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Getbig Female Info Boards => Open Talk for Girl Discussion => Topic started by: Eyeball Chambers on May 14, 2007, 04:00:57 PM
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1. English
2. Spanish?
3. German?
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What do you think the most important (in order) languages to learn are?
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English
Spanish
German (if you can master those illogical grammatical genders you can learn any language :-[)
French (because it truly is among the most beautiful languages ever)
Italian
Arabic (at least for the swear words - also good for swear words - Armenian, Hebrew)
Dutch (to know what's really going on at Getbig)
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speaking in tongues is cool
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English
Spanish
Japanese
Chinese (Some dialect)
German
Italian
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Miggy, I think you went back to the stone tablet archives of BKS to find that. :D
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I personally find French the most beautiful language, kinda has a sweet flow to it. Italian is nice as well, lots of vowels, more of a singing language.
English is most important because most people speak it.
Spanish a close second, it's interest will probably grow.
German is important in Europe, but losing a lot of ground, getting replace by english and spanish and even other languages.
Russian if you want to go to Eastern Europe/Russia.
German (if you can master those illogical grammatical genders you can learn any language :-[)
Actually English is one of the most illogical European languages.
Dutch is very hard to learn.
This is hilarious, a belgian footballer speaking german like it ain't no thaing.
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English, spanish, chinese, german, french, dutch will, ofcourse, get you anywhere hehe
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English, spanish, chinese, german, french, dutch will, ofcourse, get you anywhere hehe
R u belgian or dutch?
Three languages for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord, Ron, on his dark throne
In the Land of getbig where the Shadows lie.
One language, dutch, to rule them all, One language to find them,
One language to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of getbig where the Shadows lie.
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Dutch all the way, well some Belgian and northern french forefathers in the 1470's hehe
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I'm descended from the Teutonic tribes, going back centuries, with a little smattering of French/Alsace Lorraine... too bad I speak German like such a retard. :-[
This is hilarious, a belgian footballer speaking german like it ain't no thaing.
What's funnier is that announcer seems to understand every word of that "dialect" and just keeps the convo going. :P
Actually English is one of the most illogical European languages.
Dutch is very hard to learn.
I suppose. But don't you ever find it confusing when switching from French to German and you suddenly have to change grammatical genders from one to the other. Masculine/feminine is often logically distributed in French, but adding neuter to the mix just screws everything up. And there are cultural differences, like la lune in French, der mond in German... le soleille in French, then die sonne in German. :-\ Someone told me it had to do with the ancient mythologies of each culture.
Many Dutch words seem similar to German. You can often get the gist of a sentence.
One thing is for sure... Europeans can master many languages and sound good speaking them it seems, whereas the efforts of English speakers trying to communicate in another language is usually hilarious. The average Brit/American speaking French = "Bawn-joor, oon café aye oon kra-ssoynte, seel-vous-plait." :-X
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well most europeans have a crappy accent too when speaking foreign languages, but they tend to know that, Americans seem to think they're spot on haha.
Old english remsembles dutch resembles german resembles danish etc, it's easy to reconstruct the common ground in european languages by time and occupying tribe, quite interesting.
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www.rosettastone.com
the state dept apparently uses this..
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www.rosettastone.com
the state dept apparently uses this..
They are the best way to learn a language... I use the Japanese one myself.
It's very immersive and does work.
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Miggy, I think you went back to the stone tablet archives of BKS to find that. :D
;)
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Legalese
Spanish (If you plan to stay in the USA)
Chinese
Arabic
Farsi And not particularly in this order.
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They are the best way to learn a language... I use the Japanese one myself.
It's very immersive and does work.
i've been looking at em for a whole now..
i wanna learn something obscure..something totally useless....
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www.rosettastone.com
the state dept apparently uses this..
Excellent thanks!
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Depends where you are in the world I think. In my neck of the woods, I would say English, Spanish, Portugese, Patois, Dutch and French. We have many dialects, but if you speak say 3 of those, you can basically communicate with most people here.
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i've been looking at em for a whole now..
i wanna learn something obscure..something totally useless....
Try Slovenian, sounds like Kazach, it rocks! Great succes!
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Try Slovenian, sounds like Kazach, it rocks! Great succes!
i will take that into consideration..
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Depends where you are in the world I think. In my neck of the woods, I would say English, Spanish, Portugese, Patois, Dutch and French. We have many dialects, but if you speak say 3 of those, you can basically communicate with most people here.
It's allways interesting trying to help translate for some traveler with about 4 people and twice as many languages :).
Gets to be amusing sometimes.
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spanish all around
sign language! because those spanish people could learn english, but no one can help being deaf!
Mandarin-quite the challenge
standard arabic.
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i've been looking at em for a whole now..
i wanna learn something obscure..something totally useless....
Try afrikaans. Comes from dutch, it's only spoken in south-africa, and a bit in namibia. Sounds cool.
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What, no Portuguese?
1. English
2. Chinese (Madarin, Fujo, Cantonese)
3. Spanish or Portuguese
4. French
But this order may change depending on who you deal with.
Or the area.
I think because China will be a huge superpower, Chinese will be a good language to learn. Because Brazil is a up and coming superpower, the same applies.
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Thai - 5 tones that change meaning of the same word!
Sa bai De RU^ (rising tone) = How are you?
Sa bai De Ru- (falling tone) = How is your hole? ::)
Verry easy to try and order eggs cooked hard, and end up telling the waitress you have no nuts.
