besides having my own dictionary and my fridge covered in post-it's, i now have a kind of "slovak for dummies"!
i'm really putting a lot of effort (or creativity to avoid the real study?) into learning slovak.
besides having my own dictionary and my fridge covered in post-it's, i now have a kind of "slovak for dummies"!
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how learning slovak is making me un-learn english, portuguese and french:
Luís: ui joana ahahahaa tentas o frances e depois passas para o ingles e dás logo duas gralhas me: ya lol qual é a segnda? 9:07 PM Luís: e ja vi outra though - thought speek - speak "you're no too tired" me: ai jesus Luís: ai joana o mail está um bocado esquisito me: LOL já não sei falar nenhuma linguuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 9:08 PM Luís: LOOOOOL "has well" LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL me: AHAHAHAAH Luís: "i'm normally" usually? me: não sejas picuinhas também Luís: o normally em ingles tem outro sentido bastante diferente! 9:09 PM me: :( "in contrast to english, in slovak in informal situations the response is more governed by sincerity than sheer politeness."
the portuguese have this theory that our language is the best language there is to learn others'.
i'm pretty sure a portuguese invented that one. the portuguese language might have a lot of sounds that spanish, italian, english or french don't have, but when it comes to slavic languages it's a whole different story. portuguese! enjoy your phonetic domain in the latin languages but please be humble when the business is more to the east. it could be just me, but i don't think so. the ammount of consonants these people can say in 2 seconds is amazing, and i can only think about the "ão" sound to make them feel angry at themselves for not being able to say it right. like i feel every time i see "zmrzlina" on the street! |
i don't understandnerozumiem ti means "i don't understand you" in slovak. a tradition, let's say. after not understanding anything in granada, now i don't understand anything in bratislava. Archives
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