RAID

[spetsnaz]

Hello I am French and I have a web site on a Special Police unit in French.

Sorry I speak very bad english.

Visit: http://le.raid.free.fr

http://le.raid.free.fr/images/200.jpg

[Vance]

Your English is not bad. Thank you for the site.

[Salty Dog]

yeah, you have poor english skills ;)

welcome to the site.

[Vance]

yeah, you have poor english skills ;)

welcome to the site.
L'arrête de faire se sent mauvais!

[UkrainianSpetsnaz]

Welcome Spetsnaz. Good to have you here. Nice website.

Look at mine.

www.ukraineonline.net/chechnya/chechnya.htm

[Tane Angle]

Welcome to the message board. And don't worry about the english. I know how that can be. Thanks for the good link. Have a good one.

[ßå$tĮТHÏ¿ð]

Bonjour, thanks for the site. You english isnt bad at all.

[spetsnaz]

Thanks. ;)

[Herrmannek]

Bonjour, thanks for the site. You english isnt bad at all.

His english isn't pussy it is badass motherfuker* :)

Hi mate woot

*writen that way beacause of this: mother****er :)

[spetsnaz]

All americans hate french after the Irak war ?

That just a question.


:hug: lol

[Vance]

No...it is the stupid media who makes you think that. :D

[NcDeuce]

Isn't English the toughest language to learn? I f*cking hate it in school, damn nouns, verbs, essays, and other pointless @$R* :slap:

[Marmot1]

so try chinnese it is easier or maybe polish :-)

try to ****ouce this:

Chsząszcz brzmi w trzcinie w Szczebrzeszynie rofl rofl rofl

or this..

Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka <---this is the longest worl in polish


P.S nice page

[Vance]

So what does Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka mean?


EDIT: The longest word in English is Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphen-
ylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylgluta-
mylglysylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthre-
onylleucylglcycylaspartylprolylglicylisoleucyglutamylgluta-
minlserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleu-
cylglutamylalanylglyclyalanylaspartylalanylleucyglutamylle-
ucylgluycylisoleucylproluylphenylalanyserylaspartyprolylleu-
celalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisolleucyglutaminylaspa-
raginylalanythreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylal-
anylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphen-
ylalanylglglutamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginyl-
glutaminyllysylhistidylprolyuthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleuc-
ylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasbaraginylleucyl-
valylphenylalanylsparaginyyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglut-
amylphenylalanylyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyll-
ysylvalylglycylvalylspartylserylvalylleucylvallalanylaspart-
ylvalylprolylvalvlglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylpheny-
lalalrginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasp-
araginylvalylalalprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcystei-
nylprolyprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartyspartyleucylle-
ucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyroslglycylargin-
ylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginlalanyl-
glycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginyla-
nylalanylleucylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvalylalan-
yllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparagimylalanylalanypro-
lylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenlalanylglycylisoleyucyls-
erylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisol-
eucylalspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylasoleucylse-
rylglycylserylalanylisoleucylbalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylgluta-
mylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamyl****ylglu-0
tamyllysylmethionylluecylalanylalanyoeucyllysylvalylpheny-
lalanylvalylglutamilylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreo-
nylarginylserine. No joke.

http://www.geocities.com/jsrosenblatt/long.html

[NcDeuce]

http://ebaumsworld.com/forumfun/positive14.jpg

;)

[Dave the Dawg]

so try chinnese it is easier or maybe polish :-)

try to ****ouce this:

Chsząszcz brzmi w trzcinie w Szczebrzeszynie rofl rofl rofl

or this..

Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka <---this is the longest worl in polish

P.S nice page

Chinese is much easier to learn than English, providing you are not tone-deaf. The difficulty of English is not the orthography, as it is with Polish, but the exceptions. I can ****ounce your phrase once I know the rules of Polish spelling and ****unciation. But English is defined by its exceptions:

In elementary school, we learned, "i before e except after c, or when sounded like 'ay' as in neighbor and weigh." But when 'cy' is made plural (one fallacy = two fallacies), it is "i before e even after c". And you have to learn all these exceptions (including the "ay" ones):

beige, caffeine, casein, cleidoic, codeine, conscience, deify, deity, deign, dreidel, eider, eight (and eighty, eighteen and eighth), either, feign, feint, feisty, foreign, forfeit, freight, geisha, gleization, gneiss, greige, greisen, heifer, heigh-ho, height, heinous, heir, heist, inveigle, keister, leisure, leitmotiv, neigh, neighbor, neither, obeisance, omniscient, peignoir, prescient, protein, rein, science, seiche, seidel, seine, seismic, seize, seizin(or seisin), sheik, society, sovereign, specie, species, surfeit, teiid, veil, vein, weight, weir, weird

Actually, you don't have to learn all of them, since many of these are not common words.

By the way, "beetle" is "chrząszcz", not "chsząszcz". :D And do the beetles really buzz in the reeds in Szczebrzeszyn?

Regards,
Dave

[Dave the Dawg]

...do the beetles really buzz in the reeds in Szczebrzeszyn?

Regards,
Dave
Never mind, I have my answer. Apparently, w Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie, i Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.

[Tane Angle]

Arabics pretty tough, too. Good language to know, though.

[[AFSOC]]

Je suis un pomme de terre

[Ratamacue]

Apparently, w Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie, i Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.

Fo shizzle.

[21eRIMA]

[JTF-2][]Je suis un pomme de terre

Je suis UNE pomme de terre ;)

[Falco]

Fait pas l'enmerdeur voyons !! ;)

[UkrainianSpetsnaz]

to quote Ratamacue "Fo Shizzle" I would also like to add Fo Shizzle my nizzle, welcome to the forumizzle, you have a great websiteizzle, fo shizzle!

[Falco]

Hum, someone has been watching to many Zellers commercials .. ;)

[Haiw]

Vance that's not a word, that's just a chemical combination, and you could propably translate it to almost any language...

Anyway, imo English is an easy language to learn when your native tongue is a Germanic language...other Germanic languages are also pretty easy to learn. Dutch, German, Danish look a lot alike, and even Swedish looks pretty easy from my point.

[Vance]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Try that, bee-otch!!


http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/l/longestword.html

[Gimana]

Je m'appele Alex, je suis chinois. Enchante ;)

[Herrmannek]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Try that, bee-otch!!l

Pneumono-Ultra-Microscopic-Silico-Volcano-Coniosis thats way its more simple I would say trivial :)

[Dave the Dawg]

Avrupalılaştıramadıklarımızdan mısınız?

The ease of learning a language similar to one you already speak (i.e., Dutch speakers learning German or English, Spanish speakers learning Italian or Portuguese, or Russian speakers learning Ukrainian) is not really a test of how difficult a language is the abstract sense.

Turkish, for example, is not an Indo-European language and is very different in structure from English, Russian, French or any other Indo-European language spoken by most forum members here. Even Semitic languages, such as Hebrew and Arabic, are far closer to Indo-European languages in structure. But Turkish is actually a relatively easy language to learn. Its grammar and spelling are straightforward, and there are few exceptions to its rules (which, as previously noted, is what makes English difficult).

The sentence above is very easy to ****ounce once you know the rules of Turkish ****unciation. It is somewhat harder to translate, as the rules of Turkish grammar take a little getting used to. It means, roughly, "Are you one of those whom we were unable to Europeanize?"

BTW, you won't beat Altaic and Uralic languages like Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish for longest words in actual usage (as opposed to these chemical and medical terms). Altaic and Uralic languages are agglutinative, meaning you form new words and grammatical forms by adding suffixes to existing words.

For example, "house" in Turkish is ev. "Houses" is evler. "Our houses" is evlerimiz. "In our houses" is evlerimizde. "That which is in our houses" is evlerimizdeki. "The things which are in our houses" is evlerimizdekiler. "Among those things which are in our houses" is evlerimizdekiden.

