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Daniel Nest's avatar

Danes do away with all of this complexity and simply use nothing but vowels!

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Wilson, Adrian S.'s avatar

Drink two bottles of wine, then your Spanish becomes Portuguese. Bom dia.

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Daniel Duarte's avatar

Yes, I've noticed that Portuguese just sounds like drunken Spanish...I think because Portugal was founded by drunken Spanish sailors.

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Andrew Sniderman 🕷️'s avatar

I have a long correspondence with Austria's PENSIONSVERSICHERUNGSANSTALT (that's one word, 10 vowels and you hear every one)

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Andrew Smith's avatar

We are ants as compared to them.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

Icelandic is a tricky language that way because it uses accents and umlauts like crazy.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Have you picked up a few words? I might be interested in learning Icelandic in the future, though not any time very soon.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

I studied it for a couple of years in high school. Usually once you understand the key phrases and what the accents mean, it’s not so bad.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Thanks! I feel like Icelandic would be a good follow up to German, assuming I can wrap my brain around that structure first.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

They have similar linguistic origins.

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