The Language Learning Thread

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I speak more or less fluent French.

When I was on the beginner slopes of French I found the 'coffee break french' series of (free) podcasts extremely useful.

If I ever get round to starting Spanish or Italian, I will follow the same route.

 

[stadtaffe]

One honestly sometimes to question needs, if the Germans a good Idea with the capitalisation of all Nouns and with Word-Order, have.

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What language(s) were Yoda's speech patterns based on?

I have noticed that a lot of the languages in Star Wars are based on languages in the real world, such as Chalmuk forming the basis of the Ewok language. Do you know what language Yoda's way of sp...

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One honestly sometimes to question needs, if the Germans a good Idea with the capitalisation of all Nouns and with Word-Order, have.

Some further Information on this Topic can here found be :

What language(s) were Yoda's speech patterns based on?

I have noticed that a lot of the languages in Star Wars are based on languages in the real world, such as Chalmuk forming the basis of the Ewok language. Do you know what language Yoda's way of sp...

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That was an interesting post. One of the answers opines that the word ordering in Yoda's speech occurs in almost no real human languages and is a clever device that George Lucas came up with to make Yoda seem very alien. Reminds me of the way that the author of A Clockwork Orange handled slang for his near-future teenage thug main characters. Rather than make up some kind of slang that would sound awkward and unrealistic their slang is just Russian words. It works perfectly and somehow makes the Droogs seem more menacing. I've always found that brilliant.