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Postby gecko » Sunday 21 September 2003 4:46:45pm

Ju-DedoH wrote:
Mistress Siana wrote:Mijn naam is Janna. Prettig met u kennis te maken!

could that be "my name is Jane, I am glad to meet you ?


Yes it is! You speak Dutch too, Ju! :)
Hoe gaat het met iedereen? *How is everybody doing?*

Mistress Siana, how long have you been studying Dutch?

Ich lerne nur Deutsch und Französisch lesen auf Schule, nicht sprechen oder screiben :-?.
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Postby Broccoli » Sunday 21 September 2003 5:18:22pm

I never learned Dutch but I understand a lot, because it is very similar to German.
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Postby Ju-DedoH » Sunday 21 September 2003 5:59:06pm

nope, I cant speek dutch, but like Broccoli, I guessed thanks to german and english (you must admit that it wasn't a very complicated sentence ...)
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Postby gecko » Sunday 21 September 2003 7:00:30pm

Okay, I admit, if you use your knowledge of english and german, it's not that difficult.
But I've heard that learning Dutch when you're a foreigner is difficult.

For example, this sentence:
Ik heb je wel in de gaten! *I know what you are up to!

If you'd translate each word literally, you'd get 'I have you in the holes!' heehe :P
We apparently use figurative speech a lot,
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Postby Jotomicron » Sunday 21 September 2003 8:00:24pm

Ju-DedoH:

I also love different alphabets :razz: . And I also tried to teach some Japanese myself (it is indeed a great language, but a difficult one :eek: : I know very little). In June I went to Japan (actually, not for the language, but for an International contest) and I loved the language :eekie: .

I really must try to learn it :P ...
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Postby Mistress Siana » Sunday 21 September 2003 9:53:57pm

Gecko, I've just been learning dutch for a few weeks because I'm planning to study in the Netherlands. I don't think the grammar will be that much of a problem because it's very similar to german, but the pronounciation is kinda difficult! I don't believe I'll ever be able to speak it without accent... :-?
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Postby Friar Tuck » Monday 22 September 2003 1:24:01am

The best thing I know is Spanish.

Me llama Zack. Me gusta estando en BaO. Yo hablo espanol. Yo estudio Espanol Dos en la escuela arriba. Mi profesor es interesante y comico y es un medico.
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Postby Broccoli » Monday 22 September 2003 10:31:34am

me gusta el color verde - it's pretty much everything I can say in Spanish :grin: BUT I understand a lot, it's not a hard language to understand, especially when one speaks English and a bit of French and Italian...
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Postby highsorcerer » Monday 22 September 2003 11:57:38am

I can speak and write English, but I only know a bit of German.
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Postby Jotomicron » Monday 22 September 2003 3:22:13pm

I know how to speak: Portuguese (My mother tongue), English, Spanish, something (not to much) of French and, as stated before, I know some sentences in Italian and Japanese:

Watashi wa Joaun desu. (I'm João.)
Kore wa neko desu ka. (Is this a cat?)
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Postby yasmane » Monday 22 September 2003 3:53:46pm

Hé bien ça en fait de nombreuses différentes langues sur ce forum, et en plus on a pas mal de français, c'est cool
well, there really are many different languages in this forum, and what's best is the quantity of french people here.

Pues, hace mucho tiempo que no yo hablo espanol y tengo mucha difficultad para decir lo que yo quiero.

And unfortunately I don't speak other language. Too sad.
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Postby choki » Monday 22 September 2003 5:02:36pm

hajimemashi te 初次见面,请多执教 (this is our 1st meeting)
watashi wa choki desu[i/] 我的名字是choki (my name is choki)
[i]dozo yoroshiku
希望能近一步认识你 (hope to know you better)
Japanese is hard to translate into english because the meaning is usually lost thru translate...the closely language it can get to is mandarin
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Postby dilkerani » Friday 26 September 2003 6:00:41pm

mere naam Dil Ke Rani hai.
my name is dil ke rani....dil ke rani means Queen of Hearts :grin:
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Postby Mint » Friday 26 September 2003 8:50:16pm

I think we should have a poll for languages, that would be so fun!


Anyway, my languages:

1)Ukrainian
2)Russian
3)....English LOL

Choki - can u read Japanese? I have some comics in Japanese - I thought may be I'll learn it....then I looked at it...........and changed my mind :o I dont have the patience....
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Postby Won Wheezy » Saturday 27 September 2003 12:22:41am

I would love to learn Gaelic - but it´s such a difficult language! Slainte! (That means Cheers)
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