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Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

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#31 Post by Hallvor »

Norwegian (of course), English, German and a *little* Italian.
debiman wrote: [*]Estonian sounds almost like finnish, but much more melodic[/list]etc.
Is Estionian comprehensible for native Finnish speakers?
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#32 Post by arochester »

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#33 Post by eor2004 »

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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#34 Post by debiman »

Hallvor wrote:Is Estionian comprehensible for native Finnish speakers?
yes.
it does sound a little funny; quite comparable to how swedish sounds to norwegians and vice versa, i guess.

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#35 Post by None1975 »

Hallvor wrote:Is Estionian comprehensible for native Finnish speakers?
Finnish and Estonian are not mutually intelligible. They belong to different sub-branches of Finnic languages.
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#36 Post by debiman »

None1975 wrote:Finnish and Estonian are not mutually intelligible. They belong to different sub-branches of Finnic languages.
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.
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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#37 Post by sjukfan »

Sweden and Swedish, also speaks English fairly well. Understand like 50% Norwegian and 50% written Danish.
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#38 Post by debiman »

sjukfan wrote:50% written Danish.
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#39 Post by Liamza2314 »

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

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#40 Post by debiman »

^ 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 :-(

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#41 Post by frank38 »

I'm from Italy. I speak fully Italian. I studied English and French at school, but I'm very poor in these languages.

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#42 Post by Targenor »

Born in Sweden, so speaks Swedish and English.

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#43 Post by Roel63 »

The Netherlands, born and raised and still living there.

Next to Dutch I speak English, German, French.

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#44 Post by Starborn »

Roel63 wrote:The Netherlands, born and raised and still living there.

Next to Dutch I speak English, German, French.
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#45 Post by llivv »

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.
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#46 Post by petr »

Czech Republic so Czech language.

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