For April Fools' day

[matrixmann]

Seriously, never anybody thought about the literal meaning of such a brand like "blend-a-dent"?

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[maadmike.livejournal.com]

After I had started to speak English at my second course of institute communication with Africans had helped a lot I've decided to try study German being very enthusiastic and had found fast that it is very difficult - similar to Russian and there is no meaning for me to spend energy on studying such difficult languages. Nowadays thanks to computer’s technologies it is losing any meaning at all to study third or even fifth language if you are not a genius of course - you could communicate with computer programs or the more easy way for everybody to communicate in simple languages like English - I've heard that Italian is simple too for example. But our Languages - Russian - German has such difficult grammar rules, plus so many problems with pronunciation and they are not so difficult as Asian languages - so why bother?

[matrixmann]

Frankly, for machine translation I use the combination "Russian to English" because the grammar is way closer to each other than from Russian to German. At least you get the more understandable result.

If it's heading out from the point of pronunciation, I feel like Japanese somehow is a bit similar to German. At least you don't have to relearn phonetics so much.
It's a somewhat hard language in spoken form, and it's grammar is way different from many European languages, but this one seems a little close to that in that aspect at least.

Italian is easier if you're already well-acquainted with Latin. I realized that when once watching an Italian streamer. Most of what he was speaking, it seemed familiar to you through the whole lot of latin loanwords in other languages.

However, there is one reason indeed to learn the languages manually: Someone's got to make and maintain all these apps and machine translators! ;)
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[maadmike.livejournal.com]

I like very much how Japanese sounds. Would be cool to study some phrases.