lichtrausch wrote:ILuvEire wrote:I agree, Norwegian is a good precursor, especially to get you into the mind-set of a real Germanic language (because English is a bit different).
What makes English an atypical Germanic language (if that's what you're saying)?
Formiko wrote:ILuvEire wrote:Travis B. wrote:Heh - German is not that hard - unless you have to remember the gender and plural of any given word... heh
Have you tried Norwegian? Much easier.
Why not Swedish, which has 3 times the speakers?
secretGeek on CodingHorror wrote:Type inference is not a gateway drug to more dynamically typed languages.
Rather "var" is a gateway drug toward "real" type inferencing, of which var is but a tiny cigarette to the greater crack mountain!
lichtrausch wrote:ILuvEire wrote:I agree, Norwegian is a good precursor, especially to get you into the mind-set of a real Germanic language (because English is a bit different).
What makes English an atypical Germanic language (if that's what you're saying)?
ILuvEire wrote:lichtrausch wrote:ILuvEire wrote:I agree, Norwegian is a good precursor, especially to get you into the mind-set of a real Germanic language (because English is a bit different).
What makes English an atypical Germanic language (if that's what you're saying)?
A few things. The main one being tenses. They are much more Romantic feeling that the other Germanic languages,
TaylorS wrote:ILuvEire wrote:lichtrausch wrote:What makes English an atypical Germanic language (if that's what you're saying)?
A few things. The main one being tenses. They are much more Romantic feeling that the other Germanic languages,
English got sucked into the Western European Sprachbund, and it shows
secretGeek on CodingHorror wrote:Type inference is not a gateway drug to more dynamically typed languages.
Rather "var" is a gateway drug toward "real" type inferencing, of which var is but a tiny cigarette to the greater crack mountain!
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