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RE: My definition of Socialism and why you do not need force to realize it
By the way I like to consider myself logical. I absolutely love the German language. I spent many years studying it in high school, and one college course and I then never really used it and that was long ago so I've forgotten most of what I knew. I took a French class in College and hated it. The plethora of silent letters (way beyond those in English) drove me absolutely insane. :) Spanish I only know from interacting with people verbally so I can speak some spanish, but not read it for the most part.
So I actually like the German language quite a bit.
THANK YOU! Do you know how often I have to google words like "necessarily" just because I need to check the writing? Well this one has no silent letters but the pronunciation-to-writing relation is not very logical in english and in french. Why would you ever use silent letters? I actually prefer British English a little bit because they are closer in their pronunciation to German. I guess I will make language course at some point after all.
Since I started having political conversations in German here on Steemit I actually started to appreciate my mother language much more. It might be natural that I can just express myself more precisely in my mother tongue but I think German would be a great replacement for at least scientific terminology which is mostly latin and old greek at the moment.
Do you also have the problems with the gender-specific articles? I know people who lived more then half their lives in Germany but still get that wrong even though they speak fluently otherwise.
I understood it, but I'd make a lot of mistakes with it.
Did you ever research Esperanto? That was supposedly generated to be logical. It was an intentionally created language. I've often heard tales about it, but I've never actually looked into it.
same. It sounds like any latin based language to me when spoken, but I appreciate the idea and I might try to learn it at some point. Korean is first tho, asian language is pretty exciting because you see a whole different cultural history engrained in the language.
I actually think I'd be pretty good with languages if I spent time at it and was exposed to it enough. I watched the entire 44 episodes of The Legend of Bruce Lee in I believe Mandarin (could have been Cantonese I cannot tell the difference) and it had no subtitles or english. :) I found myself understanding bits of it by the end. :)
Well you need to have some kind of reason to expose yourself to a language other then "you want to learn it". For English this has been series and movies as well.
I would get together some basic japanese dialogue due to all the subtitled animes I watch, but the writing system of japanese is just awful, it makes no sense compared to korean or chinese. Now I am stuck with being able to write some Korean words and being able to take part in a very basic conversation in Japanese, not very helpful so far, so maybe I will try some Korean Movies next.