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For adults who want to learn a second language, it can all be a bit discouraging. Kids soak up language like a sponge. There are some linguistic theories that language learning gets tougher as you get older. Then again, some of us just seem better than others at learning languages.

The first teachers in a kid's life are their parents and anybody else they can interact with. As kids start to become aware of the world around them, they begin to want to communicate.
Talking is fun and it gets you what you want!

Language ability develops along with a child's overall mental and physical development, but without the constant language input around them, they will not become competent speakers of a language.

However, we all agree, Coolpioson wouldn't feel bad if s/he shoudn't have made the guy not feel good.

I TAKE THE PISS OUT OF MY FRIEND COZ HER SOMALI IS SO BAD

BUT I DNT UNDERSTAND 20 YR OLDS AND OVERS HU CANT SPEAK THE LANGUAGE...I MEAN WHAT A BLOODY DISGRACE!

i guess i have hope...Gedo Boy couldn't speak Af-Somali till his mid 20s proficiently

Buhodle-Gurl wrote:Bax af Somali so bata.

bax af somali so baro

bata waa maxay?

He deserved it.... shame on him for not knowing

CoolPoisons wrote:I feel bad
He's 28 who grew up in Quebec and came to Canada when he was 4 years old
He was speaking to me in afsomali and I said Siju foqal Siju and I think niyada ka jabiyey
Cause he said, why the fock am i trying when people like me put him down
Now I think he has given up on learning af Somali


Do U think I was right doing that and have U ever done that shiid before?

He is lucky to have English, the language of knowledge, as his first language, not that of warlords and things gloomy at which one can never find anything enlightening to read in, as the case with the Somali language, and to have grown up in Canada, a place in the modern world were dreams come true, not a doomed third world country that lacks the most basic things in life, not mention a black hole of war and violence; else he could have had worshipped tribal gods that actually never existed in reality but only in the confines of the deluded minds, as the one that the emblem in your avatar symbolises and declares— and he could have been now singing the antiphonies for clan warlords, as you probably are.

Somali is one of the most useless languages there is. I'm surprised that you assign such a value to it as criticising someone for not learning to speak it— which is itself an act of ignorance, of course. But let me ask you something, my dear unthinking friend; let us say he could speak a fluent Somali now— what possible benifits would that hold? Learning the culturally rich Mandarin Chinese, or Great the Spanish, or beautiful the French, or influential the Russian, or unmatched the German would one thinking logically be inclined to learn than a doomed language such as Somali. With French, one could meet Michel Eyquem de Montaigne and Voltaire down to Socrates; with Chinese, endless possibilities of unparalleled refinement of things cultural, from dining in Hundred Schools of Thought in a period of Spring and Autumn, to watching the Terracotta Army march through The Great Wall with horses glide and gallop through caverns measureless to mind; and with German, you can gaze at the symphonic rhythms in the inner minds of Mozart and Beethoven. But with Somali, what could one do with it given that one had learnt it? Turn the radio on and listen to Caawke go on and on about a gloomy bloodshed of stupid people killing each other for the sake of Qabiil gods and grotesque myths that the rest of the world long gone since moved away from? Go to Somalia, grab patches of green grass from the market, and then chew it like a starving goat for endless days while listening to Ahmed Mooge sing ''Taageer Allahayoow, arintaaydan kala taal, addaa toosin karayee,'' and feeling sorry for the life put use for failure? Think outside of the sphere. Even learning the language of the Pirahã tribe would prove more of a useful endeavour than Somali.

Alphamander i see Ur point

U live only once. if U cant learn the language, then speak english. It's a world language, its not like U will feel alone. U can marry a girl who speaks english, hang with people who speak english

its not that bad

Ciyaalkiinaan meelahaan kudhashtey if u cant speak proper somali dont blame it on yourself blame your parents.

FAH1223 wrote:i guess i have hope...Gedo Boy couldn't speak Af-Somali till his mid 20s proficiently

i dont know about you but myself ive huge problem pronouncingg words.
it doesnt come out as same as should be.

i guess you always will have an accent.
my uncle`s wife`s mom is egyption and she speaks somali with heavy accent.

When I first started to learn Somali and found out, "X" replaces "H" in pronounciation, that broke my heart Since then, I only speak a 5 minute limited Conversational Somali.

af- somali ain't that hard .......geeeeeez!!!

Alphamander

Don't talk bollocks, mate. The importance of one learning his mother language cannot be overstated. It doesn't matter if you're from Ukraine or Somalia or Faroe Islands, you have to know your roots. There's no excuse for a 28 year old man to not know his mother tongue. The Indians and Pakistanis have been in UK for generations, and even most of their kids know how to speak their language.

nomadicwarlord wrote:When I first started to learn Somali and found out, "X" replaces "H" in pronounciation, that broke my heart Since then, I only speak a 5 minute limited Conversational Somali.

"X" does not replace "H". We have both H and X.

Fahan <--- H

Farax <--- X


Two different letters in our language

Just like "C" does not replace "A".. easily confused by newbies.

Adan = A

Casha = C