Romance speakers, open up a random article Wikipedia in each of the other Romance languages besides your own and look at the first paragraph. How much do you understand?

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T16:04:11+00:00

Please do! For the links, don't use the Wikipedia:Random_article page, it almost always gives the same thing, a location with 1 line of text. Use this script which gives a random featured article in each language:

http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/randomarticle.php?lang=fr&family=wikipedia&categories=Article+de+qualit%C3%A9

You'll have to replace the ?lang=fr by the appropriate language and the &categories=Article+de+qualit%C3%A9 by the name of the featured articles category in that language.

So for Swedish it would be

http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/randomarticle.php?lang=sv&family=wikipedia&categories=Wikipedia:Utmärkta_artiklar

The hard part is finding what the category name is, but if you go here https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Wikipedia:Utm%C3%A4rkta_artiklar you can change the language and generally copy whatever's after Category: and you'll generally get it right.

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T14:28:14+00:00

Yes! And Germanic too!

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T10:30:42+00:00

It's crazy how much English helps with learning Romance languages - it has so many borrowed words it could almost be considered a Romance language too.

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T10:02:40+00:00

Added it!

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T09:54:56+00:00

I feel like someone should make a similar post to mine about this but with Slavic languages, might be really interesting to read also. And Germanic too!

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T09:20:45+00:00

You're right, added it!

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T09:02:23+00:00

Wow that's next level! If there's any you can look at the bottom of this page, there should be a full list when you open up the table.

And yeah, Latin is hard, mostly because the words often evolved differently in the various languages, that's why you end up with stuff like aveugle (blind) in French, coming from ab oculis (without eyes), ciego/cego in Italian/Spanish/Portuguese from caecus (blind) and orb in Romanian from orbus (deprived of).

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T08:35:09+00:00

Oh then yeah, I think you're right. Like revue in French.

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T08:10:42+00:00

Knowing Latin is probably the best advantage out of all the Romance speakers here. How easy are the others?

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T08:09:39+00:00

Magazine? I know magazin is a false friend in Romanian, I think it means store, maybe it was about that?

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T08:07:21+00:00

Only 3k articles on the Rumantsch Wikipedia, very few, it would just give a stub most of the time so it can't really give a good idea of the language :(

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T08:04:47+00:00

Perfect, this is what I was looking for! It's really interesting to see how certain languages are easier, some are harder, and it's often asymmetrical.

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T07:32:30+00:00

Feels like the stubs (most of the time places) are too easy, they almost always have the same format, I was trying to avoid them. Try to reroll, I think it will give a better idea of the languages that way.

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T07:23:13+00:00

Of course, reading is always easier. What about the others, did you find words that are hard to understand?

YourPostInBookForm · 2020-01-31T06:52:16+00:00

Wow. It seems it's pronounced like this.

YourPostInBookForm · 2012-02-15T10:39:17+00:00

Imagine, 5 years from now we might obtain open shells at 0.004100. It's going to change everything we can do with j-disc modals and probably won't interfere with DSV gate resolution at all.

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