:D

 

im such a busy woman :lol:

I wish I had more to offer than a few finnish words.

aw crests more than me :\ i can only teach portuguese

but everyone speaks english here :lol:

that's great too Claudia :)

 

Bonjour tout le monde ! comment ça va ?

Hello everybody ! How are you ?

 

Yeah Crests english THE international speaking :P What about the other languages ?

Hey Guillaume, anything you wanna know? :D

:lol: nooo i cant speak english !!! its really hard :\ not even write lol i do a lot of mistakes

:cheesy: I'm the teacher :smug:

heeey teacher leave the kids alone !!! *does a little dance*

hello our teacher !! Bonjour professeur Crests !

hello teacher

 

hei oppetaja :D

Just wee warning: these are mostly my own findings, so I might be wrong. Very wrong.

 

kiitos.... so how would i say: i am spanish, i speak spanish, english, french and portuguese?

 

minä olen ...

minä puhun ...

You'd say

Minä olen espanjalainen.

Puhun espanjaa, englantia, ranskaa ja portugalia.(Because the verbs are conjugated and each person has their own form of the same verb you can only say the verb without the pronoun.)

 

The languages themselves are called espanja, englanti, ranska and portugali. Why are they written differently when you write "I speak..."? It's because they're declined. That's marked by the -a suffix, which seems (!) to be a regular way of forming cases (not sure which one this actually is). The only exception that's obvious to me is suomi, which isn't suomia as we'd suppose, but suomea. :)

 

(there are regular and irregular verbs there, right? ) (those seems regular to me... remember me to french and i don't know why).

Yeah, there are regular and irregular verbs, olla is irregular (I guess it is shown in 3rd person forms), the others I posted were regular, I think.

 

why do you add the ä in some as and not in others?

I think that's called the euphony principle. There are some phonemes that require a certain phoneme next to them. Just like in French: you say mon amie even though it's a girl friend you're speaking about. Ma amie doesn't sound right, does it? In Finnish, these phonemes are a and ä, but I forgot how exactly it goes. Will have to check. :)

 

why there are 3 ways to say hello: hei, terve, moi?

No idea. Perhaps it's like in any other language; to mark the register, the relationship between the speakers, time of the day, status...

 

and once more how do i say:

today is

tomorrow will be

yesterday was

(to practice weekdays)

Again, no idea. Will check in the evening.

 

(sorry for asking a lot :embarassed: )

S'alright, that means you're interested in learning a language! :nice:

 

Eglantine!! You from Iceland???:stunned:

Nooooo, I wish! I'm from Slovenia. :)

You are a very good teacher! :D

Hahah thanks, that's the cost for studying languages :D

I don't do much studying languages.

i'm more into studying music.

I hope to work in the music industry some day :D

What instruments do you play?

I used to play the guitar and recorder, but I forgot,.

 

so im either gonna learn a new instrument or just work mixing or something like that.

Hey bonjour Eglantine (here in france we've got the same name) wooow you're from Iceland it's such a beautiful country one of my sisters go there and it's sooooooo unbelievable ! I looooove Sigur Ros :) I want to know more about your language ! I just know some danish swedish norwish words like Goddag Takk and Skoll or Hej !! :) // woooops I read tooooo fast you're from Slovenia !! ;)

 

Otherwise I can play the Guitar the Piano and a little the Harmonica !! :P

I love Sigur Ros!

I used to play the guitar and recorder, but I forgot,.

 

so im either gonna learn a new instrument or just work mixing or something like that.

How did you play the recorder? :o

 

I'd love to play guitar but I don't have time (or a guitar) to learn it. :rolleyes: Played violin for a year, and I still know how to play blockflute. :lol:

 

Hey bonjour Eglantine (here in france we've got the same name) wooow you're from Iceland it's such a beautiful country one of my sisters go there and it's sooooooo unbelievable ! I looooove Sigur Ros :) I want to know more about your language ! I just know some danish swedish norwish words like Goddag Takk and Skoll or Hej !! :) // woooops I read tooooo fast you're from Slovenia !! ;)

Ouais, je viens de la Slovénie, pas d'Islande. J'aimerais y aller quelque jour. Et j'aime Sigur rós aussi. :nice:

The recorder is very fun :D

we learned it in music class.

I'd love to try that one day :D

its pretty fun :wacko:

r u writing all that down, ari?

i should, is very complex to me that, well some things are easy to get but others not.... you know is not the same as to learn italian which both languages (spanish and italian) have the same origin (latin). :\ i still have some space on my summer notebook, or may i'll buy one tomorrow and note it down... for my "future" job learn a bit of other languages does no harm, just the opposite may open me more chances ;) (i should be studying translation or some philology :shame: hope i will do it soon :wacko: )

 

heeey teacher leave the kids alone !!! *does a little dance*

:dance:

 

Just wee warning: these are mostly my own findings, so I might be wrong. Very wrong.

 

You'd say

Minä olen espanjalainen.

Puhun espanjaa, englantia, ranskaa ja portugalia.(Because the verbs are conjugated and each person has their own form of the same verb you can only say the verb without the pronoun.)

 

The languages themselves are called espanja, englanti, ranska and portugali. Why are they written differently when you write "I speak..."? It's because they're declined. That's marked by the -a suffix, which seems (!) to be a regular way of forming cases (not sure which one this actually is). The only exception that's obvious to me is suomi, which isn't suomia as we'd suppose, but suomea. :)

 

Yeah, there are regular and irregular verbs, olla is irregular (I guess it is shown in 3rd person forms), the others I posted were regular, I think.

 

I think that's called the euphony principle. There are some phonemes that require a certain phoneme next to them. Just like in French: you say mon amie even though it's a girl friend you're speaking about. Ma amie doesn't sound right, does it? In Finnish, these phonemes are a and ä, but I forgot how exactly it goes. Will have to check. :)

 

No idea. Perhaps it's like in any other language; to mark the register, the relationship between the speakers, time of the day, status...

 

Again, no idea. Will check in the evening.

 

S'alright, that means you're interested in learning a language! :nice:

 

Nooooo, I wish! I'm from Slovenia. :)

thanks a lot i really appreciate it. :D anyways i didn't knew you also speak Finnish :nice:

about the way to say hello, i understand it but how do i know in which context is better to use one or the other? (what's more formal and what more informal?)

 

 

The recorder is very fun :D

we learned it in music class.

recorder, to play music, or to record things? :thinking:

anyways sounds interesting :D

the musical instrument :D

ola Ari!

I still remember alot of my Portuguese words :dance: