Language

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

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[crodio]

I gave French a try a week ago. Its weird how fast I progressed. I can read much more than what I can read in German, and I spent much more than a week struggling with Krautisch.
I still want to read German, but French seems such a low hanging fruit.

 

[Pixel]

I liked learning french whenever I tried ages ago but I got really frustrated with it because I could never pronounce anything well enough for french people to understand me. So I started to hate it. It is relatively easy to read though.

 

[crodio]

Pronunciation seems hard, and I hate it that there are many kids of é è e ê which have sometimes super slightly different sounds that I'm completely insensitive to, but apparently French speakers are not? And the r's, of cougs
But i'm nonetheless interested mostly on reading, writing and maybe listening, so it doesn't pain much

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

You kind of get used to it eventually just by listening to the language lot over an extended period of time. For example I'm slowly getting used to the differences between Shi and Chi and Xi and Zhi in Chinese after 3 years of trying to differentiate them.

 

[rebelknight]

I gave French a try a week ago. Its weird how fast I progressed. I can read much more than what I can read in German, and I spent much more than a week struggling with Krautisch.
I still want to read German, but French seems such a low hanging fruit.

You should learn the the best kind of French, Quebec and Maritime French not the baguettry they speak in France.
Good ol Quebec Joual.

Maritime Fran-glish, best kind of Franglish.

 

[Almalexia]

You kind of get used to it eventually just by listening to the language lot over an extended period of time. For example I'm slowly getting used to the differences between Shi and Chi and Xi and Zhi in Chinese after 3 years of trying to differentiate them.

These make me literally want to die

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Is there any example of a language becoming more grammatically complex? Is such a thing even possible in a globalised world where micro-languages get steamrolled by pidgins and linguaeii francaeii?

 

[Feragorn]

dog -> dawg -> doge -> doggo -> doggeaux

 

[Dryvus]

ooga booga wug blug -> proto indo european

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

>implying

 

[Dusk Voyager]

Is there any example of a language becoming more grammatically complex?

Does going from pre-kanji to post-kanji Japanese count?

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Pre-Kanji was still more grammatically complex because there were more levels of politeness.

 

[crodio]

I remember a website with a chart of IPA phonemes? And upon pressing the bottoms you could hear an audio and all that. I think hector posted it? I had fav'd it in my old phone, but now I can't find it
Edit: it was the first result upon googling "interactive IPA chart"
http://www.ipachart.com

 

[crodio]

How uniform is Arabic in its geographic extension?  Can someone from, say, Algeria or Tunisia understand without a hitch someone in Yemen? (In speaking, in writing)

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

:In speaking it's apparently like different languages. Dunno about the writing but I imagine it's similar given how arabic usually has the same phonemes attached to letters.

 

[Pixel]

There is standard arabic, which everybody understands. But the dialect of each country is very mutually unintelligible.

 

[crodio]

These guys only have 3 vowels, i think i've found my favorite language.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

'rbc 's th wrst lng'g 'vr

 

[Areze]

'n wdj?

u i er