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says... Amethyst Deceiver wrote: In article , says... Martin wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:21:22 +0100, "JennyC" wrote: "johannes" wrote The Danes that I have worked with in Holland could guess Dutch to a certain extent and learnt it quickly. The only reason for this is that the Danes learn foreign languages in school by necessity of being a small country; English, German, French at least. Dutch is as far away from Danish as German. The Danish language belongs to the Scandinavian family of languages. The Dutch learn English, French and German at school too and are also pretty quick at picking up other languages..... Dutch and German are indeed similar and Danish has a completely different ring to it :!) It sounds different, but has similar roots. Similar in a sense that English and Spanish have similar roots. Not as similar as the roots of English, Dutch, Danish, German and Swedish. How much language history or linguistics do you know? If you go to that extent, then all language have a common root. It is not And this is the point where you're way off the mark. They don't. surprising that languages have some words in common, I know that the word blomkål or blomkaal is the same in Danish and Dutch. However, the structure of the languages are very different just like Danish and German are different. But they're not. Trust me, I did 5 years of this at university. The scandinavian languages are in the same family, hence I can understand Norwegian and Swedish conversation, although I can't write them correctly.. It really sounds to me like you don't know very much, but never mind. Aw, bless. Just the two degrees, I admit. How many degrees do you have in linguistic studies? |
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Martin wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:00:06 +0000, johannes wrote: Amethyst Deceiver wrote: In article , says... Martin wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 09:21:22 +0100, "JennyC" wrote: "johannes" wrote The Danes that I have worked with in Holland could guess Dutch to a certain extent and learnt it quickly. The only reason for this is that the Danes learn foreign languages in school by necessity of being a small country; English, German, French at least. Dutch is as far away from Danish as German. The Danish language belongs to the Scandinavian family of languages. The Dutch learn English, French and German at school too and are also pretty quick at picking up other languages..... Dutch and German are indeed similar and Danish has a completely different ring to it :!) It sounds different, but has similar roots. Similar in a sense that English and Spanish have similar roots. Not as similar as the roots of English, Dutch, Danish, German and Swedish. How much language history or linguistics do you know? If you go to that extent, then all language have a common root. It is not surprising that languages have some words in common, I know that the word blomkål or blomkaal is the same in Danish and Dutch. However, the structure of the languages are very different just like Danish and German are different. The scandinavian languages are in the same family, hence I can understand Norwegian and Swedish conversation, although I can't write them correctly. It really sounds to me like you don't know very much, but never mind. How about a change of subject. Where did you find the minted peas? -- Martin Yes, I should have stopped, but the line: "How much language history or linguistics do you know?" got the better of me. I bet that I have been exposed to many more languages. Minted pees? It was in the 1980's. I like mint and I like peas, but in different contexts. |
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Martin wrote: On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:14:22 +0000, johannes wrote: Martin wrote: How about a change of subject. Where did you find the minted peas? -- Martin Yes, I should have stopped, but the line: "How much language history or linguistics do you know?" got the better of me. I bet that I have been exposed to many more languages. You certainly know at least one better than most other posters here. It is quite odd to be bilingual. I know both languages to such an extent that I don't have to think about constructing word and sentences, it just comes out. Sometimes I don't even know which language I am speaking, only discovering my mistake when looking at people's faces. Then I have to say: "Sorry, wrong language..." |
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In article , Martin writes: | On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:52:04 +0000, johannes | wrote: | | It is quite odd to be bilingual. I know both languages to such an extent | that I don't have to think about constructing word and sentences, it | just comes out. Sometimes I don't even know which language I am | speaking, only discovering my mistake when looking at people's faces. | Then I have to say: "Sorry, wrong language..." | | My wife has the same problem. I do it with computer languages :-) Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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