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fandomsecrets2011-10-24 07:44 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2011-10-24 07:44 pm
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Re: Throughts from an ESL
For the record, your inferiority complex, or rather the way you over-compensate for it like woah, is both hilarious and awe-inspiring :D For example, the number of Olympic-level athletes of all kinds your tiny country somehow manages to produce seems just impossible! And the weirdest part is how nobody ever makes a big deal of it O.o Like it's just normal for pretty much everyone to know or be related to some kind of Big Name in whatever field :P
Also, Slovenian broke my brain :P Okay, granted, I was in such bad physical and mental health at the time that I didn't have much brain left to break anyway, but still! Six cases, three genders, and WTH is up with dual D: !? Oh, and since when does anyone pronounce the letter R using their tongue O.o ?? Was that language purposely designed to be unlearnable or something :D ? Still, it's always been very nice on my ears, with just the right balance of German-like roughness and Italian-like flowing-ness :)
Re: Throughts from an ESL
(Anonymous) 2011-10-25 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)HDU DUAL IS BEAUTIFUL AND ROMANTIC :P lol it was seriously surprising to me when I learned that only a few languages use it. :D I don't have an excuse for three genders, though. I don't think anyone actually understands what that's good for, since you can't even use it for, for example, people who don't ID as either male or female, because it would sound horribly offensive. But yeah, it's all pretty complicated. I studied Japanese for a little while and we had a teacher from Japan who had been living here for five years and I was SO IMPRESSED with her Slovenian, especially since Japanese and Slovenian are absolutely nothing alike.
... well now I've gone and tl;dr'd at you, haven't I. Sorry, it's just terribly exciting for me to find Slovenians or people who know something about Slovenia on the internet. :D
Re: Throughts from an ESL
Also, we expect our athletes to be awesome at everything always, but providing them with actual good conditions to train in is just too expensive and too much work!
*snort* Yeah, my husband was always telling me about how this one was training in Croatia, and those ones in Austria, and that team who actually trains in Ljubljana? Yeah, it's in someone's under-equipped basement :P
Last year's football World Cup caused a nation-wide euphoria.
Actually, I think that's just the magic of football ;) I don't like football at all, but when France got to the semi-finals, and then the finals in 1998, I was right there watching the games with everyone else. And when we won... They say there was one million people on the Champs-Elysées to greet the team :) (Which would make it half of Slovenia's population O.o ... and there goes my brain again :D )
HDU DUAL IS BEAUTIFUL AND ROMANTIC :P
... You know, I never looked at it this way. Now that you mention it, though, it's true that it can be rather sweet to have a whole thing just for two people :) It makes all the difference between "You and I" and "You and I and someone else too", doesn't it? Hmm...
I wouldn't have minded the three genders too much, if it had been a bit more obvious what gender a word was. If you assume the wrong gender, then you get the case wrong, which means you get the sentence wrong! Aaah, my poor brain D: ! Also, I'll never forgive Slovenian for having 'girl' be of the neutral gender :P
I studied Japanese for a little while and we had a teacher from Japan who had been living here for five years and I was SO IMPRESSED with her Slovenian, especially since Japanese and Slovenian are absolutely nothing alike.
Some people are just talented with languages. My (now ex-)husband speaks five languages (Slovenian, Croatian, German, English, and French) and he keeps looking into other languages for fun :D
Pfft, you can tl;dr at me all you want :D I do it too :P But as for meeting Slovenians on the net... I ran into a high school friend of my husband's on a board I used to be on a few years ago, and I made a fandom friend once only to discover later on that she was Slovenian ;) You might actually have run into other Slovenians already, but since none of you guys advertise that you're from Slovenia... Yeah :P
Of course, now, I'm wondering what the chances are that you know my ex-husband, or even, *gasp*, that we've met or heard of each other at some point...
Re: Throughts from an ESL
Gotta say though, that's a reminder on that the ESL person's native language would have a huge impact on how well they learn English. I think I'm on a disadvantage on learning languages in general because my native language has a fairly straight forward grammar structure. The word "the" alone is enough to drive me apes!