Re: beginner

I think you English don't speak other languages
because you just don't need to. I saw many times
people coming to Brazil for business, not speaking a
single word of portuguese (not even spanish!), and
they anger when anybody speaks English. My boss found
one of this kind of people, who started speaking
english, as if we were obliged understand him, and my
boss said: "Shut up, and come back when learn
portuguese". But there are serious people, who really
wants to make business, who comes here already
speaking portuguese, or spanish, at least (we
understand spanish very well). Here in Brazil we have
english classes in our schools (recently, spanish
too). Do you have something familiar in the schools of
your country?

I better stop now. This talking is totally
off-topic...

 --- Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...>
escreveu:
> Your English isn't so bad. ;) *sigh* Everyone puts
> us English to shame
> by speaking our language so well. I wish more of us
> were good at
> speaking foreign languages, but so many people just
> don't care. And the
> ones who do are all emigrating to the costa del sol
> lol.
>
> >Hello everyone! This is my first email on this
> list.
> >I'm from Brazil, so you must excuse my bad english.
> >
> ><Is a kind of language easier to create in
> flexionnal,
> >agglutinative, and isolating? >
> >
> >I think all those types of language have its own
> >problems. But in my case, I invented a
> agglutinative
> >language. I wasn't thinking wich one was the
> easiest.
> >I wanted to create something very different from
> the
> >portuguese, a flexional language. I don't really
> >prefer agglutinative ones, I just wanted a very
> >strange system. So, how I'm not used to
> agglutinative
> >languages...
> >
> >
>  I'd say isolating or agglutinating are the easier
> choices. :) About the
> hardest to do is a polysynthetic style language: you
> have tons of
> affixes, which isn't so difficult, but the hard
> point is that in
> examples from every polysynthetic language I've seen
> they tend to merge
> with each other a lot of the time. And when you have
> so many bits
> involved it just seems difficult to me to design it
> so it all works
> well. This problem doesn't crop up in agglutinating
> languages since
> after all they don't merge things together that
> much.
>  Have you ever studied any native South American
> languages at all? If
> you can find any information about them they might
> be a good source of
> ideas.
>

	
	
		
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