Teach us your mother tongue
By zykon84
@zykon84 (165)
Portugal
September 10, 2008 2:56pm CST
The main idea is write a small text or sentence in English, and then write it again in you mother tongue.
By this way we can learn some words of your mother tongue.
To start i will translate the text above in portuguese
A ideia principal é escrever um pequeno texto ou frase em ingles, e depois escreve-la novamente na tua lingua materna.
Desta forma podemos apreender algumas palavras na tua lingua materna.
Fim/ The end
3 responses
@cuttyrish (2667)
• United States
10 Sep 08
my mother tounge is english.. but i am a german-jew, half filipina.. i just write about my second language - tagalog/filipino//
examples:
In english: What is your name? My name is is Danica / I am Danica..
Tagalog: Ano ang pangalan mo / Ano ang iyong pangalan. Ang pangalan ko ay Danica / Ako is Danica.
English: I am glad to meet you. Tagalog: Ikinagagalak kong makilala ka..
and many more...
@thathalazarini (486)
• Brazil
10 Sep 08
I'm from Brazil, our native language is Portuguese. Some words are similar to Spanish, that's the reason why some people think we speak Spanish... Actually we speak Portuguese :)
English: The sun is shining.
Portuguese: O sol está brilhando.
English: Hello! How are you?
Portuguese: Olá! Tudo bem?
English: We are going to the beach because today is a hot day.
Portuguese: Nós estamos indo à praia porque hoje o dia está quente.
@Alexandria37 (5717)
• Ireland
10 Sep 08
Here in Ireland, Irish is our native language but the majority of us speak English for most of the time as quite a lot of people would not understand Irish.
Irish: Conas ata an aimsir in Eirinn inniu? Ta se go brea go raibh maith agat.
English: How is the weather in Irelan today? It is fine thank you.
Of course I couldn't put the accents over the letters which would help in the pronunciation but I am sure you will get the jist.
