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Discussion: What languages do you know?
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Originally posted by Louie
There are 22 Arabian countrys. It's all Arabic, we understand each other perfectly, although every country has its own weird vocabularies. Like Britain and America. The accents are different.. Yet there are 2 countrys, you've mentioned them, Algeria and Morocco, they were invaded long time ago by a powerfull country, France. I don't know how long it was, but it was long enough to scramble their Arabic and feed them French, so their Arabic is a mix of Arabic and French. Overally, we all understand eachother, all Arabians.
However, nobody uses the MSA nowadays, well except for when you're lecturing people from different Arabian countrys. Because MSA is like our mother language, we never speak it, but our greatest grandfathers used to speak it, and our old nation stories. And it's the core language of Arabic.
p.s. I love your enthusiasm, Steve. 
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What? Lady GaGa released a new single? 
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Originally posted by Louie
What? Lady GaGa released a new single?
Jk
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you FAILED, so not funny 
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Quote:
Originally posted by Louie
There are 22 Arabian countrys. It's all Arabic, we understand each other perfectly, although every country has its own weird vocabularies. Like Britain and America. The accents are different.. Yet there are 2 countrys, you've mentioned them, Algeria and Morocco, they were invaded long time ago by a powerfull country, France. I don't know how long it was, but it was long enough to scramble their Arabic and feed them French, so their Arabic is a mix of Arabic and French. Overally, we all understand eachother, all Arabians.
However, nobody uses the MSA nowadays, well except for when you're lecturing people from different Arabian countrys. Because MSA is like our mother language, we never speak it, but our greatest grandfathers used to speak it, and our old nation stories. And it's the core language of Arabic.
p.s. I love your enthusiasm, Steve. 
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Well, we learned that Arabic is more like Chinese with many unintelligible languages united by a common written language. 
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I heard the only Arabic "language" everybody understands in its colloquial form is Egyptian
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What? Lady GaGa released a new single? 
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Watch randos flock to this thread and spam it now. 
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I wanna learn a lot of languages but I don't think I would ever be able to learn a language not written in the Latin alphabet. It must be really difficult to get used to a new alphabet. Russian seems very cool though. 
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I speak Russian and I know English, but it's not perfect really.
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Originally posted by stevensaurusrex
Well, we learned that Arabic is more like Chinese with many unintelligible languages united by a common written language. 
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I heard the only Arabic "language" everybody understands in its colloquial form is Egyptian
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Somewhat right. But not entirely. You can ask Mazen, he's a very smart bastard.
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Who is Mazen. Bring that beast to this thread. 
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^  Standard Italian or a dialect?
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fluent spanish, fluent english
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Originally posted by stevensaurusrex
^  Standard Italian or a dialect?
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I'm from Rome..so yeah..i know a lil bit of "Roman Dialect" too 
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Spanish ( a huevo!  ), I'd say I'm pretty fluent in English. In January, I started learning Mandarin Chinese at school (in pinyin mostly, I'm supposed to be taught to write characters and **** next semester), and French with a friend of mine. :heart: both languages. 
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native: Español
other: Inglés
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Italian (1st language), English, some Spanish (learning)
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Originally posted by Miche
Italian (1st language), English, some Spanish (learning)
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Again, Standard Italian or dialect? 
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Arabic, English and something in French and Spanish here.
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Originally posted by stevensaurusrex
Well, we learned that Arabic is more like Chinese with many unintelligible languages united by a common written language. 
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I heard the only Arabic "language" everybody understands in its colloquial form is Egyptian
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Yeah, it's a mix of Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian, Lebanese and such. And mostly because of the common vocabulary in the region.
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