French/English ski dictionary

tino_11 wrote:

bandit wrote:Tino, Catalan was once described to me, as a bit like listening to dogs barking :D The language has a lot more hard edges to the words than Castillian does.

Also they speak about 3 times faster than the Castillians, which is hard to believe and even harder to follow.

I would be totally lost then, as I have a really tough time keeping up with the nearest neighbours, when they forget to sloooow it all down for me :oops: Mind you we get some Valenciano used in d2d language as well!

Are you good at Spanish then Bandit?

Do you fancy composing a Spanish version of the 'bend ze knees' skiers phrase-book for everyone?

Ally

Try learning Finnish. Its a language I shall never understand and nearly every-one speaks it in Finland, very little English. But we get by, although have had a few errors on food so in resteraunts I look over at what other people are eating and if it looks good I just say I'll have some of that. All adds to the fun. Mind you my latins not bad as its not really a spoken language.

RoseR wrote:Try learning Finnish. Its a language I shall never understand and nearly every-one speaks it in Finland, very little English. But we get by, although have had a few errors on food so in resteraunts I look over at what other people are eating and if it looks good I just say I'll have some of that. All adds to the fun. Mind you my latins not bad as its not really a spoken language.

Thanks Rose, with the mention of Latin you have just inspred a little but permanent part of my blog :-)

Rose,
I'm having enough trouble with French - never mind Finnish! I wish you all the best of luck with your Finnish :D

I did Latin at school as well, but apart from still being able to decline 'mensa' I can remember very little of it, although it does help sometimes with the roots of words in both French and English.

I didn't know Finnish was related to Latin :shock: Finland is surely a long way from Italy? Or did you just mean you were fluent in Latin :wink:

Ally

No Ally Finish and Latin are totally unrelated :lol:

RoseR wrote:No Ally Finish and Latin are totally unrelated :lol:

They couldnt be more further removed.

I found Finnish (phrase book stuff) difficult. Many words have lots of side by side vowels, and each is pronounced separately. The one word I can remember was, I think, kiiota, pronounced kee-ee-oh-ta.

Also did five years of Latin study. I thik it is fair to say, that is the worst way I have wasted time, since I have never used it.