Linguistics [Archive] - The Apricity Forum: A European Cultural Community

Which language should I focus on? (23 replies)
Romansh vs Romanian vs Italian vs French | Can they understand each other? (0 replies)
Post examples of people with transatlantic accents (0 replies)
What is the origin of the Received pronunciation English accent? (1 replies)
Towns/cities with very different accents to their surrounding regions (7 replies)
How does this language sound to you? (8 replies)
The Guardian view on endangered languages: spoken by a few but of value to many (0 replies)
Say these words in your own language (14 replies)
"Hidden accents" In English text by non-native (and even native) speakers (0 replies)
Do you consider E2L English varieties to be just as 'legitimate' as E1L English varieties? (0 replies)
German grammar (0 replies)
Famous accents from the past (14 replies)
Thracian Arvanite & Sicilian Arberesh (0 replies)
Do people in the English Midlands sound more like Northern or Southern English people? (32 replies)
In your opinion, do Northern Irish people sound more like Scots or Southern Irish people? (4 replies)
How does Albanian language spoken in Kosovo sound in this fight? (13 replies)
LanguageGuessr - How well can you identify spoken languages? (0 replies)
Which are more similar among Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages? (24 replies)
Viking language (0 replies)
In your country, how common is it for schools/universities to teach through the medium of English? (1 replies)
Say 'Merry Christmas' in your own language (35 replies)
In your country, was there a time when English was NOT the main foreign language taught? (21 replies)
Guess a Language (3 replies)
Question to Apricians: What does this language sound to you like? (40 replies)
In your country, what proportion of university courses are taught through the medium of English? (0 replies)
Map of languages across Europe (24 replies)
Why being bilingual is good for your brain (0 replies)
I understood Plattduutsch song with a basic english! (3 replies)
Why Do Armenians in Turkey Don’t Speak Turkish With an Accent? (1 replies)
New Afro-Asiatic Branch in The Balkans. (1 replies)
Why language is more important than ethnicity or nationality (1 replies)
Question to non-native English-speakers: how easily can you translate humour to/from your language? (29 replies)
"When you learn one Romance language, to a considerable extent you learn them all". Discuss. (71 replies)
What is the closest language to Romanian in sound? (8 replies)
The German language (0 replies)
West Ugric language family includes Minoan, Hattic& Hungarian (1 replies)
Anglish: English with Germanic words only (46 replies)
The Talian language in Brazil (1 replies)
what is the word order in your native tongue? (3 replies)
The Georgia accent is fading away, university researchers say (1 replies)
What languages are most similar sounding to the Celtic languages? (12 replies)
Brazilian Pomeranian: how much do German and Dutch speakers understand it? (3 replies)
mother tongue english speakers how did you understand scott,scouse and irish accent (1 replies)
German and Dutch speakers: Is Brazilian Hunsrückisch intelligible to you? (34 replies)
A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries (0 replies)
Oldest Written Languages (0 replies)
In your country, how much is English used as the medium of communication in higher education? (0 replies)
Voynich Manuscript theories? (0 replies)
Native English speakers, which pronunciation features do you like the best? (1 replies)
French and Romanians: when visiting Portugal, Spain or Italy, which language do you use? (11 replies)
People from ex-Yugoslavia: when visiting each others' countries, which language(s) do you use? (1 replies)
How does the Dalmatian language look like to you? (7 replies)
To what known language do you associate this type of Albanian? Speaking about sound. (0 replies)
Why do so few native speakers of Spanish and Portuguese learn each others' languages? (54 replies)
A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries (0 replies)
How does Votic language sound like to you? (2 replies)
How does Kashubian language sound like to you? (2 replies)
As an English speaker, how much Romanian do you understand? (29 replies)