By the way, Cherokee (Tsalagi) is the most difficult language I have ever studied. English, French, Polish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian etc. are pieces of cake compared to this or almost any American Indian language.

[Herrmannek]

By the way, Cherokee (Tsalagi) is the most difficult language I have ever studied. English, French, Polish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian etc. are pieces of cake compared to this or almost any American Indian language.

Wow...If Indiana Jones is your relative? :)

[Dave the Dawg]

No, but Sequoyah is (but very, very, very distantly).

[Herrmannek]

No, but Sequoyah is (but very, very, very distantly).

Did you mean tree? I've heard that we are close relatives to bannana or potato...don't remember exactly wich one:)

[Dave the Dawg]

http://www.sequoyahmuseum.org/

[kinghk]

Vance that's not a word, that's just a chemical combination, and you could propably translate it to almost any language...

Anyway, imo English is an easy language to learn when your native tongue is a Germanic language...other Germanic languages are also pretty easy to learn. Dutch, German, Danish look a lot alike, and even Swedish looks pretty easy from my point.

If you speek one of the scandinavian languages, you'll understand the other two as well.

[Dave the Dawg]

If you speek one of the scandinavian languages, you'll understand the other two as well.
Assuming you mean Scandanavian in a linguistic sense, and not geographical, there are four main Scandanavian languages - Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish. If you wanted to get more technical, you could divide Norwegian into Nynorsk and Bokmål, and add Faroese. Of course, if you really wanted to get technical, you could classify Scanian (Skånsk) as separate from Swedish and Jutish as separate from Danish.

But (a) only Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian (both Nynorsk and Bokmål) and Swedish are written languages and (b) only Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish are official national languages. So we're back to four.

I would think Norwegians are in the best shape, since if you know Bokmål, Danish and Swedish come easily, and Nynorsk is in the same sub-family as Icelandic.

[duck]

By the way, Cherokee (Tsalagi) is the most difficult language I have ever studied. English, French, Polish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian etc. are pieces of cake compared to this or almost any American Indian language.

Wow...If Indiana Jones is your relative? :)

Maybe he just followed orders?

[21eRIMA]

Fait pas l'enmerdeur voyons !! ;)

J'peux pô ! C'est plus fort que moi !!!!!!

[Deicide]

Fait pas l'enmerdeur voyons !! ;)

J'peux pô ! C'est plus fort que moi !!!!!!

Tiens un français, d'après ton pseudo t'es dans les TDM alors ?

[Guttorm]

Vance that's not a word, that's just a chemical combination, and you could propably translate it to almost any language...

Anyway, imo English is an easy language to learn when your native tongue is a Germanic language...other Germanic languages are also pretty easy to learn. Dutch, German, Danish look a lot alike, and even Swedish looks pretty easy from my point.

If you speek one of the scandinavian languages, you'll understand the other two as well.

Hmm.. Well... When I'm in denmark, they understand me well, when I speak norwegian, but in sweden, i have to speak english. At times, not all the time.

[21eRIMA]

Fait pas l'enmerdeur voyons !! ;)

J'peux pô ! C'est plus fort que moi !!!!!!

Tiens un français, d'après ton pseudo t'es dans les TDM alors ?

Non non... C'est plutot en l'honneur d'un ami qui est DCD en OPEX... Moi jsuis dans le privé !

[GazB]

Is that RAID site related to the French RAIDs magazine?

I really enjoyed that mag when it was printed in English. It had lots of interesting articles and excellent photo spreads. Unfortunately they stopped printing it in English so I stopped getting it (though I did consider buying it in French and just looking at the pictures).

