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No, I'm afraid I am not. But that's amazing that you concern yourself with German media, given that you don't like the language :pQuote:
Originally Posted by toni
Of course I am. Thanks for your offer, I'll come back to it once I'm done with my Ancient Greek ;)Quote:
I sense that Schokokeks is quite interested in our language...:) Hmmm.. I could give you a crash-course if you want..:lol: hehe.
I like Italian (which I can speak) and French (which I am learning). They are both beautiful languages. But my BF loves it when I speak spanish.
I love (don't laugh) the Elvish language from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books. I can't speak it, but there is a lovely website called the Council of Elrond that teaches it for free. It's such a lovely, silvery language.
Least favorite? I'm not sure. Perhaps Chinese. I suppose because it's rather sharp and birdlike.
The language I'm learning for my high school, though, is Arabic. My family hails from the Middle East. Arabic is hard!:bawling: But it is a neat language.
my ffavorite language is English then Arabic I thought that learning Arabic is as a challenge unlike others.
Though I speak mandarin chinese pretty fluently (my mom is chinese), I would definitely not consider it a beautiful language. I also speak Spanish, and while it's not the most beautiful, I don't think it's ugly either. English is too plain. I like italian a lot, but only know a couple words. Italian songs are beautiful as well.
This is my least favourite language.
I would have to say my favorite languages are Hawaiian and Portuguese. I love Hawaiian because Ive lived in Hawaii all my life, and i am hawaiian. Also i can speak it moderately well. I like Portuguese because I am also Portuguese and i love the sound of it. ;)
Favorite languages are English, Finnish (a bit biased here), Italian, Spanish and Greek (esp. ancient Greek)
The ones that turn me off are Russian and Dutch. Hmm..Maybe Danish too :p
My favorite language is whatever language I'm currently studying. So that would be German at the moment. But it has also been French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Russian, Finnish, etc etc etc. I think Finnish is my favorite as far as sounds go, Latin is my favorite as far as curiosity (I use the word "curious" the way Alice [in Wonderland] uses it here), Russian is one that I just really enjoy, Arabic is very beautiful and musical, Japanese is fun because its grammar does not try to kill me...
In other words, I am indecesive or else I spread the language-love around way too much.
And I'd like to copy ennison and say that English is my least favorite language -- it's kind of very trendy to think English is crap, and I'd love to say it and mean it -- but I'd be lying. English is weird, but its history is fascinating. As Oscar Wilde said, "...the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium." English, like every language, is an imperfect medium -- and I revere those who use it perfectly or nearly so.
You are studuying Ancient Greek? Cool. I am fighting with it too. It is a bautiful language and I like it. But still sometimes I have some dificulties with the translation. I love Latin too. There I am a bit more sure in my knoleges, but still I have some problems with Caesar's "De bello Galico"Quote:
Originally Posted by Schokokeks
My favorite would be english and chinese(i really like quite a few of its dialects)
I love Latin and Spanish (I can speak both of those and think that they sound really nice). But I'm not too keen on French; I think that it often sounds very harsh. I also love the sounds of gaelic and welsh... There is a guy at my school who speaks Russian, and that sounds really cool (and also quite hot).
I am currently trying to learn Swahili, because I'm going to Tanzania in the summer... so if anyone knows any, I would really apprecialte some help... I am also trying to learn how to read hyrogliphics (sorry, I can't spell today).
Why Chinese is birdlike and not beautiful? I am deeply fascinated by the chinese poems. To those people who don't like chinese, i suggest you reading some original ancient poems, then you can get some real musicality of chinese.
I like Finnish and English the most. Finnish, because it's my mother tongue and English because I studied it many years and it's the one language you can use almost everywhere.
I've also studied Swedish, but I've never really liked it. I don't like the way it sounds, though sometimes reading Swedish aloud is quite fun. (Can't really make up my mind, can I? :D)
Annamariah, I was under the impression that finnish and swedish were very much alike, or at the very least, that two people speaking one and the other could understand themselves with ease. Would you consider this a misconception?Quote:
Originally Posted by Annamariah