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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5846 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 4 18 December 2012 at 10:30am | IP Logged |
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I am very impressed by the following video of top tennis player Roger Federer from Switzerland in which he demonstrates his ability of language switching between French, English and Swiss-German.
Video interview: Roger Federer does language - switching Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 18 December 2012 at 10:32am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5727 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 2 of 4 18 December 2012 at 12:36pm | IP Logged |
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I've seen it some time ago. It's really motivating. We should mention that the journalist also speaks those languages. But Roger was brought up in a bilingual environment and growing up in Switzerland French must have been compulsory, so it's no surprise he knows those three languages. Still, he'd be a great ambassador for multilingualism. Someone invite him to the conference in Budapeszt! ;)
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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4667 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 3 of 4 18 December 2012 at 2:54pm | IP Logged |
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Basel German is the least ''Swiss'' of all German dialects in Switzerland.
In fact, the Basel area is an island surrounded by dialects which differ quite markedly from the Basel dialect. Some say, the old German dialect of Strasbourg is the closest dialect to Basel German. Edited by Medulin on 18 December 2012 at 2:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4621 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 4 of 4 18 December 2012 at 3:20pm | IP Logged |
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Better than Andy Murray, who spent a couple of years in Barcelona as a teenager but cannot say anything in Spanish.
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