Hello! Hola! Bonjour! Hallo! Ciao! Olá! Vedui'! All of these mean the same thing: a simple, short greeting that people around the world use daily, simply, Hello (except the last one. it's in elvish and the dictionary wouldn't accept hello, so i had to go with greetings, which means the same thing)! That's what this post is about: other languages and cool things that you can do with them (for instance: impress your friends, freak your parents out, conduct secret conversations, learn them [okay, so that's not as cool as the first three, but hey, it's still cool...sometimes.])
Spanish is nice to know if you live in the western world, especially California and Brazil, but not good for secret languages or things that you want no one to know about, since a lot of people know it.
French is cool and sounds neat, but not very many people use this one.
Italian is nice and reminds me of Michelangelo .
German sounds agressive, but is nice for WWII reenactments.
I use languages other than english a lot, two to be specific and these two happen to be Tolkien Dwarvish and Elvish (my mom thinks this is really dumb because no one speaks these languages, so who really cares, right? wrong). I use these two languages for taking notes, writing letters and other cool stuff. But to get to the point: languages other than english. I don't know about any of you, but I prefer Tolkien's languages best. Elvish sounds like an angelic form of french, and dwarvish sounds really cool too. They are both fun to write in, but dwarvish is a LOT easier if you are using a pencil. And, like I stated before, almost nobody knows them, so they're good for secrecy. Check out the link above for some cool LOTR fonts.
We can also use other languages than english for Christ's purposes too. In order to be a missionary to Africa, you probably want to learn the language. Same with Brazil or Antarctica or Hawaii . Languages really help in missionary work (I mean, supposing you were a missionary and you walked into an African village and tried to tell them what you were trying to do, but they couldn't understand you, so they killed you with a spear? That would not be good). Other languages are useful in the business world too, especially if your business is in a country where the people don't speak english
Anyway, it doesn't really matter what language you choose; they are all cool. But if you want to have some really cool languages to write in, choose Elvish and Dwarvish.
Until we meet again,
HRTF
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