japanese

11/9/2006 5:15:54 PM

spanish and arabic belong to totally different groups of languages, even if they some use similar words there is not way for you to understand anything.

Dont forget that up to 50% of the english vocab is latin based, yet its very hard for english speaking people to undestand latin based languages, why? because they belong to different language families and therefore have different grammer structure ... etc.

what are the other languages that u speak?

11/9/2006 6:19:23 PM

^ thank you, only the 3rd person so far with any sense....


(the moores where only in the very southren most portion of spain for MOST of those 700 years....)


god this is just as bad when i got in a argument about english being a germanic vs romance language....

11/9/2006 8:15:28 PM

SANSKRIT

11/9/2006 8:20:40 PM

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" god this is just as bad when i got in a argument about english being a germanic vs romance language...."

anyone who argues that English is a romance language is a complete trogladyte. the language may use french words, but the grammar and word order is distinctly german.

11/9/2006 9:58:23 PM

that's what i attempted to explain, but he would hear none of it until i found a legit publication on it... which didn't take long....

11/10/2006 9:09:01 AM

Words...

I took German in HS and in college. It is completely phonetic so spelling and pronunciation are never a big problem. The grammar is all straightfoward. Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland all speak German, and speaking from experience Germany and Austria are gorgeous and have such a great culture, good food, and even better beer. As far as aesthetic, well, I think it is. I took it for cultural reasons until my family found out we were from the Austro-Hungarian area (Slavic on that language map), then I just stuck with it.


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11/10/2006 2:30:50 PM

francais

11/10/2006 2:50:14 PM