Can you speak more than one language?

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I can't tell if this is a serious post or a typo in a German-themed joke.

Tut mir leid, es war letzteres.

 

[baggy]

Nien.

 

[Manchester33]

Yes Welsh language can be weird inasmuch it struggles with modernity.
It is the oldest language on these shores however albeit a derivative of Brythonic which was also spoken in the Scottish lowlands at one time.
As for the Gogs (North Walians) weird bunch.

The older I get, the more interested in history I become. I'm tempted to learn Welsh, Irish and Scottish to have a better grasp on what our ancestors lives were like. I presume modern day Welsh is far removed though, a bit like English compared to Old English. They're on Duolingo, so when I finish the Greek course I'll probably give them a go.

 

[Manchester33]

Tut mir leid, es war letzteres.

I read this thinking 'wow, this guy actually knows nine languages'. Google translated it and was severely disappointed.

 

[Octavian]

No but I can talk out of my mouth and my arse.

 

[cptaidan88]

I have a little bit of Spanish, German and French in the locker, but would not be able to maintain a conversation for very long.

 

[Protein Junkie]

The older I get, the more interested in history I become. I'm tempted to learn Welsh, Irish and Scottish to have a better grasp on what our ancestors lives were like. I presume modern day Welsh is far removed though, a bit like English compared to Old English. They're on Duolingo, so when I finish the Greek course I'll probably give them a go.

I’m very much the same as you re British History.
I’m sure you know that Welsh is very different to the Irish/Scottish languages being Celtic P as opposed to Celtic Q. It’s more aligned to Cornish/Breton.
Also very fascinating is place names and surnames.
Yes modern Welsh is different - hell of a lot of new words since Ancient Briton days hence the language has morphed.
Great to share a mutual like :-)

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I read this thinking 'wow, this guy actually knows nine languages'. Google translated it and was severely disappointed.

I do that a lot. Sorry.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Non.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

We spend 13 years over here learning Irish in school and I’d say 90% ish come out not just not having a word, but hating it also.

With my generation I can understand that the way it was beaten into you by the Christian Bros. and the likes, has a lot to do with that. But my young lad came out of school last year with barely a word also, so the teaching method hasn’t improved much.

I actually had a very good grasp of Irish and could hold a conversation, no bother.

But I lived in the Walloon part of Belgium for a year and worked and played football with a local team, through French. I had 5 years of secondary school French but picked up more in that year immersed in it. I started to think in French, which is something I used to be able to do in Irish, but have kind of lost that now, because French starts coming into my head.

Anyway, without regular use, it all gets lost.