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I thought it would be chinese but I haven't yet heard any opinions concerning this question. Apart form that I know people who had to learn russian for their jobs and so on... I wasn't sure therefor this thread seemed to be a nice opportunity to ask.

everything is an opportunity...especially life.
 
Mues i jetzt au no min seich derzue gäh uf schwitzer düütsch? Das versteit sicher niemer. Mal luege ob das öpper cha übersetzte.

Den Text den sie oben lesen können ist ein Dialekt dieser Sprache.

Das ist interresant.

I-Am-Invisible said:
I was wondering if I should learn a 4th language and was thinking of italian since its partly similar to french and its also a "administrativ language" (or whatever you call it) here in switzerland but sometimes I think it would be interesting to learn a totally different language... something Scandinavian? Russian? Or Dutch? (With English and German I kann recognise some words)

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. :)

try chinese-mandarin or japanese. Russian is too hard to learn.

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

And here another question: (has nothing to do with what i wanna learn)

Which Language will gain most importance for economic or political reasons in the future? Russian? Arabic? Chinese?

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.
 
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 :)

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,...
 
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?)
 
Mues i jetzt au no min seich derzue gäh uf schwitzer düütsch? Das versteit sicher niemer. Mal luege ob das öpper cha übersetzte.

Den Text den sie oben lesen können ist ein Dialekt dieser Sprache.

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: :p
 
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?)

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

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: :p

You're good. :eek:

Afiste tes malakies re pedia....
Literally translated: Stop this wankiness, guys.

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