I really would like to see it flourish again over here. It really is a beautiful language.

Yeah, I was the one who told my boyfriend that I wanted to learn some Serbian. It's so cool to hear him speak it but I have no idea what he's saying :(

Ahaha, a classic case of "Be Careful what you wish for" right there :P

Absolutely nothing. Shes pretty wonderful.

Yeah, I know. At least I can say "Hi how are you" and "Where's the washroom" and count to ten :laughing:

I can say "Dobar Dan" and "Hvala" but that's pretty much all the Serbian/Croatian I know :P

So, "good day" and "thank you". Always good to know! I think that "Hello, how are you" is written as "zdravo, kako si". Ciao (ћао) works too, in more informal situations.

when I try to sleep he tries to pull my pants down..

:laughing:

I guess he's only got one thing on his mind, then!

yeahh until i smack him and then he stops, not to mention we both have a very high sex drive too

she constantly saying I offer no sense of "security"

The thing that drives me crazy about my girlfriend is the fact that she spends no time with me, right, and lies and tells me she's not my girlfriend! Wtfh! She touched my spermy hand that I spermed everywhere with in the shower she is my girlfriend that's Islamic law in my individually interpreted sect of Islam!

thats really childish denying relationships :usehead:

:rofl: So now I know what my boyfriend might be thinking if we are just laying in the bed, not doing anything :laughing:

Naw, not all guys are like that, a good number are though.

If I had a girlfriend, I would probably do that as a sign of affection even if I knew I wasn't getting any sex, just sayin...then again I'm ****in weird.

yeahh, she should at least give you something... besides a boner

in taipei after photoshoot - still no normal you know what cos both of us are stressed

I may have mentioned this before, but occasionally it bugs me when my boyfriend speaks in his native language, like with his parents or on the phone, and I have no idea what he's saying.

what bugs me is when .. hmmm idk anything else besides the fact that he gets really goofy on me when hes really drunk

Meh...if she's with me, that's already something.

as in more than that .. like sexual favor

I can get that from a prostitute, when I get a girlfriend I want some intimacy or some sh*t...

well yeahh or it would be an boring pointless relationship without intimacy.. ;)

Yeah, I get that! My boyfriend is Serbian, and that's what he speaks to his family and some of his friends. He's taught me some words in Serbian, and I've learned some on my own. But not enough to understand an actual conversation :laughing:

I gotta say, I understand their position. If a language isn't your native language, it's really a lot easier to switch into the other language if you need to have a quick conversation, or if it would be too difficult to try and explain it in a language everyone present would understand...

I had a gf that was fluent in german, and often when she was talking to her German friends, they'd lapse into german if they were having trouble with the conversation in english. I just stopped paying attention when they did :P

Yeah, exactly. Sometimes though, my boyfriend will have a conversation with his parents (for example) in English, but it will eventually start transforming into Serbian (he likes to call this "Serblish" lol). Everyone in his family speaks excellent English, but they usually don't use it at home. If I'm with him at his parents house, he will often offer a translation in English so I can have some idea of what they're talking about.

I like to think that although my boyfriend speaks English nearly flawlessly, his MIND is still in Serbian. Like his thought processes and such. I've never actually asked him this, so I may get an interesting answer if I do.

Do you speak any other languages? When you speak more than one language fluently, it starts getting a bit weird upstairs. They way I think of it, there are a couple of phases of "fluency":

Beginner: You're past the basics of the language, but you still have to look up words every now and then. It's not true fluency by any stretch of the imagination, but you can follow conversations, given time to translate.

Effectively Fluent: You know the language like the back of your hand, you can follow the conversations, but your head still does the automatic translation back into your native language. However, it no longer slows you down because the transition is so automatic. You start having dreams in the other language around this point :P This is interestingly enough, the point at which I think one makes the best translator - you understand everything perfectly, but because you're still doing the automatic translation you can easily translate for someone else too.

True Fluency: This is where it gets hard to explain. In my experience (with Irish), there's no longer any transition, you simply... understand, in the same way that you understand English perfectly without someone having to explain it. It's like the difference between understanding a sentence because you know all the words that form it, and understanding the sentence...because you understand the sentence. It starts getting harder to translate for others at this point, because the inherent and subtle differences between languages start to mean more and more to you, It's no longer such a simple thing to switch between them.

Curiously enough, you hit a bit of a bullseye by saying that his mind might still be working in Serbian. I went to school through Irish, but all my memories of my time in the school are in English. I would imagine that if Irish were the language I was speaking more, it would be the other way round.

I speak French. I learned it in school and through outside lessons with tutors. I would say that I'm "effectively fluent" in French, based on your description. Although, I haven't been practicing French as often as I think I should be, as there really are no opportunities to speak French in Toronto. If I was living in Montreal, it would be different, and maybe so different that English would be the language I would have to practice. The only access to French here is through TV and radio, and now the Internet through YouTube. My comprehension is really good because of that.

I actually just asked my boyfriend about this. Like you, he said that even though he learned English in school, his memories of those classes are in Serbian. But the majority of his schooling was in Serbian, so that makes sense. He told me that although his waking mind is mostly in Serbian, he often has dreams in English. Going by what you said in your post, he places himself somewhere between "effectively fluent" and "true fluency" in English. I think that makes sense based on what he told me.

He's able to teach me all kinds of words and phrases in Serbian, the most important of those being all the curse words and such :laughing:

I think that Irish is a really nice language. I have an aunt who is originally from Ireland - born and raised in Limerick, and then did a couple of years of schooling in Cork - and she says she is fairly fluent in Irish. I've only heard her speak it a few times, but I think it's just lovely :)

It's a nice language, just very difficult to practice outside Ireland! Even in Ireland it's quite difficult to find people who can speak fluenty outside of the Irish Speaking areas of the west, it's rather fallen out of fashion in recent years, because it's commercially useless... Oh well!

Back on something approaching the topic, it annoys me how quickly my gf decides she doesn't like someone. She doesn't give second chances too often, and is very disparaging of anything she sees as snobbery. Unfortunately for me, I'm quite used to snobbery, and it tends to go right over my head, so it leads to situations where I enjoy the company of people she utterly despises...

I think Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic should only be spoken by the Irish or the Scottish. I just think it'd be hilarious someone from somewhere else trying to pronounce the harsher syllables haha. I mean I'm not even sure I could pronounce them.

My gf has trouble with the "u" sound, because it's slightly but noticeably different to the Yorkshire "u" sound, so when she speaks Irish is sounds Yorkshire :D

As a matter of interest, is there a native scottish word for the language that is "Scots Gaelic"? In Ireland, Gaelic is Scottish and Irish is Gaeilge.

Oh no! I know this girl who often gives off a poor first impression (one that's like she thinks she's better than everyone else), but she is actually really nice. But my boyfriend doesn't like her, and if he sees her in the halls at school or anywhere else, he will quickly turn around or duck into a room or around the corner before she sees him. It's especially annoying if I'm with him, because he will grab my hand and quickly pull me around the corner with him!

I honestly could not tell you, being from Glasgow area you'll be lucky if you can find someone fluent in Gaelic, unfortunately it's a dying language. Majorly. I'd absolutely love to learn it tbh. **** teaching French in schools, it's irrelevant to Scottish culture. Gaelic ftw :).

we've both been driving each other crazy during our Taiwan trip

lots of tiffs

he pees with the door open.....

^^doesn't every bf/husband?

lol yeah.. or in the park at 930 at night lmao