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Are you bilingual?
harpy:
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--- 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...
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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.
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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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>_>
no it is not
<_<
How in the fucking world could you write anything about a country if you even did not know what is the national language of the country? Even wikipedia knows that
are you from America? [edit] written in heat of the moment, it was not my intention to insult anyone[/edit]
I understand if people do not know where Latvia is at all as we are quite small, but if you try to write something about it.....
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found the funny version of our history it is subed in Latvian, but its still fun to watch....
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: rathoriel on February 06, 2011, 04:09:08 PM ---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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Ouch, you either did not read the posts above or try to troll Harpy by pointing to the language that was forced upon them during the USSR era.
Besides, Russian is a slavic language, a group that is different from Baltic one, i could also mention that Russian is not the best representative of a "pure" slavic language as it was "contaminated" by the Mongol Empire rule that lasted 200 years, so any similarity with Baltic languages is even less.
JoonasTo:
Isn't it funny how you can spot americans when they make comments like that?
You go like, oh, that guy must be from the States. Yup, right again.
Just for the record, most countries in Europe have their own language.
Finland has five languages, with two being official languages and three being minority right ones, for example.
This is not counting the immigrants of course.
I don't even think anyone knows how many languages Russia really has but maybe around a hundred might be close.
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 06, 2011, 04:26:03 PM ---Besides, Russian is a slavic language, a group that is different from Baltic one, i could also mention that Russian is not the best representative of a "pure" slavic language as it was "contaminated" by the Mongol Empire rule that lasted 200 years, so any similarity with Baltic languages is even less.
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And half of Russian is Swedish, like the word Russki itself, which means Swedish. Ironic? Perhaps. Got to do with the swedish sailing the rivers, making trading ports, like novgorod, for example, and the slavs there asking for a king from Sweden to stop their infighting.
Soryon:
--- Quote from: harpy on February 06, 2011, 04:21:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: rathoriel on February 06, 2011, 04:09:08 PM ---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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>_>
no it is not
<_<
How in the fucking world could you write anything about a country if you even did not know what is the national language of the country? Even wikipedia knows that
are you from America?
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If the assignment he had was similar to one my cousin did recently, the whole idea of writing the embassy is to gain that knowledge, meaning its something you didn't have prior. Its not as if something like that is common knowledge to a middle school kid halfway across the globe.
However, the fact that by the end of the assignment he still didn't know is a bit...
rathoriel:
--- Quote from: harpy on February 06, 2011, 04:21:32 PM ---
--- Quote from: rathoriel on February 06, 2011, 04:09:08 PM ---
--- 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?
--- End quote ---
>_>
no it is not
<_<
How in the fucking world could you write anything about a country if you even did not know what is the national language of the country? Even wikipedia knows that
are you from America?
I understand if people do not know where Latvia is at all as we are quite small, but if you try to writte something about it.....
___
found the funny version of our history it is subed in Latvian, but its still fun to watch....
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Like I said I was in middle school at the time (about 14 years old..i am 39 now. how many 14 year olds could even find Latvia on a map. I could because I loved geography. I chose Latvia becasue I knew nothing about it) at that time you were still part of the USSR but didnt gain independence until 1990 or 91, and yes I am American.
edit: I also didnt receive much just a few pamplets. compared to people who wrote to some common and larger countries. I chose Latvia because I didnt know anything about it at the time.
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