What Are You Doing Right Now? (173 Viewers)

[Seven]

I'm kidding man

I have a British colleague who speaks Arabic perfectly, it's still very awkward and weird whenever I hear a westerner talk in Arabic though

I can imagine. My friend has dark curly hair and tans very easily. I think he could probably pass for someone from Iran or even Egypt. I guess that might make it less weird.

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you should record something for us
show us how boss it is

It definitely can be. Imo it's like German in that way: sometimes it sounds really beautiful, but then there are times when it's just so hard and 'angry'.

 

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[Ocelot]

Really? and he's still your friend?

 

[Scottish]

Thanks?



I agree. What you see happening all the time is 30 year olds picking up a language class, do some courses and they end up speaking a bit of Spanish. Because Spanish is easy for most Europeans/Americans and is an easy language grammatically.

I have a friend who speaks fluent Arabic (after studying it for five years and living in Egypt for two) and one of my brothers speaks Russian. The amount of work required to speak these languages even marginally well is something else entirely.

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German is easily the most complex of the three grammatically.

Russian is an Indo European language, it's not so far removed from English and other European languages and there are large amounts of cognates you can easily use to give you a starting vocabulary of well over 1000 words. The alphabet can take some time to get used to but it's not as bad as you might think.

 

[Martin]

Russian is an Indo European language, it's not so far removed from English and other European languages and there are large amounts of cognates you can easily use to give you a starting vocabulary of well over 1000 words. The alphabet can take some time to get used to but it's not as bad as you might think.

the grammar is pretty hellish

 

[Scottish]

the grammar is pretty hellish

Actually I think you'd be right, there's a case system isn't there? I think the only time I've come across one of those was in Latin in school. I remember I got to probably A1 pushing A2 in Russian before I started losing interest. In the past my French was a good B1.

I think I'll just put my big fat head up my big fat arse then

Amazing how bilingualism is revered in the anglophone world but is so commonplace elsewhere. I'd suppose that all of us have learned at least a little Italian from following Juve.

 

[CrimsonianKing]

As much as i want to hate it how can I? Gotta love Brazil

@Hustini @Bianconero_Aus @zizinho @Fr3sh @King of Kings @Martin @X

 

[Seven]

Russian is an Indo European language, it's not so far removed from English and other European languages and there are large amounts of cognates you can easily use to give you a starting vocabulary of well over 1000 words. The alphabet can take some time to get used to but it's not as bad as you might think.

Yeah no, Russian is pretty bad.

 

[piotrr]

You should guys just learn Polish.

 

[Martin]

-rep ^ rep

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

You guys should learn Bengali.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

As much as i want to hate it how can I? Gotta love Brazil

@<a href="http://forum.juventuz.org/member.php?u=3857" target="_blank">Hustini</a> @<a href="http://forum.juventuz.org/member.php?u=11593" target="_blank">Bianconero_Aus</a> @<a href="http://forum.juventuz.org/member.php?u=18291" target="_blank">zizinho</a> @<a href="http://forum.juventuz.org/member.php?u=15709" target="_blank">Fr3sh</a> @<a href="http://forum.juventuz.org/member.php?u=1825" target="_blank">King of Kings</a> @<a href="http://forum.juventuz.org/member.php?u=1" target="_blank">Martin</a> @X

reminded me of this we so old arent we

 

[JuveJay]

Altered Beast What a game.

 

[CrimsonianKing]

Altered Beast good memories

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM!!!

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

One of my favourite games as a kid

 

[GordoDeCentral]

you old farts

 

[Seven]

Wow. Are those 80's games?

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

From one boring job to another... thank goodness for Tuz

 

[Fr3sh]

From one boring job to another... thank goodness for Tuz

Yea for sure!
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[Quetzalcoatl]

Yea for sure!
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