Languages

[Jackalope]

I'm a native English speaker, I am leaning Spanish by osmosis living abroad.  I can read fairly well within the limits of my vocabulary, I only infrequently need to use a translation app to get by.  I find conversational Spanish more difficult as the language as it is spoken here is not exactly "by the book".  Writing also has its challenges.

Several of the employees in the company where I work are Spanish speakers.  There are times when I have to try to translate their messages and get the craziest stuff.  They are writing in conversational Spanish so things are often lost on me when I try to figure out what they are trying to say.  Some of the translations I get are pretty funny though.

Idiomatic language aside, have found that attempting understand written Spanish by translating word-for-word doesn't really work well either. I find I have to stop thinking about what a phrase's English equivalent would be, and instead try to think in Spanish.

[Anomalocaris]

historic records are of only certain amount of value, that value to tjdisk’s position drop to absolute zero considering no contemporary historic record whatever actually said, credibly it not, that everyone can converse with everyone else without language barrier 6000 years ago, only much later, superstitiously inspired suppositions by provincial overconfident yokels.

[Ahriman]

I just bought a couple Korean alphabet books, going to see if I can't master this shit after all, I really want to anyway.

[Ahriman]

Are you any of you familiar with the alien language Banu? It was invented for some video game but it's actually a legit language with its own grammar and vocab and reading/writing system. Pretty fucking cool. I've just started trying to learn some of it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Are you any of you familiar with the alien language Banu? It was invented for some video game but it's actually a legit language with its own grammar and vocab and reading/writing system. Pretty fucking cool. I've just started trying to learn some of it.

That sounds useful. For example, if you find yourself in a Banu restaurant, you can read the menu and order a meal with pride.

Boru

[Ahriman]

Banu sounds like a mix between Korean and Swahili. I'm finding it very difficult to get the hang of.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Banu sounds like a mix between Korean and Swahili. I'm finding it very difficult to get the hang of.

You're getting discouraged after three hours? 

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

Are you any of you familiar with the alien language Banu? It was invented for some video game but it's actually a legit language with its own grammar and vocab and reading/writing system. Pretty fucking cool. I've just started trying to learn some of it.

Very much like Klingon, down to it also being a mark of something between idiosyncrasy and shame.

[Ahriman]

Banu sounds like a mix between Korean and Swahili. I'm finding it very difficult to get the hang of.

You're getting discouraged after three hours? 

Boru

I've always had poor comprehension skills, I was never a good student. It doesn't help that there are no Banu books on Amazon.

[Ahriman]

I've invented my own language, a simplified form of Banu. It's primarily based on the Al Bhed language from Final Fantasy X but also includes elements taken from Banu, Korean, and Dutch. I came up with a glyph system for reading/writing the new language. Banu utilizes a glyph system as well, but mine is far more simplistic. In the new language, sentences/phrases are meant to be spoken as one compound word (similar to Dutch). When spoken, the new language sounds like a mix of Banu and Korean. The sentences/phrases of the new language aren't meant to be extremely long, given the "compound word" nature of the language. This is intentional, in order to discourage one-sided conversations. (it's not like a person can give you their life story as a compound word)