Guest Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 Post deleted by DoxyBlue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jp1 Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 If 100 Japanese native spepakers of Japanese were to wish to say that they did not speak Japanese, what form would the majority of them use, please? they would say: watashi wa nihongo wo hanazemasen. I do not speak Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 Pig Latin: I-ay on't-day eak-spay ig-Pay atin-Lay. Don't forget the logical fallacy: You say you can't speak Language X while speaking Language X to say so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straycat Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 I second Alholks post -- but I wonder if I wouldn't recommend: "Jag talar inte svenska" In an official setting, or as written, this one is probably used a whole lot more. If you use "Jag pratar inte svenska", it is somewhat like saying: "I don't talk Swedish" -- although you just did.... Straycat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 Post deleted by DoxyBlue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jp1 Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 Just to be sure -- third character looks a two-drawer filing cabinet and the fourth looks like a crucifix with legs? right you are. I never thought about that. Btw the meaning of the Chinese character (Kanji) nr. 3 is hi or ni (sun) and character no. 4 hon or pon (origin or root) meaning NIHON or NIPPON or origin of the sun, hence Land of the rising sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 Post deleted by DoxyBlue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jp1 Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 masen provides the negation, right? I tried but I couldn't get much farther than a few wack things to do with verbs... correct, ...masen is the negation in a polite way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jp1 Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 Curious that The Sun's ideogram would be two stacked squares. What's the story there? in ancient Chinese it used to be a circle with a point in it's center. Very similar how we see the sun: round and a bit more reddish in its center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALHOLK Posted May 25, 2002 Report Share Posted May 25, 2002 Hi! I think you might be right there but in spoken everyday spoken Sedish I'm not sure. All three phrases will under all circumstances be understood by a native Swedish speaker. regards ALHOLK P.S. Trevlig helg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.