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⌈ Secret Post #2236 ⌋

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[Les Miserables and Discworld]

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[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]


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12. [possible warning for sexual assault (as I'm sure the thread will contain discussion of it)]



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languages

[frankfurter]

so, I'm finally on semester break and not getting on f!s super late -- but apparently still ~quite late... :(

well, if anyone sees this, i'd like to talk about languages.
what's your native language(s) / foreign languages that you learnt?
accents / dialects ... ?
what do you like hearing / speaking / seeing written / ... ?

LANGUAGE FEELS BASICALLY

Re: languages

[(Anonymous)]

Mandarin Chinese/Cantonese, English, (French, Japanese - learning)

Typical northern Chinese accent

Everything?/No idea?/Written Chinese

Re: languages

[making_excuses]

- Norwegian (I write Norwegian in two official ways though) is my native language,
- I speak English fluently (1st through 13th grade)
- German (11th and 12th grade)
- Norwegian Sign Language my foster mother taught me
- I speak with a mix of three Norwegian dialects (North, middle and "standard")
- My English accent is slightly influenced by Norwegian and I mix American and British words (pronounciations) depending on which word i prefer. I do know both ways of sayin them though.
- I enjoy quite a few British accents, I love American South accents (whatever you call it) also Australian
- I love the way the people furthest North in Norway speak, it sounds like they are almost singing.

Any more questions?

Re: languages

[frankfurter]

I heard about this Two Kinds Of Norwegian way before... but I don't know how it really works D:
(and now I want to know how the Norwegian educational system works, because not that many places have thirteen grades!)

Oh dear, American/British pronunciations... I think I know how these work (both ways), too, but I always mix up stuff when they use different words for the same thing (like elevator / lift -- except in that case, I know which belongs where).

Re: languages

[khronos_keeper]

Holy god I love languages. I absorb them like a sponge.

While English is my native language, I also know French (fluently, but not argot, which has bizarre rhyming rules like Cockney English), and Arabic (intermediately).

Apparently I have a slight Lebanese accent when I speak Arabic, and have caught myself sounding like I'm from Normandy when I speak French.

I can read the script of Russian and Korean, but have very limited understanding of either. I've started learning pinying in Cantonese, too. Mostly just the sounds and basic words.

I've always wanted to go trawling the net to get into fandoms in French, but honestly I'm kind of self conscious about my proficiency. I know I can come across perfectly fine, but I'd stand out like a sore thumb, with my uptight syntax. :(

Having access to other languages sort of lets me peer into whole other worlds, and way of looking at other worlds. It's simultaneously fascinating and overwhelming.

Re: languages

[frankfurter]

I'm always so amazed by the fact that our brains can not only use native language(s), but also learn to use other languages really well. I live in German but I can pick up books in some other language and just read it and it's not really any different to when I read German. sdfhdfjlds.

Re: languages

[(Anonymous)]

Un accent de Normandie, vraiment? :D Je ne sais absolument pas à quoi les accents normands ressemblent, j'imagine qu'ils sont à mi-chemin entre le Breton et le parler du Nord-Pas de Calais? (que d'ailleurs, seuls les gens de là-bas comprennent. Personnellement j'ai beaucoup de mal avec les accents du Nord et d'Alsace/Lorraine, alors que le français est ma langue maternelle!)

If you have any trouble with argot, you can always ask, no worries! And no worries about the fandoms, I'd take uptight syntax over text-message speak any day!

Re: languages

[dratinis]

...hi, I'm a massive lurker, but languages are cool, I like languages. Especially when we go into the field of linguistics, even though my knowledge of that is very limited. What language are you studying, if you don't mind me asking?

ANYWAY

Portuguese is my native language but I grew up in a bilingual household, so I consider English to be my native language, too. Apparently you can't do that, though??

Re: languages

[frankfurter]

I'm a linguist (no, seriously. I'm studying Linguistics.) <3

well, if you grew up bilingual, you can and DO have two native languages? I think?

