Languages, accents, dialects...
Wróć do Culture and Art#181 marchoffmann
wish you good luck
#182 fatih
thank you
#183 etno
If we talk about german dialects I realy like swabian. XD
#184 Emrah20
Bavarian is also very interresting for me.
It is maybe, because I liked to listen onetime Volksmusik (folk music) from Austria or Bavaria.
#185 etno
someone speaking luxembourgish here? XD
#186 DianaCician
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someone speaking luxembourgish here? XD
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I know only a frase that a girl taught me. Normal ze sinn ass iwwerschätzt/being normal is overrated.
Sorry.
#187 Nikolatheserb
I speak Serbian as a native language, which automatically means that I can speak Croatian and Bosnian, in their standardised forms. Those three, as well as the so called Montenegrin, have been separated more because of political, than linguistical reasons. I obviously can write, and speak, English. Other than that, there is an embarrassingly small amount of Italian left from my school days... I can also understand quite a lot of Macedonian and Slovenian, as well as Judeo-Spanish. Recently, I started learning Esperanto, and I find it very interesting.
#188 metal_phoenyx
Language freak here! I enjoy learning languages of course, but I equally love learning about languages, which is a very different thing. I speak and can teach English and French. My first language is still Romanian, although I rarely use it these days, apart from calling mum on the phone once a week. It would also be the most difficult language for me to teach, if I ever had to. Those who think, and they are many, that the best language teacher is a native of the language they are teaching, couldn't be more mistaken. It's perhaps the most valuable thing I've learnt during my twelve plus years as a language teacher. I can logically explain how a language works, only when I've learnt it myself, and struggled, and tried again. My mother tongue has always been there, I made no effort to understand how it works.
I also know intermediate Spanish, although I haven't practised for ages. I'm fascinated by its beauty, and all the wonderful literature that Spain and South America so generously gave to the world.
Beside these, I've tried many other languages, out of curiosity, interest in their respective cultures and so forth, but had to stop for thousands of different reasons unfortunately. Here's a list: Italian, Greek, Dutch, Czech, Korean, Japanese, Arabic and Persian. I'd like to try Turkish someday, it's a very intriguing one, and of course go back to some of the abandoned ones in the list. I'm very subjective when it comes to languages, perhaps due to my past as a musician. To me, all languges are interesting, but not all are beautiful.
It was great to read all the posts, thank for sharing.