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Frelga
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Posted: Thu 29 Jan , 2015 10:14 pm
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I think Russian is still Indo-European, just a different branch. Net?

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Posted: Thu 29 Jan , 2015 10:16 pm
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I thought Slavic was considered a different family, but I may be wrong. Is it just a subset of Indo-European?

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The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, much of the Balkans, parts of Central Europe, and the northern part of Asia. The Slavic languages are spoken by some 415 million people[2] (see Table on the right),[3] and are the second largest native spoken language group among the Languages of Europe, after the Germanic languages and ahead of the Romance languages.

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Posted: Fri 30 Jan , 2015 8:04 am
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In my limited knowledge, Slavic languages appears to be closer to Sanscrit than the Germanic ones. For example, ogon'-agni for fire or the root ved for knowledge. I wish I knew more about it, though.

It's really impressive that you can handle all those very different languages. Beyond the ones I grew up with and English, I can make rough sense of most of the Slavic ones, have some rudimentary Hebrew, and can decipher something simple in Romance languages, but I could not even take a stab at the tonal languages. I have a good eye for language but a dismal ear.

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Posted: Fri 30 Jan , 2015 3:12 pm
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If you can recognize a tune, you could learn a tonal language if you wanted to...

My Russian is getting rusty because I don't have anyone to practice with. In my previous job, I could have a casual conversation every single working day, which gave me the necessary motivation to work at it.

Which means, you should totally come to the UK in March. It's for a good cause!

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Frelga
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Posted: Fri 30 Jan , 2015 6:44 pm
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Man, I wish I could.

But you can totally Skype me in Russian.

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Jude
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Posted: Fri 30 Jan , 2015 6:52 pm
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Cool! Give me a month or so to repair my neglected Russian, and then I'll look into this Skype thing.

I subscribed to the guy in the video above, and discovered this:

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Frelga
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Looking forward to it, Jude. My own Russian is beginning to suffer from lack of use.

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I've been thinking I need to start reading newspapers in other languages online, so my deteriorating language skills don't disappear as fast. It's funny, though, how things you think you've forgotten sometimes pop up from some dark corner of the brain. For instance, if someone asks me something in German, an appropriate answer might actually come out of my mouth instinctively, though I'd swear I had forgotten it. Odd how the brain works sometimes. And what miscellaneous rubbish must be stored in there, too.

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Those are some great tips!


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Posted: Thu 05 Feb , 2015 4:57 am
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Watch the gripping story of a girlfriend and here controlling boyfriend:



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That's weirdly fascinating!

You know, I wouldn't be surprised if the dad was controlling; he definitely looked very angry and kind of scary.

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Japanese? Chinese?

Totally effed up, whichever is the case.

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Jude
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Posted: Fri 13 Feb , 2015 3:09 pm
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That reminds me of that commercial in the Serenity movie. But I think this one was Japanese, not Chinese.

Get in touch with your inner freak-out with this:

Edit: the video owner has disabled embedding for some weird reason, so I'll link to it instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce_sAXKk4QA

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Chinese. Apparently an educational video about the sounds animals make.

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yovargas
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Posted: Sat 28 Feb , 2015 3:45 pm
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And the award for Best Dancing Cow goes to:



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Posted: Sat 28 Feb , 2015 5:50 pm
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:D That was highly amusing!

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