I'm currently not studying any languages (some Catalan on the side, but nothing serious with classes and stuff) :(

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[yeahscience]

Native language is English (American, mid-Atlantic accent with some northern/Canadian features).

I also speak somewhat fluent Japanese and tend to throw a lot of local dialect in, which is a bad habit I should work on. :C Oops.

And I've studied a shitload of other languages in the past (Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Korean, Hindi, Mandarin) but barely remember anything of them. I'm currently self-studying ASL.

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[littletown]

Native is Tagalog, learned English, Japanese, and now Mandarin. :D

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[(Anonymous)]

Speaking: French (native language), English, Spanish (though I haven't practiced it in a while). Learnt latin as well.

Accents: in French, Southern accent, in English, leaning on the British side.

Would like to learn: Japanese, Welsh, Irish Gaelic, Occitan...etc. MANY.

I looove hearing accents. Irish (and Welsh, and Scottish, and English) accents make me weak at the knees, but I love them all. I love seeing illuminated books and calligraphy, in any language.

Re: languages

[badass_tiger]

My native language is English. My parents are Malay and tried to teach me Malay but this did not work out. Once we moved to Malaysia though, I had to learn, but I'm still terrible at it. And DON'T speak to me in a Terengganu/Johor/Kelantan etc. accent I cannot handle it. One of my students speaks in accent so I avoid talking to him bc I don't understand what he's saying.

I always liked how Japanese sounds. I tried learning but never really got into it, but I prefer subs specifically for that reason.

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[forgottenjester]

English is my first language. ASL is my second language.

I absolutely adore learning about dialectal differences in both languages.

I pretty much love hearing/seeing/speaking/seeing written any language. I haven't come across one I don't like.

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[(Anonymous)]

English is my first language; I can speak and understand Malayalam, though I can't read or write it =P Conversely, I can read and write Tamil, but I've basically forgotten all my vocab and stuff, so I don't understand what I'm reading even if my pronunciation's perfect.

I know smatterings of Japanese and a teeny bit of Spanish - one of these days I will learn more of both!

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[hwc]

Native tongue is German, and obviously I speak English as a second language. Technically I'm supposed to know French, but yeah, not so much in practise.

As for dialects, I'm from Upper Bavaria. Guess what kind of dialect I have! :D

Actually, there was a really interesting article in the newspaper some while ago about how the dialects of southern Germany are discriminated against in Germany as a whole. People on TV shows get reprimanded by the hosts to speak ~High German~ even if they are speaking correct High German, but with a southern accent, while people from the northern parts of Germany don't get chastied for their accents. /tangent

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[(Anonymous)]

My native language is German (with a fairly starndard dialect) and I started learning English at the age of three. I also know some French (though I really need to brush up on it) and learnt Latin in school but I've forgotten most of that.

I know a tiny bit of Spanish, Finnish and Mandarin Chinese, but not enough to actually have a conversation and a few words of Thai (I really regret not having learnt more of that).

I love the accent people speak in Cologne (probably because my father comes from there).

As for which languages I'd like to learn... far too many, especially since I keep starting to learn new languages and then having to give up because I don't have enough time. I think Thai is at the top of the list, but I have my problems with tonal languages...

Re: languages

[(Anonymous)]

Native: English/French. Well, more so English. And a smattering of Dutch. I'd eventually learn bits of Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Greek. I want to do Italian though. :(

I like hearing Italian, and.... well, most languages. I don't really care for how German or Cantonese sound. I like seeing written: anything Asian or Arabic. I just like how it looks lol

Couldn't tell you what my accent is because I don't know. Canadian I guess.

Re: languages

[tamabonotchi]

Trying to learn German right now because obviously when your family is German and they live in Germany, it is a good idea to learn it, but not be taught until college.
Right now we're learning two-way prepositions, more of akkusativ, the weather, and travel vocab.

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[al28894]

Well,

My native language is Malay, and the languages that I have learnt are English and Indonesian. I once knew a lot of Indonesian words, courtesy of my maid and housekeeper who has been serving with the family since before I was even born (I'm 18 by the way), but as of late I can only count from 1 to 10 in a Surabaya dialect.

