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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-05-06 07:00 pm

[ SECRET POST #2681 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2681 ⌋

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Re: CAPLOCKS THREAD

[personal profile] inkdust 2014-05-07 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
INTERESTING, I THOUGHT MANDARIN AND ARABIC CAME BEFORE RUSSIAN IN DIFFICULTY FOR NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS. UNFORTUNATE NEWS, AS I AM MUCH MORE INTERESTED IN RUSSIAN.
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Re: CAPLOCKS THREAD

[personal profile] making_excuses 2014-05-07 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
RUSSIAN IS THE HARDEST LANGUAGE FOR A NORWEGIAN SPEAKER TO LEARN, AT LEAST THAT IS WHAT I WAS TAUGHT IN SCHOOL, AND IT IS BECAUSE THE GERMANIC AND THE I DON'T REMEMBER THE ENGLISH NAME FOR THE LANGUAGE GROUP RUSSIAN BELONGS TO DON'T SHARE ETHNOMYCOLOGY (?*) OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

*I THINK THAT IS THE RIGHT WORD, CAN'T BE ARSED TO LOOK IT UP, TALKING LINGUISTICS IN A SECOND LANGUAGE IS PRETTY DAMN HARD.
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Re: CAPLOCKS THREAD

[personal profile] inkdust 2014-05-07 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
SLAVIC :) AND ETYMOLOGY, PERHAPS. I CAN BARELY DISCUSS MORE TECHNICAL PARTS OF LINGUISTICS IN ENGLISH, SAD CONSIDERING HOW MUCH I LIKE LANGUAGES!

RANT ACCEPTABLE :) EVEN WITHIN GERMANIC LANGUAGES I DON'T SEE HOW ENGLISH WOULD BE THE HARDEST. WE DON'T EVEN HAVE CASES. (THOUGH I SUPPOSE THAT WOULD BE HARDER FOR SOME, DEPENDING ON THEIR BACKGROUND)
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Re: CAPLOCKS THREAD

[personal profile] making_excuses 2014-05-07 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
THAT'S THE ONE! MAYBE? DUNNO, AT LEAST DOES NOT SHARE ANYTHING AT ALL FAMILIAR WITH EACH OTHER, SO THERE IS NO OVERLAP IN WHAT YOU KNOW. I'M PROBABLY NOT A LOT BETTER THAN YOU IN NORWEGIAN, BUT THERE ARE SOME WORDS THAT MIGHT SOUND REALLY SIMILAR IN BOTH LANGUAGES, BUT NOT NECESSARILY BE TRANSLATED SIMILARLY.

THE FRENCH AND GERMANS ARE TWO LANGUAGES I WOULD IMAGINE IS HARDER TO LEARN FOR MOST GERMANIC LANGUAGE SPEAKERS, ESPECIALLY THE GRAMMAR. SOMETIMES I STRUGGLE MORE WITH NORWEGIAN GRAMMAR RULES THAN THE ENGLISH ONES, BUT IF THAT IS BECAUSE THE NORWEGIAN IS HARDER OR IT IS JUST A PERSONAL PROBLEM IS NOT FOR ME TO SAY.
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Re: CAPLOCKS THREAD

[personal profile] inkdust 2014-05-07 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
I CONSIDER FRENCH TO BE ONE OF THE EASIER LANGUAGES FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS, BUT THAT'S BECAUSE A LOT OF OUR SYNTAX IS IDENTICAL OR NEARLY, AND COGNATES x 1000. AND...THAT COULD ALSO JUST BE ME :) GERMAN IS A DIFFERENT STORY.
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Re: CAPLOCKS THREAD

[personal profile] making_excuses 2014-05-07 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN OR NOT AN AND THERE, GERMAN IS EASIER TO LEARN* FOR SOME OF US AND FRENCH EASIER FOR OTHER, DEPENDING ON WHICH ONE YOU CAN EASIEST RELATE TO I GUESS OR SOMETHING? I FEEL I FORGOT A LANGUAGE IN THE GERMANIC FAMILY THAT WOULD BE HARD TO LEARN, ICELANDIC MAYBE?

*THE GRAMMAR IS A PAIN, BUT I HAVE FRIENDS WHO NEVER HAD GERMAN IN SCHOOL WHO CAN READ AND UNDERSTAND QUITE A LOT OF GERMAN.