This thread is about foreign languages. I hope I’m not the only one interested but anyway.
Saloon in Arabic means living room. Sala means living room in Spanish.
What made you interested in Foreign languages @Loke?
I think it’s wonderful.
i’ve always wanted to learn a little spoken language. like gaelic, so i can talk and people won’t know what im saying. also interested in studying spanish in the future. i took a couple semesters in community college but i forget most of it. i still have my textbook though so i should start studying again.
llamo lifer, me gusta baloncesto. i tried to say i am lifer, i like basketball. i don’t know if that is accurate or not though.
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Why thank you. When I was in high school one of the requirements to getting into college is that you had to have either two semesters of Spanish or two semesters of French. Well, so I took Spanish. I fell in love with it. I’ve dabbled in languages since.
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I understand French and Italian and I’m familiar with understanding some Arabic.
I can speak French and Italian.
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It’s me llamo Lifer or you could say mi nombre es lifer.
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Good for you @Loke
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oh thanks for the correction.
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Fun fact: In spanish, most of the words that start with “Al” come from arabic.
Because the invasion of the moors in the VIII century.
Alchemy, from arab alkímya (philosopher stone)
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Can you read Arabic? It’s a difficult language. I’ve been studying I think for more than a year now and have gotten not very far. Like I know how to spell Dog الكلب
http://www.arabic-keyboard.org/
That’s sooooo coool !!! “Alcohol” is also an Arabic word.
Arabic is an extremely difficult language to pick up and learn.
No I cannot read or write in Arabic.
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Algebra also has an Arabic root.
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Arabic is kicking my butt. Really. I know that because I took Spanish I can understand some written Italian and Portuguese. So many cognates.
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Its because these languages come from latin writing, they are all written the same way.
Arabic is 100% different, I know how to read and write because I was born and lived my first 10 years of life in an arabic country. I visited my country for three months in 2006. Also I speak arabic at home.
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I can understand some Spanish also because it’s so close to Italian
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السكر Al sukar (sugar in Arabic)
azúcar (Sugar in Spanish)
sucre (French)
suiker (Afrikaans)
şəkər (Azerbaijani)
azukre (Basque)
sucre (Catalan)
shuga (Chichewa)
Zucker (German)
zucchero (Italian)
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French is not a foreign language, it is the other official language of Canada.
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Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
“association of subordinate officials of the head office management of the Danube steamboat electrical services” (the name of a pre-war club in Vienna)
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I get the ن and the ب and the ج and the ح mixed up all the time when reading Arabic. And sometimes when practicing Arabic like if the guy asks me a question in Arabic I answer in Spanish accidentally. Or I’ll be thinking about things in mixed Spanish/Arabic.
I’ve got an app on my phone though that quickly translates for me.