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| Topic Started: Jun 13 2010, 09:00 AM (2,170 Views) | |
| flumes | Jun 14 2010, 09:07 AM Post #101 |
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I often speak in Murican. |
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| Toussaint | Jun 14 2010, 09:51 AM Post #102 |
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Excellent. I flirted with Japanese for a little while, but then dropped it due to work stresses. More power to you. :D Japanese is linguistically elegant, but I can't say much about Romani. Although I know what it is, I've never even examined the language structure. So, how did you acquire fluency in Spanish? What region do you live in? I'm here in Southern California, so it's pretty easy to practice on a day-to-day basis. |
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| Union | Jun 14 2010, 10:30 AM Post #103 |
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Listen son. That disgusting set of intonations that Latinos insist on using is not Spanish. :lol: |
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| Hastine | Jun 14 2010, 10:49 AM Post #104 |
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Universi enim hic sumus.
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So Dora the Explorer has been lying to me this whole time? Bitch. :( |
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| Toussaint | Jun 14 2010, 11:16 AM Post #105 |
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I'm quite aware. I've used Pimsleur, Teach Yourself, and natives, so I've gotten a shot at hearing accents and grammar from across the hispanosphere. Though, I think I've got better Spanish than many Mexicans I know. At least, I know I speak more properly. |
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| Aelius | Jun 14 2010, 11:29 AM Post #106 |
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Not surprising. Most foreign speakers that learn English speak it better than most "Muricans", who drag it down with slang, ebonics and other such nonsense. :P |
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| New Harumf | Jun 14 2010, 12:08 PM Post #107 |
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Meh, when I was in Spain most of the natives murdered the grammar too! T^hey would mumble real fast and hope know one noticed. If I was going to become fluent in Spanish, I would learn the Madriano Dialect - use it here in the states and the Hispanics treat you like you are talking with the Queen's accent in English! |
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| Union | Jun 14 2010, 12:11 PM Post #108 |
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Madriano? |
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| New Harumf | Jun 14 2010, 12:34 PM Post #109 |
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The accent of Madrid. I am probably mis-hearing and mis-writing it. I guess it should officially be Castillian! |
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| Union | Jun 14 2010, 12:59 PM Post #110 |
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The adjective meaning "from Madrid" is madrileño. That is the usual Castilian accent. Southern Spain is home to the Andalusian accent, which spawned the Latino accent, and thus also a disgusting aberration :lol: . It is even worse nowadays, being so full of Ecuadorians and Moors who butcher it even further. :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qgNZBLzUug Yech! Edited by Union, Jun 14 2010, 01:00 PM.
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| flumes | Jun 14 2010, 01:12 PM Post #111 |
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Everything was slang at one point. |
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| New Harumf | Jun 14 2010, 02:47 PM Post #112 |
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More like, nothing was slang at one point, everything was appropriate for the speaker. |
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| Al Araam | Jun 14 2010, 03:28 PM Post #113 |
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You sure they just don't treat your like you're speaking with a pronounced lisp? :P |
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| Ulgania | Jun 14 2010, 09:27 PM Post #114 |
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Just learn Latin. Learn everything else from there. |
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| Al Araam | Jun 14 2010, 09:57 PM Post #115 |
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There are quite a lot of languages you can't learn from Latin. Although if you're only interested in Romance languages Latin might be a good start. |
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| Ulgania | Jun 14 2010, 10:02 PM Post #116 |
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Well, that's a given. But in the context of French and Spanish, learn Latin anyway. The silly Germans ruined Italian with all their invasions, so learn Italian after Latin and German. Then work your way through Eastern Europe I suppose. Japanese is a little easier. At least, Katakana and Hiragana are easy to latch on to. |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Jun 14 2010, 10:14 PM Post #117 |
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Learn Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Sanskrit. Just to make work for your idle hands. |
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| Deleted User | Jun 14 2010, 10:16 PM Post #118 |
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I've actually just started learning German today. |
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| Toussaint | Jun 14 2010, 10:23 PM Post #119 |
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Pimsleur? |
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| Ulgania | Jun 14 2010, 10:24 PM Post #120 |
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A better Zarathustra has never rode a horse
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Arabic is on my list somewhere. |
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| Menhad | Jun 14 2010, 10:28 PM Post #121 |
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German is pretty easy. I want to learn Russian, and then learn to speak Arabic like a Russian. |
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| Deleted User | Jun 14 2010, 10:46 PM Post #122 |
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Yeah. Its taking me a while to put all the lessons on my Ipod though. |
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| Sedulius | Jun 15 2010, 02:20 AM Post #123 |
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I'm educated in German, Russian, Arabic, and Latin. I'm not fluent, but I have knack for them. I hate Arabic, though I think if I just practiced it a bit more it might not be so bad. I want to learn Chinese because of its uses. |
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| Rhadamanthus | Jun 15 2010, 07:27 AM Post #124 |
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Italian is awesome. and there were Franks and Goths in France and Spain so its not like they didn't get invaded. |
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| Ulgania | Jun 15 2010, 10:38 AM Post #125 |
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French still feels unique. The whole lingua Franca thing made it learnable on its own without a desire to connect it to other languages. Also living in Vermont I hear a useless amount of Quebecois French. |
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