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February 21, 2012 at 8:12 pm #1052447
just saw this today (he is way cleverer than me, 11 languages and going up to Oxford!)
BBC News – How do you become fluent in 11 languages?
Is Danish difficult? it looks similar to Dutch and German (does DK use the same word order where verbs must sometimes go at the end of a sentence?) ….if I can at least learn some Danish and also Mandarin thats nearly all the main languages spoken in all global coastal areas covered, plus I have always felt a bit ashamed about having Chinese ancestry and not knowing much Chinese at all (even my Dad never spoke it, only English and he didn’t know any Malay or Tamil either).
February 21, 2012 at 8:14 pm #1249549I think danish is quite difficult to learn, after almost 20 yrs here I still fuck up the vocals
February 21, 2012 at 8:20 pm #1249546isn’t a lot of that because you grew up in NO?
I noticed swedish is difficult to speak… even in Germany folk from different regions cannot understand each other and sometimes have to use English instead…. Dutch has some things which are totally reversed to English and also the “g” where you have to “hiss like a kat”
Another odd thing is a good friend of mine is Danish, yet his parents spoke more German at home (he speaks fluent German but understands very little Danish). Our former mayoress is also Danish, and the current Mayoress of Colchester is from my Dad’s town (though his ancestors Chinese dialect is discouraged today and Mandarin preferred)
February 21, 2012 at 8:31 pm #1249550Danish is recon as one of the most difficult learn and all because of the vocals….I thought it was too that my norwegian made it a bit cheeky to learn it then I met a linguist and he told me otherwise….but the language it self aint that difficult learn. its how speak it, how to pronounce it thats can be hard.
February 21, 2012 at 9:24 pm #1249553Apparently Mandarin’s quite easy to learn (oral), to wright it it’s mega mega hard. I started learning a while back but slacked off a bit and didn’t practice for a while, then when I came back to it had forgotten most of it and couldn’t be bothered starting from scratch again. I’m gonna have to try and start learning it again myself, as it’s a cool language to learn (especially if you’re into Chinese martial arts).
Be careful how you pronounce “ma” though as there’s 4 basic variations of every sound (called tones), so there would be 4 ways of saying “ma”. One means mother, but from just a slip of the tongue it can also mean horse. :laugh_at:
February 22, 2012 at 6:40 am #1249551At school we had about missionaries in religion lessons. One old geezer came a told us this story when he grew up in China where his parents was working as missionaries and they had finished the church building and his father was about to give a prayer and few words in chinese(cant remember witch kind) at the opening. During the prayer the crowd started to laugh hysterical, he had called the ‘father’ in heaven the pig in heaven, due to one little vocal error lol
February 22, 2012 at 11:12 am #1249547in China the pig is allowed in heaven too (or you may end up as one in the next life…)
they got missionaries where my parents are from but they aren’t taken that seriously.
when my little sister was born, I was also sent to Catholic School for the education. However as it was clear they would not teach you as well about “the birds and the bees”, my parents decided it was time I knew how my sister had arrived.
the explained also that I was in fact intended for 1975/6, but Dad “was careless and forgot his precautions in 1971 (as my parents were mostly partying in England then)). He was the Catholic in the family..
February 22, 2012 at 11:41 am #1249548This is in the news today. I expect though soon (if not already ) the international language of IT and Telecoms will become Chinglish :laugh_at:
BBC News – Is English or Mandarin the language of the future?
February 22, 2012 at 1:34 pm #1249552lol
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