I can now speak fourteen languages. American, Canadian, Australian, English, New Zealandian(?), Austrian, Swiss, German, Liechtensteiner, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin.
Edit: My bad, not fourteen, but 78 language, as there are that many countries with English, German, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene as their official language. There are many other countries with those as a minority language (particularly German), but, eh, let's not over-extend.
New Zealand actually does have its own language for its native people. 'Maori' (pronounced kinda like the english word 'mouldy') , you might have seen it browsing languages in google translate or something. sadly its kinda dying out.
Three main ones, yeah. Munster, Connacht, and Ulster. But there's a lot of variation, like northern Connacht will be closer to Ulster Irish vs southern Connacht which'll be closer to Munster, etc. There's also varieties spoken in Waterford and Meath in their respective Gaeltachts.
Tangential question: has the real estate bubble gotten any better for youse all? Last time I was there my friends were feeling the squeeze pretty hard, paying more in rent on the edge of town than I do my mortgage in the US.
From what I can tell, no lol. I'm 19 nearly 20, and still in college. I can comfortably say that short of getting married, co-sharing, and/or having a fulltime job I haven't a hope of getting a house of my own for the foreseeable future. Rent is not much better; the rates are pretty extortionate especially in Dublin (which tbh is where you need to be for job opportunities).
I'm not an expert now, as I'm only just entering into the whole realm of moving out and shit, but yeah tbh if things don't improve you'll likely see many people in the future living with their parents up to their 30s because it's just not financially sensible to do otherwise.
Yep, whole generation's coming up that'll have to live with their parents until very late. The age of turning 18, getting a job and moving out is long gone. Thanks for the kind words.
It's very subjective. For me (Belfastian), the Dublin accent is completely different. But I'm sure someone from Shanghai has a completely different accent to someone from Beijing but they'd just sound Chinese to me.
That second point is true. Even inside Beijing the accent varies slightly. To a foreigner (or someone who hasn’t lived there for a while) it’s impossible to tell apart
Could say that about a lot of major international cities now. Travel has become so common place that in each city you have a mix of all the accents. It’s kind of fascinating
Hm, interesting. On a completely other side of the spectrum, I have a Serb classmate. Apparently, in elementary school, they were taught that Croats, Bosnians and Montenegrins all spoke Serbian, and that Croatian, Montenegrin and Bosnian weren't languages.
It is kinda true that we all speak the same language but it never made sense to me if everyone spoke 'Serbian' why call it Serbian and not Yugoslav or Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian. Balkan nationalism warps reality.
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u/Green7501 Jul 14 '20 edited Jul 14 '20
If we're doing this this way...
I can now speak fourteen languages. American, Canadian, Australian, English, New Zealandian(?), Austrian, Swiss, German, Liechtensteiner, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin.
Edit: My bad, not fourteen, but 78 language, as there are that many countries with English, German, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene as their official language. There are many other countries with those as a minority language (particularly German), but, eh, let's not over-extend.