Simviation Forum - A Random Query

Reply #15 - Nov 9^th, 2010 at 5:40am

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The Folks I love listening to, are lovely, native, African Ladies, and native Indians (from India), speaking "English" to absolute perfection!

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Reply #16 - Nov 9^th, 2010 at 7:33am

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Currently English, and English only. Though Indiana dialect around here is a mix of southern twang with a northern influence. Far from proper English Roll Eyes

Trying to learn Mandarin Chinese, not going well, only understand a few simple words. Have the Rosetta Stone Mandarin but quite frankly have found it totally useless for this language, it would be a big help but first need to actually learn the basic words first, it starts right out in lesson one with pictures and short sentences....I can pick out some of the single words but can't figure out what the others are, so I'm stuck. Unfortunately my favorite Taiwanese girl has let her English slip beyond where she can help me decipher some of it Embarrassed

Its difficult to figure out...example from early in the lesson....I know horse is

馬

, or MA. And

一

, or YI is 1. But what the heck is the middle word Undecided

All I understand from it it "One ?? Horse" Its every single set like this and its only the first part of lesson one Cry

Its one thing to teach through immersion into the language but totally pointless without some kind of beginners translation to get the basics down to understand it all. Angry

Would take years typing random words into a translator to figure out each character Embarrassed

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One white horse? Roll Eyes

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Reply #17 - Nov 9^th, 2010 at 9:22am

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It's an article that works with "one", its not quite a flavor word (like "like" in English) but it doesn't add any additional meaning. These vary quite a bit, based on the noun that is used.

...and yup, fluent in American and Mandarin, and can hold my own with German (although I'm frequently ridiculed for butchering it). And when I'm drunk, I can do Aussie, Scottish, and Spanglish.

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Reply #18 - Nov 9^th, 2010 at 9:52am

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I speak fluent American English. Sadly, most people around me do not speak fluently. I often find myself having to re-phrase my sentences to eliminate the words that people in this town don't understand. Basically I don't speak redneck. Roll Eyes

I took Spanish class in high school, but I don't remember learning any useful phrases. If I'm ever in Mexico I can request a broom so that I can clean, but that's about it. Tongue

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Reply #19 - Nov 9^th, 2010 at 5:39pm

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"I am a native American" would better be said "I am a native-born American" because of the definitive term Native American, which is also part of my ancestry... although I know but a little of the affiliated languages aside from meanings of some tribal or local place names -- and I have a copy of an Abenaki (= Dawn People or People of the East) version of The Lord's Prayer on my home computer.
As long as I have the means for procurement, I can also ask for certain food items in French, Spanish or German without having to point at said items.

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Reply #20 - Nov 9^th, 2010 at 7:29pm

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H wrote on Nov 9^th, 2010 at 5:39pm:

"I am a native American" would better be said "I am a native-born American" because of the definitive term Native American, which is also part of my ancestry... although I know but a little of the affiliated languages aside from meanings of some tribal or local place names -- and I have a copy of an Abenaki (= Dawn People or People of the East) version of The Lord's Prayer on my home computer.
As long as I have the means for procurement, I can also ask for certain food items in French, Spanish or German without having to point at said items.

I too, am a native born American and part native American. My great, great grandfather was a Cherokee Chief, so I have been told. Alas, I have never had the funds to research properly.

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Reply #21 - Nov 9^th, 2010 at 9:32pm

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One of the better threads. As a youngster, I spoke fluent Scottish. It seems the further north you travel on the 'Blessed Isle', the less the language sounds like the original. Not a problem as long as I remained well north of Berwick on Tweed. Only when transplanted from Edinburgh to Denver did I realize not everyone spoke Scottish. Hearing 'where did you learn to speak English', 'what a cute brogue' and 'listen to that darling accent' wore fairly thin fairly fast. The thing that helped me, as a Brit in a new land, was education. My Scot schooling, three languages - four if you include Scottish, had me ready to graduate American high school at fifteen but, it was pointed out, the American version of many words didn't include a 'u'. After fifty seven years, the rolling 'RRR' is history but I still pause for the double 'oo' sound. My sisters, from Newcastle and Coventry, were over visiting a couple of years ago and both remarked I spoke surprisingly good English for an American

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Reply #22 - Nov 9^th, 2010 at 11:39pm

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One white horse? Roll Eyes

I thought that at first too...but after using a couple different translators I came up with white as

白

and pronounced PIE instead of PEE like the mystery character Undecided

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It's an article that works with "one", its not quite a flavor word (like "like" in English) but it doesn't add any additional meaning. These vary quite a bit, based on the noun that is used.

That's where I get confused, the fillers like this case are in everything, to early in the learning process to throw those in, so far I can pick up on the main word without a problem most of the time. But in one set the 4 pictures are of the same person doing different things, those fillers throw me off every time. Would be nice to find a resource that is similar setup to Rosetta but only shows one word at a time instead of a full or partial sentence. I would like to learn how to read and write Mandarin but right now my main goal is get to a point where I can speak enough to get by then improve from there. Those extra words will not fit into every sentence so they are nothing more then a pointless obstacle at this point Embarrassed

To much confusion right now Tongue

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Reply #23 - Nov 11^th, 2010 at 11:38am

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English, and a few "choice" words in many other tounges. (Naughty words in Polish, Russian, Arabic, French and German.) Wink

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