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Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:03 am
by Holy Crap
no, he's saying that the japanese language doesn't have words for certain thing, so instead of making words they borrow words from other languages.
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:27 pm
by stan423321
Yes. In Polish, there is no completely Polish word for computer. It is komputer. Sayin' ckompooter. You know, there was no idea for this.
In another langs, e.g. Chinese, it's easier for people to create new words. However, in European languages and probably in Japanese, they are simply words from other langs with changed sayin'. (e.g. Italian doesn't use 'sh', so if there would be word imported to Italian, people of Italy would change 'sh' to e.g. 'ss'.
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:38 pm
by Beebop
I would love to be able to write in chinese, because their letters look so cool.

Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:32 pm
by Tobbe
I know how to say "I wanna have sex but not with you." in Chinese.

Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:57 pm
by Hunchman801
FAB wrote:Does anyone know that Japanese people sometimes use french words. I don't know why.
They use it for commercial purposes, but it's full of mistakes xD
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:21 pm
by stan423321
Oh, commercial names? Their translations are really rare.
More "Polish people don't abbrieviate their words!"
shortcut - skrót - sckroot
2:1 for Polish!
abbrieviation - skrót - sckroot
4:1 for Polish!
(Yes, they are the same words.)
piano - instrument klawiszowy
2:7 for English!...?!?
Hey, that's normal word or what? Nah.
electric piano - keyboard - ...
5:2 for Polish here
horizontal acustic piano - fortepian
9:3 for Polish here
vertical acustic piano - pianino
8:3 for Polish here
total: 24:15 for Polish!
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:19 pm
by Darla4
I have native (of Poland) and English.Perhaps 4 of years for it I was taught the German (the first class and assessment 6 in the end)....
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:43 pm
by Hunchman801
I've only studied German for one year

Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:10 pm
by Xenon
I've been studying German for 5 years, and I'm still not fluent. I can only blame the poor language tuition my school offers.
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:46 pm
by Hunchman801
Hallo Xenon, wie geht's? I studiere Deutsch auch, aber es ist eine schwierige Sprache.
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:54 am
by Tobbe
Dutch is by far th' funniest language in th' world.
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:22 am
by Xenon
Hunchman801 wrote:Hallo Xenon, wie geht's? I studiere Deutsch auch, aber es ist eine schwierige Sprache.
Hallo Hunchman. Ich lerne nicht gern Deutsch auch weil es nicht interessant ist. Mein Deutsch ist schlechlic und du sprachen besser Deutsch als ich.

Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:27 am
by Cairnie
I haven't studied German at all but I can make out almost all of that last sentence.
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:04 am
by Holy Crap
...how?

Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:33 am
by Tobbe
Because she's smart and you're dumb.
About Dutch: I've never seen a non-scandinavian language that's easier for me to understand
when it's written! Almost all the words are similar to Norwegian ones. It is, however, impossible to understand spoken Dutch, because of all the choking noises Dutchmen make when they speak.
No offense, Jona and other Dutch people. I think Dutch is a great language.

Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:01 am
by Matyuv
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:21 am
by Tobbe
roflroflroflorlforlf!!!!!111
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:53 am
by Xenon
I'm now wondering what a kutwortel is

Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:30 pm
by Matyuv
Re: What languages do you have at your school?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:17 pm
by Hunchman801
Ik ben een aardappel ja!