Oké before I give you the sentences let me give you a little bit about the background and about me. Hi I'm Wout. An enthousiast of languages who travels a lot and likes talking to strangers in other languages. My name is sometimes difficult to pronounce and I want them to get my name right. In Wout the ou is read like ow in now, cow and aw (like when you hurt yourself). But diffirent cultures have diffirent words and one method off explaining might not work in another language. So I use a couple of sentences to explain the pronunciation in a way that should be easy to explain and makes people think that your cool or funny.
The sentences: ''What do you say when you see something amazing? you say WOOW .... t. Amazing with a t, Wout.''
And in the other languages in which I can say it.
Wat zeg je als je iets geweldigs ziet? Dan zeg je wauw .... t. geweldig met een t, Wout.
Was sagen Sie wann Sie etwas geil sehen? Sie sagen woow .... t. Geil mit ein T, Wout.
nanika sugei wo mitte. woow .... t wo itte. Sugoi to T, Wout.
So who can do better?
Doesn't have to be a literal translation as long as the context is the same. Please also tell me even if you know it in only 1 language that isn't here yet. Sign languages can compete in it as well. (please do post a link if you know it in a sign language)
I'm looking forward to the responses
Hi everyone,
Now I know it says for learning English but frankly I think my English is good enough.
I'm trying to learn a ton of languages, because I gave myself the challenge to be able to converse in 30 languages by the time I turn 30 and of course for some languages it is easy to find good resources that are cheap, easy, fast and fun to learn from but where do you look when you want to learn some more unusual languages?
For example Ber solago (if I'm not butchering the name I'm not sure what it was called again.)
is a language that isn't spoken but wistled and only used by about 22000 people.
Don't think that makes it somewhat a bit harder to bump into one than Chinese or German or Spanish that you can fire your language skills at. Never the less I think that it sounds like a awesome language to speak uh wistle and there are other interesting languages that may be a bit more difficult to come across.
Try finding a native speaker for Akadian might be quit a search I imagine as well as it would be with other dead languages.
However even with more commonly spoken languages you can still have trouble finding great resources like with Tamazight, Dutch sign language or Dothraki.
And then there are issues about obstacles within the languages themself.
How do you make notes for Sign languages? Drawing?, have you seen my drawing?, most 5 year old can probably beat me when it comes to that. Or how would you keep the overview at what's what with for example polysyntathic languages. (languages where sentences consist of only one long almost unpronounceable word unless your a native)
I am very curious to what your opinions and or approach would be to something like that.
Let me know how you would tackle the problem, the unfindable resources and the tricky challenges inside a language.
I'm looking forward to your comments.
Kind regards,
Wout.
