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New languages, anyone?
By: Nikola Date: January 12, 2020, 2:59 pm
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Has anyone been flirting with any new languages lately?
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Re: New languages, anyone?
By: SuKi Date: January 12, 2020, 5:44 pm
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I fluttered my eyelashes at Yiddish recently.
No reaction.
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Re: New languages, anyone?
By: Aliph Date: January 13, 2020, 4:52 am
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When I am desperately discouraged with my main target language,
I start looking around for easier alternatives: Catalan, so easy
to read, and Maltese, an exotic mishmash of several languages
that I understand.
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Re: New languages, anyone?
By: Nikola Date: February 16, 2020, 3:15 am
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I have a little thing going on with Hawaiian at the moment.
We've had a few glasses of wine together but I don't know if
it's going to turn into anything serious.
Swedish and I, on the other hand, are official now. I found
myself a teacher.
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Re: New languages, anyone?
By: Aliph Date: February 18, 2020, 2:21 am
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I am flirting with an old love again: Latin. We had a long story
back in secondary and high school.Now I am meeting with a
familiar stranger.
Some Neapolitan too. No grammar! Only TV. Every Monday I watch
the series based on the novels of Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant
Friend”. Neapolitan is tough though.
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Re: New languages, anyone?
By: Nikola Date: February 18, 2020, 7:56 am
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I was involved with Latin for some time but it wasn't my choice.
We didn't have a lot of fun together. They kept talking about
soldiers, wolves and forts and I wanted to talk about normal
things. I think it was the age gap that killed it.
I just listened to some Neapolitan. It sounds a bit like a
speaker of another language trying to pronounce Italian words in
a strange way and swallowing all the vowels at the end. How much
do you understand when you hear it spoken on TV?
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Re: New languages, anyone?
By: Aliph Date: February 20, 2020, 12:44 am
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[quote author=Nikola link=topic=1415.msg19769#msg19769
date=1582034217]
I just listened to some Neapolitan. It sounds a bit like a
speaker of another language trying to pronounce Italian words in
a strange way and swallowing all the vowels at the end. How much
do you understand when you hear it spoken on TV?
[/quote]
I must confess that I have an eye on the Italian subtitles and
know already the story of the series.
HTML https://youtu.be/vJe8KtO2QWA
But gradually I realize that that there is something familiar
since the presence of Neapolitan songs and films in the Italian
culture is quite strong. Neapolitan was never codified in a
written language but it is true that they drop often the last
syllable, introduce weird Rs in a word, put SH sound instead of
S preceding the sound K...But after a while one gets used to
those shifts.
HTML https://vimeo.com/212266054
Tu vvuò ffà l”ammerikkanu, wishky yessoda= you want to do it
like an American.
A famous song from the sixties.
Great about Swedish Nikola! Keep going!
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Re: New languages, anyone?
By: Aliph Date: March 30, 2020, 7:24 am
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[quote author=SuKi link=topic=1415.msg19750#msg19750
date=1578872678]
I fluttered my eyelashes at Yiddish recently.
No reaction.
[/quote]
I watched on Netflix the mini-series Unorthodox spoken in
Yiddish. Interesting. I tried to grasp words thanks to my
knowledge of German. There were actors that were easier to
understand than others.
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