Re:After 7 years of blogging in German, I am switching to En...
by imartin2k on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @10:14AM
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Yep I agree, I love the Swedish language too. It is so much simpler than German actually, and I experience the Swedes being capable of a "simple" way of thinking (in a good sense) that I never witness with Germans.
Re:After 7 years of blogging in German, I am switching to En...
by tormeh on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @10:13AM
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>(It also gives you German for free)
That's like saying that learning English gives you French for free. It really helps, but it hardly gives you the entire language for free, just a significant chunk of it.
Re:After 7 years of blogging in German, I am switching to En...
by scrollaway on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @03:10PM
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English does not even sort of give you French for free. It does give you Spanish (and Italian, to an extent) for free though. And I speak of all this from experience.
Re:After 7 years of blogging in German, I am switching to En...
by scrollaway on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @06:56PM
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Oops, I meant French gives you Spanish for free, of course.
Talented English speakers can at least get rid of most ambiguity by themselves, which is something a lot of other languages don't have.
My actual favourite language so far is Swedish. Is it much more raw than English, has less overall ambiguity and has a beautiful ring to it. It is also very easy for a skilled English speaker to pick up and I would recommend it if you are interested in languages. (It also gives you German for free)