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  1. Clover

    Languages

    Hooraaay language lovers! :D I want to learn ~all the languages~... except for a bunch you listed, cause those are weird. :( My list would probably go... Portuguese (totally conversational in this, I think, but I want to figure out why little kids are like "<... I have no idea what you just...
  2. Clover

    Languages

    "Oh, Melina! Pode ver um negócio que eu escrevi e verificar se tudo deu certo?" "Mmm... Você escreveu mal aqui e aqui -- '/no/ Brasil' e 'muito /boa/'." "Ah, obrigada!" É, talvez que sim (ao menos, mais que a diferencia entre o inglês dos Estados Unidos e da Inglaterra), mas eu não sei como...
  3. Clover

    Languages

    Aqui é um exemplo do português de minha aula de filosofia eu tinha o outro dia. "De acordo com Renan, a filosofia teria surgido na Grécia por causa do talento e do engenho heleno. Foi uma criação genuinamente grega. Outros autores, como Cornford, afirmam que a filosofia é o resultado de uma...
  4. Clover

    Languages

    I agree! I was surprised that I caught every word, even if it was kind of like trien tu reed Inglesh speld fonetikalee. ("Wait, they're all spelled wrong... but they all make sense! Ack!") I feel like there ~aren't enough~ gender changes there. "Mi gato" and "mi gata" are both correct? As well...
  5. Clover

    Languages

    Haha, I hadn't thought of it that way, but yeah, it is!
  6. Clover

    Languages

    Faca... ... wrench. [googles] Faca-chave-inglesa! ... Wait, 'wrench' is 'English key'? What is that supposed to signify about the English.
  7. Clover

    Languages

    Zelador is a very cool Portuguese word. It means 'janitor', which just makes the Scrubs character that much neater. Aleatório is another good one -- 'random'. I can't stand fome, 'hunger'. It sounds like someone with palsy trying to say 'form' or something.
  8. Clover

    Languages

    You're probably the first person to recommend 4chan for learning languages, Zuuster. De qualquer jeito, eu estive no Brasil há mais ou menos três meses. Meu português ainda não é o melhor... mas estou tentando! Aprendendo coisas novas todos os dias! o/ もちろん、私の日本語はひどいとなっている。 (ry Eu quero...
  9. Clover

    Languages

    "In fact, trolls traditionally count like this: one, two, three... many, and people assume this means they can have no grasp of higher numbers. They don't realize that 'many' can be a number. As in: one, two, three, many, many-one, many-two, many-three, many many, many-many-one, many-many-two...
  10. Clover

    Languages

    ... SVO word order is. um. probably the predominant word order in all languages. Yeah I can foresee your conlang working swimmingly. And drowning. Have a link, 'cause you could likely do with some research. (Not that I'm trying to dissuade you; a bunch of linguistically-oriented people toy...
  11. Clover

    Languages

    Fluent in English, beginner-intermediate in Japanese after two+ years of self-study, one+ years of high-school Spanish, slowly trudging my way through Portuguese all the while cursing how similar and simultaneously dissimilar it is to Spanish. And cursing gendered nouns. No one who speaks a...
  12. Clover

    Languages

    男の水を... I don't even know where the last part's going, but 飲みます is how you would say '(a) man's water is drunk'. I think. 'Boy' would be 男の子, and the more logical way to say it would be 男の子は水を飲みます. (Otoko no ko wa mizu wo nomimasu, [the] boy drinks [the] water. And if you were a girl/woman...
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