tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4036 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 17 of 27 28 January 2015 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
Apparently in Iran they also drink arak -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arak_%28drink%29
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shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4433 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French
| Message 18 of 27 29 January 2015 at 4:27am | IP Logged |
Japanese may be the next progression since they use a number of Kanji (Chinese characters). Once you
mastered a few Chinese characters, it is mostly the pronunciation that changes but the meaning is often the
same or similar.
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4036 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 19 of 27 18 February 2015 at 12:36pm | IP Logged |
what did you decide?
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4696 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 20 of 27 18 February 2015 at 2:04pm | IP Logged |
I didn't decide anything, it was a parody thread...
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4036 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 21 of 27 19 February 2015 at 1:59pm | IP Logged |
Too bad :P
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Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4628 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian
| Message 22 of 27 19 February 2015 at 2:07pm | IP Logged |
tarvos wrote:
I didn't decide anything, it was a parody thread... |
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What drink inspired you?
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tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4696 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish
| Message 23 of 27 19 February 2015 at 2:26pm | IP Logged |
Vodka... I have my Finnish guide with me :P
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Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5945 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 24 of 27 19 February 2015 at 4:13pm | IP Logged |
tarvos wrote:
- Finnish. I would like to speak Finnish in order to drink Finlandia wodka. Also there
are lakes in Finland and that is cool.
- Georgian: to drink their wine and avoid toasting with beer.
- Armenian: to drink their wine.
- Czech: to drink their beer.
- Serbian: to drink their raki.
- Polish: to drink their crappy beer.
- Swahili: to drink some unknown alcoholic solution in order to avoid getting food
poisoning from the water.
- Mongolian: to drink whatever they drink in Mongolia.
- Persian: to avoid drinking.
- Lebanese Arabic: to indulge in drinking anyway.
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To this list, putting aside parody and in the best interests of safeguarding oneself,
may I suggest the following addition:
- Icelandic: to avoid accidentally drinking the "national drink" ("When it comes to
liquor, "BrennivĂn"is a national drink, a nasty schnapps made from potatoes and
flavoured with caraway. It is also called "Black Death", which explains a lot." -
from http://www.isholf.is/gullis/jo/beverages.htm
Edited by Spanky on 19 February 2015 at 4:14pm
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