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Hehe in modern greek wine is both called "κρασί" or "οίνος" (ring any bells ;) ).
"Οίνος" is the ancient type of the word and "κρασί" is a more recent one. We use both words. For the word "white" we have two or three ways of saying it "λευκό", "άσπρο" and there is another one that slips my mind now.
In many cases we use both the ancient type or more recent ones ;) .
Of course this is a difficult language indeed, despite that it has international importance
Ohh... that's quite interesting actually! I'll probably end up learning modern greek someday as I plan to go back there, such an amazing country and there's so many things to see and do! I wish I could live there a bit someday...Quote:
Originally Posted by manolia
I wish I could get some greek oranges here, all we get is Florida ones and they're so bad...
Hehe i'll send you some oranges if you like..have so many of them, don't know what to do with them :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Etienne
One more thing, even the recent words i mentioned come from ancient greek roots. There is no such thing as a modern greek word ;) . If you ever need any help with it i'll be glad to assist you ;) Now let's stop since we are monopolisisng the thread and that isn't good ;) Feel free to pm me ;)
The English language itself is quite hard to learn, mainly because of the bizarre way we spell things =P. There are so many irregular plural forms and such, I know that if I was not a native speaker I would probably never be able to learn it.
Kudos to those of you who have learned it! It's no small feat.
As a person using English as a second language, I don't think English is a particluarly difficult language to learn, at least grammarwise.
Well, the verbs tend to be somewhat irregular but not that bad, and genders are simple. My one quibble is, however, the match between spelling and pronunciation. It's a torture...
All spelling in English follows pronunciation of the word at some point in the history of the language. Unfortunately, there have been several sets of rules for spelling and the pronunciations have also changed. It isn't just people who learn English as a second language who have trouble with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fowles27
Well, as for the rules of pronounciation, I have seen some in my phonetics classes, but of course there are always exceptions. However, a lot of researchers are trying to find new rules which would include a larger amount of words.Quote:
Originally Posted by PeterL
English is a difficult language to learn depending of the native language of speaker. but comparing with other latin languages it's quite easy. I'm portuguese and it's easier to learn english than french and spanisf and last ones are very similar to my own but the verb terminations are all diferent from each other what doesn't happen in english.
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Originally Posted by PeterL
Agree. As a language with many origins, English was perhaps bound to be a "mess." Also I think English is particularly open when it comes to new words. So its flimsy barrier to entry has made English messier, as well as stronger and elastic.
Wish I had written this thread in form of poll thread. Why...because I almost count the number of those saying it's difficult are about out-number those saying it is not.
I take the same opinion with mushin.What troubling me now is that, there seems to be much more new things when I learn English longer. every time thinking about this,I almost collapse.I even wonder whether English is worth keeping me learning or not.It my be easy for those to be a fluent English speaker, who have many opportunities to use it.However,it is really hard for others who have few chances to use it.Unfortunately,I am one of the latter.Please,please,tell me what can I do?Should I give up?
For me English isn't hard that much...Inculcate "practice" in your mind. Try to practice and practice orally or by writting. It needs more concentration and eagerness to be an efficient speaker...Develop an earnest heart..
To chose a Languaje it is to chose a world...
some one said.I think English it is quite English...I mean.THey are straight to the point, reasoning,utilitarist, realistic.
The English has short words, and verbs, and not to many ambiguity.Like a formula, most of the words seem protocolar...once you learn the formula you learn the idiom.
I like it.I like English English and Scotish English sounds funny.
Latin idioms as Italian, spanish or French sounds more expressive.
Chosing a languaje is chosing a world!
Is that really my opinion? Hmm....Quote:
Originally Posted by Tsingtao
Then describe how it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Etienne