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[Blood-Pigggy]

Flemish is such a funny word.

[Doubler]

Uhm, 'conversational Dutch' encompasses a great range of things for those of us not really used to teach others things about their language.
It would be nice to know which bit, as I take it there are some things you already know too

[PrejudiceSucks]

Just things like "have a happy birthday" and "how is the weather" would be fine, thanks.

All I know is some minor Dutch swearing, that hello is "hallo" (I think), "alles goed" and some responses to that (lekker hier etc.), so you don't need to teach me that.

[Doubler]

Well, respectively 'Prettige verjaardag" and "Hoe is het weer?"
Heh, if you want to know more add me to your MSN list or something. This would clod up the topic (I think... *Checks what it's about*)

[PrejudiceSucks]

Thanks very much

[JimmyJ]

I know American-english.
I know a very little bit of -English-english
spanish
mandarin
german
a little bit of some other stuff...
but i am VERY poor on all but American-english...just know a few words of the others :X

[PrejudiceSucks]

JimmyJ, on Apr 12 2006, 05:59 AM, said:

I know American-english.
I know a very little bit of -English-english
spanish
mandarin
german
a little bit of some other stuff...
but i am VERY poor on all but American-english...just know a few words of the others :X

So where do you originally come from?

[JimmyJ]

Amerisuck...err...America

[PrejudiceSucks]

A. J. Raffles, on Apr 17 2006, 12:02 AM, said:

Oh, and my first language is German, by the way, so I can do ä's, ö's and y's.

A.J. - Can you speak any Persian?

[A. J. Raffles]

Unfortunately not. I've got a lazy dad...

[Juni Ori]

Actually I was taught few phrases and words of Persian, but can't remember them anymore. Local bar is owned and ran by ex-Iranian guy with his sister and friends. I also used to know some chinese words and even order beer, but no... can't remember.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Juni Ori, on Apr 17 2006, 12:42 PM, said:

Actually I was taught few phrases and words of Persian, but can't remember them anymore. Local bar is owned and ran by ex-Iranian guy with his sister and friends. I also used to know some chinese words and even order beer, but no... can't remember.

Hmm I wonder if in countries in which the main language is Arabic they have Arabic keyboards... hmm...

And I also wonder if Word or whatever defaults to writing right-to-left.

[A. J. Raffles]

Well, Farsi uses the Arabic alphabet as far as I know, so probably yes.

[Puffin]

I've only got one thing to say.

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

[A. J. Raffles]

Puffin, on Apr 18 2006, 02:07 PM, said:

I've only got one thing to say.

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.