Cody, I learn something new every day. I had no idea. I always thought the Greek alphabet was one of the kind.
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Yes, check it please. I think Cody is right. At least I think in the same direction. The orthodox church is the base?
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Ha, l didnt know that either.
I can kinda understand all Slavic languages, but spelling and writing correctly is a nother thing. To tell the truth most native people cant either 
Joep, belive it or not, you still have it easy with Bosnian. Compared to Slovene, its much simpler. Specialy the spelling.
In adition, most languages have single and plural form. Only us and l belive one African language also have a dual form.
When l sayd that English is super easy, this is what l ment. Let me show you guys an example and a reason never to learn Slovene 
Lets take the word Mother. In English, no matter how the sentence is formed, the word is always Mother or plural, mothers. With mother, about mother, from mother… In Slovene, it has this many forms, depending on context.
Me and JO found something interesting while we were in the US. Althugh both of us know English rather well, the pronouciation is what caused us both extreme effort. But the real interesting thing is we have no problem speaking English in a Scotish accent 
go figure…
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To our ears Scottish speak with a “lilt”, a smoothed cadence. Like cursive writing.
German is choppy sounding, even harsh, even if spoken by a beautiful woman.
And I’ve been told my American English accent sounds like someone speaking with a hot potato in their mouth. Heavy American accents surely butcher French.
So maybe the cadence of Scots more matches your original languages delivery??
My only two years of school German ruined me when I wanted to speak Dutch.
I learned to just smile a lot. Write out what was critical.
Learning school Spanish would have been a lot more useful here. Then the speakers to learn it better and keep it useable.
S.U.
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I saw a youtube of some young, Preteen, girl that spoke something like 15 languages including Icelandic and Hindi and mandarin. Languages which have no relationship to one another.
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I think if you were in the South you wouldn’t have a hard time being understood. At least in the mountain areas like me and Wayne and the North family. We still have a little bit of the Scots and Irish speech patterns around here.
I don’t have a hard time understanding your English in your videos, and JO sounds like someone from a bit further west of me with the heavy drawl.
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I’ve always wanted to learn Dutch and then Swedish. Dutch because I have friends from Noord Babant and Friesland, and Swedish for obvious reasons.
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Very well possible. Dutch (and half of Belgium) and German language are not to different, but we miss the deutsche gründlichkeit. We are just doing something.
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Cody, mostly because I need time to think 
but also time to adjust muscles in the mouth to be able to produce strange sounds In reality I’m extreemly lively 
Steve, thats true. Both Kristijan and I normally use rolling tung-tip R and more of a staccato language. I think even Spanish would fit us better. Producing Am English is like trying to write with your left hand
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Maybe that’s another reason why I don’t have a problem understanding y’all. I learned to roll my Rs pretty young.
One thing odd about Southern English is we will just forget an R exist and it almost sounds like an Ah. Then we remember that letter exists and the R is even more pronounced.
Then again when I was little I didnt communicate in words, I made animal sounds to tell my parents what I wanted. Mooed like a cow when I wanted milk, I used to call milk “mook” for a long time after I started actually speaking. I’ve always had a talent for emulating accents.
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TomH,
We’ve never met, but I feel I know you some. As I understand it other cultures interest you, you enjoy looking at maps, compare languages and you like to kill time during winter.
A vlogger I like to follow from time to time is “Bald and bankrupt”. He’s English and fascinated by anything old Soviet. He travels through former Soviet states and video everything he may encounter. Very interesting. This is his latest vlog.
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Thanks JO. I will enjoy watching these. What I find most interesting about the old Soviet states is how creative the people are and how quickly they were able to adapt and overcome the hardships when the supply lines went down. The vast majority of people in the US will not be able to do the same. Easy living has pretty much neutered them. Even the average natural disaster has them crying and waiting for the government to rescue them. I raised five children, all in their forties and fifties now and not one of them knows how to plant or repair their cars. I taught them all and now they claim to not remember any of it. If it’s not something techno they have no interest. Maybe when there is absolutely no other choice, memory will kick it and these things will come back to them.
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Last night before sleep Youtube caught me.
Maybe I already put this video up once before. Don’t remember.
Anyway, it’s about the complexity of the English language and the kind of effort we forigners have put down to wrap our heads around all the twinks.
This Finn is really funny.
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It’s interesting what he talks about, the use of Ass for hyphenating an adverb or adjective I think was people over pronouncing “as” and not finishing
“Dumb as a sack of hammers” for example.
“Slow as a turtle”
Badass used to mean someone who was wreckless and rebellious, a Bad Ass(stubborn/bad donkey). It eventually just meant someone tough, dad likes to call people derisively “Billy Badass”.
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It’s honestly quite sad to see how American English has changed. At least in literature people were more verbose but every word had a purpose in the sentence. Now people use more filler words, fluff.
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I never heard a Fin use so many words.
Quite seriously they do not speak much HA HA…
Very blunt and to the point.
My Dad used to say " szalony jak worek zab " or mad as a sack of frogs.
there is a good one liner for your…
If you take all the swears and filler words out…
I speak waving my hands… broken English…
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I have a friend with multiple concussions and TBIs, he was told to read a dictionary and thesaurus to prevent losing words and to keep his own vocabulary rich. People that still read often maintain a larger vocabulary. I try to not swear, I personally find it unimaginative as well as crass in the wrong company.
Now when I’m with close friends and we are on the same wavelength, I could probably grunt and snort and they’d understand what I say. But you’ll never catch me swearing in public unless I’ve become totally peeved and provoked.
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The fact that he is always snickering with or at his jokes, makes me laugh. TomC
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Hey JO .
Have you ever noticed when someone says there going to woop that ass the very first thing they do is plant a big fist right square in your face
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I thought I was well versed in profanity until I met my wife. You never have to wonder what’s on her mind. A honest soul. There are just a few seemingly universal words and phrases that convey succinctly what the more cultured may waste many words expressing. I’m also a big fan of hand gestures as sign language.
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