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hi everybody , i want to share you my experience in language , really i will know more languages , but now ....
bad level at : english - french - arabic - italian - german - swedish - spanish
i hardly can understand one word of them
begginer at : russian ,
but the surprise is that i hope learn turkish only
hi it was a joke
i can speak arabic & italian , some english
how rich man i am !
bad level at : english - french - arabic - italian - german - swedish - spanish
i hardly can understand one word of them
begginer at : russian ,
but the surprise is that i hope learn turkish only
hi it was a joke
i can speak arabic & italian , some english
how rich man i am !
Berber isn't a dialect, as someone has written before, it's a group of languages mainly spoken in Northern Africa.
A dialect is a local variant of a language. Berber isn't a dialect of another language! Berber is a group of languages (with many dialects in each of them): Tacelhit, Tarifit, Tamazight, Kabyle, Chaouia, Tamasheq...
Berber languages have almost nothin' in common with Arabic that is spoken in Northern Africa as well. I'd say, they are related as Persian is related to German, u see
Concerning the survey, I speak 4 languages fluently: French, Breton, Irish, English.
A dialect is a local variant of a language. Berber isn't a dialect of another language! Berber is a group of languages (with many dialects in each of them): Tacelhit, Tarifit, Tamazight, Kabyle, Chaouia, Tamasheq...
Berber languages have almost nothin' in common with Arabic that is spoken in Northern Africa as well. I'd say, they are related as Persian is related to German, u see
Concerning the survey, I speak 4 languages fluently: French, Breton, Irish, English.
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Teangaí eile a dh’fhoghlaim, saol úr a thoiseacht.
Apprendre une autre langue, c'est comme le commencement d'une autre vie.
Apprendre une autre langue, c'est comme le commencement d'une autre vie.
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I do NOT wonder. What can you expect of such a superficial person who says he can speak - I QUOTE "Austrian"?Maïwenn wrote:I wonder how one can do that...Anonymous wrote:Well, I speak 28 languaes fluently and I working on 10 more
I think this [censored] has HEARD of 28 possible languages, whose names he listed above.
Me neither. If he/she spoke so many languages, he/she would be madly in love with languages, and consequently wanted to be part of this forum and trying to help others with translations. As a guest, only thing he(she) could do is brag.zcalin wrote: I do NOT wonder. What can you expect of such a superficial person who says he can speak - I QUOTE "Austrian"?
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I'm wondering why you make such a fuss of it... He claims to be able to speak 28 languages fluently : amazing, of course, but why not ?
That we talk about him is perhaps the only thing he wanted... I think it's not true (or partly true), but I'm just waiting for him to give us some explanation. Full stop.
That we talk about him is perhaps the only thing he wanted... I think it's not true (or partly true), but I'm just waiting for him to give us some explanation. Full stop.
Austrian actually exists - another matter is wether to consider it a language or a German dialect...zcalin wrote:I do NOT wonder. What can you expect of such a superficial person who says he can speak - I QUOTE "Austrian"?Maïwenn wrote:I wonder how one can do that...Anonymous wrote:Well, I speak 28 languaes fluently and I working on 10 more
I think this [censored] has HEARD of 28 possible languages, whose names he listed above.
But I also don't believe at all that someone can speak fluently so many languages. Maybe he means that saying "hi" and "bye" can be called speaking "fluently"?...
Moreover, Sanya is fully right : why doesn't he help, then ?
Sonka - Сонька
It's crazy how the time just seems to fly
But for a moment you and I, we caught it
It's crazy how the time just seems to fly
But for a moment you and I, we caught it
Moreover, these languages come from so many families, have so may different alphabets, and many of them are very complex... You actually need sevelar brains to store this much information. Besides, out of sight, out of mind, people forget the languages that they don't practice - not completely, but in a high degree - how can anyone practice 28 languages. In what context?svernoux wrote:But I also don't believe at all that someone can speak fluently so many languages. Maybe he means that saying "hi" and "bye" can be called speaking "fluently"?...
Moreover, Sanya is fully right : why doesn't he help, then ?
What a fuss really... 
If it is not possible for you to learn as many laguages--it does not mean that someone else cannot do it!
It is also quite ridiculous to assume that any person who knows so many languages MUST help and so on...
As to fluency...I believe that most of the people here major in languages therefore people study 2 to 5 languages and thoroughly, whereas other people might learn languages just to be able to express themselves on a perticular level. And that's it. That is to say on this or that level they can do it fluently, whereas a higher level might produce difficulties.
So relax, stop accusing this person and open your grammar books, kids!
If it is not possible for you to learn as many laguages--it does not mean that someone else cannot do it!
It is also quite ridiculous to assume that any person who knows so many languages MUST help and so on...
As to fluency...I believe that most of the people here major in languages therefore people study 2 to 5 languages and thoroughly, whereas other people might learn languages just to be able to express themselves on a perticular level. And that's it. That is to say on this or that level they can do it fluently, whereas a higher level might produce difficulties.
So relax, stop accusing this person and open your grammar books, kids!
ok, as for me, i find strange that all the list consists of languages, more or less represented HERE.
i see that famous Tagalog in the list (i myself found that it exists only here, it's not any popular language in english speaking countries). i see all the set of languages eihther east european, or languages of nations which this or that way are of France intrest) But i see no lakhota, algonquin, navajo, nahuatl, or any other native American language. Not a sinlge African language. Very strange (for me) set of Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic) - all very different from each other, and it takes much more time to study them separately, compare it with the full set of related to each other European languages. Strange choice. If the one studies Arabic (what Arabic? there are different languages/dialects), then why do not learn closely related Hebrew? it's just easier and takes much less time! or languages related to Chinese, or to that same Tagalog? Slavic languages choice also looks strange. Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Southern Slavics. Taken only "most popular" Slavic nations in the West. Is s/he a TV news fan or what?
All the list is looking as just being made based on some language popularity charts in somewhat area (this forum?). And not a single person who is really interested in languages would be ever guided by such "charts" choosing what to learn.
ok, it's only my point of view, maybe i'm wrong.
i see that famous Tagalog in the list (i myself found that it exists only here, it's not any popular language in english speaking countries). i see all the set of languages eihther east european, or languages of nations which this or that way are of France intrest) But i see no lakhota, algonquin, navajo, nahuatl, or any other native American language. Not a sinlge African language. Very strange (for me) set of Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic) - all very different from each other, and it takes much more time to study them separately, compare it with the full set of related to each other European languages. Strange choice. If the one studies Arabic (what Arabic? there are different languages/dialects), then why do not learn closely related Hebrew? it's just easier and takes much less time! or languages related to Chinese, or to that same Tagalog? Slavic languages choice also looks strange. Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, and Southern Slavics. Taken only "most popular" Slavic nations in the West. Is s/he a TV news fan or what?
All the list is looking as just being made based on some language popularity charts in somewhat area (this forum?). And not a single person who is really interested in languages would be ever guided by such "charts" choosing what to learn.
ok, it's only my point of view, maybe i'm wrong.
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Have you ever seen the interview of Georges Kersaudy ?
He is official translator of 50 languages... so, it's possible !
http://www.freelang.com/mag/interview_kersaudy.html
He's from Le Havre, wow, I haven't seen that !
He is official translator of 50 languages... so, it's possible !
http://www.freelang.com/mag/interview_kersaudy.html
He's from Le Havre, wow, I haven't seen that !