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| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5472 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes  Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 81 of 173 26 December 2009 at 2:51am | IP Logged | ||
Lol I think you mixed Dutch and German there! :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5472 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 82 of 173 26 December 2009 at 2:58am | IP Logged | ||
I live in Flanders on the border with Brussels and the locals here speak an awesome Flemish/French creole-like language. I can understand it almost perfectly except for some very local dialectal words. If only I can someone to whom I could speak such a mixed language to...
Guilty as charged. :X In some places people's attitudes are worse than those speaking behind people's backs such as in Wales where non-Welsh speakers often seem to think that those speaking in Welsh are talking about them... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5472 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 83 of 173 26 December 2009 at 3:10am | IP Logged | ||
Haha I used to have the same with my Hungarian in-laws, some of whom spoke French, others English: everyone could talk to each other, but not in one language! Hilarious situation! Especially on family occasions. Doesn't happen anymore since the divorce though...... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kerateo Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5649 days ago 112 posts - 180 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian | Message 84 of 173 26 December 2009 at 9:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I just come from doing a backpack tour inside my country (mexico) with some quebec friends. One time one friend and I were seated when a young girl came to do to us a survey, she told us something in Spanish, and I told my friend in french "I´ll pretend that I´m from quebec too", we did the survey in English and asked the girl for her phone number. We invited her out afterwards and asked her to bring friends. It was one of the funniest experiences in my life. They said all kind of things between them in their "secret language" (even sexual). There was a point when I was speaking with one in English when she just said in Spanish "te puedes ligar a la que quieras" (you can hook up with whoever you want). Priceless.
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| MegatronFilm Triglot Senior Member United States peligrosa.tumblr.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5941 days ago 130 posts - 275 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 85 of 173 31 January 2010 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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As a white Spanish speaker, people just assume that I can't speak Spanish. I'll listen into conversations and then
respond. The look on people's faces is so funny when I start speaking fluent Spanish to them. Its always followed with, "You speak Spanish?!". I have used Spanish as a secret language, but its so hard because so many people speak, or at least understand it. As a kid I would use Greek as a secret language because not many people speak it in this area. I have no one to speak greek with anymore :( 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| The Blaz Senior Member Canada theblazblog.blogspotRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5603 days ago 120 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Swahili, French, Sign Language, Esperanto | Message 86 of 173 04 February 2010 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I remember being in Kenya with my then-girlfriend doing some work with an NGO. We were
talking with a church minister and she wanted to tell me something private so she tried to use French, but she REALLY doesn't know french so I had nooo idea what she was saying. So much for that... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| GauchoBoaCepa Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5422 days ago 172 posts - 199 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish | Message 87 of 173 06 February 2010 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Spanish just using local slangs (jergas) would be a secret way of avoiding being understood...
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| aabram Pentaglot Senior Member Estonia Joined 5536 days ago 138 posts - 263 votes Speaks: Estonian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Mandarin, French | Message 88 of 173 05 March 2010 at 7:55am | IP Logged | ||
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When I was learning sign language at school me and my friend used it on lot of occasions.
We were pretty much only ones who were half decent at it so others would not understand a thing. The best part of it was that we were able to silently communicate over classroom. During boring classes we discussed things we'd do after school or what we'd have for dinner later on. Once we were caught during one test, we were forbidden to use it in class. Though the irony was that neither of us needed actually help from each other, we were both pretty good students, we just chatted boredom away. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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