Languages

Pomegranate · January 9, 2009, 10:47pm

Liksmaskaren @ Jan 9 2009:

Swedish, norwegian, german, english and esperanto.
I’m still learning esperanto at lernu.net.

I know some russian, spanish and french. Enough to order food and beer at least.

I’ve grown up in a town where we have car testers from around the world every winter.
There are like 2200 perople living there all year around, 1500-2000 car testers every winter and about 1000-1500 tourists every summer so one have to learn some languages to get a job there.

1] jag ?r glad
2] du ?r glad
3] han/hon ?r glad
4] vi ?r glada ← Plural
5] ni ?r glada ← Plural
6] de ?r glada ← Plural

We have a lot of german in our language and the norse have much english in theirs.
So I guess that you should have a bit eaasier to learn swedish if you learn german first.

And the best way to learn swedish is to speak it. You should all visit sweden and give Dee a wedgie from me.

@s123i68

if you don’t mind correcting (if need be) my pronounciation… ?r is pronounced as the english word air?

Andreas · January 10, 2009, 10:31am

Yep that is correct. But not with the english R. Think russian badguys in american movies.

Pomegranate · January 11, 2009, 5:14am

is it slightly rolled?

Andreas · January 11, 2009, 7:43pm

Yep.

R.
The whole alphabet.

RetroX · January 11, 2009, 8:26pm

Franglais.

timmehboy · January 11, 2009, 9:02pm

Brought up bilingual (French+English), learning German (6th year), learnt Latin (3 years). Ah, you Nordics… You get to learn so many languages! (at least I know why you need to ;p)

Rundas45 · January 11, 2009, 9:22pm

I speak a little Arabic…my Dad is from Egypt

Timmeh · January 11, 2009, 9:30pm

Do you walk like an Egyptian?

timmehboy · January 11, 2009, 11:45pm

That sounds like a cat purring. XD

Infinitys_End · January 12, 2009, 7:38am

Took Spanish for two years, I don’t know any more than I did to begin with.
I may take Russian sometime this spring. That will be fun!

Timmeh · January 12, 2009, 5:30pm

Don’t take Russian. It’s a stupidly difficult language, and entirely useless in everything.

Andreas · January 12, 2009, 7:01pm

Russian is like german. It sounds evil.

s123i68 · January 13, 2009, 5:16am

That video was great, Liks. I almost died laughing when they said he wasn’t that desperate.

Pomegranate · January 15, 2009, 4:03am

lol i didn’t realize it was a link since just now… thought it was just underlined >.>

Ryan-Phoenixan · January 15, 2009, 4:20am

German is one of the more logical languages you’d ever see, though I would have to admit, how romantic does “Ich liebe dich.” sound?

Candy_Man_Criminal · January 15, 2009, 5:09am

you love dick? ok

Pomegranate · January 16, 2009, 1:18am

swedish seems simple as far as i’ve delved into it… i mean, there’s still noun genders but it seems there are in most european languages…

Timmeh · January 16, 2009, 1:32am

Georgian doesn’t even have pronoun genders. You could try that one

Andreas · January 16, 2009, 2:57pm

@Pomegranate
Nej svenska ?r inte alls sv?rt. Du skulle ha testat en nyb?rjarkurs i svenska och sett vad du tycker. En del l?r sig att tala svenska r?tt fint efter bara ett ?r i Sverige.

Troid92 · January 22, 2009, 4:42am

I’m learning Spanish. I can’t stand the class or the teacher for a number of reasons (backed with some fresh statistical evidence that I’m keeping to myself), but I want to learn the language, so… I’m sticking with it now that I’ve made it easy for myself.