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Oh! I've missed Cisa Thank you Cisa and Casper and Thatha

Thanks cisa

Merci Casper



Bises
Tantine

Congrats! So many admins now, I feel a little silly as just an "ordinary" expert

Nono don't feel silly
Admin is not "stronger" than expert it's just different. Theorically, non epxert member could be admins. Actually maybe they would be better admins, because only dedicated to thi tasks

Iamfromaustria, at least you are an expert
But that is true, german expert! Indeed, silly ^^

Sorry Heidrummy! ^^

You could also be an expert by now, if you had wanted to..
And german isn't silly at all! Perhaps it doesn't sound as nice as italian for example, but that's just because we don't have so many vocals. The language itself is very complex - bad for foreigners, but very nice for natives because there are so many words for everything and you can express yourself in so many different ways...

German (besides Russian) is one of the languages which I like the sound of and listening to, I would like to learn them both if you remember Tristangun , they are not silly at all!

To me, every language has its own beauty! If not the sound, then grammar, culture, complexity, mystery etc.

did you ever hear of someone speaking Turkish Cisa? I wonder how it sounds to people whose mother tongue is not Turkish?

I know, it's always funny what others think about your language when they just hear it without understanding. I was once told, German (dialect) sounded very "rough" and a bit like French (it's a contradiction in terms...). I sometimes try to listen to our language with a foreigner's ears, but that's really hard

@smy: I've heard spoken turkish before, but it's really hard to describe.. There are many Ãœs and consonants ("sh"s and others) and it's so different to any of the languages I can speak..

Hi smy and Heidrun
Have you missed the "topic" -I can speak 7 languages! by jp ...there is a link to this side

Smy, a close girlfriend of mine comes from Ankara, I like very much the sound of the Turkish language, I think it is very balanced, I mean that vowels and consonants are well distributed through the words. Consonants are soft enough, and those weird vowel sounds make it sound magical. I can perfectly imagine it as if spoken by Lord of the Rings' Elves.

Have you heard someone speaking Spanish? How does it sound to you?

OOOHH! as if spoken by the Lord of the Rings' Elves! yes, vowels make the Turkish language though they only make up 8 of 29 letters and all the words (without exception) has a vowel in it. I've heard Spanish in movies and it sounds me a language of "r"s and "-ara"s and it has a dignified tone but it sounds too hard to try to learn

Yes it's really hard to listen to one's language with a foreigner's ears iamfromaustria , once I was told that Turkish sounds just "-cha, -cha"s, I imagine it's very different to Indo-European ears

Talking about language families, I think that Turkish sounds a little like Finnish, but softly.

Maybe it's because Finland has a Tatar population Casper

Maybe because they (Turkish and Finnish) are both Altaic languages...