As an American, Spanish is the obvious choice. Especially in FL, CA, AZ, TX, NM. I have a functional grasp on Spanish.Cybargs wrote:
hard as shit to learn chinese as a non-speaker. pronunciations are a bitch.Shahter wrote:
^this. spanish or chineeze would do better for you i think. russia's mostly finished.Kmar wrote:
What use is Russian to you?
5 actually. neutral, up, down, up and down and short stopped.Superior Mind wrote:
Yeah Chinese has like 4 tonal variations for each sound. Russian only has two, hard letter and soft letter.Cybargs wrote:
hard as shit to learn chinese as a non-speaker. pronunciations are a bitch.Shahter wrote:
^this. spanish or chineeze would do better for you i think. russia's mostly finished.
well, he sure as hell worked in RussiaCybargs wrote:
international cuban businessman selling cigars who worked in russiaKmar wrote:
Ah.. I've got a Cuban friend who speaks it pretty good. His Dad was fluent in it and taught it to him as a kid. Any guesses as to why his Dad knew Russian? ..lolSuperior Mind wrote:
Not ethnically Russian proper, but yeah.
@sha
I studiEd Spanish for years. I'm bored with it
I know enough spanish to order food and hold a small conversation.Kmar wrote:
As an American, Spanish is the obvious choice. Especially in FL, CA, AZ, TX, NM. I have a functional grasp on Spanish.Cybargs wrote:
hard as shit to learn chinese as a non-speaker. pronunciations are a bitch.Shahter wrote:
^this. spanish or chineeze would do better for you i think. russia's mostly finished.
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Prolly a dumb question. I assume you're talking about Mandarin.. ?Cybargs wrote:
5 actually. neutral, up, down, up and down and short stopped.Superior Mind wrote:
Yeah Chinese has like 4 tonal variations for each sound. Russian only has two, hard letter and soft letter.Cybargs wrote:
hard as shit to learn chinese as a non-speaker. pronunciations are a bitch.
Most Mexicans/Cubans/PR people here speak English.. so when they engage in Spanish in front of us me and the pops start having a conversation in French... sort of a two can play that game thing..Cybargs wrote:
I know enough spanish to order food and hold a small conversation.Kmar wrote:
As an American, Spanish is the obvious choice. Especially in FL, CA, AZ, TX, NM. I have a functional grasp on Spanish.Cybargs wrote:
hard as shit to learn chinese as a non-speaker. pronunciations are a bitch.
Yeah mandarin lel.Kmar wrote:
Prolly a dumb question. I assume you're talking about Mandarin.. ?Cybargs wrote:
5 actually. neutral, up, down, up and down and short stopped.Superior Mind wrote:
Yeah Chinese has like 4 tonal variations for each sound. Russian only has two, hard letter and soft letter.
ouch.Shahter wrote:
oh, dear. let me put it into perspective for you: one of my friends, a male one, forgot to put... ehm... a certain other piece of protective equipment on once. well... you know... perspective.Eifa wrote:
i did put the glove on.. the puck just hit me few cm above my wrist.Shahter wrote:
don't tell me you forgot to put the glove on .
it hurts.
what's so "lol" about it? yeah, there was a time when people around the globe actually needed to learn russian. my mother, who doesn't speak any foreign language at all, has no problem in india and china when she goes on business to those coutries - a lot of people still speak russian. but that's history. don't pick russian, unless it's required for your major (literature, history) or purely for lulz.Kmar wrote:
Ah.. I've got a Cuban friend who speaks it pretty good. His Dad was fluent in it and taught it to him as a kid. Any guesses as to why his Dad knew Russian? ..lolSuperior Mind wrote:
Not ethnically Russian proper, but yeah.
@sha
I studiEd Spanish for years. I'm bored with it
Well, I knew there was more than one native language spoken in China . I don't know the geographical distribution though.Cybargs wrote:
Yeah mandarin lel.Kmar wrote:
Prolly a dumb question. I assume you're talking about Mandarin.. ?Cybargs wrote:
5 actually. neutral, up, down, up and down and short stopped.
