When I was in Paris the first time, I spoke French well enough that people wanted to speak English to me.......they knew I was trying, but didn't want their language murdered.
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What languages do you know?
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When I was in Paris the first time, I spoke French well enough that people wanted to speak English to me.......they knew I was trying, but didn't want their language murdered.
Terry Sampson
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Test question: What language has the fewest speakers?
Terry Sampson
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I know a little bit, doth that count?
Heyo
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The French are a bit arrogant/nationalistic. They expect everyone who comes to their country to speak French - or at least try. They are usually helpful when you have shown your good intentions.
Heyo
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I have a similar list of formal languages I know and learning programing languages helped me to understand natural languages better and even sparked an interest in linguistics.C, Fortran, Pascal, Java, Python, COBOL, Logo, TIRS, a bit of Lisp and Clojure, JavaScript, HTML, XML, C#...
(I know, I know, just kidding... sort of)
I live here, i wouldn't say arrogant but they definitely want to preserve their language.
The try not to import English terms...
For example...the computer mouse, is la souris de l'ordinateur...
Whereas we Italians use so many English words ...we say il mouse del computer
C, Fortran, Pascal, Java, Python, COBOL, Logo, TIRS, a bit of Lisp and Clojure, JavaScript, HTML, XML, C#...
(I know, I know, just kidding... sort of
Damn, i didn't include programming languages, JavaScript, C, C++, PHP, Python
Also
CGI, HTM, HTML, SHTML
Really just stuff i picked up for (the other) CGI animation
Bon weekend
Flash? Lua?
Terry Sampson
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How do you pronounce it? "mowse" or "moo-say"?
No, it was for animating/rigging sculptures, not for creating animated objects. Subtle difference in naming, a whole world of difference in reality
Like in English
That was cruel
I learned that the key to Italian is every letter is pronounced. "Mouse" would throw me a curve ball.
English (modern and Shakespearean). French not as well. Studied Latin and Greek throughout school years, and can still read Latin (the Greek was ancient, Koine Greek, not like what's spoken in Toronto's Greek Town, which I can't understand). Can read some Russian, but don't understand it spoken to me.
Italian is an artificial language. Dante kinda reinvented the Tuscan dialect by writing the Divine Comedy and so it was decided that its language had to become standard Italian.
It has remained pretty unchanged since then.
Same thing happened with Germany and the Luther's Bible
It has remained pretty unchanged since then.
Same thing happened with Germany and the Luther's Bible
I find the same in the US, if not more so. Well, except for being helpful if you don't speak English.
Heyo
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I see it as a function of how "great" a country is (or its inhabitants imagine it to be). Britain was an empire and the English see themselves still as that, the French think of themselves as "la Grande Nation". In the Netherlands and Denmark it seems that everybody speaks at least German and English in addition to their native tongue. I guess it's similar in the rest of the world.