Take an intensive course. That's what I did to learn Dutch with my Dutch then girlfriend (now wife and mother of our kids). Intense, focussed and I was fluent at a higher level than many natives within a year (which says more about 50% of the country than it does me, but I digress).
Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
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> And the suggestion of "Jeg vil gerne handle i morgen" for "Jeg vil gerne go shopping i morgen", instead reads to me as "I would like to act tomorrow". A more idiomatic translation would be "Jeg vil gerne købe ind i morgen". It's a little better, but I would never expect anyone to translate "shopping" to "købe ind". "købe ind" is about getting groceries for the week, shopping is about walking the strip and dreaming…
If a European language gained a new everyday word in the last fifty years, there’s a solid chance that it’s a loan word from English. A little odd to learn a “foreign” language filled with that stuff.
You'll love Flanders.
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#93Take an intensive course. That's what I did to learn Dutch with my Dutch then girlfriend (now wife and mother of our kids). Intense, focussed and I was fluent at a higher level than many natives within a year (which says more about 50% of the country than it does me, but I digress).
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whats wrong with it?
It generally means that while you live somewhere permanently with no timeline on returning "home," you do not allow yourself to think of your new country as "home." It comes across as a refusal to immigrate . It means that what you care about is that you are no longer living "at home," rather than caring about assimilating with your new home. It's like going to a new place and identifying yourself as an "emigrant" in…
I agree with the above. It does imply a refusal to accept the fact that you are now living somewhere else (ie your new home country)
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#96Take an intensive course. That's what I did to learn Dutch with my Dutch then girlfriend (now wife and mother of our kids). Intense, focussed and I was fluent at a higher level than many natives within a year (which says more about 50% of the country than it does me, but I digress).
What was the time/format of this course?
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Whats wrong with it?
It generally means that while you live somewhere permanently with no timeline on returning "home," you do not allow yourself to think of your new country as "home." It comes across as a refusal to immigrate . It means that what you care about is that you are no longer living "at home," rather than caring about assimilating with your new home. It's like going to a new place and identifying yourself as an "emigrant" in…
> It's like going to a new place and identifying yourself as an "emigrant" instead of an "immigrant."
All immigrants are emigrants, and vice versa. You have to emigrate from someplace in order to immigrate somewhere.
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And the suggestion of "Jeg vil gerne handle i morgen" for "Jeg vil gerne go shopping i morgen", instead reads to me as "I would like to act tomorrow". A more idiomatic translation would be "Jeg vil gerne købe ind i morgen". It's a little better, but I would never expect anyone to translate "shopping" to "købe ind". "købe ind" is about getting groceries for the week, shopping is about walking the strip and dreaming…
If a European language gained a new everyday word in the last fifty years, there’s a solid chance that it’s a loan word from English. A little odd to learn a “foreign” language filled with that stuff.
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
It generally means that while you live somewhere permanently with no timeline on returning "home," you do not allow yourself to think of your new country as "home." It comes across as a refusal to immigrate . It means that what you care about is that you are no longer living "at home," rather than caring about assimilating with your new home. It's like going to a new place and identifying yourself as an "emigrant" in…
> It's like going to a new place and identifying yourself as an "emigrant" instead of an "immigrant." All immigrants are emigrants, and vice versa. You have to emigrate from someplace in order to immigrate somewhere.
Correct. So, you can emphasize your new identity as an "emigrant from A" or as an "immigrant to B." "Expat" goes one step further by not only emphasizing that you are an emigrant from A, but also that you are no longer a political participant or under the authority of A. It is not semantically incorrect to call yourself an "expat" if you are an expat, nor would it be semantically incorrect to call yourself an emigrant from A or an immigrant to B.
I'm attempting to pin down why some people might feel that someone calling themselves an "expat" has some negative connotations for the expat. It doesn't have anything to do with the correctness of any of the terms involved.
To say it a different way, I think people find it distasteful because it focuses on the political shapes you no longer are bound to, rather than who you are "now." It's normal to celebrate your cultural heritage, but it's kind of odd to focus on your status as a non-member of your former state.
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#100Super cool