Is Estionian comprehensible for native Finnish speakers?debiman wrote: [*]Estonian sounds almost like finnish, but much more melodic[/list]etc.
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Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
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Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
Norwegian (of course), English, German and a *little* Italian.
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I'm from Puerto Rico, I speak spanish 100%, english 80%, japanese 1 or 2%, still trying to learn some japanese and in the future I want to learn russian too!
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Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
yes.Hallvor wrote:Is Estionian comprehensible for native Finnish speakers?
it does sound a little funny; quite comparable to how swedish sounds to norwegians and vice versa, i guess.
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Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
Finnish and Estonian are not mutually intelligible. They belong to different sub-branches of Finnic languages.Hallvor wrote:Is Estionian comprehensible for native Finnish speakers?
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Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
maybe my statement was a little broad; of course those are two distinct and different languages, but an Estonian and a Finn can communicate fairly well, if they want to, both speaking their own language.None1975 wrote:Finnish and Estonian are not mutually intelligible. They belong to different sub-branches of Finnic languages.
a person fluent in finnish can understand most of what's going on when visiting Estonia (*). compared to someone who doesn't know either finnish or estonian.
at least that's my experience.
(*) they are, however, advised not to just start speaking finnish to people; it's equivalent to english tourists only speaking english when visiting spain.
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Sweden and Swedish, also speaks English fairly well. Understand like 50% Norwegian and 50% written Danish.
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Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
I'm from cape town, which is in south africa, actually right at the bottom of sa
Most people here speak Afrikaans or Xhosa, though I never learned afrikaans because I'm crap with languages
It's super hot here at the moment
Most people here speak Afrikaans or Xhosa, though I never learned afrikaans because I'm crap with languages
It's super hot here at the moment
Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
^ well you're not crap with English!
anyhow, does that mean your own laguage is Xhosa? cool...
also, i'm jelly for the weather there.
i always prefered hot to cold (maybe because i never get enough of it, except in sauna).
here, it's like this
anyhow, does that mean your own laguage is Xhosa? cool...
also, i'm jelly for the weather there.
i always prefered hot to cold (maybe because i never get enough of it, except in sauna).
here, it's like this
Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
I'm from Italy. I speak fully Italian. I studied English and French at school, but I'm very poor in these languages.
Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
Born in Sweden, so speaks Swedish and English.
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The Netherlands, born and raised and still living there.
Next to Dutch I speak English, German, French.
Next to Dutch I speak English, German, French.
Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
Hey, look, a neighbour from the north.Roel63 wrote:The Netherlands, born and raised and still living there.
Next to Dutch I speak English, German, French.
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Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
I'm currently in N America. I look for commonalities in all languages, especially if words, phrases, construction or sounds have common ancestors or roots.
Eu estou atualmente na América do Norte. Eu procuro semelhanças em todas as línguas, especialmente se palavras, frases, construções ou sons tiverem ancestrais ou raízes comuns. sintaxe, semântica e etimologia
I'm sad that I cannot make it to Debconf this summer in Curitiba. I'm sure it will be a great event for those who are interested in contributing
to the Debain Community.
Estou triste por não poder ir para a Debconf neste verão em Curitiba. Tenho certeza que será um grande evento para quem estiver interessado em contribuir para o Debain Comunidade.
parlez-vous anglais mon natif
voce fala ingles meu nativo
Eu estou atualmente na América do Norte. Eu procuro semelhanças em todas as línguas, especialmente se palavras, frases, construções ou sons tiverem ancestrais ou raízes comuns. sintaxe, semântica e etimologia
I'm sad that I cannot make it to Debconf this summer in Curitiba. I'm sure it will be a great event for those who are interested in contributing
to the Debain Community.
Estou triste por não poder ir para a Debconf neste verão em Curitiba. Tenho certeza que será um grande evento para quem estiver interessado em contribuir para o Debain Comunidade.
parlez-vous anglais mon natif
voce fala ingles meu nativo
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