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Are you bilingual?
ReTouch:
I can speak Dutch and English fluent. I'm also trying to learn the Philippine language so I can actually understand half my family :p
harpy:
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I was wondering how does my language sound for someone who does not understand it... some Greek person who knew Russian told me that it kind of sounds like Russian, but I really do not want to believe it...
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Russian? Unlikely... "in soviet Greece it all sounds like Russian to me"... yeah, you get the point. There are many languages that have similarity, unfourtunatly all but two are extinct. Now it's only Lithuanian and Latvian left. The Roman holy empire, Teutonic knights and later Russian Empire did their best to reduce Baltic languages to only two remaining.
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Forgot Poland and Lithuania.
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Polish is not one of Baltic language... He is right there is only Latvian and Lithuanian left from the Baltic languages. But there are 3 Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
And there is a good chance that in 100 or so years there will be hardly anybody speaking Latvian (few thousands) as our government is trying really hard to make all Latvian people run away from Latvia or stop reproducing...they have done really well on the stop reproducing part.
JoonasTo:
I meant them as in the kingdom of Poland and Grand duchy of lithuania suppressing the baltic languages in the past.
harpy:
^ oh sorry
true they did some damage, but it did not do to much harm to Latvia, just a little part of it so one of Latvian dialects (Latgalian) is almost extinct, but we are doing something to revive it, it is quite popular right now.
But as far as I know about Lithuania, the bad thing Polish did there is the religion and cultural stuff they ruined. Even I who lives next to them do think that they lack distinctive culture, but they do value their language and even they have been able to get rid of most people who talk Russia. Russian people are the problem...
rathoriel:
--- Quote from: harpy on February 06, 2011, 03:54:51 PM ---
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on February 06, 2011, 03:26:42 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 06, 2011, 03:21:30 PM ---
--- Quote from: harpy on February 06, 2011, 01:42:24 PM ---^ my lol'd ;D
I was wondering how does my language sound for someone who does not understand it... some Greek person who knew Russian told me that it kind of sounds like Russian, but I really do not want to believe it...
--- End quote ---
Russian? Unlikely... "in soviet Greece it all sounds like Russian to me"... yeah, you get the point. There are many languages that have similarity, unfourtunatly all but two are extinct. Now it's only Lithuanian and Latvian left. The Roman holy empire, Teutonic knights and later Russian Empire did their best to reduce Baltic languages to only two remaining.
--- End quote ---
Forgot Poland and Lithuania.
--- End quote ---
Polish is not one of Baltic language... He is right there is only Latvian and Lithuanian left from the Baltic languages. But there are 3 Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
And there is a good chance that in 100 or so years there will be hardly anybody speaking Latvian (few thousands) as our government is trying really hard to make all Latvian people run away from Latvia or stop reproducing...they have done really well on the stop reproducing part.
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you are from Latvia? when i was in middle school we had to write to a embassy to learn more about their country and I chose Latvia but i didnt know they had their own language. I take it that its similar to russian?
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