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To: boatbums

The way you describe it sounds a little like Korean, I study it a little. The word order is also subject, object, verb.

I joked that this makes them more patient, having to wait to see what happens.

It’s a bad joke.

It can also be pretty unspecific about things like The girl, a girl etc


188 posted on 10/26/2013 11:39:21 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL
I don't think it's a "bad" joke - it's true!

If you could totally immerse yourself into a foreign language - where it's all you hear, read and speak - it teaches you to think in that language rather than mentally translate it into your native tongue. So when you hear "casa" you don't think the word "house" you just understand it as a house. I always thought that would be cool to be that fluent.

When I visited Portugal, I thought Portuguese was the hardest language I had ever heard. I may not speak much French, but I know when someone is speaking French when I hear it. The same with Italian or German, but I had no idea what language I was hearing the first time I heard someone speaking Portuguese. It has many words similar to Spanish but it includes German-sounding words and even a touch of Japanese! They claim it was because they had been conquered so many times by so many different nations. I did learn some of the basics like "good morning", "where is the bathroom" and "two cold beers, please". :o)

189 posted on 10/27/2013 12:05:32 AM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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