Well, Bob. Russian has no articles. Hebrew has the equivalent of the article 'the' only. English - you know better than me :-).
Just point in case. The above sentence about Hebrew was originally "Hebrew has equivalent of article 'the'". Google told me that I was missing two "the"s... My reasoning behind not putting them was that I wasn't referring to anything from the previous text and it is kind of obvious what's the subject, so I thought - article isn't needed. As usual - I was quite wrong. Twice wrong in fact and these two wrongs don't make for one right. I am glad I know three very different languages. I wish I knew Hebrew better but it so happened that I can't write and my reading is very slow. I did not read any books in Hebrew, so my spoken language is rather simple too. Hopefully I could say "yet", though I am not planning on any such activity in the immediate future. Of course "know" is flexible, because I still cannot write a screenful of English text without missing a bunch of articles, but it's the journey that matters, not the destination, right? Beside learning Russian alphabet - did you go further? When we met, 15 years ago, I don't recall you trying to say anything in Russian. Not in our presence, at least. Boris On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 7:14 PM Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 3 Jan 2021, at 16:26, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Normans (who spoke Old French) almost killed English. I think it was > late > > Old English or something. > > > > But indeed many words in modern English that seem to be of Latin origin, > > actually came via French speaking Normans. > > > > I still struggle with the fact that my native Russian is based on > > inflections, and for some reason, your ancient predecessors, Bob, > > determined that wasn't their way :-). > > > > And man, do I hate articles :-). > > Latin is an inflected language - I learned that from age 11 to 18. > Functionally English achieves the same thing with word order and > prepositions. > > I mentioned before that I’ve recently started to learn modern Greek, which > is also inflected, though less so than Ancient Greek and Latin. I’m very > glad that I learned an inflected language when I was quite young, and also > a different alphabet (Russian) when I was about twenty as I think it must > be exceptionally difficult for an adult English speaker to learn something > like Greek or Russian as their first foreign language as you have so many > new concepts to learn before you can really get on with learning the > language itself. > > Greek uses its articles more than English does...! > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
