What languages would you like to learn?

by **Brazilian** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:15 am

RunDevilRun wrote:I want to learn Japanese so badly.

Me too ! I'm obsessed with that country. I know a bit of that language (and understand it),but I'd love to talk it fluently... Kono kimochi o wakarimasu ka.

by **RunDevilRun** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:40 am

Brazilian wrote:
RunDevilRun wrote:I want to learn Japanese so badly.
Me too ! I'm obsessed with that country. I know a bit of that language (and understand it),but I'd love to talk it fluently... Kono kimochi o wakarimasu ka.

IKR. My favorite word is daijoubu. It sounds so cute. :oops:

by **jpguy** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:21 am

RunDevilRun wrote:
Brazilian wrote:
RunDevilRun wrote:I want to learn Japanese so badly.
Me too ! I'm obsessed with that country. I know a bit of that language (and understand it),but I'd love to talk it fluently... Kono kimochi o wakarimasu ka.
IKR. My favorite word is daijoubu. It sounds so cute.

Me too! I know Hiragana and Katakana and a very few Kanji, but I don't know grammar, and all those rules! I love Japan, Japanese and everything about Japan!

:oops:

Sweet words:

- Kawaii
- Chokoretto
- Aishiteru
- Daijobu
- Zutto
- Paatii
- Rabu Songu

So sweet!! I wanna live there! :cry:

by **Crazy4Brit** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:49 pm

jpguy wrote:
So sweet!! I wanna live there!

Why don't you move there if you like Japan so much?

by **toni_pest** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:55 pm

Russian. It's a bit like Croatian, but it sounds so much better!

by **summer** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:01 pm

toni_pest wrote:Russian. It's a bit like Croatian, but it sounds so much better!

A bit?

I can bearly understand you

The girl from my group at Uni married an ambassador to Croatia. She still can't learn the language.

I want to understand it too.

by **toni_pest** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:03 pm

JustForMe wrote:
toni_pest wrote:Russian. It's a bit like Croatian, but it sounds so much better!
A bit? I can bearly understand you The girl from my group at Uni married an ambassador to Croatia. She still can't learn the language. I want to understand it too.

Well, some words are similair and I can understand about 1/5 of Russian even though I never studied it.

by **jio** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:03 pm

Mmmm, I speak Slovak and because of that I can understand maybe 40-50% of Serbian/Croatian but only about 5% of Russian. So I don't think they are that similar. Plus I think Croatian sounds better

by **summer** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:04 pm

toni_pest wrote:
JustForMe wrote:
toni_pest wrote:Russian. It's a bit like Croatian, but it sounds so much better!
A bit? I can bearly understand you The girl from my group at Uni married an ambassador to Croatia. She still can't learn the language. I want to understand it too.
Well, some words are similair and I can understand about 1/5 of Russian even though I never studied it.

Lucky you

I can't say the same :oops:

by **summer** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:07 pm

jio wrote:Mmmm, I speak Slovak and because of that I can understand maybe 40-50% of Serbian/Croatian but only about 5% of Russian. So I don't think they are that similar. Plus I think Croatian sounds better

I want to learn Serbian/Croatian.

I can't say whether Russian or Croatian sounds better. I like both. :lol:

Polish sounds funny to me. :oops:

by **Mike_54** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:37 pm

JustForMe wrote:
jio wrote:Mmmm, I speak Slovak and because of that I can understand maybe 40-50% of Serbian/Croatian but only about 5% of Russian. So I don't think they are that similar. Plus I think Croatian sounds better
I want to learn Serbian/Croatian. I can't say whether Russian or Croatian sounds better. I like both. Polish sounds funny to me.

Serbian language has very hard grammar... tbh even like 95% of people who live in Southern part of Serbia can't speak proper Serbian and are terrible at grammar...

But it's very easy for reading and writing, as every sound has it's own letter...

by **summer** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:39 pm

Mike_54 wrote:
Serbian language has very hard grammar... tbh even like 95% of people who live in Southern part of Serbia can't speak proper Serbian and are terrible at grammar...

