Comments on: Learning a language http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/ ... the online home of a librarian in Perth, Western Australia Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:20:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: CW http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2473 CW Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:45:25 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2473 Penny, grammar is always hard. It's just as well we usually have so much time to absorb the rules of our first language when we're babies/young children... Penny, grammar is always hard. It’s just as well we usually have so much time to absorb the rules of our first language when we’re babies/young children…

]]> By: Penny http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2472 Penny Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:06:49 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2472 Eeek - telling time sounds awkward! I like learning new sounds and words though. Not so good on the grammar stuff. I love it how my elderly Dutch friends say "Come on the table" when it's time to eat. Eeek – telling time sounds awkward!

I like learning new sounds and words though. Not so good on the grammar stuff.

I love it how my elderly Dutch friends say “Come on the table” when it’s time to eat.

]]> By: CW http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2470 CW Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:06:48 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2470 Sheena I'd love to learn Finnish, but that's one language that scares me :) It does sound beautiful though... TB, tell Mieke yes to both :) Thanks Simone! I don't think I am ready to try reading anything yet (although I might go and dig up my one Dutch language book, a children's picture book called <i>De jongen en het paard</i> (The boy and the horse)... ) Laura another thing I love about learning a language is that you find out all these new ways of looking at things that wouldn't have occurred to you in your own language... Sheena I’d love to learn Finnish, but that’s one language that scares me :) It does sound beautiful though…

TB, tell Mieke yes to both :)

Thanks Simone! I don’t think I am ready to try reading anything yet (although I might go and dig up my one Dutch language book, a children’s picture book called De jongen en het paard (The boy and the horse)… )

Laura another thing I love about learning a language is that you find out all these new ways of looking at things that wouldn’t have occurred to you in your own language…

]]> By: Laura http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2467 Laura Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:05:14 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2467 I should just tell people I tell time the Dutch way--I'm always saying things like "it's ten past half past" or "it's five past quarter till." Makes perfect sense to me. I should just tell people I tell time the Dutch way–I’m always saying things like “it’s ten past half past” or “it’s five past quarter till.” Makes perfect sense to me.

]]> By: Simone http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2466 Simone Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:10:57 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2466 It's really wierd 'watching' you learn dutch. I don't get it, haha! But I'm very impressed! Argh, the times! I always love explaining to people 'we says half before instead of 'half past', but it makes me feel/seem dyslexic sometimes, also with counting or writing down phone numbers (two and twenty...) And then there is the formulating of sentences, I get all the words around the wrong way! But, my dual language upbringing is not only to fault for all of this, I just don't think languages are my thing, I couldn't get the hang of French in High School either. Let me know if I can help with anything though, you never know. And I have lots of Dutch books (like Harry Potter 1 and 2, ha ha!) It’s really wierd ‘watching’ you learn dutch. I don’t get it, haha! But I’m very impressed!

Argh, the times! I always love explaining to people ‘we says half before instead of ‘half past’, but it makes me feel/seem dyslexic sometimes, also with counting or writing down phone numbers (two and twenty…)
And then there is the formulating of sentences, I get all the words around the wrong way!
But, my dual language upbringing is not only to fault for all of this, I just don’t think languages are my thing, I couldn’t get the hang of French in High School either.

Let me know if I can help with anything though, you never know. And I have lots of Dutch books (like Harry Potter 1 and 2, ha ha!)

]]> By: TB http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2463 TB Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:51:05 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2463 I do like the word for cockroach! Mieke wants to know if you are planning a trip to the Netherlands? and also do you want web sites for Dutch recipes? I do like the word for cockroach!
Mieke wants to know if you are planning a trip to the Netherlands? and also do you want web sites for Dutch recipes?

]]> By: Sheena http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2461 Sheena Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:40:14 +0000 http://blog.flexnib.com/2007/06/14/learning-a-language/#comment-2461 What incredible words! In the choral singing I do we often sing in different languages, and I have just done a concert featuring a series of pieces in Finnish. I'm not quick at learning languages in the normal way, but love the sounds of the words and the different ways of expression, especially, I confess, in Italian - such a musical language! The Finnish had lots of fun sparkly sounds and long words. What incredible words! In the choral singing I do we often sing in different languages, and I have just done a concert featuring a series of pieces in Finnish. I’m not quick at learning languages in the normal way, but love the sounds of the words and the different ways of expression, especially, I confess, in Italian – such a musical language! The Finnish had lots of fun sparkly sounds and long words.

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