Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

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Original post by Kallisto

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Aah, well one day, I'll be able to speak it! (I'm still better than google tranlsate in your eyes though :lolwut:

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

Aah, well one day, I'll be able to speak it! (I'm still better than google tranlsate in your eyes though :lolwut:

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Yes, you are! you can trust me, if I say it so. German is my native language and I would realize grammar mistakes immediately! and the German translation of google was a bad nightmare... apropos, google translator is not able to translate Japanese texts. Am I right in thinking that you are not speak Japanese?

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Original post by Kallisto

Yes, you are! you can trust me, if I say it so. German is my native language and I would realize grammar mistakes immediately! and the German translation of google was a bad nightmare... apropos, google translator is not able to translate Japanese texts. Am I right in thinking that you are not speak Japanese?

No, I don't speak Japanese unfortunately :tongue:

Je parle le français, en peu de l'espagnol et l'italien... Mais, le japonais, non :frown:

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

No, I don't speak Japanese unfortunately :tongue:

Je parle le français, en peu de l'espagnol et l'italien... Mais, le japonais, non :frown:

Je parle en peu le français, (mais moi vocabuliere c'est extremé la vouvouvou limitè :mmm:

), aber ich spreche viel besser Deutsch, Niederländisch und Englisch! :wink:

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Original post by thatitootoo

Je parle en peu le français, (mais moi vocabuliere c'est extremé la vouvouvou limitè :mmm:

), aber ich spreche viel besser Deutsch, Niederländisch und Englisch! :wink:

De français* (a little of French)

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

De français* (a little of French)

ODER

"Je parle un peu le français" ??

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Original post by thatitootoo

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"Je parle un peu le français" ??

I assumed twas a typo :wink:

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

I assumed twas a typo :wink:

One shall never underestimate the Tootoo! :colone:

Exam time! How do you say "I don't speak German" in German?
You have had a lot of practise to perfect this phrase recently... :wink:

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Original post by thatitootoo

One shall not underestimate the Tootoo! :colone:

Exam time! How do you say "I don't spek German" in German?
You have had a lot of practise to perfect this phrase recently... :wink:

Ich kann kein/nicht Deutsch sprechen :yep:

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Original post by constantmeowage

Eh, I'm bent down now, I may as well continue now I can't get up. :tongue:

Random question, but does it get warm and sunny during the summer? That probably sounds really really stupid, but does it have a nice climate in Denmark or is it decidedly British? :tongue:

It's pretty similar to British weather, just a little more extreme maybe - at least in my experience. For the last few weeks it's been at least a couple of degrees warmer every day where I live in Denmark than it has been in my hometown in the North West of England. Last winter it was usually a few degrees colder (sometimes around 10 degrees colder).

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

Ich kann kein/nicht Deutsch sprechen :yep:

Sehr gut!

now if 'nicht' = 'not' & 'kein'=''no'
(ONLY IN THIS CONTEXT)

Would you rather say "I speak not German" or "I speak no German"
in English? (Which one sounds better to you?)

:hopefulface: :tongue:

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Ronove

Original post by Octopus_Garden

Bastian Sick hat gesagt, dass man dies nicht sagte. Aber man kann "das macht Unsinn" sagen.

My linguistics tutor at uni (who was just given a chair) seemed to think Bastian Sick was a prize idiot, and that his books were full of rubbish. :tongue:

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Original post by thatitootoo

Sehr gut!
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now if 'nicht' = 'not & 'kein'='no'

Would you rather say "I speak not German" or "I speak no German"
(Which one sounds better to you?)

:hopefulface: :tongue:

Kein

Although nicht is much more dramatic!

I speak NOT GERMAN

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Original post by Kallisto

Yes, you are! you can trust me, if I say it so. German is my native language and I would realize grammar mistakes immediately! and the German translation of google was a bad nightmare... apropos, google translator is not able to translate Japanese texts. Am I right in thinking that you are not speak Japanese?

Just FYI, we really don't use 'apropos' in English. Before someone else jumps in and claims we do - no, we don't. In very formal argumentative texts, yes - in speech, certainly not. Germans (and Danes, I think) use it in a different way to us. People will either think you're a pompous idiot, or that you're bad at English and using words inappropriately - or they simply won't understand 'apropos' at all. That is how little it is used. :smile:

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

Kein

Although nicht is much more dramatic!

I speak NOT GERMAN

Wooo! Gut gemacht...Fish is starting to get it :redface:

lololol "ICH SPRECHE ÜBERHAUPT KEIN DEUTSCH!" sounds much more powerful than "ICH SPRECHE NICHT DEUTSCH" which just sounds like....you're confused!! xD

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I thought "apropos" was a Spanish word he slipped in by accident :colondollar:

I don't suppose he meant to say "apparently" ? :redface:

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Original post by thatitootoo

Wooo! Gut gemacht...Fish is starting to get it :redface:

lololol "ICH SPRECHE ÜBERHAUPT KEIN DEUTSCH!" sounds much more powerful than "ICH SPRECHE NICHT DEUTSCH" which just sounds like....you're confused!! xD

Why the

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What's uberhaupt? :tongue:

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