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harpy:
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on February 06, 2011, 05:33:02 PM ---Vocabulary is what I mean. Not grammar. Might have had to be more precise on that.
You'll notice it if you study Russian even a little and know Swedish.
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You mean if I know Russian it would be easer for me to learn Swedish then any other Nordic languages?
-side note-
I think Spanish would be a superb language to curse in. I can curse quite well in Russian (I heard that it is one of the best languages to curse in), now I need a new language to curse in..... cavron...sounds just so nice....
-end of side note-
JoonasTo:
No I meant that you'll start seeing familiar words if you study Russian and know Swedish beforehand. Probably goes for other northern germanic languages as well.
--- Quote from: 1000mAh on February 06, 2011, 05:35:08 PM ---Joonas small miss;
Preschool, primary school, Lower Secondary School, Upper Secondary School or vocational, College or University.
That would be the correct way to translate it into english :P
and Lower Secondary School would be treated as J-High in the US. Though, Lower Secondary school often has more difficult stuff, but as Soryon said, it depends on the state of the US.
and about the comment you made of my grammar; My grammar is better in English than it is in Finnish; I suck at writing, not my forte.
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No, no and no.
Were not trying to change it into the US system. It was a translation from the Finnish terms.
Huh, I made a point at your grammar? I don't even remember that. :P
1000mAh:
sorry forgot to put soryon on front of the grammar thing >.<
but yeah, you did dirrect translation I did the correct translation.
...and I didn't change it into the US system, I just compared them.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: JoonasTo on February 06, 2011, 05:33:02 PM ---Vocabulary is what I mean. Not grammar. Might have had to be more precise on that.
You'll notice it if you study Russian even a little and know Swedish.
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Do you know what bugs me, that old Norse language had inflectional cases before it abandoned it in favor of analytic construction. Russian language has 6, Latin has 5, German language has still 4 and for example Finnish has 4 grammatical ones, but add locative and marginal cases that puts it up to total of 16 cases.
Icelandic language which I also call "true Norwegian" one, has retained 4 cases from Norse one.
So the grammar of the old Scandinavian languages was closer to the slavic ones, than it is now.
Getting too nerdy here, good thing my girlfriend isn't in this thread, she knows 5 languages and is a total grammar nerd.
--- Quote from: harpy on February 06, 2011, 05:40:56 PM ---You mean if I know Russian it would be easer for me to learn Swedish then any other Nordic languages?
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Not really, knowing German or English would help you vocabulary more. Knowing both would making Scandinavian languages an easy learn.
JoonasTo:
Heheh, I would never have thought someone would want more complex language. Eveyone tends to whine that there's too much complexity in grammar.
I know I complain about English a lot because I can't express half of the things I want to. Finnish has a lot of stuff that is imposible to convey in written English and a lot of words that simply don't translate.
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