Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

Re russia and georgia, i have found i tend to like georgian dishes but less fussed about russian food. Dh was picked to work on one file a while back bevause it is apparantly easier to learn Russian if you have working ancient Greek.

PasturesNew

CKhalvashi wrote: »

How many more times?! I’m not Russian :mad:

Look ... I don't get out much. I've only just realised this. All those countries out in the world confuse me .... and I know there's "a whole bunch of places over the sea and some are Europe and some are Russia... and beyond that there's China". So I was doing well to not think you were American!

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Just in case people are worrying, we do have a lot of shiny new courses too, most of which are on those new-fangled CD things;).

I didn't even know libraries would have language courses, on cassette or even carved on stones! Although, round here, if they do have them they probably are carved on stones.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

In other news, I've been editing the language courses at the library and getting rid of the ones that are falling apart (one was held together with that silver building tape, heaven only knows why) or have bits missing. Most are on cassette, but I may have to learn something different. We aren't allowed to sell old tat like that, so I can take my time to learn something. Just in case people are worrying, we do have a lot of shiny new courses too, most of which are on those new-fangled CD things;).

when i wanted to get my italian better i wanted one of the audio courses. Dh tried to help me choose them but got cross about the accents on most of them and kept rejecting them. Even those spoken by italians apparantly had not a 'good'sound. Instead i just kept learning by trying and reading. . Although regionality is highly rated in italy, many people have remarked on dh's accent. I was asking friend if he sounds educated or what and they said something that made dh's ego huge, but he speaks tuscan accented dialect with his siblings Makes me wonder about some of the other language tapes. If i am goung to learn something i eould like to learn from the outset with a nice accent.

zagubov

CKhalvashi wrote: »

How many more times?! I’m not Russian :mad:

CK's from south of the border so his patron saint is St George, not St. Andrew.

Wheezy_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Re russia and georgia, i have found i tend to like georgian dishes but less fussed about russian food.

Don't know much about Georgian dishes, but last year on holiday in Lithuania, we emptied several bottles of Georgian red wine and it was delicious. :beer:

CKhalvashi

Wheezy wrote: »

Don't know much about Georgian dishes, but last year on holiday in Lithuania, we emptied several bottles of Georgian red wine and it was delicious. :beer:

We get ours from https://www.georgianwinesociety.co.uk. It’s expensive, but it’s definitely worth it.

This is if I’ve not ‘borrowed’ some from the bar (as we get them heavily discounted from the same commercial supplier for that purpose.)

I can’t really put a personal order through in ‘Arbat Ltd’ though

To answer someone else’s question, Georgian has its own alphabet, which Armenian is based on

Nothing shares it, same as nothing shares Armenian.

I have work to do!

CK

lostinrates

As we are talking about languages, i wonder what nice poeple would like to speak but they don't or what they think would make a good second (third or fourth or whatever) language.

I am definitely wanting to flex my brain in that area and am torn, try and get backa. Language i used to speak (i had a second mother tongue language which i now barely croak or understand but which might coe back quickly, or might result in tears and tantrums) or another school level language, e.g. Spanish might be dun to go back too, i used to date a guy whose first language was spanish and The new rates baby has one spanish parent, so might be nice to make the new rates partner feel welcomed with some brudhed up soanish. Or something new.....i quite fancy having a go a Arabic, or something similar.

Dh is also wnting to learn a new language, and torn between Arabic and Mandarin. I think getting the russian more useful might also be an option. But he too cannot decide which.

CKhalvashi

lostinrates wrote: »

As we are talking about languages, i wonder what nice poeple would like to speak but they don't or what they think would make a good second (third or fourth or whatever) language.

I am definitely wanting to flex my brain in that area and am torn, try and get backa. Language i used to speak (i had a second mother tongue language which i now barely croak or understand but which might coe back quickly, or might result in tears and tantrums) or another school level language, e.g. Spanish might be dun to go back too, i used to date a guy whose first language was spanish and The new rates baby has one spanish parent, so might be nice to make the new rates partner feel welcomed with some brudhed up soanish. Or something new.....i quite fancy having a go a Arabic, or something similar.

Dh is also wnting to learn a new language, and torn between Arabic and Mandarin. I think getting the russian more useful might also be an option. But he too cannot decide which.

Georgian can have anything up to 7 consonants at the beginning, making it indredibly hard to pronounce, so anything but that.

I was telling my 6yr old niece a minute ago on the phone, how vegetarians don't like to eat anything that has a face. She answered, 'Not even jammie dodgers?'....Not even answering that! :eek:

GDB2222

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