Haha, so true - the first times I heard Brazilian Portuguese (without knowing where the speakers were from), I thought it sounded like Russian baby talk with some vaguely Spanish words thrown in!
Heh. My first language was Spanglish, and I turned out all right! I wound up speaking mostly English after ~puberty, so my English vocabulary (& grammar) is far better.
Haha, so true - the first times I heard Brazilian Portuguese (without knowing where the speakers were from), I thought it sounded like Russian baby talk with some vaguely Spanish words thrown in!
ReplyDeleteand sometimes it looks like a german speaking russian in spain, it's weird...
DeleteRussian flag is wrong, it's actually white-blue-red, not white-red-blue.
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DeleteYeah -_-'
DeleteThis is Czech from 1939 undercover.
DeleteYeah I messed up. Gotta fix it :(
DeleteHeh. My first language was Spanglish, and I turned out all right! I wound up speaking mostly English after ~puberty, so my English vocabulary (& grammar) is far better.
ReplyDeleteIf the wife spoke Polish, and the husband continued to speak Russian, would the baby speak Ukrainian?
ReplyDeleteIf the wife spoke Arabic, and the husband were Italian, would the baby speak Maltese?
DeleteIf the wife were Dutch, and the husband were French, would the baby speak English?
If the wife were Italian, and the husband were Russian, would the baby speak Romanian?
Research must be done!
Yes.
DeleteThe baby would then speak like a Greek Catholic preast, as Russian sounds very "Church Slavonic"-ky compared to Ukrainian.
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