"Llanedd Llwyddfa", for noidd

[pne]

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[nitaq.livejournal.com]

Cymraeg ydy e?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Mae.

bIyajmeH http://pne.livejournal.com/636289.html?thread=2330753#t2330753 yIlaD.

[nitaq.livejournal.com]

I think the correct reply would be ydy as well.
Ydy, mae Cymraeg ydy e.
But since I'm not sure if my question was grammatical...

[pne.livejournal.com]

Well, your Welsh is better than mine, so I have no idea.

I just went by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_morphology#Bod_and_compounds and hoped for the best.

[nitaq.livejournal.com]

Have you ever counted the languages you've been trying to learn, or at least know some words in?

languages I've tried to learn

[pne.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't.

I'm not even sure I could count the languages I know at least some words in (or some tidbit of grammar -- sometimes I know a bit of that without knowing specific words), except that I'm sure the number has at least two digits.

As for the languages I've ever actively tried to learn (as opposed to merely being interested in it in general or picking up bits and pieces by exposure to it/"osmosis"), I suppose it depends on how serious I was about it -- but the list would probably include French, Japanese, Greek, Verdurian, Esperanto, Klingon, Maltese, and possibly Spanish. I'm not sure whether there are that many more candidates for the list, to be honest. Oh wait, Lojban qualifies, too. Maybe Chinese, for which I had checked out a coursebook from the public library a couple of times and browsed through it (though not actively in the sense of trying to remember what was there). Oh, and I completely forgot Russian -- I actually had a couple of semesters of that at Volkshochschule.

Though depending on how you count, another couple of Mark Rosenfelder languages, especially Cadhinor and to a lesser extent Cuêzi, might make the cut: I didn't specifically set out to learn them, much less commit many words to memory, but I had read over their grammar descriptions often enough and even, on occasion, composed short texts (with frequent references to grammar and wordlists) that I did have a small measure of competence in them back then.

So, still a goodly number compared to what many people know, I suppose, but rather less than the number of languages I know at least some words in, I think.

Then there's a third list: languages I never formally learned but have tried to fake speaking nevertheless :) (Given the rudiments of grammar and vocabulary I had "absorbed" plus heavy use of cognates when my vocabulary runs out.) That would be Dutch, Swedish, and Spanish, I think.