But it's very easy for reading and writing, as every sound has it's own letter...

I'll think about it

by **Ruthymon** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:12 pm

Learning more French (it's been a while since high school)
Haitian Creole (that's my family's native tongue)
Spanish
Portuguese
Japanese
Korean
German
Russian

by **jpguy** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:50 pm

Croatian??? What language did the people from Yugoslavia talk????

by **Serby** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:14 pm

jpguy wrote:Croatian??? What language did the people from Yugoslavia talk????

I hope I won't cause trouble, but it's all just a type of Serbian. It just happened that there is now Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montnigerin(Montenegro's language), but you can understand 99.9% if you know one of them. difference is only in few words, little of grammar and literaly, that's it.

by **ThomyX** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:38 pm

I'd like to learn French and Icelandic. French is a language that might be useful, while Icelandic is one that I just find very interesting, and it's also a good point in your career if you know a rare language.

by **neoepzilon** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:41 pm

Portuguese and Japanese.

by **Mike_54** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:46 pm

serbia95riri wrote:
jpguy wrote:Croatian??? What language did the people from Yugoslavia talk????
I hope I won't cause trouble, but it's all just a type of Serbian. It just happened that there is now Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montnigerin(Montenegro's language), but you can understand 99.9% if you know one of them. difference is only in few words, little of grammar and literaly, that's it.

Does Montenigerin language even officially exist!?

by **summer** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:51 pm

Mike_54 wrote:
Does Montenigerin language even officially exist!?

Wiki says yes

Montenegrin became the official language of Montenegro with the ratification of a new constitution on 22 October 2007

by **Mike_54** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 7:56 pm

hahah recentley on my German test, I had to write official languages of countries they asked for(in german ofcourse) and for Montenegro I wrote Montenegrian, and my teacher(who is not form Serbia) gave me zero points and wrote Serbian as correct answer :lol:

by **summer** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 8:02 pm

Mike_54 wrote:hahah recentley on my German test, I had to write official languages of countries they asked for(in german ofcourse) and for Montenegro I wrote Montenegrian, and my teacher(who is not form Serbia) gave me zero points and wrote Serbian as correct answer

I worked with Montenegrin papers a while ago and thought I'm working with Serbian docs. :lol:

They sound alike IMHO.

You can tell your teacher he didn't have the right to do it [he's an ass] I guess. :lol:

by **Serby** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:33 pm

Well, I would like to learn English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portugese

Also many others...it's so cool to know many languages
8-)

by **jio** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:19 pm

Mike_54 wrote:
serbia95riri wrote:
jpguy wrote:Croatian??? What language did the people from Yugoslavia talk????
I hope I won't cause trouble, but it's all just a type of Serbian. It just happened that there is now Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montnigerin(Montenegro's language), but you can understand 99.9% if you know one of them. difference is only in few words, little of grammar and literaly, that's it.
Does Montenigerin language even officially exist!?

Yeah, as far as I know only Slovenia, FYR Macedonia and of course Kosovo and other Albanian-populated areas had distinctive languages. Everything else was called Serbo-Croatian back in the yugo-days

by **toni_pest** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:24 pm

serbia95riri wrote:
jpguy wrote:Croatian??? What language did the people from Yugoslavia talk????
I hope I won't cause trouble, but it's all just a type of Serbian. It just happened that there is now Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montnigerin(Montenegro's language), but you can understand 99.9% if you know one of them. difference is only in few words, little of grammar and literaly, that's it.

Nope. There's Croatian and there's Serbian. they're alike but not the same.

by **jio** » Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:27 pm

They do exist now but were they existing also in the days of Yugoslavia? I mean in Czechoslovakia people were always learning Czech in what is today Czech Rep. and Slovak in what is today Slovakia, despite those two languages being extremely similar as well. I don't think that was the case in ex-YU, was it?