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Nana_Brazil · 02-21-2005, 10:29 AM

Maybe I was not clear when I asked that question in this post. The reason for it was, to discuss and let everyone here knows about languages. I am sure all of us can learn things if a friend of other part of the globe says ... " hey.. easy, easy this is hard to understand " or "wow your language is not so strange like I thought. " Even some hints could be given here like... In my language, one of the bareers to speak is a spelling sign named TIL (~ ) in which you must make a nasal sound, like in "PÃO" which means ," bread". In English TH sound is also another bareeer for many speakers, like H in Arabic. I remember when I spoke the name AHMED my Arab friends laughed a lot, lol
I agree with you both and also agree to what MikeL says about depending on where you are from. But speaking in a general way I asked a rank in 3 numbers (even if you rank your own mother tongue)... It does not matter if you know and speak the language or you simply cannot. For instance, another apect in Portuguese, is ... it is not impossible to learn but difficult when you try to go into its grammar deeply. Even Brazilian people make mistakes in spelling it ( both ways). I do not speak German but I heard is not so easy either, Turkish is a kind of complexed language, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic Russian, omg!!! lol

Hey, MikeL I am a languages lover, I would like to try that "Basque devil`s language" lol.

02-21-2005, 10:29 AM	#4 (permalink)
Nana_Brazil International Forum great member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: São Paulo - Brazil Posts: 1,114 Nana_Brazil came out of the blue	I meant... Maybe I was not clear when I asked that question in this post. The reason for it was, to discuss and let everyone here knows about languages. I am sure all of us can learn things if a friend of other part of the globe says ... " hey.. easy, easy this is hard to understand " or "wow your language is not so strange like I thought. " Even some hints could be given here like... In my language, one of the bareers to speak is a spelling sign named TIL (~ ) in which you must make a nasal sound, like in "PÃO" which means ," bread". In English TH sound is also another bareeer for many speakers, like H in Arabic. I remember when I spoke the name AHMED my Arab friends laughed a lot, lol I agree with you both and also agree to what MikeL says about depending on where you are from. But speaking in a general way I asked a rank in 3 numbers (even if you rank your own mother tongue)... It does not matter if you know and speak the language or you simply cannot. For instance, another apect in Portuguese, is ... it is not impossible to learn but difficult when you try to go into its grammar deeply. Even Brazilian people make mistakes in spelling it ( both ways). I do not speak German but I heard is not so easy either, Turkish is a kind of complexed language, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic Russian, omg!!! lol Hey, MikeL I am a languages lover, I would like to try that "Basque devil`s language" lol. Last edited by Nana_Brazil; 02-21-2005 at 10:44 AM.
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