• Question: in your opinion what is the most interesting language you know?

    Asked by Robyn Capes-Baldrey to Sreejita, Maja, Daniel on 22 Jan 2020.
    • Photo: Maja Popovic

      Maja Popovic answered on 22 Jan 2020:


      That’s very difficult to say because each of the languages I know has something very interesting.

      For example, German has an interesting way of ordering words in a sentence so that verb is often coming at the end, like “I have maths since I was kid enjoyed”, or “I will tomorrow to your question answer”.

      Spanish has question marks and exclamation marks at the beginning of a sentence, too, like ¿What is your favourite language? ¡It is difficult to say!
      It also has two verbs for the verb “to be”, depending on whether it is always like this or only for a while.

      Serbian has seven cases for all nouns and adjectives so there are many, many endings around, for example all of these are my name “Maja, Maje, Maji, Maju, Maja, Maji, Majom”. And it has no articles at all, neither “a” nor “the”.

      English has to put everything in a sentence in the past tense, like “I thought it was a good idea”, which is not case for the other languages I know. (there it would be “I thought it is a good idea”. And it has continuous tenses, “I have been”, etc.

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