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maebrizuela wrote:

daming pinoy!!! meron po ba dito trying to learn Korean? :grin:

Ako gusto ko, dahil kinain na rin ng sistema ng K-Drama  

Yeah Wakanda forever!

I believe so yes. Learning a foreign language will also let you learn foreign culture. Somehow your understanding for foreign culture will let your personality grow/change in some ways. 

What's the third option?

Aleksys.P wrote:

imran.khalil0000 wrote:

I think French is easier what do you guys say?

the answer depends on what native language you are speaking. For native English speakers, French would be easier to learn but it will take sometime to learn let's say Mandarin. My native language is Tagalog, it would be easier for me to learn Bahasa Indonesia than Dutch.
There are 4 or 5 categories of languages in terms of difficulty in view of a native English speaker.. here's one link to it
http://aboutworldlanguages.com/language-difficulty

This explains a lot

Phillip.Laplana wrote:

NASA created these... devices... that help astronauts to pee. They had to change the names from "small, medium and large" to "large, gigantic and humungous" because the astronauts were never willing to pick their true size. :P
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. In chemistry and physics, it is the amount of time it takes for light to travel a distance of one centimeter.
Count the number of times a cricket chirps in fifteen seconds. Then add 37. That's approximately how hot it is tonight (in Fahrenheight).
Every single Rubik's Cube you find can be solved in 20 moves or less.

large, gigantic and humungous ----> Hilarious! But makes sense though LOL

Humble Hobbit, waiting to become a Dandy Dwarf

Maayong buntag!

Cebuano

Maayo = Good

Nga = The/This/It

Buntag = Morning

I think so. When you meet someone you want to be closer with, you tend to want to learn the other person's language.

I'm about to begin watching it. A friend say it's a good binge.

leosmith wrote:

Chill wrote:

Filipino is what people in the Philippines are called. It is not a language :))

The 1987 constitution designates Filipino as the national language and an official language along with English.

Filipino is indeed the Wikang Pambansa of the Philippines. Thanks for the wiki hyperlink Leo!

The title has an extra L. Should be Word..

Here's my Word of the Day: GUYLINER

Meaning: Eyeliner worn by guys. This is a new find for me. I never thought there's a specific word for it.

Smartchiny wrote:

Hi Charlyn.
Are Tagalog and Cebuano native languages in Philippines?

Filipino is our national language. And, yes, Tagalog and Cebuano are native languages in the Philippines.

Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

Connotation is the implied meaning of a word/sentence while Denotation is the literal/explicit meaning. Take the words childish and childlike. They are two related words with very similar meaning but different in terms of context. Childish connotes "immaturity" while childlike simply refers to an action similar to that of a child. I hope this explanation helps.

imran.khalil0000 wrote:

How will you tackle your wife if she is a foreign language speaker? What are your views? Will it hinder in your emotional bonding? Obviously you people will speak one language in which you might not have much expertise but you wont speak in your native languages. Looking for interesting answers :)

My take on that... I think it'll be interesting with a mix of apprehension and excitement. I think it wouldn't hinder emotional bonding between couples since they got married because of that "emotional bond" they feel for each other, but for sure it'll affect their relationship when they're amidst an issue. Time will come when they'll find it difficult to get through to each other because of imprecise words/language used, making it difficult to communicate precisely. 

Thanks! I found another gem here.

Jess.PWinkler wrote:

jfarrah wrote:

I'll pass Truth Law. A law prohibiting all from telling lies :-D lol

I think there are some lies that are better than an awful truth (death related). If I were to implement a law it would be to force people to recycle their waste.

I think there's already an Environmental Law regarding waste recycling but it's just not that heavily enforced (in my country...sad but true).  

dragonsky wrote:

Sheena wrote:

Anyone here have seen Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul?

I love Breaking Bad, I think it's one of, if not the best show of all time.
Still haven't started Better Call Saul, but I'd definitely recommend you to start with Breaking Bad.

I watched first few episodes of Better Call Saul right after finishing Breaking Bad. Though I wasn't able to finish up, I'd still advise you to watch it especially since you're into Breaking Bad.

Doreen.Paurnia wrote:

Awesome! Anong language ang focus mong inaaral ngayon?

Trying to learn and master Spanish sa ngayon.

Chill wrote:

Hello, Kabayans. I'm from Cebu naman :heart:

Bisdak sab ko. Daghan dei ta dri

I'll pass Truth Law. A law prohibiting all from telling lies :-D lol

I think we could only copy+paste the link to share it to other social media posts

Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield

I suggest you keep away the gadget for the time being and give her actual toys to play with. Singing to her can also help stimulate the desire to speak up, or to just hum along with you.

I like trivias! Keep them coming guys!

leosmith wrote:

I've decided that it's time to finish up Tagalog. Tomorrow will be the last day of my 10 month "spurt". After that, I will study it for only 2 hrs, once a week. I'm going to do it once a week instead of my usual once every 2 weeks because I'm a low B2; I'm quitting before I'd like to. Why? Because for the last 3 weeks in a row, despite the fact that I accelerated my learning pace to once a week from about 2 months ago, I had poor B1-like conversations in Korean. So due to my paranoia about Korean, I'm going to do a spurt in it immediately.
The chart above says I want to do it for 3 months; we'll see how it goes. I won't be able to study it as hard as I did last spurt (7-8 hrs/day) because I'm so busy with the site now. I'd love to travel there right now, but I dare not leave the country now with all this responsibility. I need to work on and check things daily, and I fear poor internet, poor ergonomics, and possibly needing to do things in my home town for the company, though I can't imagine what that would entail.
So beginning Sunday, it's hello again Korean. Wish me luck!

