I found the word 'wolf' in many different languages. *copies them straight from the site*

Achumawi - chemoo
Afrikaans - wolf
Ainu - harkeu
Albania - ujk
Algonquin - tuk'sit
Apache - mah'cho
Arabia - tha'lab susi arabiaksi
Armenia - gail
Baski - otso
Bengali - shial
Bretoni - bleiz
Bulgaria - vulk
Caddo - tasho
Cherokee - wahy'a
Cheyenne - ho'nene/maiyun
Chipewyan - segolia
Chippewa - gun'iew
Cree - maheegan
Englanti - wolf
Englanti vanha - wulf
Eskimo - oo koo' a
Espanja - lopo
Esperanto - lupo
Etruski - oltas
Gaeli eli skotti - faol/mactire
Gaulish - succellus
Gootti - vargr
Guarani - yaguarü/ñaguarü
Heetti - ulippanna
Heprea - baz
Hollanti - wolf
Hopi - kweeuu
Iiri (muinaisiiri: fáel) - cu allaidh
Inuktitut l. eskimo - singarti
Inuplat - amaguk
Italia - lupo
Japani - ohkami
Katalaani - llop
Keltti - phelan
Kiina - lung susi kiinaksi
Kiowa - mokuyi
Korea - nukde
Korsika - lupu
Koyukon - teekkona
Kreikka - lukos/loukhos
Kroatia - vuk
Kurdi - gur
Kwakiutl - gwala
Lao - mapaa
Latina - lupus
Latvia - vilks
Lenape - mohegan
Liettua - vilkas
Lombardo Occidentale - luff
Lushootseed - stiqayu
Menomini - moquiao
Mongolia - yeono
Navajo - ma' iitsoh
Nootka - lokwa'
Norja - ulv
Occitan - lop
Pawnee - skiri' ki
Persia - walkuwa
Puola - wilk
Portugali - lobo
Ranska - loup
Romania - lup
Ruotsi - varg/ulv
Saksa - wolf
Samnite - hirpus
Sanskrit - vrka
Seneka - kyiyu
Serrano - wanat
Shoshone - beya ish
Sisilia - lupu
Suomi - susi
Swahili - mbwa mwitu
Tanska - ulv/ulf
Thai - mapaa
Tiibet - spyanki
Tšekki - vlk
Turkki - kurt
Unkari - farkas
Ute - sinapu
Valencian - llop
Valkovenäjä - vowk
Venetsia - lovo
Venäjä - volk
Viro - hunt/susi (varjaagi)
Wales eli kymri - blaidd
Zeneize - lô
Zulu - impisi

Is that supposed to be spanish? If thats the case then it's "España" and "Lobo" not Espanja and Lopo.. I wouldn't trust that list if I were you..

Hey c'mon, the list's country names are in finish language.

Sorry if it sounded like a criticism on you Wolf, I didn't mean it that way.
But now, I can understand why España would be written Espanja, but not how lobo in any way becomes lopo? Does the letter b become a p in finish?

Just wonders

Edit: If the rest is correct, then you got a pretty extensive list there

This post has been edited by Bofra: Nov 6 2005, 05:05 PM

Jag mår bra! (That´s the correct answer to Hur mår du, which I am sure you meant..ok?)

You finnish ppl ....having to learn swedish! Well when my dad came to sweden long ago he had to learn swedish as well and he found it rather hard to learn!.....

It is used for web scripting, i.e. a programming language. It was meant as a joke, but a pretty bad one.

what does hoy te amo mean?

i guess it's spanish....

It is, are you looking at the flash on new grounds?

It means "Today I love you"

I'm kinda new to the forum.. but hey! "I love wolves" in Polish- "Kocham wilki"

yeah, saw it a lttle while ago, the flash was alright but i really like the author.

and welcome to the forums.

I'm a native Dutch speaker, but I (along with most Dutch people) can speak English quite fluently. I also know some German and a bit of French.
Dutch is a totally different language than German although it may sound the same to foreigners' ears. Both languages have simularities, but German people have a hard time understanding Dutch and vice versa.

Dutch is a difficult language to master, since its grammar is quite strange and the word order is also different from English. For more info, visit Wikipedia.

Strange language fact:
The Dutch word for 'squirrel' is 'eekhoorn' which is pronounced 'acorn'... The words seem connected, but mean something completely different. I imagine this scene about the origin of the word 'acorn':

An englishman and a dutchman walk through a forest. The englishman sees a squirrel with a strange nut in its hands, he had never seen before.
"What's that thing?" he asks the dutchman.
"It's an eekhoorn", the dutchman replies, assuming the englisman meant the animal, not the nut. Since then the oak tree's fruit is called 'acorn'.

I agree that dutch and german are indeed different..but! I´m swedish and I claim that I actually can read dutch in some extent!..and also understand what I read. There are some similarities between dutch and swedish.....but I´m not referring to grammar and stuff..just the words..

Minque es muy bonita.

Suckup. (Just kidding)

Oh yes, and some things about the Spanish part of your sig.

First of all, you can either use los or unos in that part. Amo los lobos means I love the wolves. Amo unos lobos means I love some wolves. Los is specific, it means you have a specific object of your love in mind, specific wolves. Unos is more general. Or, or can add todos in, either amo todo los lobos, or amo todo unos lobos, making it I love all wolves. And for the los or unos part, it is a kind of wierd part of Spanish. It doesn't always come out in the translation, if you translate directly to English, you sometimes have to drop the word, but the meaning is still there, so you have to pick the right one even if what you mean is I love wolves rather than I love the wolves. At least, that's what my teachers taught me, somehow I don't place too much faith into them, so all this is your call. (Come to think of it, it's your sig, it's your call anyways ) For another thing, I dunno if amo would be the right word for that, but I don't know how much you like wolves, so that one's really not something I can comment on.

This post has been edited by Kindred Spirit: Nov 8 2005, 05:16 PM

I would agree here too, but I had a dutch person speak to me once, and I could understand nearly everything. Again, the same thing minque said applies to German and Dutch too. I can understand the words well, but I don't have a clue about the grammar.

Generally, a sentence spoken in German and a sentence spoken in Dutch will sound similar, but with a different dialogue, different accent, and some words that may be totally different.

Fluent in Arabic, English and am learing Chinese (Mandarin). Arabic is my first language.
those are the three most popular languages in the world, and supposed to be the three hardest to learn as a second lang (DEFINETLEY true for Mandarin). i took a course in linguistics and learned about African tribal languages, and some of those seem to be the hardest (if not, impossible) to learn as a second.
some of the pronounciations and mouth movements could only be taught to to a small child in their prime stage of learning.

I want to learn arabic some day, seems like a cool language and usefull, already knowing english and spanish that would complete pretty much my world-cover except Asia (although India goes fine with english).
If I knew arabic I would know what people say in the subway here in sweden since a lot of people speak arabic.

You are right there!.....Hmmm I then have a really good picture of your whereabouts then! (becuse I´ve encountered the same thing....not where I´m living though....)

Oh.. so you say...

I've lived in the "big city" for some years, although now I live in Uppsala. However you can find arabic-speaking people pretty much everywere in Stockholm.. Especially the younger generations.

Ahh Uppsala......nice town.....I studied in Lund though, but my daughter will probably study in Uppsala......I´m off to Stockholm next week though on a holiday sort of....looking so much forward to it, since this week has been very onerous...have been taking care of a binch of russians the whole week, day and evenings....a lot of english it´s been and also some tries in russian ..phew!