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Hetalian Indie Rio de Janeiro
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Postby Hetalian Indie Rio de Janeiro » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:54 am

Conscentia wrote:
Hetalian Indie Rio de Janeiro wrote:I did learn neither.
I did learn about half of the worst part, the writing system, just out of boredom.

All you learned is the orthography, the least significant part of a spoken language, over 6 years, and even then only learned half?
You say Japanese is easy - you don't even know Japanese. You're just somewhat literate in the Japanese writing system.


I learned all of it when I was 12. My experience decreased because my interest also did. I didn't really felt like living in a place that is literally the other side of the world (+13-+14 hours in timezone difference), where people are too shy, don't show emotions in public and don't talk to strangers, who like politeness, harmony and social cohesion... When I was 12 that sounded nice but it is totally the kind of society I would not fit in. So no.

I have a hobby in Linguistics. Of course I know how hard Japanese is, since I have basic knowledge in French, English, Spanish, and would compare.

Everyone says the writing system is the worse part. -_-
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Postby Brocwika » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:55 am

It's an unecessary langauge.

Y U NO ACCEPT PLACE AS PART OF POLAND? You can speak thier langauge instead.
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Postby Hetalian Indie Rio de Janeiro » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:58 am

Brocwika wrote:It's an unecessary langauge.

Y U NO ACCEPT PLACE AS PART OF POLAND? You can speak thier langauge instead.


There are already too many Lithuanians beating the crap out of your fellow people and my distant cousins there for you to troll this way, don't ya think?
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Postby Conscentia » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:59 am

Savotishka wrote:
Conscentia wrote:What do you mean "which one"?

to which slavic language does it sound the most similar

I don't know every Slavic language, only Russian, and my Russian isn't that good. It sounds nothing like Russian, though Lithuanian sounds vaguely Slavic as it palatalises consonants. Palatalisation is a feature common in Slavic languages.
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Postby Savotishka » Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:02 pm

Brocwika wrote:It's an unecessary langauge.

Y U NO ACCEPT PLACE AS PART OF POLAND? You can speak thier langauge instead.

our language survived all the hardships and was left nearly untouched, even if we were part of poland our language would still remain for many many years

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Postby Conscentia » Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:03 pm

Hetalian Indie Rio de Janeiro wrote:
Conscentia wrote:Every Romance language is insane.

Most consonant clusters in English generally consist of 2 consonants.
I don't advise you try Slavic languages or Kartvelian languages, if you struggle with consonant clusters.
There are words in Georgian which involve up to 6 consonants in a row.


Yeah, insanity. Brazilian Portuguese is not really hard, much less complicated than Spanish, and makes you understand Spanish. But knowing Spanish always make your Portuguese so horrible it is insulting. Especially when your first language is not Spanish.

I wouldn't try any language with weird consonants. ANY. Brazilian Portuguese phonology is so similar to Japanese's I wonder why we differentiate r from l. In Polish they differentiate retroflex (apical post-alveolar actually) from apical post-alveolar, the fuck. In Russian they go to the point of differentiating between palatalized and non-palatalized consonants. I will have none of this madness.

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Postby Hetalian Indie Rio de Janeiro » Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:04 pm

Conscentia wrote:
Savotishka wrote:to which slavic language does it sound the most similar

I don't know every Slavic language, only Russian, and my Russian isn't that good. It sounds nothing like Russian, though Lithuanian sounds vaguely Slavic as it palatalises consonants. Palatalisation is a feature common in Slavic languages.


LOL. There is lots of palatalization in Portuguese and Japanese, it just isn't phonemic.

But then Spaniards say to us we sound Slavic. I always believed they were just trolling until I heard some t.A.t.U. songs where everything they sing is just like gibberish with a Brazilian accent. Oh teh suffering.

I like the sound of Lithuanian, but Finnish, Occitan, Arpitan and Catalan are all much nicer.
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Postby Conscentia » Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:21 pm

Hetalian Indie Rio de Janeiro wrote:
Conscentia wrote:I don't know every Slavic language, only Russian, and my Russian isn't that good. It sounds nothing like Russian, though Lithuanian sounds vaguely Slavic as it palatalises consonants. Palatalisation is a feature common in Slavic languages.


LOL. There is lots of palatalization in Portuguese and Japanese, it just isn't phonemic.

But then Spaniards say to us we sound Slavic. I always believed they were just trolling until I heard some t.A.t.U. songs where everything they sing is just like gibberish with a Brazilian accent. Oh teh suffering.

I like the sound of Lithuanian, but Finnish, Occitan, Arpitan and Catalan are all much nicer.

I think whether or not palatalisation occurs in Portuguese depends on the dialect.
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Postby Esen » Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:58 pm

*cough*German is easier*cough*

Anyways, I find the Baltic languages near impossible to speak.
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Postby Savotishka » Mon Jul 15, 2013 1:29 am

Esen wrote:*cough*German is easier*cough*

Anyways, I find the Baltic languages near impossible to speak.

why? i always thought my language was like one of the most basic ones out there

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Postby Azores-Atlantis » Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:18 am

To me Lithuanian sounds like nothing else in the world. My girlfriend says it sounds a bit like Chinese.

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