Oh, you would LOVE Russian. First foreign language I learned sp I could write to my grandmother .. six cases, nouns are masc/fem/neut/plural, yup plural in the singular like "pants." I love systematic shit and I read ahead in the book and at 13 I could *speak Russian* ... wish I had kept it up.
Oh, you would LOVE Russian. First foreign language I learned sp I could write to my grandmother .. six cases, nouns are masc/fem/neut/plural, yup plural in the singular like "pants." I love systematic shit and I read ahead in the book and at 13 I could *speak Russian* ... wish I had kept it up.
Vietnamese doesn't even have plurals, pronouns, or adverbs and grammar is all SVO, totally inverted from European languages. [You] want eat what? [I] want eat noodle. You can tell it's a really really old language, stripped down almost as bare as Chinese.
I've considered once I'm done with French, which should be in about 70,000 years at the rate I'm going, I'll try a new language, and for kicks & giggles I'm thinking about Arabic. Not because I have any particular need for it, but because studying a language way different from yours supposedly helps to stave off Alzheimers et all. It won't matter if I can speak it well or not, whereas I want to get better at French seeing as I live in Canada, even if on the English side.
If I learned Russian I could become one of the most hated people in my 'hood. My little town on the west end of Toronto is home to one of the biggest Ukrainian ex-pat communities...
My brother from a different mother and father used learning languages for his mind. I'm what my daughter calls a serial hobbyist wanting to learn about nearly anything new to me (I'm still a little kid). Continuing to use your brain is a big deal.
Thai people speaking English often sound like they are speaking Pidgeon (non-essential words are dropped), a sentence can (often does) have more than one verb, adjectives come after nouns.
Personal pronouns are chosen by the relationship to the person you are speaking to (someone younger than me would call me pee, of possibly uncle lueng) and referring to themself they might use their nickname.
Particles are nearly always tacked onto the end of a sentence (polite standard: krap for a male speaker, ka for a female speaker) but others can be used to change the "feel" without a need to rephrase the sentence. This is where gendering comes in, and it is always biology based unless things have really changed.
I mention that because grammar checkers constantly tell me to add unnecessary (in my opinion) words. But then you probably notice that I stick (clarifiers) into my writing and tend to run on sentences to create a coherent thought in a sentence.
I am in awe of people who are multilingual with good grammar. On one of my trips to Japan at a hotel "American night" cocktails and finger food event there were two stunningly beautiful hostesses. I asked one how long she had lived in America. She said she had never been outside of Japan. I remarked, "You speak perfect midwestern American English without accent. Where did you learn?" Her reply, "Oh, you flatter me. I learned entirely in a university." I just don't have the knack for that.
With my damaged hearing I am hopeless with tonal languages like Thai or Chinese. I said that. No, you didn't. Changing the tone of a syllable can turn something polite into an insult.
Oh, you would LOVE Russian. First foreign language I learned sp I could write to my grandmother .. six cases, nouns are masc/fem/neut/plural, yup plural in the singular like "pants." I love systematic shit and I read ahead in the book and at 13 I could *speak Russian* ... wish I had kept it up.
Vietnamese doesn't even have plurals, pronouns, or adverbs and grammar is all SVO, totally inverted from European languages. [You] want eat what? [I] want eat noodle. You can tell it's a really really old language, stripped down almost as bare as Chinese.
I've considered once I'm done with French, which should be in about 70,000 years at the rate I'm going, I'll try a new language, and for kicks & giggles I'm thinking about Arabic. Not because I have any particular need for it, but because studying a language way different from yours supposedly helps to stave off Alzheimers et all. It won't matter if I can speak it well or not, whereas I want to get better at French seeing as I live in Canada, even if on the English side.
If I learned Russian I could become one of the most hated people in my 'hood. My little town on the west end of Toronto is home to one of the biggest Ukrainian ex-pat communities...
My brother from a different mother and father used learning languages for his mind. I'm what my daughter calls a serial hobbyist wanting to learn about nearly anything new to me (I'm still a little kid). Continuing to use your brain is a big deal.
Thai people speaking English often sound like they are speaking Pidgeon (non-essential words are dropped), a sentence can (often does) have more than one verb, adjectives come after nouns.
Personal pronouns are chosen by the relationship to the person you are speaking to (someone younger than me would call me pee, of possibly uncle lueng) and referring to themself they might use their nickname.
Particles are nearly always tacked onto the end of a sentence (polite standard: krap for a male speaker, ka for a female speaker) but others can be used to change the "feel" without a need to rephrase the sentence. This is where gendering comes in, and it is always biology based unless things have really changed.
I mention that because grammar checkers constantly tell me to add unnecessary (in my opinion) words. But then you probably notice that I stick (clarifiers) into my writing and tend to run on sentences to create a coherent thought in a sentence.
I am in awe of people who are multilingual with good grammar. On one of my trips to Japan at a hotel "American night" cocktails and finger food event there were two stunningly beautiful hostesses. I asked one how long she had lived in America. She said she had never been outside of Japan. I remarked, "You speak perfect midwestern American English without accent. Where did you learn?" Her reply, "Oh, you flatter me. I learned entirely in a university." I just don't have the knack for that.
With my damaged hearing I am hopeless with tonal languages like Thai or Chinese. I said that. No, you didn't. Changing the tone of a syllable can turn something polite into an insult.