Any Linguists?

My mother tongue is Greek 😖mart: Other than that, I can speak English (obviously 😛 ), German, Italian and can understand Spanish. I can only perfectly interact in English though (ok so what if I make some mistakes from time to time 😮 )

Originally posted by Storm
Beside my mother tongue (Dutch) I speak French, English, German, Latin, ancient Greek and some Italian phrases.

Ancient Greek!!!! 😱
Are you serious? 😕

If I am not mistaken Greek has changed very little from ancient times to today.. Forgive me if I'm wrong

i believe ur correct Darth R.

Ancient Greek language i think just changed with the writing system but not verbally. i may be wrong

You are very very very much wrong 🙂 But I forgive you 😛
It is a LOT different, and I know from experience 🙁 We study them at school and seriously, if I hadn't beem studying them since I was 12, and saw an ancient greek text... I wouldn't understand a word 🤪

Like Hockey said though... Isn't it just the writing?

Letters are the same 😖 Actually it's difficult to explain without giving examples 😬
The roots of the words are basically the same BUT grammar, accenting, spelling, syntax even meaning when translated is very much different.

same with Armenian.

im pure Armenian but Armenians after the genocide spread across the middle east and got mixed with Iranians (Persians) and Lebanese. So the language was like mixed with other cultures. Confusing 😂

Off topic: I once saw a movie about Armenian genocide, how sad 🙁

As for greek, no it didn't mix up, but teenagers (not me! 😇 ) are not very familiar with erm... original greek, they tend to mix them with english terms 🙄

I'm a cunning linguist....

CunninLynguists- really good hip hop group

Seriously though, I speak everything one needs to know in fiftysix languages... but then all anyone needs is the most important phrases... "yes" "no," "please," "thankyou," and "where is the toilet..."

can you say Hello in Armenian?

English is more then enough for me.

🙂 😂

Originally posted by big gay kirk
I'm a cunning linguist....

that was my msn name last week 😐

I can say "you are an idiot" in German 🪩 Don't know how to spell it though

Originally posted by Evy_O
Ancient Greek!!!! 😱
Are you serious? 😕 [/B]

But fewer and fewer students learn Ancient Greek and Latin know...

Is it funny to insult people inother languages? O.o

I know the japanese word for maturity >>'

Originally posted by G.P
Well it is still possible to learn it here...some of my friends did. I maybe would have learned it, but the Greek teacher was really, erm...not good (I know what I'm talking about, 'cos it has been my French and Latin teacher... 😖)and because it wasn't possible to learn both Latin and Ancient Greek 🙁

But fewer and fewer students learn Ancient Greek and Latin know...

That's a big surprise 😑 Foreign people wanting to learn Ancient Greek and greeks themselves refusing to do so 😮 Yeah, most of my classmates don't study at all... 😖
It's embarassing really 😬

well nowadays it's really just useful if you want to be an archaeologist... 😬