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nuclearflytrap In reply to Foxofwonders [2013-10-06 15:11:46 +0000 UTC]

haha  I don't even notice the difference. Both barbaric and primitive languages, in my view

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Foxofwonders In reply to nuclearflytrap [2013-10-06 17:27:59 +0000 UTC]

Well, being a Dutchie myself, I can tell you I'm not too fond of the languages either, but, Dutch being my mother tongue, I do kind of like it in some way.

Dutch is quite a difficult language to learn if it's not your native language, or so I've heard from many others. I personally find it quite easy, but I must admit there are some grammar rules nobody cares about, and some things are just not logical at all and even I don't understand in the slightest.

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nuclearflytrap In reply to Foxofwonders [2013-10-06 18:42:48 +0000 UTC]

haha, I really understand! Some terms of the English language e.g. are way too superflouos. They even don't exist in well educated society.

I can't really estimate that I'd  run into difficulties if I was forced to learn Dutch but from my multilingual experience I can say that the more languages you know the easier it is to study new ones ! 

I especially like French and Spanish

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Foxofwonders In reply to nuclearflytrap [2013-10-06 19:24:17 +0000 UTC]

I think I know what you mean.

I used to take classes for six languages, that was last year. This year, I dropped two of them (you can only take a limited amount of classes from a limited range over here, so unfortunately no more French for me, even though I love the language too). I often recognised words from other languages, which really helped when I tried to study massive lists of vocabulary. German words are often similar to Dutch ones, French words are often similar to English or Latin ones (and I guess to Spanish words too, but I've never taken Spanish lessons, so I can't say for sure).

I currently take ancient Greek and Latin classes. I don't speak them at all (would be a bit useless~), but I can read them, and since loads of European languages are based off these two, I bet it won't be too difficult to pick them up again in the future, if I ever feel the need to.

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nuclearflytrap In reply to Foxofwonders [2013-10-07 12:24:52 +0000 UTC]

Greek, German, Spanish, French, English and a bit Turkish - I'm done with these and I simply can't cope with my malapropism I often make because of the amount of words I know in different languages and pronunciations...it is not unusual that I use French words instead of correctly pronounced and even simplest English words- "I'm very desolée for my stupidité" 

So indeed as you already have mentioned , we only need mother tongue and universal language  xD

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Foxofwonders In reply to nuclearflytrap [2013-10-07 12:58:33 +0000 UTC]

Ah, you sure know loads of languages!

I've had that problem some times, not very often though. Sometimes I don't know the Dutch word for something and I use an English word instead... which sounds really dumb. xD
A friend of mine and I decided to call it 'Dunglish'. Name fits perfectly.

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nuclearflytrap In reply to Foxofwonders [2013-10-07 15:58:58 +0000 UTC]

Mother of Satan, unfortunately yes. Sometimes I wish I could forget all of the languages except of one so that I could concentrate more on that and speak perfectly. I'd chose either English or French. French sounds like sex. Whenever two women argue in French - um - uhh..- it is sex pure. Whatever they talk about. They do have sex.  Always.

Dunglish ! Ha :'D 

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