Sure, let's start with swears.
"Caralho" - Literally means dick but is also very used as damn/fuck
Merda - shit
Foda-se - literally "fuck it" but used as an expression of displeasure. Like "fuck, my cup broke" (foda-se, o meu copo partiu-se)
the verb "foder" (foda-se is a verbal form of this, but deserves its own category) (it means "to fuck")
Puta - whore
Cona- cunt (vagina, not a person)
Filho da Puta - Son of a whore (very offensive, the female form is filha da puta)
Cabrão - I don't really see an english version for this, it's just an offensive name to toss at someone (but I think, in its heart, it means the cabrão is a man who has been cheated on (the female version is cabrona, but it isn't very used)
Colhão - testicle
paneleiro - faggot
cu - ass
mijo - piss
I can't really think fo anything else in the matter of bad words
gajo/gaja - dude/chick
puto - kid (yes, we also call whores girls here, so I guess that's how puta came to mean whore (puta is the feminine of puto)
chulo - pimp, also used for people that are generally leeches and scoundrels. Basically for people who rip other off.
Well, that's all that springs to memory
Also, I already lost all motivation of every language I was learning.
On unrelated notes, Nahuatl sounds fucking amazing.
So I've been starting to learn German, but then someone told me that unless you learn a language as a child you will never be able to speak fluently (as in a flowing conversation).
At first I didn't believe it but I did a bit of research on Wikipedia and other sites, and it appears to be true.
Damn...wish someone had told me this when I was a kid
The person's wrong -
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITzFRlVhMVs[/media]
for example
[QUOTE=Platinumcs;37686364]So I've been starting to learn German, but then someone told me that unless you learn a language as a child you will never be able to speak fluently (as in a flowing conversation).
At first I didn't believe it but I did a bit of research on Wikipedia and other sites, and it appears to be true.
Damn...wish someone had told me this when I was a kid[/QUOTE]
Who told you that? You can be fluent in a language if you learned it at a later age. My Spanish teacher can understand Spanish perfectly and she learned it in her teen years. She even spent two years in Madrid. Whoever said that is obviously lying.
[QUOTE=Platinumcs;37686364]So I've been starting to learn German, but then someone told me that unless you learn a language as a child you will never be able to speak fluently (as in a flowing conversation).
At first I didn't believe it but I did a bit of research on Wikipedia and other sites, and it appears to be true.
Damn...wish someone had told me this when I was a kid[/QUOTE]
That's complete and utter bullshit. While it's certainly easier to learn things when you're a small child, it is in no way impossible to learn to speak another language fluently. Dedication and pratice are all that is necesary.
Sure you will most likely not sound like a native speaker (this is probably what he/she was referring to), but you'll be able to make yourself understood perfectly.
There is a hell of a lot of myths regarding language learning. Some of them are fucking insane. Like
Dumbshit: You can't learn Japanese and Chinese and know them at once because they are similar and your brain will explode.
Jesus Christ, they aren't even in the same family, the most is their shared characters.
Anyone want me to write up a list of hilarious language myths?
[QUOTE=Disseminate;37686725]The person's wrong -
for example[/QUOTE]
The one thing these kind of people often have in common is that they were taught a second language at a young age, which for whatever reason seems to make it much easier to learn a third and fourth etc later on in life.
[QUOTE=Wolfos;37693389]That's complete and utter bullshit. While it's certainly easier to learn things when you're a small child, it is in no way impossible to learn to speak another language fluently. Dedication and pratice are all that is necesary.
[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I'm not going to give up...and besides, I have a lot of fun understanding things in German :v:
OP, Duolingo now has English learning for Portuguese speakers.
[QUOTE=Platinumcs;37696381]The one thing these kind of people often have in common is that they were taught a second language at a young age, which for whatever reason seems to make it much easier to learn a third and fourth etc later on in life.[/QUOTE]
The white guy learned Spanish at 23. That was his second language.
If you still want to know more about Portuguese swearing, here:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWmfQz9WtU[/media]
The opening line means: Wash my teeth with your vaginal fluid. The chorus means: Stick your hands up your cunt and clap.
I've always wanted to learn Dutch, I used to live in the Netherlands when I was a kid but I don't remember any of it. Really sucks that my school only offered Spanish, all the other languages were online and even the online classes didn't include dutch.
[QUOTE=Mr.Twizzle;37687505]Who told you that? You can be fluent in a language if you learned it at a later age. My Spanish teacher can understand Spanish perfectly and she learned it in her teen years. She even spent two years in Madrid. Whoever said that is obviously lying.[/QUOTE]
Same. My French teacher also learned spanish (along with french) in high school And she speaks spanish pretty fluently. As I native spanish speaker myself, I can barely tell the difference.
ぼくはすこし日本語を話せる。そして、こうこう三年生だ。ぼくのこうこうは日本語のクラスがある。日本語がとてもおもしろいだ。ときどきたのしくないだ。
やさしくない。。。
I speak a little Japanese and I'm a 3rd year high school student. My school has a Japanese class. Japanese is interesting. Sometimes it's not fun.
