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- Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:24 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Rafiki yangu bado anakaa chumbani mwangu. Leo rafiki yangu mmoja wa karibu kalewa na amekuwa akizungumza kuhusu kujiua. Nilimpigia simu tukaongea lakini simu zangu zilikatika na sasa siwezi kumpigia. Jumatatu nilikuwa ndani ya ubani nikaona mwanaume mmoja aliyevutia sana. Alikuwa akiniangalia-angal...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Is German/Japanese sentence structure natural?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 34366
Re: Is German/Japanese sentence structure natural?
I want to say from my own experience as someone who has successfully learnt German as an L2 as an adult that, in the beginning, when I was starting to learn German, I found the word order hard. Not hard to understand ... I learnt the rules for it and could tell what was right, but when speaking, my ...
- Thu May 31, 2018 7:42 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Is it a mishearing/misspelling of this?
- Thu May 31, 2018 7:32 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318980
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
Mine does too, but he's a cat, so I suppose it's expected. It's freaking adorable when it's a cat though! Anyway, now my room-mate has been to court. She gets to see her kids more but she didn't get her house, so she's still in my room and still homeless. One of my flatmates is pretty high profile ...
- Thu May 31, 2018 7:32 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318980
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
Mine does too, but he's a cat, so I suppose it's expected. It's freaking adorable when it's a cat though! Anyway, now my room-mate has been to court. She gets to see her kids more but she didn't get her house, so she's still in my room and still homeless. One of my flatmates is pretty high profile ...
- Sun May 20, 2018 9:15 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318980
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
My literal room-mate makes wet mouth noises in her sleep and it creeps me out.
- Fri May 18, 2018 6:14 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Should "aviophobia" actually refer to fear of birds, not fly
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5941
Re: Should "aviophobia" actually refer to fear of birds, not
Pterophobia sounds to me like a fear of wings ... like, a friend of mine is not exactly afraid of bird except for when they flap near her.
- Fri May 11, 2018 9:17 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Lately I've been suffering from insomnia, which is one of the most frustrating problems that I've had to deal with. I never used to have trouble falling asleep until this year. I'm naturally an anxious person, and my anxiety seems to be worsening. I went to the doctor and got a prescription for an ...
- Mon May 07, 2018 2:35 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 666151
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
[θæŋk] ... but when I was very young [sæŋk] or [fæŋk]
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 6:32 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318980
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
Sal, everything you said was sound. I don't have the energy to reply to specifics, but yeah, appreciated. Not like I was posting her for advice ... but still, it's good to get other people's perspective. I'm thinking I might talk to another couple of friends who didn't completely pick sides in the f...
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 2:24 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318980
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
A friend of mine has been going through a really rough patch with her mental health. She was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and that more or less convinced her that she's not ever going to get better than she currently is and I think that sent her into a depressive spiral. She seemed...
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:11 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: A sixth pronunciation for the letter "x".
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19240
Re: A sixth pronunciation for the letter "x".
I have /ks/ in exit but hearing it with /gz/ doesn't seem at all weird to me ... until a rare occasion when I saw Brexit mentioned in English and everyone seemed to be saying it with /gz/ and for some reason that sounds completely strange, like some kind of portmanteau of " Br eakfast eggs ... it !"...
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 8:53 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318980
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
Lol, meta!jal wrote:It should be "on" your head. "Over my head" there's just thin air.linguoboy wrote:before I crack it over your head.
In reference to the earlier discussion about making people feel suicidal, in high school, I was accused of giving someone an eating disorder. :-/
- Thu Apr 12, 2018 3:15 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
I can't find -ribishi anywhere :-/ Where did you come across it? Sorry again - it was meant to be -rabishi which I found on Glosbe. I got that right originally, so assuming -rabishi is valid then the mistake I made was just making it an applicative. It's not in a lot of dictionaries and I can't fin...
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:06 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Ghafla napenda michezo.
I suddenly like games.
Aisikrimu ya Rocher!?!?!?!?! Nahitaji!
Rocher ice cream!?!?!?!?!?! I need!
I suddenly like games.
Aisikrimu ya Rocher!?!?!?!?! Nahitaji!
Rocher ice cream!?!?!?!?!?! I need!
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 5:19 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
That's actually very elegant - I'm very much liking the 'less nominal' uses of the noun class system. Yeah, I get the impression, if Swahili hadn't had so much contact with other languages that introduced conjunctions and adverbs and things like that, it'd pretty much do everything with noun classe...
- Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:14 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Oh, I missed this Huenda ni jua linalo fanya 1 kosa. Kwani, limevuruga misimu yetu - mchana 3 u napoa na u na fupik a 4 [kila siku] badala ya kinyume. Maybe it's the sun that's wrong. After all, it has already messed up our seasons - the days are getting colder and shorter instead of the opposite. 1...
- Fri Apr 06, 2018 2:03 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318980
Re: Venting thread that still excludes eddy
I had a migraine last weekend. I used to only get an aura (scintillating scotoma) ... sometimes big enough to make me mostly blind for half-an-hour or so and then basically no headache. A doctor told me it was a migraine aura when I was younger, and reading about it, it's quite common for young men ...
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:33 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Thanks! Just in case you're interested, here's the other essay I wrote on Māori's passive voice. Asante sana, ndugu! 1. I didn't really know that but it makes perfect sense given present pana and kuna . 2. Yeah I translated literally since I couldn't find an actual translation. I didn't realise the...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:22 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Shukrani kwa ushauri! Thanks for the help! Karibu sana! 1. I hadn't encountered - nge - yet. Interesting that Swahili has the same alternation of 'like' and 'want' as English. Yeah, there are a lot of things which are oddly similar to English in Swahili. The cleft sentences thing is one. This is an...
- Sat Mar 24, 2018 6:43 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Leo jioni nilikwenda kwenye sherehe ya ufunguzi ya mkahawa wa mmojawapo wa rafiki zangu. Kulikuwa na chakula kingi chenye afya na wengi wa rafiki zangu walikwenda pia. Mziki iligeuza kuwa wa sauti kubwa hivyo nisiweze kusikia wengine walikuwa wakiyosema. Laiti rafiki zangu wote wangejua lugha ya al...
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 3:28 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
« J'ai perdu l'intérêt ». "I lost interest." Asante! Sisemi Kipolandi - huenda ninataka 1 ku ki jifunza (hicho) 2 , lakini ninataka kujifunza mbele 3 lugha nyingine nyingi, kwa mfano 4 Kiswahili. 4 Thanks! I don't speak Polish - maybe I would like to, but there are many other languages I want to le...
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 5:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
I'm pretty sure what Linguoboy was implying is that he thought he'd always talked like someone from the 19th century. Die Schuld dafür gebe ich allermeist den Mann'schen Lesematerialien. It is the works of the Mann family which I chiefly fault. Mbona unasema lawama ? Why do you say "fault"?
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 5:34 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142713
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Je hebt aangevangen te spreken * zoals iemand uit de 19 e ** eeuw. *Sounds a bit Flemmish to my ears. In ND, "to start" is almost invariably "beginnen", which takes "to be" as auxiliary: "Je bent begonnen met spreken zoals ...." but like the English, it sounds a bit unidiomatic. The English was per...
- Sat Mar 17, 2018 6:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: The translations thread
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10770
Re: The translations thread
"Don't dead me!" he screamed, but he deaded him anyway.