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Discussion in 'Linguistics' started by Athelwulf, Jan 25, 2007.

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Как дела?

  1. Хорошо!

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  2. Нормальна.

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  3. Собака!

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  1. draqon Banned Banned

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    everything is an opportunity...especially life.
     
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  3. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    Das ist interresant.

    Depends on what you wanna learn for, I suppose, and how different a language you want.

    Dutch would be easiest of the languages you named. Not only are the words recognizable, but also the grammar is identical to German grammar, from what I can determine.

    Scandinavian languages are Germanic, but they're North Germanic while English, German, and Dutch are all West Germanic.

    Russian isn't Germanic, but is Indo-European, although it's in the "satem" branch rather than the "kentum" branch, meaning it's quite distantly related.

    Also, I think you're trying to say that Italian is an official language of Switzerland.

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    Some aspects of Russian may be harder than Mandarin, but I think overall Russian is easier than Mandarin.

    I hear Chinese will become very important, for economic reasons. I don't see Russian gaining much more importance until their economy improves, and I have no idea what Arabic's status is.
     
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  5. akasha1 Registered Senior Member

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    i wouldnt say that dutch is that easy, it has more exceptions than rules :s and omg the different slang every city has pfff.. at least in belgium it is like that, i imagine that in holland its the same stuff
    but the grammar, its not the same as in german. in dutch we dont have the dativ and so on rules, thats just the first thing that pops in my mind. also the use of active and passive sentenses is different i think.
    the words on the other hand are very similar

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    russian on the other hand is an extremely rich language, with a gianourmous vocabulary, and its a language of puns lol, but still, it has its rules and you have to follow them. what you see is what you get.
    actually, they use almost the same rules as in german, with the dativ, nominativ,...
     
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  7. Zephyr Humans are ONE Registered Senior Member

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    Meine Deutsch ist schlecht. Wo kann ich besser Deutsch im Internet lernen?

    (Loosely attempted translation from: My Duits is sleg. Waar kan ek beter Duits op die Internet leer?)
     
  8. Sputnik Banned Banned

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    Ahhh schwitzer dyytsch ...........:

    May I now also add my thing in Swiss-german. Probably nobody understands it. Let´s see if it is managed to be translated .....

    Or something like that ......:m:

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  9. tablariddim forexU2 Valued Senior Member

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    Afiste tes malakies re pedia....
    Literally translated: Stop this wankiness, guys.
     
  10. I-Am-Invisible sick of it all. Registered Senior Member

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    Nice Sputnik, got it right...
     
  11. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    That's pretty good, I think, except the first word is simply "mein".

    You're good.

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    Ah. Portuguese?
     
  12. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Mijn Duits is kut. Waar kan ik beter Duits leren op het internet.
     
  13. Athelwulf Rest in peace Kurt... Registered Senior Member

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    I moved this from Free Thoughts to the exciting new Linguistics forum. Peace. :m:

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