Language Lesson

2 years ago #9430157            

Even the fish is laughing on the 2nd panel : D

10 months ago #9649979            

@FrederickII cuz why not?

1 year ago #9618145            

You need to research more about México.
Is a beautiful country, full of traditions and history, not everything is related to usa.
I'm sure you'll find it very interesting.
Greetings from México ^^

2 months ago #9730344            

@Ahuizotl yup.. México is really beautiful country.. That's why many Americans go to cabo for vacation.. If trump said it's bad country.. Than sure there nice peoples...

2 years ago #9469154            

the barrier between Mexico and America... very nice and very subtle. what? i mean language barrier

2 years ago #9445996            

Trump

2 years ago #9459076            

@Apotato ....

2 years ago #9465031            

@Apotato

10 months ago #9649978            

@Apotato (lol ignore my useless replies with my old account) last panel

9 months ago #9660891            

I only read through 5pages of comments so I'm not sure if anyone else has tried this,
but you can enter the name of the dessert into google translate (Rødgrød Med Fløde)
and listen to it pronounced.

Swedish & Finish were the easiest for me (an exclusively american-english speaker) to parse...
It's not that the words were familiar to english at all, but I could
easily detect the breaks between words. Of the two, Finnish seemed harsher.. rougher.
I do hear the "singing" quality of Norweigian ... it feels a little "softer" than Danish to me..
Danish was the most difficult to follow but I consider it more beautiful than the other languages...
the vocal equivalent of cursive writing instead of printing letters... it flows and feels more expressive.

I have to try out a receipe for Danish berry pudding now!

Mange Tak Humon

1 year ago #9619599            

For some reason I'm shocked that Canada wasn't eating pancakes

1 year ago #9621227            

@Ouran-After-High Yeah, why isn't Canada eating pancakes?

1 year ago #9621288            

@Canadian-Girl Why is America eating pancakes instead?

1 year ago #9622010            

@Ouran-After-High Yeah! America stole Canada's breakfast and now Canada has to eat porridge!

1 year ago #9622034            

@Canadian-Girl That's what I thought, that would explain another reason why Canada is unhappy with America

4 months ago #9714937            

@Ouran-After-High Canada cannot eat pancakes without the maple syrup.

3 months ago #9726671            

@NothingImportant pancakes without maple syrup should be illegal

2 years ago #9467907            

I always thought Swedish sounds more like singing. And Norwegian sounds so flat. But I know that feeling, all Germans I met always said, Swiss-German sounds like having a throat disease. XD

2 years ago #9475761            

@OneSwissMore Don't get me wrong, I love schwiizerdütsch and love speaking it. But well, us romands think that swiss-german sounds like you have some rocks in your mouth while speaking, because of all the /ch/ sounds xD

2 years ago #9475781            

@Tibochapo Hahahaha, don't worry, I already heard that! XD And I kinda see why... It really is harsh, right? So, you have the permission to keep on saying that! ^^

2 years ago #9475786            

@OneSwissMore It's a hell of a language to learn. I learned it pretty quickly once I knew how to change words from high german, but yeah the basis took me a bit to learn.
On the counterpart, french has more exceptions than rules... I guess we can call it even

2 years ago #9475793            

@Tibochapo Oh wow, you LEARNED Swiss-German!? ^^ How does that work? How's the pronunciation for you? I think that French is really smooth and soft. Swiss-German on the contrary is ... just the opposite. I love it, but sometimes, I really just stand there and listen to the people around me and try to hear this language like a foreigner. And it often made me laugh. ^^ It has funny pronunciations, hard consonants and many /ch/s, just plainly interesting for me!
Oh yeah, French with its many Grammar rules and even more exceptions of their own rules made many of my classmates go crazy! XD I still love it. So hard and so fascinating at once, you really are lucky to grow up with it! ^^

2 years ago #9478867            

@OneSwissMore Yep, I did LEARN it !
How it works ? Well, determination, I guess ? I wanted to, bc I thought it was fun, and so I started to join FB groups, read swiss-german things, and listen to music with the lyrics in SG. And I mean, once you know the basis of words, SG is a pretty easy language...
Pronounciation is quite easy, now. All those /ch/s never bothered me really, there are more complicated sounds in french, so I guess that's that ^^
And as you said, SG is a really funny language, that's why I wanted to learn it ! (And since I'm not bound to any dialect, I can switch between many and mix them up ! And that's the best, esp. when zürcher cringe when talk like a berner )

2 years ago #9465897            

They made German infiltrators say "Scheveningen" in WWII here in the Netherlands . If they pronounced it like Sheveningen (I have to use the English pronunciation here) the resistance knew they were Nazis.

2 years ago #9422941            

for us brits, it's fucking amazing to get foreigners to say llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch which is an actual welsh village XD

2 years ago #9427297            

@Xemunal and then there is 'Westward Ho!' (exclamation mark included)

2 years ago #9427768            

@Xemunal For that I consider Finnish to be more easier when it comes to pronunciation.
" Juoksentelisinkohan " is way easier to pronounce. Yes, I can.

And Llanfair full name is quite a challenge... a thing of beauty regarding long words.
x)

2 years ago #9428106            

@Xemunal Didn't they change the name just so they could say they have the longest name, though. In everyday vernacular everybody just calls it Llanfair from what I remember.

2 years ago #9465923            

@Xemunal It reminds me of the story of the elderly couple who once visited Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoc. He stood under the raiways sign, and she photographed him, she stood under the sign, and he photographed her, and they got a japanese tourist to photograph them both. By then they had practically done everything that could be done there. But they wondered how it was pronounced, with the welsh spelling and all. So they went out for some food, and asked the blonde waitress:"Excuse me, but how do you pronounce the name of this place? And please do it slowly, se we get all the difficult syllables" So the waitress nods, lean forward and enounciates clearly and slowly: BUR-GER-KING

2 months ago #9734178            

There’s a cornflakes wall between US and Mexico