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 Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:30 pm
Proudly_Jewish GrimGent Proudly_Jewish Of course French is as important as oxygen confused I can't breathe without my pwwecious Fwwance crying Hmm. A world where language is literally vital... There might be a story in that. Oooh, do you like writing? smile I've been known to scribble occasionally.
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:21 pm
Die_Fledermaus English is actually the most difficult language to learn because it has 22 vowel sounds, 6 dipthongs, and too many consonants. Which is why German is easier to speak... less aggrivation I think the only thing hard about English is the hundreds of ways to say exactly one thing. I had a teacher tell me that English has over 100,000 words and all of us native speakers probably only know 10-20,000 of them. So many homonyms, but most languages are like that eh? The exceptions are confusing to alot of native speakers too, but I have talked to Germans that say English is really easy for them to learn. As im finding German really easy to learn. In my opinion Russian or Chinese would be harder. Chinese grammar is pretty close to English grammar, but its all the symbols that make it hard. Especially for somone not so artistic. Russian has some complicated grammar, yet a simple alphabet.
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:54 am
J0EL I think the only thing hard about English is the hundreds of ways to say exactly one thing. One thing has been puzzling me for the longest time: English doesn't seem to have a direct positive counterpart for "reek". In this language, something may "smell good" or "have a fragrance", but there's no verb to indicate what it is that roses do while in bloom. By comparison, in Finnish that would be "ruusut tuoksuvat".
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:30 pm
GrimGent J0EL I think the only thing hard about English is the hundreds of ways to say exactly one thing. One thing has been puzzling me for the longest time: English doesn't seem to have a direct positive counterpart for "reek". In this language, something may "smell good" or "have a fragrance", but there's no verb to indicate what it is that roses do while in bloom. By comparison, in Finnish that would be "ruusut tuoksuvat". Isn't the Finnish equivalent still 2 words though? Or do all infinitive verbs in Finish have 2 words? ninja
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:21 am
Proudly_Jewish GrimGent J0EL I think the only thing hard about English is the hundreds of ways to say exactly one thing. One thing has been puzzling me for the longest time: English doesn't seem to have a direct positive counterpart for "reek". In this language, something may "smell good" or "have a fragrance", but there's no verb to indicate what it is that roses do while in bloom. By comparison, in Finnish that would be "ruusut tuoksuvat". Isn't the Finnish equivalent still 2 words though? Or do all infinitive verbs in Finish have 2 words? ninja That means "roses are fragrant". The verb itself is tuoksua, and as said, it cannot really be translated into English with a single word. That's a tad baffling, all in all, since scent is such a universal thing.
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:51 pm
GrimGent Proudly_Jewish GrimGent J0EL I think the only thing hard about English is the hundreds of ways to say exactly one thing. One thing has been puzzling me for the longest time: English doesn't seem to have a direct positive counterpart for "reek". In this language, something may "smell good" or "have a fragrance", but there's no verb to indicate what it is that roses do while in bloom. By comparison, in Finnish that would be "ruusut tuoksuvat". Isn't the Finnish equivalent still 2 words though? Or do all infinitive verbs in Finish have 2 words? ninja That means "roses are fragrant". The verb itself is tuoksua, and as said, it cannot really be translated into English with a single word. That's a tad baffling, all in all, since scent is such a universal thing. I see eek
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:37 pm
English is my only language crying
That's gonna change though twisted
I can think of four languages that I want to learn. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:26 am
I'm actually teaching an ESL class starting this Tuesday, the makeup of the class is going to be about 90% Chinese/Taiwanese. For those of you who learned English second, what were some of the more major stumbling blocks for you? These are college kids who came over, and are now in their third ESL class because they still haven't made the cut yet to be able to survive in the main classes the school offers...
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:38 am
Suggestion: no matter how tempting it may be, do not, under circumstance, laugh at their accent/sentence. Even if they say something like "I don't eat nothing in morning" with a terrible accent, resist the urge to laugh. Being fluent in 3 languages learning another 5, I can honestly tell you that there is nothing more discouraging than being discouraged by a Native speaker... domokun
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:14 am
hey, I need to ask a question sweatdrop English is not my first language. Does
"on my way back home" mean "while I was coming back home"?
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:40 am
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:24 pm
Proudly_Jewish Suggestion: no matter how tempting it may be, do not, under circumstance, laugh at their accent/sentence. Even if they say something like "I don't eat nothing in morning" with a terrible accent, resist the urge to laugh. Being fluent in 3 languages learning another 5, I can honestly tell you that there is nothing more discouraging than being discouraged by a Native speaker... domokun I heartily agree! Even though my parents are both Chinese, I grew up in Germany and consider my German better than Chinese. When I was little a lot of Chinese made fun of my accent. I think my Chinese is a lot beter now, but still... It hurt.
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:54 am
I'm taking the matriculation exam in English (SL) this Monday, and yesterday I found out the Ministry of Education considers words like "I'm", "you're", "he's" and such to be a grammatical error, and students who use them would get points off.
Is it just me or is this really stupid?
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:59 am
What does ESL mean? I guess the 'E' stands for English, but what about 'SL'? surprised
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:22 am
Mivi What does ESL mean? I guess the 'E' stands for English, but what about 'SL'? surprised Second language.
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