It occurred to me that, with so many people studying languages, we could teach each other new words. What do you think? :?:
I'm up for that. :grin:
We should each make 2 lists: Languages we are already good at and Languages we want to learn.
Mine will be posted shortly.
Gotta work now.
:grin: :grin: Cool.
:razz: LANGUAGES I KNOW
1. English
2. Japanese
3. Latin
I'm studying beginner level Spanish (Mega-beginner)
:razz: LANGUAGES I WANNA LEARN
=ANYTHING!!! :happyjump: :jump: :happyjump:
Wikkid! (I assume "Chinese" in this case means Mandarin? -- correct me if I'm wrong)
How to count one to ten?
This one is Japanese (I'm posting this now so we don't end up being too much like "What lang's you know" thread.)
ORDINAL NUMBERS
1. Ichi, 2. Ni, 3. San, 4. Shi / Yon, 5. Go, 6. Roku, 7. Shichi / Nana, 8. Hachi, 9. Ku / Kyuu, 10. Juu.
The alternatives for 4 & 7 is because "Shi" also means "Death" (but with a different symbol) so there were once superstitions associated with using those words.
Also, there is a different set of words for actually counting THINGs.
1. Hitotsu, 2. Futatsu, 3. Mittsu, 4. Yottsu, 5. Itsutsu, 6. Muitsu, 7. Nanotsu, 8. Yattsu, 9. Kokonotsu, 10. Tou.
:grin:
Bore Da Pawb, Dyma Rhifion Yn Cymraeg. ( Borra Dar pow-b, dummer Rhee vion n Cumryge). The Welsh aphabet is 1500 years old or more and whilst many letters look familiar, they have a different pronunciation.
Good Morning people, here are numbers one to ten Welsh.
Un, (een) Dau, (Dye) Tri,(Tree) Pedwar, Pump (Pimp) Chwech (Chweck) Saith (Sife) Wyth (uwiff is the closest I can get)
Cool. I tried to learn Auslan (Aussie Sign Language) once but kept doing in mirror image, being left-handed.
Anyway...
Transmitte me sursum Caledoni -- that's Latin. It's in the South Park planetarium episode, and means "Beam me up, Scotty."
Or "Force wa tomo-ni are" (pronounced AH-REH) which is "May the Force be with you" in Japanese.
Or "Tobaneh buta wa, tada no buta da." That's from the anime "Porco Rosso" by Miyazaki. It means "A pig who doesn't fly is just an ordinary pig." I like that one best.
If you go to
http://www.browncoats.com , there's a page there which has some very unusual curses in chinese. Here's an example:
Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze. [sic] [Liu2 kou3shui3 de5 biao3zi5 he2 hou2zi5 de5 ben4 er2zi5.] ~ "Stupid son of a drooling *** and a monkey."
Wuh duh ma huh tah duh fong kwong duh wai shung [sic] [Wo3 de5 ma1 he2 ta1 de5 feng1kuang2 de5 wai4sheng5 dou1] ~ "Holy mother of god and all her wacky nephews"
I know English, American Sign Language (not completely fluent but proficient) and a decent amount of French. I'm interested in learning Welsh and Japanese in particular (delighted to find words from both posted here =] ) but I find almost any language fascinating.
Sign Language I've taught before, although if anyone is really interested I'd have to find somewhere to load videos to.
Kakko-iiiii!! (cool)
Ooh. That sounds fascinating. I know a little Auslan (Australian sign language) but I can only remember bits and pieces.
I passed French, German and Italian GCSEs at grade A 15 years ago, and I learned Swedish in the mid-90s, not leading to a qualification.
More recently I've been attending a weekly French conversation class at work. There used to be a German class as well, but sadly that was axed last July because of falling numbers. I looked into evening classes to keep up the German, but all that's available is a "post-beginners" class which is below GCSE level. This is all the more pathetic considering that Exeter is a university town, but Exeter Uni's (supposedly prestigious) modern languages department isn't doing any evening classes. Apart from that there is a "Deutscher Kreis" run by the city's town twinning circle. I went along to two meetings at the end of 2006. These consisted of a watching a German film with very brief snatches of conversation before and after - and for this we were charged £5.
DAMN! I seem to be having trouble playing videos.
In Japanese:
red - aka
blue - ao
green - midori
yellow - kiiro
purple - murasaki
orange - orenji
grey - gurei (or, hairo)
silver - gin
gold - kin
book - hon
bookstore - honya
textbook - kyoukashou
classroom - kyoushitsu
food - tabemono
drink (n.) - nomimono
hontou - true, really (as in, hontou desu ka Meaning "Is it true?")
dog - inu
puppy - koinu
cat - neko
kitten - koneko
stone - ishi
river - kawa
home - uchi
car - kuruma
to sleep - nemasu
want to sleep - netai
to eat - tabemasu
want to eat - tabetai
to drink - nomimasu
want to drink - nomitai
thank you - (doumo) arigatou (gozaimasu) [words in parenthases aren't needed (sometimes just a quick "doumo" will do), but the more words the more polite it is]
you're welcome, it's nothing, etc. - dou itashimashite
yesterday - kinou
today - kyou
tomorrow - ashita
chopsticks - (o)hashi (the "o" is honorific, and is typically included)
shoe - kutsu
water - (o)mizu (same as the "o" in ohashi)
rice - gohan
family - (go)kazoku (the "go" is honorific and always included to describe others' families, but never your own
I, me - watashi (unisex), boku (male only)
you - anata (rarely used - usually use the other person's family name, or first name if really familiar, as with good friends)
Before eating, say, Itadakimasu.
After eating, say: Gochisousama
Those are some Japanese words I know. Hope someone finds it interesting! (I only know English fluently, with a good amount of Japanese. I am interested in American Sign Language, French (I had 2 years high school French, don't remember much), Russian, Norwegian, and German most particularly.
Try this:
http://www.francaisfacile.com
Free online courses and exercises in French (and English, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch).
That is a great site, although you have to know French otherwise you can't do the other exercises... (I couldn't do half of the exercises from Dutch because I didn't know what the French word meant....)
In fact there is a link to an English version of the website (top of the page). However this English version doesn't include the Dutch or the Italian exercises. Dispiace!
(what does dispiace mean?
)
It means "sorry" (as in what you say when you apologise).
ich weiß zwei Sprachen momentan
Shouldn't that be "ich kann..." with a language? Wissen is for propositional knowledge, i.e. knowledge of facts.
Interesting, isn't it that English doesn't distinguish between acquaintance and propositional knowledge. All the foreigh languages I have learnt do.
French savoir connaître
German wissen kennen
Italian sapere conoscere
Swedish veta känna