Seud Afrikaaners? (9 replies)
French vs. Welsh (5 replies)
Guess Which Balkan Dialect This Is (8 replies)
Datings of early Germanic loan words in Baltic Finnic languages (0 replies)
My Romanian Friends, How Does the Romance Spoken Below Sound to You? (7 replies)
Dear TA Romanians, How Does the Romance Spoken Below Sound to You? (30 replies)
Recite a McDonald's order in your mother tongue. (5 replies)
Recite a Bible verse in your mother tongue. (36 replies)
Hangul or Cyrillic: which alphabet is harder? (19 replies)
Numbers (1-10) recorded among shepherds in the past in some places of former Yugoslavia (2 replies)
Does the Russian language sound the least Slavic? (7 replies)
Does the existence of thousands of languages make the world interesting, or hinder common humanity? (5 replies)
Should Ireland cease to speak English and rise the Gaellic or whatever their original language? (368 replies)
What combination of 3 languages would you choose? (5 replies)
Non-native English speakers, can you understand these American accents? (4 replies)
Home alone in your language (1 replies)
Tooting Carmen quotes "Allo Allo" catchphrases in different languages (0 replies)
What is YOUR English level? (20 replies)
Compilation of Germanic languages (0 replies)
What is your favorite Latin language? (13 replies)
What does this old language sound like to you? (15 replies)
Strictly Phonetically, What Language is this? (10 replies)
Paleo Balear language (1 replies)
Language family tree (0 replies)
Indo-European meaning of left and right (0 replies)
In your country/language, do you use . or , for decimals? (23 replies)
Filo in Italiano (6 replies)
Your top 5 most and least favorite world languages (60 replies)
Funny Dutch Expressions (0 replies)
Proto-Albanian (0 replies)
Filo di lingue Latine (24 replies)
How does Vilamovian/Wymysorys Germanic language spoken in Poland sounds like to you? (4 replies)
Did my mom really have a Midwest accent? (9 replies)
Do I sound like a Negro? (12 replies)
what does this language sound like to you (45 replies)
How does Karitiana language from Amazonia sound to you? (9 replies)
Vocabulary differences in American and Commonwealth English (31 replies)
The English language is more similar to French or German? (23 replies)
An Article About Transeurasian Languages (1 replies)
Which Irish accent do you prefer: Northern or Southern? (11 replies)
Paleo-European languages map (2 replies)
US Southern accents sound closer to "General American"? (12 replies)
Classify Tyson Fury's accent (5 replies)
In wich european country the official language was not spoken by the majority of its population? (17 replies)
Say or sing the chorus of "The Cheeky Song" in your natural accent (19 replies)
the english accent of Emmanuel Macron is no so good (1 replies)
In your country/culture, where do you say someone should move to that is really far away and remote? (35 replies)
Tooting Carmen spreche im Deutsch (3 replies)
Tooting Carmen parle en francais en Avril de 2022 (17 replies)
Tooting Carmen fala em portugues em Abril de 2022 (11 replies)
Tooting Carmen habla en castellano en Abril de 2022 (29 replies)
Sing the opening lines of the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" theme tune in your natural accent (11 replies)
Language, law and loanwords in early medieval Gaul (0 replies)
P.I.E. Homeland in the armenian higlands (3 replies)
Why are the Australian accents so hard to imitate? (19 replies)
American English vs British English, which uses more slang? (2 replies)
What language was spoken in Germany in the Middle Ages? (0 replies)
How to pronounce the name "Ragnar" in old Norse? (2 replies)
The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years (0 replies)
Does the name Guy is of Roman/Latin origin? (4 replies)
Most Annoying and Beautiful Languages? (23 replies)
If Europe should have a lingua franca that was NOT English, should it be French, German or Russian? (42 replies)
The inclusion of Darija dialects as Arabic is a FARCE (0 replies)
What do you think of these Languages? (1 replies)
Language difficulty ranking for english speakers (1 replies)
glottothèque: Ancient indo-European Grammars online (0 replies)
INTERLINGUA: A LANGUAGE that you can UNDERSTAND without STUDYING (2 replies)
