Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

Original post by Kallisto

No one who wants to help me? no one who can help me? no one who wants to reply my question above? :frown:

I don't speak German, sorry. :redface:

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Original post by Kallisto

No one who wants to help me? no one who can help me? no one who wants to reply my question above? :frown:

I think it's the conditional perfect, and so 'wäre gewesen' should be translated as 'would have been'. Not 100% sure though!

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Original post by Gales

Don't forget that Spanish also uses diaeresis on Us too (ü). Even my Spanish lecturer at uni forgot to teach us it, she claimed Spanish only used acute accents too :tongue:

Oh of course, but honestly, how often do you use it? :rolleyes:

I wouldn't have learnt it if our teacher hadn't taught us the word piragüismo.

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Original post by AquisM

Haha Nah, it's just that Dutch seems to have a lot more j's. :biggrin:

Italian - practically only one out of the three that uses the grave accent (ò - although Portuguese uses it for a few circumstances), quite a few apostrophes
Spanish - not many q's, only uses acute accents (ó) and the only one out the three that uses ñ
Portuguese - only one out of the three that uses the circumflex accent (ô - Italian uses it for a few rare circumstances), the c-cedilla ç and the tilde (õ) on vowels

People always say that! I don't see it lol
The obvious difference is that Dutch doesn't capitalise every noun.

Hmm that's a lot of 'o's' :tongue:

is ñ pronounced like "io" by any chance?

Like in the name :3 Alysia Montaño :3

And do Italian an Spanish feuture the upside down question mark?

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Kallisto

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Original post by constantmeowage

I've replied to you...

Thanks to you! as far as I can see the first example can be translated literally?

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Original post by thatitootoo

People always say that! I don't see it lol
The obvious difference is that Dutch doesn't capitalise every noun.

Oh right, that too!

Hmm that's a lot of 'o's' :tongue:

Hehe I just chose a random vowel.

is ñ pronounced like "io" by any chance?

Like in the name :3 Alysia Montaño :3

It's pronounced sort of like the ny in canyon.

And do Italian an Spanish feuture the upside down question mark?

Spanish does (and the upside down exclamation mark). I think Catalan uses it too, but those are the only two (to my knowledge).

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Original post by constantmeowage

Es wäre gewesen - it would have been :smile:

That's exactly what I thought. I just don't trust myself enough to give German/English/Any advise...lol

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Original post by AquisM

Oh right, that too!

Hehe I just chose a random vowel.

It's pronounced sort of like the ny in canyon.

Spanish does (and the upside down exclamation mark). I think Catalan uses it too, but those are the only two (to my knowledge).

Ahh I seee. And I meant Portuguese...EVERYBODY and their dog knows that Spanish features an upside down question mark :wink:

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Gales

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Original post by AquisM

Oh of course, but honestly, how often do you use it? :rolleyes:

I wouldn't have learnt it if our teacher hadn't taught us the word piragüismo.

Well, it's in some common words like vergüenza, lingüística etc. :smile:

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Original post by Gales

Well, it's in some common words like vergüenza, lingüística etc. :smile:

Ah, meh. I suppose you have a point. :tongue:

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Original post by thatitootoo

Ahh I seee. And I meant Portuguese...EVERYBODY and their dog knows that Spanish features an upside down question mark :wink:

Hehe repped you for that. :smile:

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Original post by AquisM

Hehe repped you for that. :smile:

Muchas gratcias!

(Perhaps I should just stick to German for now ey :wink:

)

Tootoo

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Gales

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Interestingly, inverted question/exclamation marks were once used in Galician and Catalan; but they're no longer recommended. Long live inverted grammar points :biggrin:

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Original post by Gales

Interestingly, inverted question/exclamation marks were once used in Galician and Catalan; but they're no longer recommended. Long live inverted grammar points :biggrin:

Oh I didn't know about Galician. Muchas gracias! :biggrin:

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Gales

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Original post by AquisM

Oh I didn't know about Galician. Muchas gracias! :biggrin:

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Galician is cool, since you study Spanish; watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scb_g98Ra7Q

It's interesting how much you can understand

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