Jalboseo!

leosmith wrote:

(taken from here)
<Shī Shì Shí Shī Shǐ>
“Shí Shì Shī Shì Shī Shì, Shì Shī, Shì Shí Shí Shī.Shì Shí Shí Shì Shì Shì Shī. Shí Shí, Shì Shí Shī Shì Shì. Shì Shí, Shì Shī Shì Shì Shì. Shì Shì Shì Shí Shī, Shì Shǐ Shì, Shǐ Shì Shí Shī Shì Shì. Shì Shí Shì Shí Shī Shī, Shì Shí Shì. Shí Shì Shī, Shì Shǐ Shì Shì Shí Shì. Shí Shì Shì, Shì Shǐ Shì Shí Shì Shí Shī. Shí Shí, Shǐ Shí Shì Shí Shī, Shí Shí Shí Shī Shī. Shì Shì Shì Shì.”
It's a romanized Chinese story. That's why one needs to learn good tones. The Chinese text looks much better imo:
<施氏食獅史>
“石室詩士施氏，嗜獅，誓食十獅。施氏時時適市視獅。十時，適十獅適市。是時，適施氏適市。氏視是十獅，恃矢勢，使是十獅逝世。氏拾是十獅屍，適石室。石室濕，氏使侍拭石室。石室拭，氏始試食是十獅。食時，始識是十獅，實十石獅屍。試釋是事。”
English:
<The story of Mr.Shi eating lions>
“There was a poet named Mr.Shi who lives in a stone den. He liked to eat lions, and vowed to eat ten lions. Therefore Mr. Shi would usually visit the market to look for lions. At 10 o’clock exactly ten lions just arrived at the market. At that very moment, Mr.Shi shot a few arrows from his bow and killed those ten lions. Mr. Shi then brought the ten dead lions back to his stone den. Because the den might be too wet to store the lions. So he ordered his servant to clean and dry the den. After the den was cleaned, Mr.Shi started to try to eat those ten lions. However, only until he was eating the lions he found out that those ten dead lions were actually ten stone lions. Would you try to explain what was happening?”

Oh what a tongue twister of a story! Amazingly it only uses 3 letters. I don't know if I should feel discouraged or challenged.

ikaymoreno wrote:

Duolingo and Busuu are both good for vocab and basic grammar but they won't really help you become conversational. For that, you'd need to attend a class or look into great audio books.

Exactly my thoughts. I tried Duolingo. It's good for basic vocab but it isn't really commendable for speech learning. I thought I had learned to speak some basic French greetings taught by Duolingo but when I tried to talk to a live person, the actual spoken accent is way different than what Duolingo taught me. Moral lesson: don't rely too much on non-human teachers :-D

Agreed. Netflix or iFlix is way way better than free streaming sites. 

Phillip.Laplana wrote:

jfarrah wrote:

There's a site that offers unlimited free streaming for most Asian series. So yes, I have watched a lot tv series other than English that I've gotten nuts about.

Yeeeesss? And the site is....? :smile:

kiss asian .sh --streaming is free, just choose your preferred video host. The ads mostly pop up only once and mostly at the beginning of each episode and they run not more than a minute. The downside is the poor translation, some subtitles are not really accurate. You just have to listen carefully and watch the scenes intently in order to make the lines make sense. They do change their domain from time to time. 

leosmith wrote:

My favorite spot in the Philippines:

Wow! Never been here. Where's this place Leo?

Welcome! 

Ako rin. I'm a Filipina and I've just started recently as well. Pleased to know marami tayo nandito eager to learn more. Mabuhay!

There's a site that offers unlimited free streaming for most Asian series. So yes, I have watched a lot tv series other than English that I've gotten nuts about.

Jeremi.Kress wrote:

La Casa de Papel - Spanish
Skam - Norweigan
Dark - German
Spiral - French
All of them are very bingeable :)

I'd love to try these. 

Forming sentences in past participle tense is a challenge for non-native speakers. That's what I've mostly observed.

The Americans, espionage cold war era

Arabic or Mideast languages are particularly hard for me to enunciate. I get tongue-tied and choke on words but writing is fun for me. It's one of the easiest written form I've learned with and I can say writing a sentence in Arabic is far more speedy than writing in English, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Melayu, or even my native tongue Filipino. No complicated strokes, just fluid strokes from right to left. 

Marlan.Chunu wrote:

For me its when you could read, write, and speak it perfectly and also understand slang within the language

My thoughts exactly. I thinks it's when you can get on a conversation and be able to communicate smoothly without grasping for words.

thanks! I finally found what I'm looking for

Part of my routine is to learn at least 5 new words daily and use them in a sentence, written or oral form. Using them orally is a bit of a challenge though :-)