[Loco]

By the way, Cherokee (Tsalagi) is the most difficult language I have ever studied. English, French, Polish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian etc. are pieces of cake compared to this or almost any American Indian language.
Have you ever studied esukera(basque)? It´s quite different, and sure not related with any other language you´ve ever studied before.
BTW, it seems as you know a lot of languges, , that´s great!, how many languages do you speak or understand?
And I type here some questions I wrote in other thread before for if any of you may answer them: Do you or anyother know if stonian and hungarian are related? And are there any relationship between the finnish-stonian and the lithuanian and latvian languages? If not, what family of languages do lithuanian and latvian belong?
Thanks in advance.

[Dave the Dawg]

By the way, Cherokee (Tsalagi) is the most difficult language I have ever studied. English, French, Polish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Persian etc. are pieces of cake compared to this or almost any American Indian language.
Have you ever studied esukera(basque)? It´s quite different, and sure not related with any other language you´ve ever studied before.
BTW, it seems as you know a lot of languges, , that´s great!, how many languages do you speak or understand?
And I type here some questions I wrote in other thread before for if any of you may answer them: Do you or anyother know if stonian and hungarian are related? And are there any relationship between the finnish-stonian and the lithuanian and latvian languages? If not, what family of languages do lithuanian and latvian belong?
Thanks in advance.
Lots o' questions:

1. Basque is, I understand, unrelated to any other living language and very difficult.

2. Estonian and Hungarian are distantly related, in the same sense that English and Hindi are related. Estonian is close to Finnish, both of which are Finnic languages and belong to a larger family (Finno-Ugric) whose other main branch, Ugric, includes Hungarian. Estonian and Hungarian have some structural features in common, but almost no common vocabulary.

3. Latvian and Lithuanian have nothing in common with the Finnic languages. Latvian and Lithuanian are the only two surviving languages in the Baltic family of Indo-European languages. Lithuanian is considered to be the closest modern language to so-called "Proto-Indo-European", the father tongue of all Indo-European languages.

Finno-Ugric languages are part of a larger family known as Uralic languages. The other languages in this family are various Lappland, north Russian and Siberian tongues with few speakers. There have been various attempts over the past 150 years or so to connect the Uralic language family with the Altaic language family, which includes Mongolian, Turkish and the other Turkic languages. So far there is no proof of a connection, although all these languages have features in common. There have also been attempts to connect these with Korean and Japanese.

As for languages I speak or understand, I suppose I am a "jack of all trades, master of none" - rather than concentrating on one language I jump from one to another. I am reasonably fluent in English, French and German, and passably conversant in Serbo-Croatian, Polish and Turkish. Speaking and listening are the hardest, especially when people talk at their own pace. Reading is different, because you can usually take your time and take out a dictionary for the words you don't know. For reading proficiency I would say I can get by in almost all major Germanic and Romance languages, several Slavic languages (Serbo-Croatian, Polish, Slovenian, Macedonian), Latvian, Lithuanian, Albanian, Greek (Classical and Biblical, not modern), Persian, Arabic, Turkish (and several related Turkic languages such as Azeri) and Cherokee. I also know just enough Hebrew, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Finnish to get into trouble, but not enough to get out.

Regards,
Dave

[Loco]

It is amazing!. You have the gift of languages by far more than any other people I know. Russian, germanic languages, romance languages, chines... As you say, you know enough languages to get into troubles in every continent, and in almost every country of the world! and I´m sure to get out of troubles. Since you are american and only knowing 1 american language by now, I´d suggest you to try with the guaraní language. It´s the official language of Paraguay together with spanish, and people who speak it, they aren´t paraguayans so they are impartials, said to me guaraní is one of the most musical and harmonious language of the world.
Regarding Latvia and Lithuania, so they are related languages each others but different group of stonian. Ok. Thanks, I learnt a lot. I like living history and languages show a lot about history, and they evolutionate, but I´m afraid that I´ll be limited to a few romances languages, still I´m fighting to be fluent in basque in spite of being basque, not to talk of english :(

[Dominique]

Here's a link to a profile I wrote on raids a few years ago.
http://www.specwarnet.net/europe/raid.htm