Western/Eastern Romance split - La Spezia–Rimini Line (5 replies)
Is it always possible to translate innuendo and double entendre from one language to another? (3 replies)
What is "We Wuz Kangs" ? (1 replies)
English pronunciation test. (7 replies)
Why so little interest on Sonoran desert toads here? (2 replies)
How can a language you don't understand affect you? (0 replies)
Which Romance language do you find easiest to learn? (8 replies)
Which language do you find more beautiful... French or Italian? (12 replies)
What foreign language did you study back in high school? (17 replies)
Can you explain why having bad handwriting is so common? (0 replies)
Japanese or Thai, which writing/script looks more interesting to you? (1 replies)
With English language...do native or non-native speakers stutter more overall? (0 replies)
Can you Spanish speakers identify what type of accent this is? ...intro to Resident Evil Village (2 replies)
How'd you react if English replaced your country's native language as the official language? (68 replies)
Berber language speakers! Berber language news? Amazigh languages? Anyone have experience or speak ? (1 replies)
Your favourite languages? (24 replies)
Learn Finnish phrases (17 replies)
What's the most badass or gangster sounding accent in your opinion? (2 replies)
Ancient Germanic loanwords in Saami (0 replies)
What's the language of this song? (4 replies)
Old Croatian language of Dalmatian region-So damn beautiful (12 replies)
What is quicker: translate or write again? (2 replies)
In the future, will Europe be as linguistically non-diverse as the Americas? (12 replies)
Italian vs Spanish... which language sounds more beautiful (14 replies)
Are there still any people today who can speak fluent Latin? (3 replies)
What's the most beautiful word to you? (11 replies)
What language sounds cool but not beautiful? (10 replies)
Have you ever tried to learn a foreign language not too long ago, but failed? (4 replies)
Apart from Miami, in which other US cities is it also fairly easy to get by with Spanish? (35 replies)
Mirandés Language - Spanish speakers & Brazilians: How much can u understand? (Videos) (13 replies)
Latin or English...which of the two languages is more powerful or beautiful? (4 replies)
Which languages do you think that are not popular now will be important in the future? (8 replies)
In which regions of your country are people most/least likely to speak with a stereotypical accent? (18 replies)
What does this language sounds to you ? (13 replies)
English vs Italian... which language sounds better to you? (4 replies)
If you could magically become fluent in either German or Spanish, which language would you choose? (7 replies)
Non-native English speakers: do you find it easier to imitate an American or British accent? (15 replies)
English footballers speaking foreign languages (1 replies)
Rate the sound of Latin from 1-10 (0 replies)
How does Hebrew sound like to you? (3 replies)
What's your favorite American accent? (0 replies)
How would you rate his Latin? (0 replies)
What kind of accent does this guy have? (0 replies)
What are the Top 3 best European languages IYO? (36 replies)
Indo-European and Turkic Numbers? (1 replies)
Would you agree that, in the contemporary USA, ethnolects are as or more important than dialects? (20 replies)
In which city/region of your country is the link between accent and social class especially marked? (55 replies)
Annoying modern expressions and anti-concepts (61 replies)
Non-native Clingon Speakers: Do you Arkham or Hogwarts? (1 replies)
Non-native Portuguese-speakers: do you generally find Portuguese or Brazilians easier to understand? (14 replies)
The Pomak dialect / language (0 replies)
What language does this sound like? (1 replies)
Q to english native speakers: which (if any) GERMANIC language can you understand & to what degree? (10 replies)
What CEFR language level in English would you say you are according to this chart? (2 replies)
Post an example of the most perfect speaking voice or accent? (0 replies)
How does Multicultural London English sound to you? (5 replies)
Balochi and Kurdish comparison (4 replies)
Post examples of amusing false friends between languages (15 replies)
Proto-Uralic (1 replies)
The Word "Exotic" -- your thoughts about it? (48 replies)
