Languages, my old favourite

Hi all, you oldies may remember my old language thread, but since it has died, I am going to start a new one. This is going to be, I hope a place to practice using your second/third languages etc and hopefully to get help from some native speakers. I am going to give some links to language tutorials on the net, (see below) to hopefully spark sopme interest. I also promise to not use machine translators this time, as they suck

German Tutorial
http://www.germanways.com/tutorial1.1.htm
Dutch Tutorial
http://www.find.com.au/tutorials/spokenlanguages/dutch/
Swedish Tutorial
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~arubin/swedish.html

Will add anymore I find, feel free to add any yourselves too,

Sir Tainly

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Holy Avenger of the OHF and part time Pinguindiebjäger

[This message has been edited by Sir_Tainly (edited 05-29-2001).]

[Lifetime]

I have yet to find out an effective way to improve my chinese

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Why?

[Lord of Alcohol]

I am willing to teach advanced profanity if anyone would care to learn. Tuition is cheap too. BEER!!!

[Cloudbringer]

Hello! I'll just add my Resources url for all things Russian. It was compiled by some of the faculty and grads in my dept.

http://www.albany.edu/faculty/lubensky/

Cloudy

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Raindancer of the Laughing Hyenas Clan
Storm-Queen
StormCloud of the Black Knight
Heart Mind Soul Forever

[Wah]

I've got really crap french skills

I got B for my exams but its still pretty basic stuff like:

Salut! je m'appelle Wah (and) j'habite a Londre avec ma.............

Je ne comprend pas!

Oh well - it'll get me a portion of chips there at least

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Greetings Mortals. My Name Is Wah, Arch Lich Wah.

[Wah]

Originally posted by Lord of Alcohol: I am willing to teach advanced profanity if anyone would care to learn. Tuition is cheap too. BEER!!!

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Greetings Mortals. My Name Is Wah, Arch Lich Wah.

[Melusine]

Good to see you start this topic again, SirTainly, thanks!!
The discussions of interesting/funny phenomena in languages that we had in the previous threads were quite good too, maybe we can have some more of those...also we could continue checking to what extent our languages have the same roots and other similarities. For example (this one's for Cloudy, who probably knows this), there are a few words in Russian derived from Dutch, most of them nautical terms. This is due to the fact that Czar Peter visited Holland (Zaandam, to be precise, which is the town near the place I grew up in) and learned a lot here about our shipcraft and related things.


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Melusine, Archbabe of the Order of the Holy Flame and the Laughing Hyenas, &
Official Entertainer Elf of the BG2 Bar

Your voice is ambrosia

[Shakir Do'Urden]

Well I give German tuition to people who need it at school who need it.


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I will Slay you all

Originally posted by Wah: I've got really crap french skills I got B for my exams but its still pretty basic stuff like: Salut! je m'appelle Wah (and) j'habite a Londre avec ma............. Je ne comprend pas! Oh well - it'll get me a portion of chips there at least

Just make sure you can order a beer and swear like a tropper and you won't go wrong Seriously if you need help, there are several native French speakers around, and they may be able to help. If they are all busy, I might be able to help, although I'm trying to relearn my French having not used it for 6 or so years.

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Holy Avenger of the OHF and part time Pinguindiebjäger

[WOLFGIR]

High there, erhmm, Well I could actually get some help with some nice phrases in French, the ones I know will only get me drunk, in company with easy women and also beat up....

Could be nice to learn some more useful ones...

Well if any one needs help with Swedish, er well I´ll give it a try to help!

*Whhops Sir tainly and Melusine with frienfly pillow, to spread the friendly pillow fight,leaves some pillows for all to participate with and runs away sparaing feathers in his tracks!*

hehe, it´s on dudes and dudettes, grab a pillow and whack your friends so the will know you like them ! hehe

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Yawning lazywolf heading for the cliffs...