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#32 (permalink) Mon Jul 25, 2005 17:03 pm What's my language? |
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| Nicole wrote: |
| I think there are about 100 million who speak my language. Most of them live in Europe, in three countries actually. What else can I say about my native language? I could say a lot but then it would be way to easy for you to guess :) |
My guess is: French :wink: |
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SaschaT I'm new here and I like it ;-)
Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 14 Location: Stuttgart
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#33 (permalink) Wed Jul 27, 2005 21:51 pm What's my language? |
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Sascha Hello! Your guess was almost correct. My mother tongue has the same roots like French. A lot of our vocabulary is French based and we use some French words (often without knowing it of course). I'm sure you speak this language too :) . _________________ Life is for living. |
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Nicole I'm here quite often ;-)
Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 160 Location: Bern, Switzerland
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#34 (permalink) Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:32 pm What's my language? |
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| Nicole wrote: |
| Sascha Hello! Your guess was almost correct. My mother tongue has the same roots like French. A lot of our vocabulary is French based and we use some French words (often without knowing it of course). I'm sure you speak this language too :) . |
English? :roll: Don`t know why, but English has a lot of words derived from French... Am I right? :wink: |
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Karina I'm here quite often ;-)

Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 187 Location: Poland
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#35 (permalink) Thu Jul 28, 2005 13:59 pm What's my language? |
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| Nicole wrote: |
| Sascha Hello! Your guess was almost correct. My mother tongue has the same roots like French. A lot of our vocabulary is French based and we use some French words (often without knowing it of course). I'm sure you speak this language too :) . |
Are you saying your mother tongue is German? Then count again, in how many countries German is spoken :lol:
I count 6. |
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SaschaT I'm new here and I like it ;-)
Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 14 Location: Stuttgart
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#36 (permalink) Fri Jul 29, 2005 21:36 pm What's my language? |
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| Nicole wrote: |
English? :roll: Don`t know why, but English has a lot of words derived from French... Am I right? :wink: |
Hello Karina! You are right a lot of English and French words have the same roots. But I think French is older than English so it's that a lot English words derived from French rather than the other way round. Regarding the number of speakers - there a lot more than 100 million people in the world than just 100. In North America alone there are how many - three hundred million? _________________ Life is for living. |
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Nicole I'm here quite often ;-)
Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 160 Location: Bern, Switzerland
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#37 (permalink) Fri Jul 29, 2005 21:37 pm What's my language? |
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| SaschaT wrote: |
Are you saying your mother tongue is German? Then count again, in how many countries German is spoken :lol: I count 6. |
Sacha, what would those 6 countries be? _________________ Life is for living. |
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Nicole I'm here quite often ;-)
Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 160 Location: Bern, Switzerland
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#38 (permalink) Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:07 am What's my language? |
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| Nicole wrote: |
| SaschaT wrote: |
Are you saying your mother tongue is German? Then count again, in how many countries German is spoken :lol: I count 6. |
Sacha, what would those 6 countries be? |
Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Belgium, Italy (and if you want, Luxembourg also) :wink: |
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SaschaT I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#39 (permalink) Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:22 am Germans in italy |
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Hello Sascha, how many people speak German in Italy? It's think it's a very small number. There might be more people in Switzerland speaking Italian that German speakers in Italy. _________________ Life is for living. |
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Nicole I'm here quite often ;-)
Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 160 Location: Bern, Switzerland
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#40 (permalink) Tue Sep 13, 2005 23:46 pm What is your mother tongue? |
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Hello everybody There are about 50 million people in the world speak My mother tongue Those speak my mother tongue live in 5 countries and some live in europe and America because they emigrated and settled there I know that nobody here in this forum knows at least one word of my mother tongue and I know nobody will guess what is my mother tongue If you guess that mean you are genius :P :P :P :P |
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Darav New Member
Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Syria
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#41 (permalink) Wed Sep 21, 2005 9:34 am Mine is Arabic |
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Arabic belongs to the Semitic and is the national language of about 250 million inhabitants of North Africa and the Arabian countries. Outside these areas, it is spoken by Arabs living in west and in some parts of North and South America, and Russia Central Asia. Since it is the language of the QURAN some limited knowledge of it exists throughout the Muslim world.
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Hadeel I'm new here and I like it ;-)
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#42 (permalink) Mon Oct 10, 2005 23:34 pm Hi everybody, |
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I can’t ask you to guess my mother tongue as I have written my place of living in my profile. It was really stupid of me :(.
Anyway, I think Darav is Turkish. I wanted say that she was Polish because there are 50mln people all around the world speaking my mother tongue. For those who think English is difficult, I highly recommend to look at the Web site below and try to learn some Polish expressions ;). http://www.staypoland.com/polish.htm
If Polish wasn’t my mother tongue, I would be the last person to learn it! But I know lots of people who managed. As a Polish native speaker I want to say I like my language and I think it comparable in some way with English. English has a wide vocabulary range (all those idioms and phrasal verbs!), and Polish has a comparable number of grammar rules and ... exceptions from them). So if you start with Polish, and you don’t come from Slavonic countries, forget about grammar and learn structures.
Besides, we often use ‘OK’ and other English expressions every day (usually bad words). But seriously saying quite a big number of Polish people speak English well, young people in particular.
To finish the story: that was a funny thing for me to learn that we use a word ‘fart’ in a complete different meaning than the English. If you say in Polish 'mam farta' or ‘ co za fart’ (= I have a fart/ What a fart!) it means that you are lucky:).
Special greetings for Polish speakers on this forum :).
Darav, let me know if I guessed ;) |
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Katarzyna I'm new here and I like it ;-)
Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 48 Location: Warsaw, Poland
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#43 (permalink) Sat Oct 15, 2005 12:32 pm Vietnamese |
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Hi !
Do you speak Vietnamese? It's my mother tongue. |
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Tortoise I'm here quite often ;-)
Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 167 Location: Vietnam
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#44 (permalink) Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:22 am What is your mother tongue? |
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About 30 million people speak my native language. Most of them live in northern Iran. We are lucky because our native language is very close to Turkish. We are able to speak with Turks without any problem. I like this language because it is very good for poetry and like English, it is rich with idioms. _________________ Learning is a sacred engagement. |
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Ahmadov I'm here quite often ;-)

Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 312 Location: Azerbaijan
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#45 (permalink) Wed Dec 28, 2005 18:06 pm Azerbaijan? |
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Hello Ahmadov, are you from Azerbaijan? _________________ A smile will open doors ;-) |
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Andreana I'm here quite often ;-)

Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Posts: 204 Location: Argentina
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