2014.01.17 01:00 - Language

Eliza posted this session...

[01:20] Yakuzza Lethecus: good morning wol
[01:21] Wol Euler: hallo yaku!
[01:21] Wol Euler: how's the family?
[01:21] Yakuzza Lethecus: they are well :-)
[01:22] Wol Euler: good, glad to hear it :)
[01:22] Yakuzza Lethecus: he is just a bit crying every evening
[01:23] Yakuzza Lethecus: but right now I logged on from the Swedish course I am in
[01:24] Yakuzza Lethecus: we have a break
[01:24] Wol Euler: ah :)
[01:24] Wol Euler: shouldn'T we be speaking Swedish, then? :)
[01:24] Yakuzza Lethecus: installed lumya on my android last saturday
[01:25] Yakuzza Lethecus: ja, via man prata svensk
[01:25] Yakuzza Lethecus: arg English korrection
[01:25] Wol Euler: "man prata svensk" is clear :)
[01:25] Yakuzza Lethecus: ny ska vi se
[01:26] Wol Euler: I guess that's an app?
[01:26] Yakuzza Lethecus: precis
[01:26] Wol Euler: interestingly, "prata" matches to an English word "prattle" :) meaning chatter
[01:27] Yakuzza Lethecus: ja da fins flera engelska orden i den svensk språk
[01:27] Wol Euler: okay, I'm lost on that one.
[01:28] Yakuzza Lethecus: there are lots of similar words in the Swedish language
[01:28] Yakuzza Lethecus: English as well as german
[01:29] Wol Euler nods.
[01:29] Wol Euler: orden = words?
[01:29] Yakuzza Lethecus: worst issue is that everyone can speak English :-)
[01:29] Wol Euler: ha, yes
[01:29] Wol Euler: so nobody wants to hear you struggling with swedish?
[01:30] Yakuzza Lethecus: he he employers :-)
[01:33] Yakuzza Lethecus: I have an english friend here with the same issue
[01:34] Wol Euler nods.
[01:35] Wol Euler: they think they are being helpful, but they make it harder to learn the language
[01:35] Yakuzza Lethecus: you finished ur project well yesterday?
[01:35] Wol Euler: the dutch are the same :)
[01:36] Wol Euler: yes, it turned out very well. I'm quite pleased.
[01:36] Yakuzza Lethecus: I also tried to talk i
[01:36] Yakuzza Lethecus: English when I met Americans or English ppl
[01:37] Yakuzza Lethecus: German decreases in popularity
[01:38] Wol Euler nods.
[01:38] Wol Euler: less common, I guess, just the fact of distribution world-wide

[01:39] Wol Euler: Apparently there are more people learning English in China than speaking it in North America.
[01:40] Yakuzza Lethecus: here the best lingua franca would be arabic
[01:41] Yakuzza Lethecus: English comes 2nd
[01:41] Yakuzza Lethecus: then russian
[01:41] Wol Euler: huh
[01:41] Yakuzza Lethecus: at classes
[01:41] Wol Euler: I can see Russian, given the location. But Arabic?
[01:43] Yakuzza Lethecus: we have Palestinians, Syrians, iraqis and other Arabic speaking ppl here
[01:43] Wol Euler: well, I never :)
[01:43] Wol Euler: man, their first winter must be an awful shock :) heheheh
[01:44] Yakuzza Lethecus: for Somalis, some of those really never had snow

[01:46] Wol Euler: hello gabrielle
[01:46] Finding Nirvana: hello hello
[01:47] Wol Euler: lovely sparky earrings :)
[01:47] Finding Nirvana: Thank you :))
[01:48] Yakuzza Lethecus: hey gabrielle
[01:48] Wol Euler: we were talking about learning languages as an immigrant
[01:48] Finding Nirvana: ugh
[01:48] Finding Nirvana: tell me more about that.
[01:49] Yakuzza Lethecus: I just mentioned that in the Swedish course I am in the best lingua franca would be arabic
[01:50] Wol Euler: perhaps you should pick that up too!
[01:50] Wol Euler: make a little exchange program
[01:50] Yakuzza Lethecus: :-)
[01:51] Yakuzza Lethecus: not intentionally but in the long run a few words would be good
[01:51] Wol Euler nods.
[01:51] Wol Euler: one should be able to say "please, thank you etc" and count to ten in every language :)
[01:52] Wol Euler: the rest is negotiable
[01:54] Yakuzza Lethecus: the Arabic "gesundheit" was the first I learned :)
[01:54] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:54] Yakuzza Lethecus: but I can't write it :)
[01:54] Wol Euler grins.
[01:57] Wol Euler: at least Arabic is character-based, one can learn the squiggles. An ideogram language like Chinese is so much harder, I feel

[01:57] Finding Nirvana: [01:51] Wol Euler: one should be able to say "please, thank you etc" and count to ten in every language :)
[01:57] Finding Nirvana: is so true
[01:57] Finding Nirvana: especially the "please" and "thank you" parts
[01:57] Finding Nirvana unleashes her wings for a bit.
[01:58] Finding Nirvana: For it's quite chilly if she doesn't.
[01:58] Finding Nirvana: there. much better
[01:58] Wol Euler smiles.
[01:59] Finding Nirvana sits a little closer to huddle for the warmth.

[01:59] Finding Nirvana: Is it still snowing heavily in the US of A?
[01:59] Wol Euler radiates
[01:59] Wol Euler: neither of us would know :)
[01:59] Wol Euler: germany and sweden )
[01:59] Finding Nirvana: right right
[02:00] Finding Nirvana blesses everyone here.

[02:02] Wol Euler: it is snowing in France, I saw a photo of the gardens of Versailles covered in a thick blanket of white.
[02:02] Wol Euler: so I guess we'll get that in a day or two
[02:03] Yakuzza Lethecus: OK, I got to log out, we have -7 and nice snowy landscape but its not snowing anymore
[02:03] Yakuzza Lethecus: hej då
[02:03] Wol Euler: bye yaku
[02:04] Wol Euler: back to classes :)
[02:04] Wol Euler: and I have to start getting ready for work
[02:04] Wol Euler: sorry to greet and run, gabrielle
[02:04] Wol Euler: enjoy the rest of your Friday :)
[02:05] Finding Nirvana: greetings indeed
[02:05] Finding Nirvana: and now i have to run as well
[02:05] Wol Euler smiles.
[02:05] Finding Nirvana: RL calls.
[02:05] Finding Nirvana: family,
[02:05] Finding Nirvana: to be more precise.
[02:05] Wol Euler: best to answer :) take care
[02:06] Finding Nirvana: cheerios!