Christopher Paolini (INHERITANCE CYCLE series) discussion

yay so i am not stupid. I also think she hates me because she grades me down a lot and the things she grades me down on isn't really wrong.

i, my form teacher doesnt like me, form is the class your in

wait repeat that

espically if they sounded the same

i cant handle english that well ask brianne (she started this topic i think but she hasn't been commenting)

Yeah i think it would be confusing to learn...three languages at a time...@_@

I'd do it one at a time. I tried doing the Japanese learning too but it didn't work out that well..I mean it did work but....no time. lol

it's easier to learn when you have someone you know who speaks italian and then you can learn to write...eventually. It isn't that hard after I learn the correct usage of the words...

it's similar to french...if anyone has taken French before. There are tenses and suffix that you affix to certain words...some are irregular some aren't there are three different suffixs...-are, -ere and -ire

dont even talk to me about french,
oh yes, its a masculine chair with a femine tv remote,
bloody hell its compluicated, latins easy

italian is similar to french? Yeah, i think i've heard that. Which makes me want to take it even more XD I love french though.

Katie wrote: "I'd think that'd be rather confusing to learn three different languages at the same time. Wouldn't you mix them up a bit?"

I've only mixed up the languages I'm working on a little bit. In Spanish class, the other day, I said, "und" instead "y".

Graziella wrote: "Yeah i think it would be confusing to learn...three languages at a time...@_@

I'd do it one at a time. I tried doing the Japanese learning too but it didn't work out that well..I mean it did wo..."

A lot of languages are based on suffixes like that. I know that Spanish, French, Portuguese, and all of those Romance languages are. German is a lot like that too.

Hungarian is even more based on suffixes. All possession, noun cases, verb conjugations, prepositions, uses of adjectives, and functions of words in sentences are shown through suffixes.

how is french easier then latin?
it seems it would be the other way around

french is hard, i find latin easy

I sometimes find myself talking in french. Like "je" is I, so when I think of say, I'm hungry, I'll think of je as I and it's weird to think that they are different languages... idk if anyone understood that, its kinda hard to explain...

katie i agree with you and Tara that must get really complicated

i understood tara

hehe, I like it though. I think of je sort of as a synonym to I

I think greek is similar too the romantic languages isn't it not?

Carly wrote: "how is french easier then latin?
it seems it would be the other way around"

Well, Latin is very structured, and it's difficult to misunderstand it if it's written correctly. French is also very stuctured, but not as much as Latin.

Tara wrote: "I sometimes find myself talking in french. Like "je" is I, so when I think of say, I'm hungry, I'll think of je as I and it's weird to think that they are different languages... idk if anyone under..."

I do that all the time!

"Je" is French for "I", actually.

Yeah

i want to take french. i dont think they have classes at my school, only spanish. I dont want to take spanish! lol

Spanish is cool! It's a lot easier than French, too, although not everyone would consider that a good thing. :)

*shrug*
I dont care.

I just want to know French.

You can learn it on your own. That's what I'm doing with everything besides Spansih.

But i dont have any time to..

Oh well. Maybe you can take French in high school.

yeah. i prob will if they have it. I hope they do.

If you're ever watching a movie alone, try putting on French subtitles. You'll start picking stuff up pretty quickly. Don't try listening to the dubs, though. That's really hard, especially if you don't know the movie word-for-word.

thats a great idea!

It works pretty well, too. That's what I used to do before I started translating musicals, and I still do it sometimes.

We watched some movies in french in 7th grade and 8th grade. At that point, a language wasn't really offered in 6th, but when I became a 7th grader, they started offering it, but not as a separate class. You'd just have it a couple days instead of study skills. But anyway, we watched The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Ratatouille. Also, POTC (teacher was a HUGE fan :D) but that was just for fun, the rest we did units on.

I'm so glad I took french, I absolutely HATE spanish. I don't know exactly why, mostly because I had a terrible experience with it in elementary school. But I've always wanted to take french.

I've recently started checking out foreign dubbings of Disney videos, and some of them are really great! I love the Hungarian Ariel's voice. She's better than the English!

Not many people like Spanish on this group, I guess. I kind of wish that I took French in school, instead, though. I think that Spanish would be easier to teach myself.

but you know it's not that easy to find movies in a different lanuages in North America...I mean they are not everywhere. if i wanted to find a italian movie i would proably have to go to Toronto...which is 45 minutes away.

@_@

Well, you could always try youtube... it's not the best, but if you have no other option...

true...

Graziella wrote: "but you know it's not that easy to find movies in a different lanuages in North America...I mean they are not everywhere. if i wanted to find a italian movie i would proably have to go to Toronto....."

You could try to find something with Italian subtitles, or that is dubbed in Italian. And there is a lot of Italian on youtube. Some languages, like French, don't have many subbed/dubbed videos available on youtube.

okay thanks...now need to have an idea of what i could search on youtube for...XD.

Ok, I was hanging out with this girl and her dad called her and she started speaking to him in french and now I want to learn it because it sounds wicked awesome. I don't like spanish but it is really helpful and i dont want to just know englich for the rest of my life and they only offer spanish at my school, slthough in high school they offer manderine

Ich sprache Deutsch! Wie geht es Ihnen? Leset du gern? Ach ja, heute ist Halloween! So was machst du?

Ich Deutsch liebe! Mir geht's gut. :D

I'm dressing up as Sarah from Tanz der Vampire. :D

Yay! Another German speaker! I'm taking German, because our high school only has that and Spanish.

I don't really know who that is, but cool! I was an elf. :)

Well, my German obssession comes from an obssession I have with German-language musicals (although most of them are Austrian in nationality, not to be picky or anything). Sarah is a character from one of those musicals: Tanz der Vampire.

I'm actually teaching myself German, and taking Spanish in school.

Wooowww...I wish I could do that. Teach myself, I mean. I'm not good with languages.

I have a gift for languages, although the one I'm learning in school is still the one I know best. The musicals help a lot, especially with pronunciation and understanding spoken German.

That's a good idea. My mom says we have the book Where the Wild Things Are in German (I want to see the movie so bad!!! It looks really cute!) so I'm going to try and read that and see if it helps.

You do?! That is so cool!

I love that book and I really want to see the movie

I want to see it too!!! I was going to go with my friend but then her uncle showed up last minute (literally half an hour before we were going to see it) so she cancelled and I couldn't go.

that stinks