Why Spanish Is Sexist (2 replies)
North-westren indo-aryan languages (0 replies)
Why does Portuguese sounds like Russian? (5 replies)
English Makes No Sense (2 replies)
How much Germanics have impacted Spanish language? (1 replies)
All About the Irish Language (3 replies)
Do accents shape the sound of our voice, or the other way 'round? (1 replies)
Do you hear any similiarity? (1 replies)
Poles: do you find Romance or Germanic languages easier to learn/understand? (3 replies)
Germanic languages: most and least archaic daughters (4 replies)
Similarities between Kurdish & Balochi (4 replies)
How come Portuguese in many ways is more similar to French than is Spanish? (18 replies)
New Indo-European phylogenetic tree (5 replies)
New Worlders: do you still speak the language(s) of your recent ancestors? (28 replies)
Non-native French-speakers: do you use the French or Belgian numeric system? (4 replies)
Non-native Spanish-speakers: do you generally find Spaniards or Latin Americans easier to understand (33 replies)
Non-native English-speakers: do you generally find Brits or Americans easier to understand? (45 replies)
Europeans: roughly around what year or decade did English become widespread in your country? (56 replies)
Germanic speakers: can you understand Gothic? (14 replies)
The Sound of the Old Albanian language (2 replies)
What do you know about Sicilian? (1 replies)
Most spoken Romance language on The Apricity? (23 replies)
How does Saterland Frisian language sound to you? (4 replies)
How come Hindi, Urdu, and Persian are Indo-European languages but Arabic isn't? (11 replies)
Which languages are more similar? Russian/Ukrainian or Bulgarian/Serbian? (0 replies)
Fadar Unsa in Early and Late Frankish (2 replies)
FRISIAN - Sister Language(s) of English! (3 replies)
Southern US Accents & Shakespeare's Accent (0 replies)
In your country, are there cities near to each other that nevertheless have very different accents? (33 replies)
How does English sound with your native accent? (6 replies)
Singlish (Singapore English) vs. Conyo English (Filipino English). Which one sounds better? (0 replies)
Merry Christmas in European languages (0 replies)
Mongolic names in Turkish language (6 replies)
In your country, how commonplace are bilingual schools? (24 replies)
In your language, how many slang or swear words are there to describe the genitals of either sex? (0 replies)
The Double Vocabulary of English (7 replies)
Is Hunter a form of Günther? (1 replies)
Non-verbal communication (3 replies)
Words Are So Cool! (0 replies)
How does the Burushaski language sounds to you? (2 replies)
Proto-Italic (0 replies)
Native German-speakers: do you pronounce 'Ich' as 'eek' or as 'eesh'? (19 replies)
Belgians/Swiss: what language do you use when meeting people from different linguistic communities? (13 replies)
Whats the weirdest Anglo-Accent/Dialect. (23 replies)
What languages have splitted farthest from its metropolis? (14 replies)
Languages with more words (6 replies)
Galician & Portuguese- Are they the same language? Video: (12 replies)
What do you think about the Tuvan language ? (8 replies)
Turkish vs Yakut speaker (0 replies)
How does the Serbian language sounds to you? (30 replies)
Which english phrases or words are more rarely used by not-native English speakers? (not obscure) (9 replies)
Strange connection between Celtic and Semitic languages (12 replies)
Why does the Turkish accent sound Russian/Slavic? (5 replies)
Does Latvian really sounds like Russian for you? (17 replies)
How does this Alabnian dialect sound to you ? (Albanians from Drenica Valley) (29 replies)
How do you say "trick or treat" in your language? (16 replies)
How does the "Ottoman Turkish" sound like ? (35 replies)
Dialog between Latin and Romanian speakers (1 replies)
How does the Polish language sound like? (91 replies)
The most chinky language of Europe? (60 replies)
American dialects 1958. Old video. (0 replies)
Is Old Polish closer to Ukrainian than modern Polish? (9 replies)
European languages spoken in the world (16 replies)
Why the Erasmian pronunciation of Ancient Greek isn't at all indicative of its real pronunciation (1 replies)
Which distinctive accents in the Anglosphere do you think will die out within the next fifty years? (15 replies)