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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6374 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 14 04 March 2010 at 1:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love listening to languages I don't understand.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 14 04 March 2010 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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I find languages in general fascinating, but I don't pretend to love any of them. However sometimes there are things in some language that catch my interest, and then I may start studying that aspect of the language. It happened with the verbal system of Filipino last year, but when I could see that my dictionaries were inadequate (and my one try to get something better faltered) I gave it up. And since my New Year's visit to Foyles in London I have spent quite some time revelling in the mysteries of Irish, which is my first Celtic language. I know that it is a waste of time seen from a utilitaristic perspective, but this language is weird in many ways and I enjoy getting acquainted with it. However listening to Irish is not a pleasure as long as I can't understand it. Edited by Iversen on 04 March 2010 at 3:38pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| laban Triglot Groupie Israel Joined 5824 days ago 87 posts - 96 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English, Italian Studies: Norwegian, German | Message 12 of 14 06 March 2010 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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@BartoG
"What it means to love a language, I think, is to stay with it or keep coming back to it because it takes you to a place that you don't get to go in "real" life. It's not that I don't love French, Spanish and Italian, of course, but I use them in my everyday life, so there's a utility to knowing them that is not there with Uzbek, Uyghur and Breton. If I don't come back to them, they will come back to me." ^^ I must say this is a very nice argument :) and you've opened my eyes to 3 "new" languages I was not even aware of. @theallstar This reason of yours is seriously fascinating! I can't even explain why, it just is. BTW, why did you stop with the old runic alphabet? (I study it a bit myself) @zerothinking Which languages? @Iversen I'm sorry, but I just can not conceive this concept of being interested in a language without even liking its sounds, at least, a bit. I mean, language is sound - these 2 are inseparable. BTW I find Gaelic to be a pretty nice language (sound-wise) and here a nice song from the Lord of the Dance to prove my point :) Suil A Ruin Edited by laban on 06 March 2010 at 9:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kmart Senior Member Australia Joined 6126 days ago 194 posts - 400 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 13 of 14 07 March 2010 at 10:33am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been in love with Italian since I was a teenager - all because of that amazingly sexy song by Umberto Tozzi "Ti Amo" (oh dear, I understand what he's saying now, and it's not really so sexy - "Open the door to a warrior made of toilet paper" - haha, only Italian could make THAT sound sexy!).
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| laban Triglot Groupie Israel Joined 5824 days ago 87 posts - 96 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew*, English, Italian Studies: Norwegian, German | Message 14 of 14 07 March 2010 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | ||
hahahah...yes, the Italian songs are kinda crazy like this. I actually studied Italian because I had to (I moved there for a while), I came to this country with some low expectations and was even surprised for the worst! (in many mnay senses). To tell you the truth, I think french and portuguese sounds way better then Italian, though now I already have this language in my "arsenal" and although I wouldn't have learned it if I had a better choice, I now can't just give it up. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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