Not easy...
I've learned more Japanese in a couple of lessons than I did French in a whole year.
These lessons to be exact
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZEA54VJEdE&list=PL9987A659670D60E0&index=2&feature=plpp_video[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CuU4Ff9p4&feature=BFa&list=PL9987A659670D60E0[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPkuIrif-8Q&feature=BFa&list=PL9987A659670D60E0[/media]
These lessons are actually really fucking good.
doing french
woop
Salve, io sono apprendimento Italiano, il mio vocabulario è non c'è male ma la mia grammatica deve essere migliorata. Chiunque altro apprendimento Italiano in questo thread?
[QUOTE=Panacea161;37757342]Salve, io sono apprendimento Italiano, il mio vocabulario è non c'è male ma la mia grammatica deve essere migliorata. Chiunque altro apprendimento Italiano in questo thread?[/QUOTE]
Not bad, but you're making a common mistake, which is translating word to word from english. At least it seems that you did that. For example "io sono apprendimento italiano" is a word to word translation of "I am learning italian", but the correct way of saying it is "sto imparando l'italiano". Good start though, keep it up.
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;37754696]If you still want to know more about Portuguese swearing, here:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWmfQz9WtU[/media]
The opening line means: Wash my teeth with your vaginal fluid. The chorus means: Stick your hands up your cunt and clap.[/QUOTE]
Oh god yes please post more. I love this.
My own two cents: If at all possible, try to do a student exchange program in a foreign country. I have a friend who's Spanish was so awful she could hardly get by with a "Hi, how are you, my name is ___". She spent 6 months in Spain and lived with a Spanish family who spoke no English. It was very difficult at first, but she came back a fluent speaker, in only [B]six goddamn months[/B]. Sounds crazy but surrounding yourself with people who have no other way to communicate you will force you to pick up on things very quickly.
[QUOTE=Mr.Twizzle;37761832]Oh god yes please post more. I love this.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGqAs_fOnSg[/media] This doesn't have as much slang (it's a satire, btw) beto, btw, means rich pussies. You know, prim and proper boys born with a golden spoon in their mouth and nose higher than the clouds.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gO1ZCnDtHs[/media] This one was famous as hell some years ago, it has loads of sexual shit.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAKCqdVJSnI&feature=related[/media]
Also, note one thing, in slang, it's very common in informal settings to chop off "es" in "estar" and its verbal forms. So, you can get sentences like "Eu tinha um livro e tava a lê-lo" (I had a book and I was reading it)
[QUOTE=The Aussie;37693774]There is a hell of a lot of myths regarding language learning. Some of them are fucking insane. Like
Dumbshit: You can't learn Japanese and Chinese and know them at once because they are similar and your brain will explode.
Jesus Christ, they aren't even in the same family, the most is their shared characters.
Anyone want me to write up a list of hilarious language myths?[/QUOTE]
Yes please.
こんにちは、みんな。僕は日本語が少し話せる。
Konnichiha(wa), minna. Boku ha(wa) nihongo ga sukoshi hanaseru.
Hello, everybody. I speak a little Japanese.
Me needs classes, all my high-school has is Spanish and French.:suicide:
I've been teaching myself slowly over time to speak limited phrases and read most hiragana and katakana and some kanji.
I wish my school had more choices too. They have quite a few classes(Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian, and Latin) and I know this is probably gonna sound greedy but I wish there were even more.
[editline]23rd September 2012[/editline]
Oh yeah is European Portuguese hard to learn? Curious.
[QUOTE=Mr.Twizzle;37771668]I wish my school had more choices too. They have quite a few classes(Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian, and Latin) and I know this is probably gonna sound greedy but I wish there were even more.
[editline]23rd September 2012[/editline]
Oh yeah is European Portuguese hard to learn? Curious.[/QUOTE]
European Portuguese is rather easy, with it being about the same level as Spanish. If you already know Spanish, or plan to learn it afterwards, it should only take about 6 months. Otherwise, it's a year to two years to fluency.
[QUOTE=Mr.Twizzle;37771668]I wish my school had more choices too. They have quite a few classes(Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian, and Latin) and I know this is probably gonna sound greedy but I wish there were even more.[/QUOTE]
My school had French. That's it. None of the universities within a 300km radius of me offer any language courses.
[QUOTE=The Aussie;37781703]European Portuguese is rather easy, with it being about the same level as Spanish. If you already know Spanish, or plan to learn it afterwards, it should only take about 6 months. Otherwise, it's a year to two years to fluency.[/QUOTE]
Think you could add it to the OP? :downs:
[editline]24th September 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;37766235]
Also, note one thing, in slang, it's very common in informal settings to chop off "es" in "estar" and its verbal forms. So, you can get sentences like "Eu tinha um livro e tava a lê-lo" (I had a book and I was reading it)[/QUOTE]
Think you could talk about more slang/casual rules? It's kinda my goal to not sound awkward when I'm speaking a new language.(by awkward I mean when someone goes "Hello! How are you? I am good, thank you!" in a casual setting and they put a lot of stress on the wrong words, know those people?) I wanna sound normal. Not like a friggin' speak n spell.