As for English, when I speak it, I somehow have acquired a British accent. To this day, I have no idea how did this happen.

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[vethica]

English / Spanish & Japanese (not fluent, but competent), Latin (1 year), very rudimentary Hebrew
Very mild Boston accent; Japanese has some Kansai flavor
Finnish and Hebrew / English because it is the only one I am fluent in / Finnish

i like finnish

Re: languages

[maverickz3r0]

Native, English. Second, French. I'm Canadian so all it really means is I remember high school French enough to take some courses in college.

I've also been taking Japanese and Spanish courses but those sadly do not stick half as well. I wouldn't call myself conversational in either of them.

A few of my friends have told me before that I am where bad slang goes to die though, as I will totally unironically use words/phrases like 'yo' and 'hip to my jive.' I also use 'y'all' as a second-person plural in my normal speech, despite the fact that I am not remotely Southern.

Re: languages

[(Anonymous)]

English is my native language. I learned Spanish in high school and college, but mostly what I recall is conversational basics, conjugation, and some vocabulary. My accent, according to one of those accent maps, is very much generic American (no specifically regional accent).

I like British and Irish accents, I like the sound of Cajun French, Portuguese, and Czech, but then I find most languages interesting to hear. I think Greek is a pretty written language.

Re: languages

[(Anonymous)]

well, if anyone sees this, i'd like to talk about languages.
what's your native language(s) / foreign languages that you learnt?

American English. Trying to learn Spanish.

accents / dialects ... ? My native accent is Texan (Texas).

what do you like hearing / speaking / seeing written / ... ? I like southern American English, British, the northern USA accents are kinda harsh to my hair (depends on the state: New Jersey is almost undecipherable to me when they talk if the accent is thick); I like the Welsh accent, Irish accent, Australian, I have a hard time w/Scottish. I like hearing most languages and accents actually, it's hard to decide.

I like seeing Asian languages written--I think they're pretty and artistic looking. I'd like to learn Chinese and Japanese but given the trouble I'm having learning Spanish, I probably won't. I desperately wanted to learn Russian when I was younger; Cyrillic looks pretty too as does Arabic (sounds harsh to me though) I regret not doing it (wish it had been an option at either college or high school) and not taking Spanish in high school for reasons.

I'm deeply envious of people who speak and read multiple languages and I'd love to be one. I can learn the reading part okay but the speaking is another matter altogether b/c of my craptastic, bitchy, malicious French teacher in high school, who viciously made fun of my pronounciation, accent, everything starting on the 2nd day of French 1 and kept it up all year. I was desperately shy back then and didn't say boo to anybody and I deeply regret not going to the administration back then to complain about her behavior to me. It's not like I didn't have proof--she bitched me out in class. Every since then, I'm afraid of speaking the language I'm trying to learn since I'm afraid of being mocked and insulted by the person I'm trying to communicate with.

But, flip side is I'm totally awesome for an ESL learner to communicate with b/c I won't and will never behave in a way that degrades, mocks, or insults, someone who is trying to learn English and needs help with the language.

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[coffeeyoukai]

Technically, my native language is Chinese, but since I really suck at it I prefer to consider English my first language and Chinese my second. I guess you could consider Japanese my 3rd language as well. I understand enough Cantonese to guess at the meaning of a sentence given context, but not much more.

And like alnumbers above, despite having lived only in my tiny Southeast Asian country for all my life, I've apparently managed to pick up a strange accent that can best be described as British-esque. It's not a proper British accent, but it's different enough from the standard accent that people do notice it. I can't even blame TV and movies, seeing as I barely watch either. Hell, I watch more American movies than British TV, and yet...

I do like hearing British accents, though. And I really dislike the local accent. And non-English-wise, I like Kansai-ben quite a lot. Enough that it's starting to slip into my spoken Japanese, apparently.

And on a not-completely-unrelated note, I've always had an interest in conlangs. Been trying to teach myself Sindarin for a while, but haven't got much further than mastering Tengwar yet.