I mean it, I am writing a short essay in Icelandic and was going to use the Icelandic word for 'resources', but I just could not for the life of me remember what it was, except for in english... so I had to find a dictionary and actually look up the english word to see the icelandic translation...

I think it's pretty scary, but I understand it completely, all the book I read for school are in english, I have 3 foreign friends here and we speak english when we are together, and most of my free time I spend here, writing english...

So it's not really a big surprise is it? [img]smile.gif[/img]

By the way has this ever happened to any one else here?

Me too. It doesn't happen very often but it's still very annoying. The most frustrating is when I know it in French, German, English, Latin or Greek (which I only can read a bit so I shouldn't know the words alone only in a text). (edit) That's how worse it can be.

[ 10-17-2002, 10:42 AM: Message edited by: philip ]

You've really got to start worrying when you only know it in Drow though...

I spoke fluent english but after taking Kanji, Hirigana, and hanging out at a whole bunch of Oekaki Boards, as well as playing PSO wiht Japanese players, I'm kind of... having to not speak as fluently as I did... err I mean what Im getting at is that I have to think sometimes alot before I speak, to check the scentence i'm abotu to say, sometimes I just up and end up talking like Yoda [img]tongue.gif[/img] "Do that we shall..." + I almost never talk in "Small Talk" I normaly use the same repetative and large linguistic phraises such as "Thats just Perspecatiouse!" "I have a query..." (that one got me in trouble O.o) And whenever I sing I find it hard to keep from busting rhymes in Kanji [img]tongue.gif[/img] So many things you can say that would ryme. . . aanyway... Yeah I think i've dealt with that before, when I was young I also spoke fluent German, but I dont know anything outside of counting to 100, saying a few basic introductory phaises and goodbye... Just like Spanish [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Lol, Death, I learnt Japanese Hiragana first and then Katakana. When I was in the last phases of Katakana, I kept having to think how to spell English words without writing a different figure! :D

That's happened to me lots Jorath :D Personally I don't mind it, I find English to be a much more fluid and beautiful language than Danish.

When I lived in Italy I used to know a little bit of Italian, but I don't remember any of it anymore. Same with spanish class lol, hard to remember a language if you don't speak it everyday. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Ditto to the first part of the post - but Neb, how can you say that danish isn't a beautiful language [img]graemlins/verysad.gif[/img] ;)

[ 10-17-2002, 02:48 PM: Message edited by: Ar-Cunin ]

Ditto to the first part of the post - but Neb, how can you say that danish isn't a beautiful language [img]graemlins/verysad.gif[/img] ;) </font>[/QUOTE]Hmmm..... Because I'm forced the speak the horrible abomination almost every damn day? [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Well I had to learn some danish, from the age of 11 to 16 it is compulsory here, and well I can't speak it, I can read it pretty well, I've lost most of the grammar, and it's very hard to understand native speakers... they sound like they have a potato in their mouth... :D