Thats also fun though! But it can get pretty cool too. I love to explore deeper meanings between different languages that you can exploit only by understanding both languages. Have a splendid weekend!
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Thats also fun though! But it can get pretty cool too. I love to explore deeper meanings between different languages that you can exploit only by understanding both languages. Have a splendid weekend!
It is hahaha 🤣
Yes, I know what you mean… in certain countries/ languages, you do need to understand all. To find the deeper meanings, the jokes and the little things you don’t pick up when you only have a basic level.
It changes everything once you reach that level of knowing and understanding of a level.
Thanks a lot 😊👋🏻 Have a great weekend too. Enjoy it…
Exactly! And that makes your life fuller and better. I am so sad that my parents did not expose us to different languages at an early age. I so badly want to learn isiXhosa, one of the languages spoken here, but my brain just functions on a different level in terms of memorizing things. I cannot even remember my own cellphone number some days. But I know that is the wrong approach to learning a new language. Haha, do you have any tips??
It does enrich your life so much.
That’s a shame.
I can give you an example of how I learned English. I didn’t have it in school and my parents didn’t speak it. I was raised Dutch and German.
In 2011 I started learning it via television, documentaries, music and movies. I put on the sub titles. And tried to speak along, especially with music.
I never done the grammar or lessons, I learned it the parrot fashion way.
Now since I joined Hive… December last year. I discovered… because of learning it the parrot fashion way, some of my words were and still are wrong. As I never written it really down, just spoken language. Like were and where, then and than, heart and heard etc. for me it sounds the same hehehe 🤭
I am just writing and writing now to get it right. And hubby did proof read my posts in the beginning. Now he doesn’t anymore.
I think you should immerse yourself in it. If possible… surround yourself with the spoken language.
Learn by doing so, talking. The written part can be later. If you have a solid vocabulary it opens up worlds.
So true! I think though that if you speak one of the Germanic languages, you can relatively easily pick up another one if you put the work in. Like, my home language is Afrikaans, so Dutch will be very easy (in some respects) to learn and German a bit tougher but still doable. However, isiXhosa is a whole new grammar system and way of speaking (using clicks). And their writing and spoken language are very different. The written language is very formal and the spoken one is informal. If you learn the written formal language you still won't be able to talk with other speakers. But it opens your world so much if you speak multiple languages!
Of course… Afrikaans. You know when I start writing Dutch here you can follow it all along.
“En kan het lezen wat ik schrijf. Omdat het zo dicht bij elkaar ligt. En het Duits is weer dichtbij het Nederlands” so maybe a nice language for you to learn.
/ explore.
I have written Dutch to people from Africa here on Hive and we just do understand each other fully. There are slight differences but not that much.
Aha, ok. I understand. That’s a difference that makes it harder to learn written and spoken.
Yes, it changes all.
Yes, I understand! “Ek dink jy sal ook verstaan as ek in Afrikaans skryf.” I know there are some words that differ and produce funny situations. I did some coursework on Dutch especially poetry and we have friends that live in Belgium and my Uncle can talk Dutch and Vlaams as he has been living in Belgium for I think 40 years. It is always lovely to listen to the languages mix. I met up with a Dutch friend about three weeks ago and it was lovely to hear the language again.
So cool…. Yep, got it all. And I can imagine when some words are different it can cause hi,arious situations hehehe 🤭
That’s cool. Especially in poetry.
I never heard the spoken Afrikaans. Maybe one day I will…
I can imagine it must have been nice to hear it again. And all mixes.
Have an awesome evening @fermentedphil 👋🏻😊