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Anyway, my first offering , courtesy of DuoLingo (where I'm studying Norwegian.if you're using it, too, please share what language you are studying!)
That's exactly what my sister has been doing. She and her husband were signed up to go on a tour of Norway last year, but it was canceled. They will be going this August instead.Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Sun Jul 17, 2022 11:26 pm Anyway, my first offering , courtesy of DuoLingo (where I'm studying Norwegian.if you're using it, too, please share what language you are studying!)
Oh, nice! How are you doing with it?
Oh, how fun!! I'm glad they're getting to go this yearMN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 1:40 am
That's exactly what my sister has been doing. She and her husband were signed up to go on a tour of Norway last year, but it was canceled. They will be going this August instead.
That's a handy phrase to knowWhen I went to Norway in 1994 I knew exactly one phrase in Norway: Jeg snakker ikke norsk. I had to use it once when we were in a cemetery and a Norwegian gentleman spoke to me. Fortunately two of the eight people in our group spoke passable Norwegian so, the few times it was necessary, they could help translate. Fortunately many stores and restaurants in the larger cities had some employees who could communicate in English so we managed just fine.
Good subject. Now I'll be running names of places in my head and pronouncing countries names in thought bubbles all day! I think this happens with Spanish-language names too. Jesús is just one. Maybe some news outlets have a style sheet for names, as newspapers have (or should have).Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:55 am When the Russian war on Ukraine started, I noticed all the news anchors were making a point of pronouncing the name of the capitol city as 'Keev", not "Key-ev" as I'd heard it all my life. It makes sense, though, since that's how Ukrainians pronounce it. Why, then, does no one pronounce "Ukraine" the way they do, which is "you-kry-ina". For that matter, why don't we call "Moscow" "Moskva" or "Germany" "Deutschland"?
The one that always annoyed me was "Gutter." You know, the Middle East country where the men's World Cup is going to be held. During the Afghanistan war, news media said like that. I always thought it was pronounced like "guitar" starting a K, and emphasis on the last syllable. News media seems to have returned to the latter pronunciation.Kriselda Gray wrote: ↑Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:55 am When the Russian war on Ukraine started, I noticed all the news anchors were making a point of pronouncing the name of the capitol city as 'Keev", not "Key-ev" as I'd heard it all my life. It makes sense, though, since that's how Ukrainians pronounce it. Why, then, does no one pronounce "Ukraine" the way they do, which is "you-kry-ina". For that matter, why don't we call "Moscow" "Moskva" or "Germany" "Deutschland"?
Oh yeah, I remember that - it's interesting that they're reverting back.TheNewSaint wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 9:33 am The one that always annoyed me was "Gutter." You know, the Middle East country where the men's World Cup is going to be held. During the Afghanistan war, news media said like that. I always thought it was pronounced like "guitar" starting a K, and emphasis on the last syllable. News media seems to have returned to the latter pronunciation.