What foreign languages do you know/are you interested in?

[farouk]

nope. Got Mechanic Coming,General Mess of Crap. Gubberment Motors Corporation. now then back to topic.

Let's try to translate this into Japanese...

 

[jasoncran]

Let's try to translate this into Japanese...

Yōshū mōtāzu-sha

 

[jasoncran]

that sounds like a long kata in Shotokan.lol

 

[farouk]

Nihon-go ka wakarimasen...

 

[jasoncran]

home is where you heart is.

hai. wakari maska.

 

[farouk]

home is where you heart is.

hai. wakari maska.

Does the Japanese of Honshu and Kyushu and Shikoku differ significantly from the Japanese of Hokkaido in the north?

 

[farouk]

Norwegian/Danish

I know a little bit of Norwegian and Danish (maybe 10%, if that, I'll come back around to it after I finish German - which has lots of cognates with Scandinavian languages). This is because my family heritage is Norwegian-American which I mention a little here (website) and here (blog). I've, oddly enough, learned more Danish than Norwegian because I am obsessed with translating this family heirloom pulpit/postil book printed in 1758 (in Danish/Dano-Norwegian) that my grandparents have.

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There are lots of Norwegians in Minnesota, right? the distinguished journalist Eric Sevareid was Norwegian-American also, I think.

Blessings.

 

[jeff77]

I speak Portuguese as a 2nd language. My wife is from Brazil and we go visit her family during the summer. Usually we stay for 2 months since we are both teachers we have the time off. I have been speaking the language for about 8 years.

 

[farouk]

I speak Portuguese as a 2nd language. My wife is from Brazil and we go visit her family during the summer. Usually we stay for 2 months since we are both teachers we have the time off. I have been speaking the language for about 8 years.

Through Spanish, I can follow quite a lot of Portuguese. I find the Portuguese from Brazil easier to understand than the Portuguese from Portugal.

Blessings.

 

[jasoncran]

Does the Japanese of Honshu,Kyushu and Shikoku differ significantly from the Japanese of Hokkaido in the north?

I don't speak Japanese. I googled that sentence your post and responded with and old "yes, I understand" that is something I learned from karate-do.

 

[jasoncran]

I speak Portuguese as a 2nd language. My wife is from Brazil and we go visit her family during the summer. Usually we stay for 2 months since we are both teachers we have the time off. I have been speaking the language for about 8 years.

I do bjj/mma. with the self-defense. the instructor is tri-lingual. he speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese.

 

[jeff77]

Yes, there are a lot of similarities between Spanish and Portuguese. When my in-laws come to the U.S to visit we will rent movies and put the subtitles on Spanish and they are able to understand pretty well. My wife has also had conversations speaking Portuguese to someone speaking Spanish and they both understood what the other was saying.

 

[jeff77]

I do bjj/mma. with the self-defense. the instructor is tri-lingual. he speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese.

That is very interesting. Is bjj the same thing as Capoeira?

 

[farouk]

Yes, there are a lot of similarities between Spanish and Portuguese. When my in-laws come to the U.S to visit we will rent movies and put the subtitles on Spanish and they are able to understand pretty well. My wife has also had conversations speaking Portuguese to someone speaking Spanish and they both understood what the other was saying.

....as long as a surgeon doesn't rely on a Spanish interpreter to guide him through surgery on a Portuguese patient...

(Oops...)

 

[jeff77]

....as long as a surgeon doesn't rely on a Spanish interpreter to guide him through surgery on a Portuguese patient...

(Oops...)

Lol, maybe they aren't that compatible.

 

[farouk]

Lol, maybe they aren't that compatible.

It just might work out okay, in the event, but professionally one wouldn't want to risk someone's inwards under the knife, anyway..

 

[jasoncran]

That is very interesting. Is bjj the same thing as Capoeira?

no its a Brazilian version of Japanese jujitsu. look it up. it would de rail this thread. helios gracie is a hero down there.

 

[cyberjosh]

There are lots of Norwegians in Minnesota, right? the distinguished journalist Eric Sevareid was Norwegian-American also, I think.

Blessings.

I wouldn't doubt it. It seems like most of the Scandinavian community is in that area and not in New England (that is to say, they seem mostly located west of the Great Lakes).

 

[cyberjosh]

Where in Scotland did your pastor go for the summit?

Hi AirDancer,

Sorry, I don't know exactly where he went, otherwise I would have mentioned it earlier.

All I know is that our Church's congregation was shown the "more kosher" of two recorded videos that he sent back blessing us for Sunday morning and briefly summarizing what he was doing there, because in the other video (we are told) our pastor was wearing a kilt and was recording when it was very windy outside. We were told we would be spared that painful sight.

 

[farouk]

I wouldn't doubt it. It seems like most of the Scandinavian community is in that area and not in New England (that is to say, they seem mostly located west of the Great Lakes).

cyberjosh:

Interestingly, there is also quite a population of Scandinavian heritage in neighbouring Manitoba and Northern Ontario, Canada, up from Minnesota.

Blessings.