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Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 2:11 pm
by Emil
Lucky me i'm living in one of those countries that talk another germanic language which means i have relatively easy for english.

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 2:35 pm
by Boni
If you can understand the Scottish accent then I'm sure you will be able to learn any langauge you want with ease.

Ah wish tae welcome a' fowk fae TheresNoSolution tae scootlund, It's wylakin' an' th' weaither is jobbies but we can aw gang it intae th' toon an' gie blooter'd. Hoo diz 'at soond?

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 2:37 pm
by TomiT14
Boni Boy Blue wrote:If you can understand the Scottish accent then I'm sure you will be able to learn any langauge you want with ease.

Ah wish tae welcome a' fowk fae TheresNoSolution tae scootlund, It's wylakin' an' th' weaither is jobbies but we can aw gang it intae th' toon an' gie blooter'd. Hoo diz 'at soond?
I tried and I tried, but still failed.

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 2:39 pm
by Bobbyjames
something like, I wish to welcome the folk of TNS to Scotland, it's something and the weather is shit but you can go down the town and get shitfaced, how does that sound

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 3:09 pm
by Simon
Icelandic language is the hardest, at least according to a BBC documentary where they had this crazy guy learn it in a few months.
But I agree, Scottish accent is barely English anymore.

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 3:19 pm
by Bobbyjames
there's quite a few accents accross the UK that are quite hard to understand when spoken fast, like Scottish, Scouse, Geordie. The Irish are a nightmare to understand when their accent is strong too. I sound like a farmer boy

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 3:42 pm
by Susanne
Emil wrote:Lucky me i'm living in one of those countries that talk another germanic language which means i have relatively easy for english.
Yeah I've noticed while studying Swedish that the grammar is quite similiar to English. That's probably why I find Swedish pretty easy to learn.

I don't see English as a difficult language. For me it just comes really naturally. German on the other hand is harder. I would love to be as good at it as I am at English but I'm not. Hopefully someday I will be.

I read my post again and realized I may have sounded more aggressive than I meant to. I just prefer to listen to people who are better at pronuncing English words than some people I know.

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 4:43 pm
by Druska
CUNT wrote:there's quite a few accents accross the UK that are quite hard to understand when spoken fast, like Scottish, Scouse, Geordie. The Irish are a nightmare to understand when their accent is strong too. I sound like a farmer boy
my english teacher is irish his accent is pretty neutral, tbh Uk accent sounds weird if you're not used , evry language has it's accents for example people from barcelona had lots of trouble with my catalan cos i'm from the south and we speak faster and pronounce words in a different way

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 4:59 pm
by Emil
My english sounds like an american news anchor. I used to talk really brittish but then i got brainwashed by american music and movies.

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:00 pm
by Anneliesx
English is easy to learn.
I speak dutch so I understand almost everything Germans say.

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 6:55 pm
by Boni
CUNT wrote:something like, I wish to welcome the folk of TNS to Scotland, it's something and the weather is shit but you can go down the town and get shitfaced, how does that sound
Spot on my friend.

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 1:08 am
by geeinglat
I can't understand a damn thing in Spanish and Spanish is very close to Portuguese (my mother language). They're both pretty hard to learn, English is easiest for me.
My grades in school are from 0 to 100. I always get 100 in english and about 70 in spanish and portugese haha

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 1:17 am
by Simon
geeinglat wrote:I can't understand a damn thing in Spanish and Spanish is very close to Portuguese (my mother language). They're both pretty hard to learn, English is easiest for me.
My grades in school are from 0 to 100. I always get 100 in english and about 70 in spanish and portugese haha
I was even better in English than in German (my mother language) but that was probably due to my lack of interest for literature. I always liked English for it's sound and today it almost feels like my mother language, although I rarely actually speak English. I pretty much only write in English.

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 1:29 am
by geeinglat
Simon wrote:
geeinglat wrote:I can't understand a damn thing in Spanish and Spanish is very close to Portuguese (my mother language). They're both pretty hard to learn, English is easiest for me.
My grades in school are from 0 to 100. I always get 100 in english and about 70 in spanish and portugese haha
I was even better in English than in German (my mother language) but that was probably due to my lack of interest for literature. I always liked English for it's sound and today it almost feels like my mother language, although I rarely actually speak English. I pretty much only write in English.
Yeah, me too. I speak english in my english classes, my teacher tell us to translate some huge texts but I never do it, so he talks to me in english instead haha

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 8:16 am
by Bobbyjames
Boni Boy Blue wrote:
CUNT wrote:something like, I wish to welcome the folk of TNS to Scotland, it's something and the weather is shit but you can go down the town and get shitfaced, how does that sound
Spot on my friend.
if you would of said that to me though, I wouldn't have a clue what you were saying!

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 3:08 pm
by Emil
Swedes have this habit of making english sound like english mixed with swedish, it's called swenglish. It sounds something like this.

In swiiiden vi dånt hav ani påår pipel. Do jo pipel have påår pipel in jår cåntris? Bicås vi dånt.

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 6:49 pm
by Janet
what was this thread about once anyway

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 10:02 pm
by Emil
IO think it was about girls.

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:17 pm
by Mr-David-Blues
CUNT wrote:
Boni Boy Blue wrote:
CUNT wrote:something like, I wish to welcome the folk of TNS to Scotland, it's something and the weather is shit but you can go down the town and get shitfaced, how does that sound
Spot on my friend.
if you would of said that to me though, I wouldn't have a clue what you were saying!
curious, would you(or anyone else) understand what is meant by baffies, neeps, bawz, banter, heed, fitbaw and fanny (not American meaning hurhur)

winner gets a nude pic of Hayley Willaims

Re: Your Top 5 (or 10)

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:20 pm
by Bobbyjames
I have a fanny