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 Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:32 am
I noticed that not many things translate very well into English. Spanish to Russian, translates. German to Italian as well. Arabic to Japanese too.
However very little, if anything ever translates well into English. It's too simplistic a language, too plain, too many words for every little thing, even words for words. That's just my opinion.
We need to bring back Latin.
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 2:03 pm
noooooo way latin is way to hard to learn lol
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 5:22 pm
Elspeth22 noooooo way latin is way to hard to learn lol The Romans did it. talk2hand
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:50 pm
Do you listen to Utada Hikaru? :0
Whaaat. I say English is more difficult because of that - too many little words for everything, too many exceptions to "rules," too many different ways to conjugate things, five bajillion words that sound the same but are spelled differently.
Plus, everyone I know who's learned English as a second language complains that English is a fickle & overly complicated language.
My boyfriend once asked a non-fluent English speaker, "What does English sound like to you?" [You know how people do those dumb "impressions" of Chinese or Spanish by saying 'burrito tacos' and 'ching chang' and whatnot.] And she said, "It sounds like you guys are saying 'wishy washy wishy washy'" xD
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:51 pm
I think thats accurate, yeah
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:56 pm
OH GOD I hated that Utada Hikaru song mad .
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 7:10 pm
Utada Hikaru FTW. biggrin
Sirius Silverstar: I can see how it would be seen as difficult to understand, but really once you grasp the "rules", it's very easy to pick up. Most established nations around the world can speak English as a second or third language. Unfortunately, in the United States people in general can't speak more than English. Hell, some people can't even speak English properly and it's their first language.
I'm hoping to take a crack at German in college. Chinese if I can, too.
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 11:09 pm
English is a crazy hard language to learn.
I've been learning Japanese for the last 3 years, and plan to do it as subject in my HSC (end of school exams).
I'd like to take up Spanish again in Uni.
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 1:31 am
every language has something difficult.
alot of people claim dutch is one of the hardest of the europan languages
example : foreigners have trouble pronouncing the "G".
we have 2 forms for "the": namely; "het" and "de" where "het" is for female words and "de" for male words..
there are so many rules to confuse you more...
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 5:09 pm
nemesiss we have 2 forms for "the": namely; "het" and "de" where "het" is for female words and "de" for male words.. That's NOTHING compared to French. Male, female, formal, informal, plural, singular... People b***h about English having too many synonyms. Variety in verbs and nouns is GOOD. It keeps things interesting. How many different forms do you REALLY need of "the"? Not to mention they have THREE different patterns for regular verbs. My God, just pick one already. I could use that cranial space to memorize the irregular ones. Not the three different forms and which type of verb takes what conjugation.
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 9:58 pm
Lady Pyre nemesiss we have 2 forms for "the": namely; "het" and "de" where "het" is for female words and "de" for male words.. That's NOTHING compared to French. Male, female, formal, informal, plural, singular... People b***h about English having too many synonyms. Variety in verbs and nouns is GOOD. It keeps things interesting. How many different forms do you REALLY need of "the"? Not to mention they have THREE different patterns for regular verbs. My God, just pick one already. I could use that cranial space to memorize the irregular ones. Not the three different forms and which type of verb takes what conjugation. What she said. French is my native language, and I daresay I read, write and speak french rather well compared to most people around me, and yet it's still that much more of a problem for me than english is. Don't make me pull out the french grammar book. You won't like it.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 7:01 am
Kahz I noticed that not many things translate very well into English. Spanish to Russian, translates. German to Italian as well. Arabic to Japanese too. However very little, if anything ever translates well into English. It's too simplistic a language, too plain, too many words for every little thing, even words for words. That's just my opinion. We need to bring back Latin. English can be difficaul to learn because a lot of other languages make it up like, anglo-saxon, latin, the romance languages and theres quite a lot of german in there too. Plus it's cool to have all these words makes it more interesting. Also I agree with an earlier post why does French need 4 different ways of saying 'the'?
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:13 am
I like Latin a lot because the logical grammar pleases me, but what I really like about English is that it sounds so soft and warm compared to Latin, German, Russian etc. And also, the simplest words and sentences can sound very poetic and expressive. If you translated the lyrics of most English songs into German, it would sound horrible because German ASKS for quirky and complicated structures.
Also, I think that English is relatively easy to learn for anyone who speaks a European language.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:26 am
Hmmmm, you say bring back latin. But you're using english . . . smile
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 11:46 am
OmegaJF Hmmmm, you say bring back latin. But you're using english . . . smile Are you to suggest we speak akin to the Ancient Roman Empire, pre Holy Roman Empire?
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