The fun of being semimultilingual
Jun. 29th, 2016 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelI was golding up some Welsh skills, because I'm obsessive this way.
"Dw i'n hoffi coffi" translates to "I like coffee". Word-wise it's basically "Am I liking coffee"
"Dw i'n hoffi coffi da" translates to "I like good coffee," Welsh does adjectives after the noun (so good coffee is "coffi da", literally "coffee good", rather than *da coffi.)
Except my brain wanted to parse it first as "I like coffee, yes", and then as "I like coffee here", before being willing to settle on the correct one. (Russian and German uses of "da", rather than Wrlsh.)
...I keep being tempted to really confuse my brain by double-duoing, but maybe I shouldn't, lol.
"Dw i'n hoffi coffi" translates to "I like coffee". Word-wise it's basically "Am I liking coffee"
"Dw i'n hoffi coffi da" translates to "I like good coffee," Welsh does adjectives after the noun (so good coffee is "coffi da", literally "coffee good", rather than *da coffi.)
Except my brain wanted to parse it first as "I like coffee, yes", and then as "I like coffee here", before being willing to settle on the correct one. (Russian and German uses of "da", rather than Wrlsh.)
...I keep being tempted to really confuse my brain by double-duoing, but maybe I shouldn't, lol.
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Date: 2016-07-01 02:14 am (UTC)Just the other night I was wrestling with some Japanese review, got frustrated at my inability to pronounce the last words in the sentence, and burst out with the German version instead without thinking.
It sounds like you are making progress, though! Better to know one sound in three languages than three sounds in one, I suppose. :D