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I can guarantee you'd chuckle more if you knew how it's pronounced. :lol: It's hard to phonetically do the sound but it's a sort of growl from the back of your throat to get the "ch" sound. Like gargling water but not as harsh. yeah, that is how we pronounce the "g" and the "ch" in Holland too.... hehe, there ain't a single American, or British fellow who can pronounce Scheveningen (= a Dutch town) correctly 8) Not a SINGLE one? Is the 'g' pronounced similarly to the French 'r'? If so, I can pronounce it. well, every time I ask an Brittish or American guy to try and say it I get very comical results (I've asked quite a few :P ). It's just pronounced in a way you won't find in most other languages .... It's a bit like the French "r", but much harsher. like Rhys said, a bit like gargling water. I've been known to be able to pronounce almost everything that's thrown at me. 8) Aye, I figured it wasn't exactly like the French 'r'; that's why I said 'similar'. Just like a voiced 'ch'. There's a couple words in Russian in which they use that sound.

I can guarantee you'd chuckle more if you knew how it's pronounced. :lol: It's hard to phonetically do the sound but it's a sort of growl from the back of your throat to get the "ch" sound. Like gargling water but not as harsh. yeah, that is how we pronounce the "g" and the "ch" in Holland too.... hehe, there ain't a single American, or British fellow who can pronounce Scheveningen (= a Dutch town) correctly 8) Not a SINGLE one? Is the 'g' pronounced similarly to the French 'r'? If so, I can pronounce it.

But at least THAT doesn't have four 'L's in a row! xD

Yay, we're both learning Russian! I speak fluent English and French, decent Japanese, and now I'm studying the before mentioned language. Russian IS actually phonetic in the Cyrillic text (except for a couple of silent letters); it's mostly the English transliteration that's not phonetic. Japanese does flow better than Chinese. It makes it rather funny to listen to Chinese people singing. :lol:

Tomorrow, we're reallly NOT going to have electricity! They're cutting our power off. Accursed medical bills!

Yes, I can. Sometimes. Its not impossible, just [censor] hard! :D ~komodo You got that right... >.<

Yes, I can. Sometimes.

Me: (answers the phone) Allo? Them: Hello, is this Mrs. Zozo? (NOT my real last name) Me: Allo? Qui etes-vous? Them: Er, do you speak English? Me: No, I am sorry. I not speak very English. I speak very French. This is where they either hang up on me or get a French speaker. Let's say they got a translator (This has happened several times before!)... Translator: Allo? Me: Moshimoshi? Translator: Euh, parlez-vous francais? Me: Nani? Gomen nasai, furansugo ga hanashimasen yo! Translator: (swears) This is where the translator generally either hangs up or sets down the phone to yell at the original caller about not being able to tell French from Japanese. Only once has it happened where they had a Japanese speaker, but this is how it went. Them: Moshimoshi? Me: ÃÆÃ

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English also has words like that. eg. flocinaucinihilipiliphication :P some people can't pronounce that. I've been trying to figure out the pronounciation of that word(without a dictionary) for at least 6 months now. I also know that Llan... was a city from this quiz I started awhile ago(and still can't finish it :( ) i believe the word is pronounced (phonetically) like this: flossy nossy neh hilleh pilleh fication. as for the asian languages dispute, i undertand that to most, it would seem as though they are all the same when spoken.... however, myself, being half japanese, half uh.. white.. i can see a very big difference, especially written.. ( in english characters.. the actual text in japanese and chinese use a lot of the same characters.. korean is totally different, simpler and use of circles in the texts differenciates it from the other 2) japanese uses many short, usually 2 letter combinations to create words... for example. watashi wa kawaii desu. (means i am cute) breaks down like this when it is written in japanese characters.. wa ta shi wa ka wa i i de su. (i used these words to illustrate some exceptions to the rule, such as the letter i in kawaii being 1 letter, and the shi in watashi being 3 letters.) also interesting, the word "kowai" means scary, and its pronunciation is nearly the same as "kawaii" (careful not to confuse the two :P) after learning this, i found japanese to be really blocky, i guess is the word.. i dont know much about the other two languages, but they sound very much different from japanese now.. anyone else wanna fill in the gap of this language lesson and teach us the other two? :P I know about kowai and kawaii. I always crack up when my brother tries to speak Japanese. Aye, Japanese is a syllabic language; each kana character represents a syllable. Of course, they don't pronounce all of the syllables; 'watashi wa kawaii desu' would be pronounced like 'watash wa kawaii des'. And that's only the formal version of it; in plain speech, I would say 'Atashi wa kawaii'. 8) You members of the male gender would generally use 'boku wa kawaii'. =3

I think the reason that I find it humourous is because it makes me feel like a 'language n00b', as it were. I find the excessive consonants in Russian funny, for instance, because even though I'm learning the language and am finally able to pronounce them, I really had issues at first. I find all of the vowels in French funny as well, but those actually have a funny story behind them.

Most Asian languages seem to be really weird when spoken. I can't even tell a word from each other. Doesn't matter is it japanese, korean or chinese, it's still total gibberish in my ears. Asian languages have never sounded the same to me. :? Even less so since I learned Japanese. Maybe this is because of my predisposition to learning languages?

English also has words like that. eg. flocinaucinihilipiliphication But most Welsh words are like that. I bring you...a whole paragraph in Welsh! xD Welsh isn't the only language that amuses me, though; most languages are funny to some degree.

The reason I find it to be funny isn't because of the length of its spelling but the apparent impossibility of pronouncing it.

Most Asian languages seem to be really weird when spoken. I can't even tell a word from each other. Doesn't matter is it japanese, korean or chinese, it's still total gibberish in my ears. In written language Icelandic seems rather funny. I wish I had time to study it, it doesn't seem to be that much different to swedish which I can somehow speak. I can somehow comprehend spoken Icelandic. A bit on the strange side, but it's true.

That's the actual name of a town in Wales. And you thought that I was just forcefully applying my head to my keyboard, didn't you? Translated, the name means "Saint Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazal near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio of the red cave." Anyways, Welsh is really funny to look at. :3nod: It would, on first glance (and second, third, and maybe fourth) appear to have been created by a toddler with a typewriter. As a spoken language, it's excessively pretty, but the text amuses me. So, what languages do you find funny, in either their text or their spoken form? What do you think of Welsh?

There's Astonia, which is fairly good; it's only free for a month, tho'. However, you can make as many accounts as you want. xD

Aren't you the person that I met in-game that told me that I was going to Hell? :?

In a stroke of genius, I had an idea for this next chapter. 8) It's going to get better. x3

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T_T I missed it. :wall:

Prooobably the ancient cartons of yogurt.

I guess I'll walk around looking Irish all alone. T_T