featherbrained
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You should live in my country. We learn german in school from the 7th grade.
I also like arabic thats why I call myself AspieSharaf. Sharaf means "honor" in arabic.
I have studied arabic for 3 years or so. Its really a hard language. The verbs are really a challenge, and I wont even talk about how hard it is to learn the alfabet.
If you want to study a middle east language, then I would recommend farsi, its much easier to learn for a person with an indoeuropean language as his or hers native language.
And also the verbs on farsi are 10 times easier than on arabic, IMO
That interesting.
I knew that hebrew and arabic are semitic, and that Iranian is Indoeuropean- making it a distant cousin to european languages.
But that kinship is rather distant, and i didnt know that it was noticeable easier to learn for european language speakers than the semitic languages.
Does Farsi divide the world into masculine and femine the way that most non-english european languages do?
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23 Dec 2012, 10:23 pm
Russian 
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26 Mar 2018, 8:55 pm
sung French is incomparable at times-
lyrics here [with translation] for sing-a-longs 
Moi j'ai quitté mon pays bleu [Me I've left my blue country]
Moi j'ai quitté mon pays bleu
Moi j'ai quitté mon pays bleu
Et je n'ai pas su lui dire adieu [And I didn't know to say goodbye]
Petit enfant dans mon château [Little child in my Castle]
J'aimais voir dormir la belle au bord de l'eau [I loved to see sleeping beauty by the water]
La belle a grandit mais mon beau château [The belle has grown up but my beautiful castle]
S'est envolé, oh volé, volé, volé, volé, vole...[It's flown, oh stolen, stolen, stolen, stolen...]
Dans le grand jardin de mes parents [In the large garden of my parents]
Je jouait près d'un chêne qui avait cent ans [I was playing near an oak which had a hundred years]
Si le chêne est là, le petit enfant [If the oak is there, the little child]
S'est envolé, oh volé, volé, volé, volé, vole...
Ma mère un jour a du partir [My mother one day of the parting]
Au pays des souvenirs [In the land of memories]
Je me souviens mais son sourire [I remember but his smile]
S'est envolé, oh volé, volé, volé, volé, vole...
26 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm
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26 Mar 2018, 9:12 pm
and the opera wouldn't quite be the same without some Italian, would it?
lyrics included with translation, for sing-alongs
Recitar! Mentre preso dal delirio, [To act! while taken with delirium,]
non so più quel che dico, [I do not know what I'm saying]
e quel che faccio! [and what i do!]
Eppur è d'uopo, sforzati! [yet it is necessary, strain!]
Bah! Sei tu forse un uom? [Bah! Are you not a man?]
Tu se' Pagliaccio! [You are a Clown!]
Vesti la giubba e la faccia infarina. [Put on your costume and the face powder]
La gente paga, e rider vuole qua. [The people pay, and they want to laugh]
E se Arlecchin t'invola Colombina, [And if Harlequin invites away Columbina,]
ridi, Pagliaccio, e ognun applaudirà! [laugh, Clown, and everyone will applaud!]
Tramuta in lazzi lo spasmo ed il pianto [transmute into jest the spasms and your tears]
in una smorfia il singhiozzo e 'l dolor, Ah! [in a grimace the tears and the pain, Ah!]
Ridi, Pagliaccio, [Laugh, Clown]
sul tuo amore infranto! [on your love broken!]
Ridi del duol, che t'avvelena il cor! [Laugh at the pain that poisons your heart!]
[this song makes me cry every time 
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26 Mar 2018, 9:26 pm
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