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Originally Posted by ArcheM
Okay, it feels like for the past week my job and relatives conspired to make my life a nightmare. But last night I sort of finished the current job task and the majority of relatives left this morning. So maybe trying to recover some mental balance, including foreign languages.
Anyway, on the recurring topic of Scandinavian languages, here's an interesting video outlining what's going on with Swedish/Norwegian and Finnish:
One, I think, important takeaway is that the distance from those Germanic languages to Finnish is comparable the distance to Japanese or any such exotic language.
Also I wrote a post in Dutch on italki yesterday as a test and got very encouraging results... well, one result - one reply. It may sound presumptious on my part, but what that person put forward as grammatical corrections looked to me more like stylistic suggestions. Like, "you shouldn't start a sentence with 'but'". But I can say the same thing for English. |
Hey at one point I wanted to learn Finnish, but took one look at the language and was like nope, though I chose German such is a hard language too. I bookmarked the video so I can watch it later (it's a holiday here and I have things to do).
So the speakers on my Kindle with headphones in started working again, that was fun for about a week or two and now the left ear won't work right (sounds like you're listening through a tunnel, the left ear works but very, very quietly). All this right before I decide to sign up for a Netflix account on the 1st of June. So I've been listening to only music in German without headphones and it isn't easy hearing the words without headphones in. I think it's about time for a new Kindle mine is 6 years old and acting really weird.
And yeah I don't think you're supposed to start sentences with "but", but I do though unless I'm writing an essay or research paper (which I haven't had to do in about 6 years). I'm also not sure you're supposed to start sentences with "and" either, but again I do unless it's an academic paper then I won't.