Timeline for A word for when you only understand a language in its written form
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| Sep 5, 2012 at 10:25 | history | edited | Matt E. Эллен | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 30, 2012 at 19:44 | vote | accept | jsuissa | ||
| Apr 29, 2012 at 18:15 | answer | added | Mitch | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 29, 2012 at 17:18 | comment | added | jsuissa | Just to answer an earlier comment -- I'm American so it's not my native language. | |
| Apr 29, 2012 at 16:13 | answer | added | cornbread ninja 麵包忍者 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 29, 2012 at 3:10 | answer | added | Eli Rosencruft | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 29, 2012 at 1:16 | answer | added | Brett Reynolds | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 28, 2012 at 21:39 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Try listening to Brazilian instead of Portuguese; you’ll find it much easier to understand despite being virtually identical. For one thing, Brazilian is more syllable-timed and Portuguese is more of a stress-timed language. For another, Portuguese has more vowel sounds than Brazilian does (something like 29 phonemically distinct oral and nasal monopthongs, dipthongs, and tripthongs), but uses fewer in a phrase because of many silent or nearly silent vowels. Spoken Portuguese sounds Slavic (if you don’t know Slavic); spoken Brazilian is much closer to Spanish. | |
| Apr 28, 2012 at 21:00 | comment | added | user19148 | "I can read Portuguese, but I can't understand it when it's spoken to me." Is he Portuguese or of others country? | |
| Apr 28, 2012 at 20:58 | comment | added | JLG | Literate, which means the ability to read and write. You could say you are proficient in reading Portuguese. Linguists talk about reading proficiency, especially with regard to a second language. ling.lancs.ac.uk/activities/891 | |
| Apr 28, 2012 at 20:52 | comment | added | jsuissa | In my case no -- but that's interesting, did you have a certain word in mind? | |
| Apr 28, 2012 at 20:50 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | possible duplicate of What word means "the ability to read more than one form of writing"? | |
| Apr 28, 2012 at 20:45 | comment | added | JLG | Jsuissa: Can you write, as well as read, Portuguese? | |
| Apr 28, 2012 at 19:47 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | @JLG: "able to read and write" is too strong. I can read Portuguese, but I can't write in it. | |
| Apr 28, 2012 at 19:20 | history | asked | jsuissa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |