I'm With Stupid Senior Member Vietnam Joined 4175 days ago 165 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Vietnamese
| Message 9 of 21 08 July 2013 at 7:31pm | IP Logged |
Inspector Clouseau and his German phrasebook: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_Ycnqm1Cc
Joey from Friends learning French: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqwzvtjeYBQ (not their most hilarious storyline).
That's all I can think of right now.
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osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4738 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map
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In an early episode of The Simpsons, Bart becomes an extreme example of the strict input-
based method by going immediately from zero output to fluent production in French.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crepes_of_Wrath
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lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5962 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin
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日本人の知らない日本語 is a light-hearted drama about teaching Japanese to foreigners.
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
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In the film The Hulk (2008 version), Bruce Banner is learning Portuguese while living in Brazil. He is shown watching TV with a Portuguese-English dictionary in hand. Later on he makes an amusing mistake when he says to someone, "You won't like me when I'm hungry." (One of Banner's classic quotes is "You won't like me when I'm angry.")
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
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I just saw another film example:
In the film Loopers, the main character spends a lot of his spare time studying French. He has headphones in while waiting to kill someone, and he's repeating conjugations.
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Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4146 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 14 of 21 22 August 2013 at 1:18pm | IP Logged |
Since lots of people have mentioned films...
Prometheus was a terrible movie. But one of the characters is studying ancient languages so that he can talk to
aliens who created life on Earth millennia ago.
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lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5962 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin
| Message 15 of 21 22 August 2013 at 9:52pm | IP Logged |
Stelle wrote:
Prometheus was a terrible movie. But one of the characters is studying ancient languages
so that he can talk to
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Prometheus was great. A welcome break from all the tedious superhero movies that clog up
theaters these days. And the ancient language in question seemed to be some form of
reconstructed PIE.
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 16 of 21 22 August 2013 at 9:56pm | IP Logged |
lichtrausch wrote:
Stelle wrote:
Prometheus was a terrible movie. But one of the characters is studying ancient languages
so that he can talk to
aliens who created life on Earth millennia ago. |
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Prometheus was great. A welcome break from all the tedious superhero movies that clog up
theaters these days. And the ancient language in question seemed to be some form of
reconstructed PIE. |
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PAH! Everyone knows aliens speak ancient Egyptian.
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