General Discussion Thread

[Mélusine]

Better late than never : tonight, Treasure Planet.

[KicknRun]

Better late than never : tonight, Treasure Planet.

i've never actually watched treasure planet

[Haiz]

i've never actually watched treasure planet

please watch treasure planet. i'm not saying this in a "GASP, you've NEVER WATCHED IT WHAT BLASPHEMY"-way, but in a THE MOVIE IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND GOOD YOUR LIFE WILL BE BETTER BECAUSE OF IT way

(same with the road to el dorado but i dont remember who said they did or didn't watch it when that was discussed a few months back)

[Eriaror]

i've never actually watched treasure planet

Just to spark your interest for it

...And now, let me listen to the whole soundtrack again.

[Miss Honeyham]

i've never actually watched treasure planet

I haven't seen it in years, but I still think about it on a regular basis. you should like... see it.

[KicknRun]

i'll watch it... when i can

and i just found this thing and can someone confirm if learning a new language is like this

[Haiz]

and i just found this thing and can someone confirm if learning a new language is like this

I'm crying about "You cannot pronounce the Czech ř. You cannot begin to fathom it. You hear it when you close your eyes. It is the fabric of your nightmares." because it is the absolute truth and probably the reason my dad gave up on czech

[Curry]

i'll watch it... when i can

and i just found this thing and can someone confirm if learning a new language is like this

I am probably one of the least qualified to say anything about language-learning but yes

[Miss Honeyham]

i'll watch it... when i can

and i just found this thing and can someone confirm if learning a new language is like this

I'm writing this while taking a break from Ancient Greek homework. There is no way to answer your question with a simple "yes" in Ancient Greek.

[Ana Nymus]

and i just found this thing and can someone confirm if learning a new language is like this

That is perfect. Absolutely perfect. It's also like this:

Spoiler: show

What am I doing with my life T-T

[viola]

i'll watch it... when i can

and i just found this thing and can someone confirm if learning a new language is like this

Finnish has 6 moods. Indicative, Conditional, Potential, Ambitious, Disappointed, Regretful.

Ahahahahahaha this is wonderful thank you

[Eriaror]

They say Hungarian has 18 cases. You don’t know what they are or how they work. Only that they exist and there are 18 of them. You are scared.

Let me just note here real quick that no Hungarian person in their right mind thinks of them as cases.

To quote Benny Lewis:

One of the first things you will hear when someone is describing Hungarian to you is that it has “over twenty cases” (exact number depends on the source). This is pure hogwash.

From learning a Slavic language (Czech) and German, I have a pretty good idea what a grammatical case is; Genitive, Accusative, Dative, Vocative etc. and while I have my ways of getting through these (described in the Czech/German guides linked above), they are still quite a lot of work and will slow you down when you are learning a language.

Hungarian’s “cases” are nothing like these. There is almost no complexity to them at all! It’s just a fancy name for “the preposition gets attached to the end of the word”. So while in Czech, any case requires you to know (or at least extrapolate) up to fourteen possible combinations per word (which luckily follow patterns) for each case, Hungarian just has two or three, which are almost always totally obvious.

[Haiz]

question: if I happened to draw myself in Minna's style... or like, TRIED... would I post the results in the normal art museum, the art style swap, or in how do you look?

[Unlos]

Fits in both normal art museum and the how do you look thread, I'd say.

[Helia]

Let me just note here real quick that no Hungarian person in their right mind thinks of them as cases.

To quote Benny Lewis:

this.

It's not the "cases" what makes our language difficult. The first shock is pronunciation - if you're complaining about 'trdelník' you should try to say it's Hungarian name: kürtőskalács 
The second shock is the vowel-harmony (although this gets easier with time). In very short, this means that the same suffix has two or three variants depending on the vowels in the word.

But learning a new language is gooood