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That stuff's a tongue twister...
:mrgreen:
Not if you do it right.
That stuff's a tongue twister...
:mrgreen:
I speak English and North Dakotan.
I probably already have – I often find myself throwing in odd accents I make up on the spot, vaguely (and probably badly) related to various "accents" I heard in a movie or whatnot...I want to create my own dialect.
I may have accomplished German and Irish in one already, albeit probably badly.In one sentence, you need to combine german, irish, and some african accent. Then you will be win.
I can speak English and have studied both Spanish and Japanese. I can speak conversational Spanish and some Japanese. Not really completely fluent in either of them. When I get bored I study foreign languages and learn how to read other writing systems. So far I can read Latin characters (English, Spanish, French, etc...), Russian, Hiragana and Katakana (both Japanese), and I'm currently learning South Korean and Hebrew. I can read them, but don't ask me to tell you what they mean lol.
I'm a native english speaker, and can also speak a bit of spanish and german. I'm nowhere near fluent, but I can speak enough to get by (barely).
You should learn Arabic. Beautiful. I think there are 24 characters, but they change shape if they start the word, in the middle of the word or end the word. Right to left. All writing is script, including the Koran.
Native English and Yorkshire dialect. Fluent Spanish, good working French, basic German, Turkish, Thai. I can make a few sentences in Dutch and Khmer.
Language learning is a bit of a hobby of mine. I really love doing it. Of all those languages, Turkish is the one I enjoy wrapping my tongue around most; it just sounds great to me.
Other languages I'd like to have a go at learning: a Native American language (Nahuatl or Qechua probably), Hindi and Old Norse. I think they'd all be fun!
It's a sort of hobby for me too. :mrgreen:
I've only found one decent book for learning Turkish. :?
Have you ever used the Pimsluer learning programs?
No, I haven't. Is that an online resource? Shall I Google it?
Turkish text books are thin on the ground. I learned through night classes and I spend about a month in Istanbul most years.
Teach Yourself Turkish isn't bad, and Türkçe Öğreniyoruz is good if you can find it. Kaya and MetalGear might have some more suggestions.
Pimsleur is mostly auditory repetition but it works.
You can buy through download, book chips(little memory cards with a special player) or cd's.
Pimsleur language learning system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I found one called "Elementary Turkish" by Lewis Thomas, it's good and has the English sound equivalents but I could definitely use native speakers.
I speak English only, but I have a smattering of Italian, and I used to know how to say 'nice tits' in French.
Kinda weird that you don't have even one option where English is not the native langugae, except of perhaps the last one.
I speak Hebrew and Dutch from birth, anything else is from studies and only my French and English are really fluent. (English from school and talking with friends abroad, French from family and self-teaching)
I've studied Arabic in school (speaking and writing) but I really disliked the language (or the class itself) and didn't continue it once it was no longer a compulsory class, so I know only the basics.
I also know a bit of German due to its similarity to the Dutch language but I never really even try to speak German even when talking to a German person. I dislike that language as well.
I'd like to learn more Russian, right now I know only the basics, but I have craploads of Russian-speaking friends and I hate it when people speak in a language that I do not understand.
'Vous avez des seins jolie' would do, just don't expect to get a "merci" after saying it to a girl.
'Vous avez des seins jolie' would do, just don't expect to get a "merci" after saying it to a girl.