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Discussion: What languages do you know?
Member Since: 4/22/2009
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Originally posted by toxnick
wow, some mad love
well, it's pretty similar though, but not exactly the same.
and once you know either one of those, you will be shocked that they aren't that similar as people made it to be. The big difference is the accent, Indonesian doesn't really have accent, Malay does and heavy.
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I've been lied to then.
If you Google Indonesian/Malay pretty much every site will tell you they are dialects (like Hindi/Urdu), with the basic language being the same, Indonesian borrowing heavily from Dutch and Malay using more native words. Is that true? If someone is speaking to you in Malay will you understand them?
I'm taking a Languages and Dialects class in the Fall so I will definitely bring that up.
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Only English, but I started taking Spanish this year, and I'm pretty good at it so far. Also, I've been taking Hebrew for a few years, but I've never been too good at it at all.
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Member Since: 6/23/2005
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Originally posted by stevensaurusrex
I've been lied to then.
If you Google Indonesian/Malay pretty much every site will tell you they are dialects (like Hindi/Urdu), with the basic language being the same, Indonesian borrowing heavily from Dutch and Malay using more native words. Is that true? If someone is speaking to you in Malay will you understand them?
I'm taking a Languages and Dialects class in the Fall so I will definitely bring that up.
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Pretty much yes, that's true.
I will understand ( not completely) if someone speaks to me in Malay, and the opposite.
I don't know I find it funny listening to Malay's accent. *plz no offense *
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Member Since: 5/13/2009
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English, Indonesian, a bit of Japanese and Dutch (passively as a listener)
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Member Since: 4/22/2009
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Originally posted by toxnick
Pretty much yes, that's true.
I will understand ( not completely) if someone speaks to me in Malay, and the opposite.
I don't know I find it funny listening to Malay's accent. *plz no offense *
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Well according to what I learned at least 50% mutual intelligibility makes them more or less divergent dialects. Oh well. Someday (I Will Understand). (lol)
I'm sure though Malays think Indonesians have funny accents too.
Which Malay can you understand best, that which is spoken in Malaysia, Singapore, or Brunei?
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Member Since: 4/6/2007
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English and French
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Member Since: 10/17/2008
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Beyoncish, Little bit Ciarish, Britnish (yes.. i was a stan long time ago)
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English, of course, and I can understand Spanish, though I'm really not good at speaking it.
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Member Since: 6/23/2005
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Originally posted by stevensaurusrex
I'm sure though Malays think Indonesians have funny accents too.
Which Malay can you understand best, that which is spoken in Malaysia, Singapore, or Brunei?
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Yeah, I guess so.
Well, I've been to Malaysia for few times, I understand them the best among those I guess, in Singapore it's very minority, never heard people speaking Malay in Singapore, and Brunei, I never been there.
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Member Since: 4/22/2009
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Originally posted by Heartless
Beyoncish, Little bit Ciarish, Britnish (yes.. i was a stan long time ago)
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I thought Ciarish was a bacteria?
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I speak fluent russian, and a bit of Uzbek
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i can speak german & english, and i wanna learn spanish
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Arabic, fluently (The 2nd hardest language on earth, BITCH).
English, almost fluent.
French, not much. The basics, and the insults.
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Member Since: 4/22/2009
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Originally posted by Louie
Arabic, fluently (The 2nd hardest language on earth, BITCH).
English, almost fluent.
French, not much. The basics, and the insults.
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YES Finally an Arabic speaker.
Don't you mean you technically speak Yemeni?
I learned all about Arabic in my Writing Systems class how nobody speaks the standard written language as their native language and the various Arabic "dialects" are actually different languages with limited intelligibility between them and you could only communicate with people from different countries if you spoke in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Is it true if you went to like Morocco or Algeria you'd have to speak in MSA?
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Member Since: 4/22/2009
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Originally posted by hungry4xtina
I speak fluent russian, and a bit of Uzbek
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Are you Uzbeki?
How much can you understand other Turkic languages like Kazakh, Uyghur, Kyrgyz ad Turkish?
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I can speak English and some Spanish like:
Hola, Adios, Me allmo ... the basics.
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Tagalog, English and some Spanish.
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english and Japanese and i also sign
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Member Since: 10/14/2008
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Originally posted by stevensaurusrex
YES Finally an Arabic speaker.
Don't you mean you technically speak Yemeni?
I learned all about Arabic in my Writing Systems class how nobody speaks the standard written language as their native language and the various Arabic "dialects" are actually different languages with limited intelligibility between them and you could only communicate with people from different countries if you spoke in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Is it true if you went to like Morocco or Algeria you'd have to speak in MSA?
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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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I speak Tagalog, English, other Filipino dialects
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