I speak fluent mandarin and semi-fluent in Minan/Hokkien/Taiwanese lol
Fuck I need to learn cantonese, too many hong kong people in Sydney lol.
heh it happens to people holding a common language group. sometimes my buddy and I break in and out of chinese and my white friend always go "hey guys you know whats a good idea? lets speak english" and he just starts speaking indonesian when were with our indo friends lolKmar wrote:
Most Mexicans/Cubans/PR people here speak English.. so when they engage in Spanish in front of us me and the pops start having a conversation in French... sort of a two can play that game thing..Cybargs wrote:
I know enough spanish to order food and hold a small conversation.Kmar wrote:
As an American, Spanish is the obvious choice. Especially in FL, CA, AZ, TX, NM. I have a functional grasp on Spanish.
Most of the Chinese in NY speak canto, but everyone seems to know 2 or 3 other dialects.Cybargs wrote:
Yeah mandarin lel.Kmar wrote:
Prolly a dumb question. I assume you're talking about Mandarin.. ?Cybargs wrote:
5 actually. neutral, up, down, up and down and short stopped.
I speak fluent mandarin and semi-fluent in Minan/Hokkien/Taiwanese lol
Fuck I need to learn cantonese, too many hong kong people in Sydney lol.
Because it was all hush hush at the time. No one was supposed to know his occupation (fill in the blanks). That friend ended up having to flee cuba because his dad had spoken out against the system.Shahter wrote:
what's so "lol" about it? yeah, there was a time when people around the globe actually needed to learn russian. my mother, who doesn't speak any foreign language at all, has no problem in india and china when she goes on business to those coutries - a lot of people still speak russian. but that's history. don't pick russian, unless it's required for your major (literature, history) or purely for lulz.Kmar wrote:
Ah.. I've got a Cuban friend who speaks it pretty good. His Dad was fluent in it and taught it to him as a kid. Any guesses as to why his Dad knew Russian? ..lolSuperior Mind wrote:
Not ethnically Russian proper, but yeah.
@sha
I studiEd Spanish for years. I'm bored with it
Canto and Minan/Taiwanese is a lot more similar to each other than mandarin, but still huge difference. I guess it's like the difference between romance languages. one good thing is that theres a uniform writing system lol.Superior Mind wrote:
Most of the Chinese in NY speak canto, but everyone seems to know 2 or 3 other dialects.Cybargs wrote:
Yeah mandarin lel.Kmar wrote:
Prolly a dumb question. I assume you're talking about Mandarin.. ?
I speak fluent mandarin and semi-fluent in Minan/Hokkien/Taiwanese lol
Fuck I need to learn cantonese, too many hong kong people in Sydney lol.
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at the deep southern provinces that are known for their cotton fieldsKmar wrote:
Where do they speak blackanese?
i just know "guai lo" and "dai lo" lol. one means white devil other means boss.Superior Mind wrote:
I only learned one word that I always remember. Po kai
I learned lo meinSuperior Mind wrote:
I only learned one word that I always remember. Po kai
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THAT'S WACIST!Cybargs wrote:
at the deep southern provinces that are known for their cotton fieldsKmar wrote:
Where do they speak blackanese?
hey cybargs, how do you pronounce Epping Station?Cybargs wrote:
i just know "guai lo" and "dai lo" lol. one means white devil other means boss.Superior Mind wrote:
I only learned one word that I always remember. Po kai
isnt that how you supposed to pronounce itAussieReaper wrote:
hey cybargs, how do you pronounce Epping Station?Cybargs wrote:
i just know "guai lo" and "dai lo" lol. one means white devil other means boss.Superior Mind wrote:
I only learned one word that I always remember. Po kai
It's so full of asians it's known as E-Ping.
yeah. he was unable to walk straight for a week or so. he always laughs at that incident now, but, honestly, even thinking about that makes me want to cower >.<Eifa wrote:
ouch.Shahter wrote:
oh, dear. let me put it into perspective for you: one of my friends, a male one, forgot to put... ehm... a certain other piece of protective equipment on once. well... you know... perspective.Eifa wrote:
i did put the glove on.. the puck just hit me few cm above my wrist.
it hurts.