol
I adore Welsh (except for mutations). It's just incredibly beautiful to look at and hear and it makes place names in Wales infinitely more interesting. Llandudno ftw!
Words like 'sglodion' and 'llaeth' are just really fun words. And even the horrible welsh words like 'araf' and 'archfachnad' are still horrible in a more interesting way than English. Just look at the way Cymraeg is spelt and pronounced. It's cool stuff. 'Nadolig Llawen', 'Hywl!' our greetings and goodbyes are really varied phonetically, and the spellig is frankly awesome.
'Dw i?n dy garu di...' clearly passes the I Love You test of a language, it's a lot softer than English, although the 'garu' is a bit harsh and horrible. 'Dw i'n dwyli...' is nicer sounding if it were only appropriate
... I'm just not very good at learning it.
English on the other hand (I'm binational right? I get two languages. I guess I could claim Esperanto if I felt like it too), has a lot of variety which I like and a flexibility which is pretty cool, it opens itself well to word play and confusing situations. But it's got no style, it sounds fairly neutral and the spelling systems are atrocious. It's a good medium, you can do a lot through it and the laxity of rules can be helpful when learning. It doesn't have a ridiculous gender system which is already a plus. But you can't do so much with it. There are less opportunities to just love the structure or the soundings of the words as they are, and when it does come about its often very intellectual and the words are too unfamiliar to grasp easy meaning.
I think for example, the romantic languages (except French) have huge advantages over English in terms of sound, and German has huge advantages because you can have a lot more fun with the language and say a lot more with what you've got, instead of having to learn obscure words that everyone needs a dictionary to understand. With German you can imply a lot of meaning with sentence structure and the case system, you can and are supposed to create new words freely from combing old ones and can extrapolate this to ridiculous levels (like face-I-want-to-hit can be a word). Finally you can have a lot of fun in German, for example
'The by a mob into town whilst on horseback chased man stopped off for an ice cream.' Is a perfectly valid (if posh) sentence structure in German. (On the other hand I'd've preferred German more if they allowed more laziness. Don't seem to be fans of doing things the short way)
English doesn't quite have these things. It's a middle of the road language. It's also a shame we don't have polite forms of phrasings, we lost a lot of information there
Words like 'sglodion' and 'llaeth' are just really fun words. And even the horrible welsh words like 'araf' and 'archfachnad' are still horrible in a more interesting way than English. Just look at the way Cymraeg is spelt and pronounced. It's cool stuff. 'Nadolig Llawen', 'Hywl!' our greetings and goodbyes are really varied phonetically, and the spellig is frankly awesome.
'Dw i?n dy garu di...' clearly passes the I Love You test of a language, it's a lot softer than English, although the 'garu' is a bit harsh and horrible. 'Dw i'n dwyli...' is nicer sounding if it were only appropriate
... I'm just not very good at learning it.
English on the other hand (I'm binational right? I get two languages. I guess I could claim Esperanto if I felt like it too), has a lot of variety which I like and a flexibility which is pretty cool, it opens itself well to word play and confusing situations. But it's got no style, it sounds fairly neutral and the spelling systems are atrocious. It's a good medium, you can do a lot through it and the laxity of rules can be helpful when learning. It doesn't have a ridiculous gender system which is already a plus. But you can't do so much with it. There are less opportunities to just love the structure or the soundings of the words as they are, and when it does come about its often very intellectual and the words are too unfamiliar to grasp easy meaning.
I think for example, the romantic languages (except French) have huge advantages over English in terms of sound, and German has huge advantages because you can have a lot more fun with the language and say a lot more with what you've got, instead of having to learn obscure words that everyone needs a dictionary to understand. With German you can imply a lot of meaning with sentence structure and the case system, you can and are supposed to create new words freely from combing old ones and can extrapolate this to ridiculous levels (like face-I-want-to-hit can be a word). Finally you can have a lot of fun in German, for example
'The by a mob into town whilst on horseback chased man stopped off for an ice cream.' Is a perfectly valid (if posh) sentence structure in German. (On the other hand I'd've preferred German more if they allowed more laziness. Don't seem to be fans of doing things the short way)
English doesn't quite have these things. It's a middle of the road language. It's also a shame we don't have polite forms of phrasings, we lost a lot of information there
Why do you think English is plain? The amount of vocab available to us is monstrous compared to most other languages (~600 000 compared to ~200 000 for German and ~100 000 for French), it has huge variance in etymology, and the grammar allows for wildly divergent methods of relaying identical information. I always thought it was more of an overly made-up prostitute of languages, the bloated amalgam of dissimilar lexicons it is.game-lover said:
In English, 'The chased-by-a-mob-into-town-while-on-horseback man stopped off for an ice cream' would be just as valid (neither are great and both are obnoxious to parse) and one could get away with dropping the hyphenation if writing casually.BrotherRool said:
(I was one of those kids who actually enjoyed diagramming sentences in grade school and am a huge glossophile, so I love many languages for different reasons. However, English remains my favorite as my first lover)
