what other languages do you speak? (+Poll)

gogogadgetarms · Post by **gogogadgetarms** » Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:13 pm

Korean, English, French.

metalized · Post by **metalized** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 5:03 am

Jebus wrote:I couldn't do the survey because there is some overlap and confusion in the options. For example, Italian is both a Latin and European language? Is Mauritian Creole (derived from French) a European, Latin, or African language? Anyways, I speak Swedish, English, French, German, Mauritian Creole and a bit of Spanish.

Yes, that is a problem for me as well as well.
Anyway I speak Greek, English, Croatian (as I have lived in Croatia for several years), a bit of German, and now I am studying Swedish, as I live in Sweden.

Jebus · Post by **Jebus** » Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:26 am

metalized wrote:now I am studying Swedish, as I live in Sweden.

Do you find Swedish difficult to learn, compared to Croatian and German?

Lightningman_42 · Post by **Lightningman_42** » Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:32 am

English, German, Dutch, and Japanese

PrincessPeach · Post by **PrincessPeach** » Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:44 pm

English & American Sign Language plus a little bit of Spanish/Finnish and I can read German lol

I have dyslexia and thinking in sign language vs English really helps

Jebus · Post by **Jebus** » Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:29 am

PrincessPeach wrote:English & American Sign Language

Why isn't there one international sign language?

PrincessPeach · Post by **PrincessPeach** » Fri Apr 17, 2015 6:31 pm

Jebus wrote:
Why isn't there one international sign language?

The same reason there isn't one international language..

American Sign Language is different than Signed English ..

ASL has different grammar similar to Chinese actually..

In England they even sign numbers differently.

The true international language is facial expressions.

Jebus · Post by **Jebus** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 12:53 am

PrincessPeach wrote:
Jebus wrote:
Why isn't there one international sign language?

The same reason there isn't one international language../quote]

I don't know when the first sign language was developed, but I would assume the world was already connected at this point. I would definitely support an initiative to develop an international sign language.

PrincessPeach · Post by **PrincessPeach** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:12 pm

Jebus wrote:
I don't know when the first sign language was developed, but I would assume the world was already connected at this point. I would definitely support an initiative to develop an international sign language.

In every deaf community they have their own slang way of signing and they've made up their own signs too.. The signanguage in south Florida differs than the sign language used in California...
Why?
Communities make up their own way of communicating .. It's human nature . The biggest part of communication in sign language is facial expressions ..

metalized · Post by **metalized** » Sun May 03, 2015 1:10 pm

Jebus wrote:
metalized wrote:now I am studying Swedish, as I live in Sweden.
Do you find Swedish difficult to learn, compared to Croatian and German?

talk about a late reply, need to check my notification settings

I learned German many years ago (got the Grundstuffe diploma from the Goethe Iinstitute), and never really used it, so it has gotten rusty.
Having said that
- No Swedish is definitely the easiest to learn of the 3. It is like oversimplified German with hints of English. But the real difficult part of it is to understand what they are saying
- Croatian has been the most difficult to learn, as I had to learn it by living in the country, without having any contact with the language before.
- German is difficult at first I think, but really not that bad in the end.

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