Slang in other languages is always tough to grasp.
For example, just two weeks ago I learned that instead of "wo shi hao (我是好)" literally "I" "to be" "good" it's supposed to be "wo hen hao (我很好)" literally "I" "very" "good" because you use the word for "very" when it's an adjective being referred to, and the word for "to be" for nouns.
Vocab-wise, it's a bit weird. "Fighting" in east asian countries for example is like "sweet" or "good luck" or cheering, ie "I have a test in an hour but I know it already." "Fighting!"
Another weird one is "nothing", which would mean "don't worry about it" - "I'm worried about the quality of my Chinese." "Nothing."
I'm currently taking Japanese and Swedish, hoping to go onto German fully some time (at this point in time only doing MINOR bits of German in my spare time). I don't go to language classes etc. for it, I just use free websites and such (Seriously, just google "Learn ______ online" for whatever you want to learn and you will find shit) and I can say if you stick with it it can be relatively simple. Once you've learnt the basic grammar/words (like how do I _____/can we _____ etc.) I find it much easier, seeing as from there you can string sentences together easier.
I can tell you this though, if you can find someone on steam, or even real life that knows the language (preferably fully rather than a novice/intermediate like yourself so they won't tell you things wrong) it helps, a LOT. I talk to no one who does Japanese, so it's a little more "annoying" to do alone, I can't put it into practice or anything really yet. Whereas I know a few people who know Swedish and German near-fluently. If you can practice with an actual person and ask them questions it becomes a lot more enjoyable, for myself at least.
I have a question though to all of you in the US: How many of you speak Spanish? If you were talking to someone who was going to move to the US sometime, would you say it would be a handy thing to know? Without trying to sound racist or something, coming from someone who's never been to the US before I've been told in certain areas there's a lot of Mexicans and apparently a LOT just refuse to learn English?
To stop rambling and sum up though, this is how I do things;
Try to study every day! Or whenever you have spare time. A few words or even just a phrase a day can go a long long way.
[editline]25th September 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=tristanguy2;37768555]こんにちは、みんな。僕は日本語が少し話せる。
[/QUOTE]
Omfg someone who spells konnichiwa right I love you c:
idk why it just pisses me off so much when people spell it with one n
[QUOTE='Rain [Amber];37792938']I'm currently taking Japanese and Swedish, hoping to go onto German fully some time (at this point in time only doing MINOR bits of German in my spare time). I don't go to language classes etc. for it, I just use free websites and such (Seriously, just google "Learn ______ online" for whatever you want to learn and you will find shit) and I can say if you stick with it it can be relatively simple. Once you've learnt the basic grammar/words (like how do I _____/can we _____ etc.) I find it much easier, seeing as from there you can string sentences together easier.
I can tell you this though, if you can find someone on steam, or even real life that knows the language (preferably fully rather than a novice/intermediate like yourself so they won't tell you things wrong) it helps, a LOT. I talk to no one who does Japanese, so it's a little more "annoying" to do alone, I can't put it into practice or anything really yet. Whereas I know a few people who know Swedish and German near-fluently. If you can practice with an actual person and ask them questions it becomes a lot more enjoyable, for myself at least.
I have a question though to all of you in the US: How many of you speak Spanish? If you were talking to someone who was going to move to the US sometime, would you say it would be a handy thing to know? Without trying to sound racist or something, coming from someone who's never been to the US before I've been told in certain areas there's a lot of Mexicans and apparently a LOT just refuse to learn English? [/QUOTE]
Depends on where you live. Here (South Texas), it's quite helpful, though by no means necessary. Farther north, you probably won't hear it spoken as often.
Even though I took six or seven years of Spanish classes, I can't speak it very well anymore because I don't have much reason to use it on a daily basis.
[QUOTE=Mr.Twizzle;37789901]Think you could add it to the OP? :downs:
[editline]24th September 2012[/editline]
Think you could talk about more slang/casual rules? It's kinda my goal to not sound awkward when I'm speaking a new language.(by awkward I mean when someone goes "Hello! How are you? I am good, thank you!" in a casual setting and they put a lot of stress on the wrong words, know those people?) I wanna sound normal. Not like a friggin' speak n spell.[/QUOTE]
I can tell you many ways of saying "how are you", "como vais/ como vai (/ como estás/ como está)" How are you doing (informal/formal) "Tudo bem?" (everything alright?) "como vais" and "como estás" can also be written as "como é que estás/ vais", which is usually abbreviated as "méq estás/vais" (I have no idea how to properly write this, it sounds like meque (like "leque" with an "m"))
Also, if you want to make informal small talk, know about portuguese football. You have idea how big football is here.
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