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| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5897 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes  Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 25 of 57 31 March 2009 at 1:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Can you "speak" sign language??? How must you call it, not "speak' I suppose? Since some months or years I want to learn it, but I havne't had the opportunity. I know that there exist many different ones, like the many different spoken ones, but maybe fewer. I want to meet some people who are deaf. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| betaquarx Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 5718 days ago 70 posts - 90 votes Speaks: German*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 26 of 57 31 March 2009 at 1:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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I can only say (maybe "express" fits better here) some things in sign language:
"Hello, my name is ****" "I am hearing" (as in "not deaf") "How are you?" "I love you" (used very often as a sign of sympathy amongst deaf people) And so on, I can do some more, but all very basic stuff. I can finger spell too, of course. And read finger spelling if not done extremely speedy. I used to live in Essen, which happens to be a center of deaf culture in north rhine-westphalia. So i often saw deaf people communicating. It's such a beautiful language. --- What I dreamt: I met a deaf girl and I signed to her "I speak sign language". She then rapidly signed stuff I could barely keep up reading. Then I signed "Sorry, please slow down". And she replied "Do you want to sleep with me?". And i was like O_O It most certainly was one of the weirdest dreams that I had, and this after only two weeks of studying sign language :-P 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5897 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 27 of 57 03 April 2009 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
yes, I find it beautiful as well. I didn't know that there are centers of deaf culture.
wow!!! hahaha!! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ninja Bunny Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5791 days ago 42 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Danish, Mandarin, Afrikaans, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French | Message 28 of 57 21 April 2009 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow, very cool, and haha!
It appears you're really absorbing the sign language you've learned, good for you. (Trust me, if you can sign you'll be able to pick up chicks. Heh.) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6185 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 29 of 57 22 April 2009 at 1:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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I had a dream a few weeks ago in Korean. I didn't understand much of what was being said, if that even makes sense, but luckily I had subtitles to help me out.
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| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5745 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 30 of 57 23 April 2009 at 4:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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I had a dream in a bit of French a few weeks ago. These people were talking to me about my hands and how I
would lose them. They told me that if I didn't do something then my hands would be taken away from me so I couldn't use them. There was more, but I can't remember. The only reason I remember this fragment was because I was so excited. It is probably because I was doing my French before sleeping. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6774 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 31 of 57 01 May 2009 at 12:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't have dreams often - at least I never seem to remember them. And when I do remember something, it is usually silent dreams. They tend to be visual and action based. Very little communication takes place, and when it does, I don't think I communicate in actual languages - it is more like telepathic signals that bypass speech, or so it seems afterwards, as I never seem to be aware of the language I used in a dream. Edited by Russianbear on 01 May 2009 at 12:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Louis Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5729 days ago 92 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish | Message 32 of 57 03 May 2009 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, it was a Sunday night and I would be taking a Spanish Destinos test the next day. I decided to watch an episode I didn't fully understand before I went to bed. After the episode ended, I basically collapsed on the living room couch and got some much-needed rest, but I still remember the dream I had! Basically, I was re-living the episode I just watched but instead, I watched everything occur from a third-person perspective. I watched the events occur as a bystander and, better yet, everything was in Spanish! I guess it's somewhat cheating because the dialogue was not at a native-speaker's speed, but I still understood everything! Needless to say, I did very well on the test.
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