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谢谢你的网站,我在学习中文. 现在,我很感谢我的伙伴们都是双语. 2周后,我要开始学习日语.
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I heard that lengthening the vowel changes the meaning aswell, better not have a slow day in Thailand..
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I heard that lengthening the vowel changes the meaning aswell, better not have a slow day in Thailand..
The Cambodians writing is interesting to look at. Ive heard it called, "As much an excuse to paint, as a language".
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1. English
2. Spanish?
3. German?
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5.
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What do you think the most important (in order) languages to learn are?
Italian...its the language of love ;D I speak English and Italian fluently. I wish I new French & German.
PB
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I think french is better suited for love hehe, I think it's more sensual, hard to explain...
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I'd agree w/ French as the most sensual sounding Lang. Parisian in particular.
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All you need is English. Learn it properly.
It'll get you anywhere.
A bit of bad language doesn't hurt on the way.
xL
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Well try spain, portugal greece etc, certainly in smaller towns you're going nowhere with english.
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Well try spain, portugal greece etc, certainly in smaller towns you're going nowhere with english.
Same goes for China.
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aye, But I mentioned EU countries because it's presumed these are certainly places where english will get you around.
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So let's teach 'em all English !
Practically every kid from every country gets taught it in school. They just need to practice what they've learned with some English speaking folk.
Only kidding
xxxL
I only took Latin and French and Spanish, but
I'm into a bit of Italian at present, it's a truly gorgeous language.
...just add issimo and it gets better.
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Well try spain, portugal greece etc, certainly in smaller towns you're going nowhere with english.
darlin', if you're visiting rural Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Poland or even Peru, you'll be with a friend who has family and a house there and who speaks both the native language and English, surely?
Otherwise you're just a tourist and you're outta there in the next few days anyways.
xL
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GOBBLEDYGOOK OR GOBBLEDEGOOK
Unintelligible language, especially jargon or bureaucratese.
This is a truly maverick word, not only because it is surprisingly modern and also one whose genesis we can pin down to the day, but also because a maverick coined it —Maury Maverick, a Texan lawyer who was at various times a Democratic Congressman and mayor of San Antonio.
He used the word in the New York Times Magazine on 21 May 1944, while he was chairman of the US Smaller War Plants Committee in Congress, as part of a complaint against the obscure language used by his colleagues. His inspiration, he said, was the turkey, “always gobbledy gobbling and strutting with ludicrous pomposity”. The word met a clear need and quickly became part of the language. It is sometimes abbreviated slightly to gobbledygoo.
Word coining runs in the Maverick family, since Maury Maverick’s grandfather, Samuel Maverick, a Texas rancher, was the inspiration for maverick, originally an animal not branded to identify its owner (because Sam Maverick didn’t brand his own herds), later an unconventional person, and later still a politician who stands aside from the herd, refusing to conform to the party line.
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darlin', if you're visiting rural Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Poland or even Peru, you'll be with a friend who has family and a house there and who speaks both the native language and English, surely?
Otherwise you're just a tourist and you're outta there in the next few days anyways.
xL
true but since when did that enter the equation? These social interaction issues mostly occur when on holiday or on business...
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GOBBLEDYGOOK OR GOBBLEDEGOOK
Unintelligible language, especially jargon or bureaucratese.
This is a truly maverick word, not only because it is surprisingly modern and also one whose genesis we can pin down to the day, but also because a maverick coined it —Maury Maverick, a Texan lawyer who was at various times a Democratic Congressman and mayor of San Antonio.
He used the word in the New York Times Magazine on 21 May 1944, while he was chairman of the US Smaller War Plants Committee in Congress, as part of a complaint against the obscure language used by his colleagues. His inspiration, he said, was the turkey, “always gobbledy gobbling and strutting with ludicrous pomposity”. The word met a clear need and quickly became part of the language. It is sometimes abbreviated slightly to gobbledygoo.
Word coining runs in the Maverick family, since Maury Maverick’s grandfather, Samuel Maverick, a Texas rancher, was the inspiration for maverick, originally an animal not branded to identify its owner (because Sam Maverick didn’t brand his own herds), later an unconventional person, and later still a politician who stands aside from the herd, refusing to conform to the party line.
In Holland tv producers and comic duo (it sounds more corny than it actually is) van Kooten & de Bie are famous for contributing a number of words to the dutch language like doemdenken (doomthinking) droogneuken(dryfucking).
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Dutch (to know what's really going on at Getbig)
Double Dutch?
Doomthinking is a great word, it sounds good, kinda rolls off the tongue.
But I'll never use it as I'm an extreme optimist.
xL
ps: I'm sorry, but I'm right. The most important language to learn to use and spell (properly) is English.
Cantonese is up and coming, but most 'world travellers' will also work hard to acquire a good command of the English language.
Sign language is kinda fun (you know, hands a go-go, making a point, a la Italianiano...)
I'd always thought signing would be a good one to learn (for everyone) but it turns out
there are lost in translation problems even there. Regional accents even...
I'm only visiting...
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I'm not disagreeing that english will probably get you the farthest, the statement 'It'll get you anywhere' simply isn't true.
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Latin root words are often usefull, but even pronunciation can kill the deal!
I've sat w/ 4-5 people and as many languages trying to help some travler get what/ where they want often. It's the unusual Euro languages that really leave one stranded.. But most of them speak Eng.