Learning Languages?

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  1. UnitRico Well-Known Member

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    Well, as for the "u", doesn't "four" sound similar to the "ou" in "harbour"?
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    And for is a homophone of harbor... Your point?
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    "Four" as in the number 4 is still written with "ou" in American English, isn't it? Then again, "for" is in British English as well...this now confuses me. Damn you, English language!

    I do have this book on Denglish with funny mistakes commonly made by the Dutch when speaking English. At the end of one of the books, there was a small section on "simplifying" English. Well, after a few pages (admittedly, it was a pretty small book) it just got hard to read.
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    And there are some old English words that lived on in America... Like fall and candy...
  5. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    To be honest im glad those two stuck around, Although I like the accents of the British I much rather have good old American English to fuck up.
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    I know arabic pretty well, but my spanish is pretty basic. Then again, i am learning, and where i live, it's VERY important. I live in southern Nevada,Las Vegas, which is pretty close to Mexico >.>
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    I've taken enough of Spanish class to know the language is not for me, or that I don't have an desire to learn it.
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    French was like, a bajillion times easier to learn. If your learning it from english, at least from my standpoint, it's the easiest language to learn.
  9. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    I also want to learn some Japanese, by everyone who I know that speaks Japanese is an asshole.
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    As useless as French is, I learned it.
  11. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    French is good if your going to go to Africa and help out, but then you need to know Arabic on the side.
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    I've learned French for more than two years now... And I still can't say sh*t... Actually, that's not true... I do know how to say sh*t in French, but I definitely did not learn that during my French classes...
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    Could you please stop with the ..... at the end of all of your sentences. They are used for an unfinished sentence or if you were interupted.
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    Can everyone just please stop commenting about that!?
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    Is there any point in doing it?
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    So guys what language you think sounds the best and which one sounds the strangest?
  17. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    Well depends I know alot of Japanese people like English for its sounds and look but never learn it, for me the one that sounds the strangest is Swazi and the one that sounds the best is obviously old nordic for the vikings.
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    Spanish and Japanese sound the best, other than English, and Ebonics sounds the strangest.
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    Deutsch.
  20. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    He said sounds the strangest, not angriest.

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