[nabs-l] Languages

Thu May 8 01:14:28 UTC 2014

Good afternoon, Sami,

         Personally, as a pre-teen, I became quite intrigued by a 
"tonal," monosyllabic nature of such languages as Thai and 
Vietnamese, that is, each word expressed has a different meaning 
depending on which tone to which it happens to be attached.  in the 
case of Chinese, 5 tones and in the case of such languages as Hmong 
which has 8 tones I believe, or Vietnamese, 6 tones. If you per sue 
this study you will learn all the tones and more importantly, how to 
attach them to the monosyllables. I found then and still find 
arrangements of such languages particularly pleasing to the ear, 
although that is not a prevalent finding of most Westerners.
Keep us posted, Sami. Feel free to call: 408-209-3239
for today, Car

   nature of such languages as Vietnamese and Chinese which, many 
westerners tend to deride the sound of such languages for its 
monosyllabic=c, tonal nature. makes such languages 7/2014, you wrote:
>Hi Lizzy,
>
>I think it's really cool that you want to learn those languages.
>I personally don't know any of those languages fluently; I only 
>speak French and Spanish other than English, but I have taught 
>myself some Japanese and Italian.
>I am intending to lstudy more of those languages and perhaps more 
>when I get to college, as I am considering being an interpreter UN 
>(the United Nations), and I heard that you need to "know at least 4 
>to 5 languages.
>Currently, I am planning to learn German, as that's very similar to 
>English, I would also to learn Italian and Portugese, as those are 
>similar to French and Spanish, and then, some languages like Chinese 
>or Japanese which don't use the Latin alphabet, first of all because 
>I'm curious as to how other alphabets are used, and second because I 
>know that will introduce a whole new catagory of languages of what I 
>already know.
>
>Btw, I can't believe that you and I have the same interest! That's 
>cool, isn't it?
>Good luck with your learning!
>
>Sami.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Vejas <alpineimagination at gmail.com
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>Date sent: Wed, 07 May 2014 12:55:47 -0700
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Languages
>
>Hi,
>Does Estonian Braille use the regular alphabet just like
>Lithuanian Braille does?
>Vejas
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christel Sogenbits" <christel.chrissu at gmail.com
>To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'"
><nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Wed, 7 May 2014 21:31:17 +0300
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Languages
>
>Hey!
>
>If you take Estonian then I can help you.  Im from Estonia.
>Let me know!
>
>
>Tervitades / With greetings
>Christel Sogenbits
>GSM: +372 58 440 521
>E-mail: christel.chrissu at gmail.com
>Skype: christel.chrissu
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>Carly Mihalakis
>Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 9:10 PM
>To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list;
>nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Languages
>
>Good morning, Lizzy,
>
>         In high school, I studied Japanese language and,
>realizing that I
>simply needed to learn tenji (Japanese braille,) my Dad looked up
>the code
>on the Net and I sort of taught myself.  At 03:12 PM 1/16/2014,
>lizzy wrote:
>Hi All,
>Has anyone here taken a language that is lesser known? I really
>mean
>anything other than french spanish or german; I'm thinking
>languages
>like Chinese, Russian and Estonian.  The college that I will be
>attending next year offers some pretty cool languages that I am
>hoping
>to take advantage of.  Has anyone taken a language like this
>before?
>What resources did you use to teach yourself the braille code? Or
>did
>you go about it in a completely different way?
>Thanks for any help you can give me,
>Lizzy
>
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