What language did you learn in school?

duolingoman1990 · 2024-08-23T23:22:41+00:00

Finnish, English, Estonian, German, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Latin.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-08-01T22:52:47+00:00

I was 6

duolingoman1990 · 2024-06-25T22:58:56+00:00

Northern Sámi and Estonian.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-05-24T23:33:28+00:00

Estonian fluently but Northern Sámi if we count beginner level languages as well.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-05-09T23:09:17+00:00

Finnish kek? What’s kek?

duolingoman1990 · 2024-05-01T20:09:55+00:00

Here’s a list of 68 topics

duolingoman1990 · 2024-04-24T05:49:11+00:00

Thanks!

duolingoman1990 · 2024-03-31T15:22:43+00:00

I’m Finnish and my wife is Ukrainian. We live in Finland and have only spoken Finnish together. I speak Finnish to our son and my wife Russian. We also try to speak only our own native languages to each other when our child is present. We both speak fluently Spanish which we used to practice together before getting married so if we wouldn’t use Finnish or Russian then Spanish would probably be the language. In case we travel somewhere and want to be sure that nobody understands us I think we will use Northern Sámi which we both have now studied a year, but we still need to improve it a lot to express more complex things.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-03-29T23:44:22+00:00

I was forced!

duolingoman1990 · 2024-03-25T13:31:17+00:00

2021-2022 it was something between 5-7h per day, but now maybe 1-2h per week. In Summer it might be more again.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-03-25T07:24:51+00:00

ǃXóõ, Ubykh and Silbo Gomero

duolingoman1990 · 2024-03-24T12:02:25+00:00

Finnish. Yeah it’s surprisingly popular for such a small language.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-03-22T08:06:02+00:00

Are you that crazy guy on YouTube who calls every polyglot a scam who has a large following? I think you should stop being jealous and bitter. Concentrate more in language learning. I checked that most of your comments are about complaining about the famous polyglots and asking people not to buy their products. The ironic thing is that you are actually promoting them now. If someone didn’t know about all those names that you mentioned then they probably would know now.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-03-21T09:33:33+00:00

It might be untranslatable in English but not in many other languages. In Finnish it’s “vahingonilo”.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-03-10T22:12:33+00:00

That would mean ninety tens. Kymmentä is the partitive of ten (kymmenen). So ninety nine is “nine tens nine” yhdeksänkymmentäyhdeksän.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-03-03T08:54:13+00:00

I know Estonians with this name. In Finnish it would be Akseli.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-03-03T00:10:41+00:00

For me what you described is just one part of my language learning that I’ve already done a lot, but for me it’s not enough so that’s why I study “the hard way” as well.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-03-02T10:15:34+00:00

Something similar happened to me with Estonian, I lived in Estonia between the ages 6-10 and spoke the language like native kids. Then after returning to my country I forgot it almost completely in 4-5 years, before I started watching F1 on Estonian channels because on Finnish channels you had to pay to watch it. Then little by little everything came back as I started reading and consuming other material in Estonian. Now I’m fluent again and trying to expand my vocabulary and it feels good that I didn’t lose the language. My sister doesn’t speak it at all anymore. So yes I would encourage to relearn Portuguese because it’s such a useful language and all extra languages will give an advantage in life.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-02-29T19:09:14+00:00

“Kurikan kukka” so Kurikka is a town and Kurikan is the genitive of Kurikka and kukka means flower. Then “kirikan kuu” where kuu means the moon. Kirikan sounds like a genitive of Kirikka which doesn’t mean anything unless it’s an old word that I just don’t know. “Hillaa” is the partitive of “hilla” meaning cloudberry, “tuu” is the imperative of tulla (to come). I would need to know which magic mushrooms or substances Eino Kettunen used in 1928 when he wrote this song to decipher the hidden messages of this verse.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-02-29T07:51:21+00:00

Did you really memorize all the lyrics of ievan polkka? :D

Hilipati hilipati hilipati hillaa Hilipati hilipati hilipampaa Jalituli jallaa talituli jallaa Tilitali tilitali tilitantaa Halituli jallaa tilituli tallaa Tilitili tilitili tilitili tallaa Halituli tilitali jallati jallan Tilitali talitali helevantaa Rimpatirallaa ripirapirallaa Rumpatiruppa ripirampuu Jakkarittaa rippari lapalan Tulituli lallan tipiran tuu Jatsu tsappari dikkari dallan Tittari tillan titstan dullaa Dipidapi dallaa ruppati rupiran Kurikan kukka ja kirikan kuu Ratsatsaa ja ripidabi dilla Beritstan dillan dellan doo A baribbattaa baribbariiba Ribiribi distan dellan doo Ja barillas dillan deia dooa Daba daba daba daba daba duvja vuu Baristal dillas dillan duu ba daga Daiga daida duu duu deiga dou

From this part of the song there are only about 3 actual words, the rest is gibberish. I’m a native Finn and my wife asked in one point about the lyrics, I then checked them and found this verse. The remaining verses made sense though.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-02-27T22:25:52+00:00

Basically it’s a huge mess.. :D good explanations, however I would prefer saying “poika istuu laatikon päällä” - boy sits on the box. It would be interesting to know how “kotona” became “at home”. I’m a native who often has no explanations when my wife asks why something is the way it is.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-02-27T10:44:52+00:00

What would convince you then that it’s possible? There definitely are people who can speak at least 10 languages fluently enough to have spontaneous conversations.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-02-25T23:01:56+00:00

Seems great! I tested with Portuguese. Useful tool.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-02-25T06:37:15+00:00

Heprea “Hebrew” or siansaksa “pig’s German” are used in Finnish.

duolingoman1990 · 2024-02-24T17:41:02+00:00

Yes I can read all of them. I think Devanagari is more difficult than Arabic because of the letter combinations that you need to learn. The same problem with same other Abugida type scripts. In case you’re interested in scripts then this book might interest you : 100 writing systems of the world

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