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Keep Calm and Inject Some Lysol Level: 52 Posts: 585/613 EXP: 1035456 Next: 48384 Since: 09-13-13 Last post: 1004 days ago Last view: 131 days ago |
Posted by Swingball In terms of words and grammar they're all very similar, but Norwegian is definitely easiest to pronounce for English speaker. Source: I am an English speaker who knows a bit of all three. ____________________ Can you burn a Luigi board? |
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I speak British English, not that warped stuff you Americans claim to be English! (Jokes)
I want to learn Japanese, however.  |
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Underrated Sports Ball Level: 71 
Posts: 443/1286 EXP: 3130823 Next: 36291 Since: 10-29-13 From: Backyard Last post: 935 days ago Last view: 297 days ago |
So do I. Waiting for them to finish that Japanese course on Duolingo.
Anybody speak any Esperanto?  ____________________ Netplay is a language we all speak. Here’s my Discord. Kinda constructed now where we talk about whatever and lounge around on weekends. https://discord.gg/CqMArxq |
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Baby Luigi Level: 55 
Posts: 609/749 EXP: 1254038 Next: 60151 Since: 03-13-16 From: Lost in Time Last post: 2504 days ago Last view: 2498 days ago |
Isn't Esperanto like just a made-up language thing?
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Member I have found a basket to put in my SD card reader so I never lose it Level: 67 
Posts: 1079/1099 EXP: 2588188 Next: 4684 Since: 08-17-12 From: Belgium Last post: 1546 days ago Last view: 441 days ago |
It's a made-up language specifically tailored to be a lingua franca of some sorts for people to use. The elephant in the room here is of course that English has taken this role since quite some time. The main "selling point" of Esperanto is that it is not natively spoken by anyone, so unlike English, it doesn't give any speakers a certain "advantage". Paradoxically, Esperanto is starting to receive a small share of native speakers, reversing its efforts to be a neutral language. ____________________ ![[image]](http://backloggery.com/anthe/sig.gif) |
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Posts: 10/21 EXP: 5498 Next: 487 Since: 07-04-17 Last post: 2828 days ago Last view: 299 days ago |
I speak English, and the small amount of Spanish that I remember from middle school and high school, which is to say, not much... ____________________ ![[image]](https://bin.smwcentral.net/u/28782/mikeanimsmall.gif) My Youtube Channel![[image]](https://bin.smwcentral.net/u/28782/greenshellmk64.gif)
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I speak python,
(sorry if I posted this twice {if I did}) ____________________ Just a fucktard |
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 Red Goomba Normal user Level: 15 
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Being a lousy American I don't speak any other language fluently. I'm currently learning Spanish and I know a little bit of German since I took classes on that in Middle School.
It was invented by someone during the 40s/50s I think because the person who made it was in Poland during the post WWII era and the people in Poland who spoke different languages had a really hard time communicating., so he invented his own language and basically just threw it out there for anyone to use. The only reason I know that much is because my dad speaks it. |
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Здравствуй!
I'm self-teaching myself Russian and I love it. I can transcribe Cyrillic to Latin (all I did was just wrote a bunch of Mario characters names in Russian and tried to memorize what each letter stood for) and I'm starting to pick up vocabulary and I'm itching to learn grammar. I'm doing this in the spare time I'm waiting for my twin to finish her classes so I guess I put some free time to use. XD |
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Member I have found a basket to put in my SD card reader so I never lose it Level: 67
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Posted by Sammy Esperanto was invented at the end of the 19th century, long before WWII was even a thing. I'm very sorry to be a little language bitch, but this is my studying field - and stuff I have to know for my upcoming exams. ____________________ |
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Chocolate and OK are two universal words, meaning that they sound and spell almost same across most languages.
Are there any other words like this? ____________________ Netplay is a language we all speak. Here’s my Discord. Kinda constructed now where we talk about whatever and lounge around on weekends. https://discord.gg/CqMArxq |
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Coffee I think is one, at least according to MKGirlism’s blog a while ago... |
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Baby Luigi Level: 55
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Some of those words are "cognates", where they sound similar across different languages because it's either they have similar roots (in Russian's case with Latin and Greek) or the item is a foreign object to them so they adapted the word to their language.
And yes, in Russian, coffee is called "кофи", which is the same sound we use. Even in Chinese, it's called "ka fei" (咖啡). It's mostly because coffee is a foreign drink to these cultures, so they just borrowed the word into their language. Salad is another one. It's called "салат" in Russian and "sha la" (沙拉) in Chinese. |
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初めまして、マリオと申します。
日本語を話します。あなたも日本語を話せますか？ (Nice to meet you, my name is Mario. I speak Japanese. Can you also speak Japanese?) Young people always run forth bravely, in order to seek out as yet unseen things.
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I gonna learn Nihongo after I learn more Esperanto. ____________________ Netplay is a language we all speak. Here’s my Discord. Kinda constructed now where we talk about whatever and lounge around on weekends. https://discord.gg/CqMArxq |
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 Bullet Bill Normal user Level: 48 
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My school offers Italian as a second-language option, so I have that. As with most High-School languages, I'm not exactly fluent, but I could be much worse. ____________________ |
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Member Supreme Kaiser Level: 10 Posts: 7/15 EXP: 3279 Next: 1135 Since: 09-20-17 From: Ends of Eternity Last post: 2116 days ago Last view: 1177 days ago |
Posted by XAIXER Picking up some Serbo-Croation now. Pretty neat. |
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 Fire Brother Normal user Level: 65 Posts: 1033/1121 EXP: 2283250 Next: 52378 Since: 04-24-16 Last post: 1312 days ago Last view: 1279 days ago |
i speak minimal amounts of german. pretty interesting. I can understand some things, others not at all. |
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Newcomer Normal user Level: 6 Posts: 3/5 EXP: 622 Next: 285 Since: 12-16-17 Last post: 3080 days ago Last view: 2412 days ago |
I speak fluent C++ and have moderate knowledge of Game Boy and DS assembly. I also know a little bit of German. |
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Fire Brother Normal user Level: 65 Posts: 1042/1121 EXP: 2283250 Next: 52378 Since: 04-24-16 Last post: 1312 days ago Last view: 1279 days ago |
Posted by PSISP don't think speak was the word you were looking for there... unless you meant it that way |
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