Where Did You Learn English

[Diri]

What I meant was - the words - vocabulary - is mostly the same in all Kurdish dialects...

Some variations here and there - like in British-English and American-English there are differences... As in Aussie-English too, right mate?

But the difference between Kurmancî and Soranî is like Bergensk and Oslosk...

While the difference between Kurmancî Proper (Kurmancî, Soranî) and Pehlevî (Zazakî, Hewramî, Goranî etc.) - is like Norwegian and Swedish...

I can understand Swedish... But if I try immitating it - it just sounds goofy...

But they are mutually intelligable...

[tomjez]

I removed my breton map. You guys are worse than frenchs!

[Diri]

I removed my breton map. You guys are worse than frenchs!

Hahaha!

You can put it back now... Because we are on a new page now...

So we won't see it unless we go back to it

I support an independent Breton!

[Fortuna]

Aww tom i liked your map honest i did , but im still none the wiser about breton .

[tomjez]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittanny


here you go

[tomjez]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittanny


here you go

[tomjez]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittanny


here you go

[tomjez]

sorry internet problem...

[Fortuna]

LOL ok ok tom i know i liked it but.............. Ive even saved it to my favorites

[tomjez]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_language

On the language, very interesting!

[Fortuna]

Thanxs Tom

[Piling]

Could you tell us the alpahabet and its pronunciation as we made with kurmancî ? Are there "special sounds" (like gaelic, scottish etc) ?

[tomjez]

well c'h is more or less like X that's the big hard sound in Breton, but can be softer like a turkish H with a contryside accent (in Ahmed for exemple)

otherwise ã is a very nasal a, a bit like a "an" in french, but with a slightly pronunced n. (that's hard)

GW depends of the dialect = sometimes with a hard G, sometimes like "DJW"... (Gwenn = white , can be pronunced Djwenn)

EO is pronunced "ew"

K can be pronunced weirdly like "kch" : N'eo ket = it is not = n'ew kchet

V at the end of a word is W as well, or O = Brav = beautiful = Braw or Brao

ann = quite hard for a french its a "an" with a strong n in the end...

Ei is "Ey" ...

what else...

EZ is "E" in most of the dialects, except in mine where the Z is pronounced

Nevez (new !) can be "Névé" or "Névèzzzz"



kentoc'h mervel eget bezañ saotret. (Brittanny's moto)

would be

Kentox mèrvèl égèt bézà sawtrét

(better death than stain)

Kaoc'h d'ar c'hallaoued = fuck the frenchs = Kawx d'ar Xallawed

[Shevin]

i learned english in school since my third school year....then we made one year ago a one-weak journey to ireland to learn better english...the couiosest thing i saw there were bilingual signs ...like for Dublin...therer was Dublin and below Atha Cliath or something like that...it was in gaelic and in english too o_O

[AlbaSaab]

My tounge speaks (based on how fluent I am):

Mother tounge: Kurdish
Second language: Norwegian
Third language: English
Fourth language: Turkish


Hard to place Turkish and English - as I am told I spoke fluent Turkish the two years my family stayed in Konya when I was a child... Before I even spoke a word of Norwegian or English!


Anyway - started learning English as a kid watching TV, movies etc, and at school from 3th grade... Now they changed the system - so they started teaching English from the 2nd grade...

Have to say - still learning English... It's an endless language... Realy, it is... It's such a mess - with all the foreign loan-words!

But I find my way around...


I am currently trying to improve my Persian - while I am trying to learn Arabic... Actually gonna major in Arabic, starting next semester!

It's a beautiful language...


Ps. @ Tom

Could you please shrink or just link to that HUGE map - it's ruining the whole board, being the size of an elephant... I hate to scroll to the sides...

It's such a difficult language to learn, that most English people don't have a very good command of it, and I think that's disgusting, frankly!! I feel they are too lazy to bother learning it. They think that it ok to mis-spell words and use bad grammar!!