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| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5858 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 41 of 73 05 April 2009 at 8:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yet another person using synesthesia! Cainntear, maybe you and I are in the minority here. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| klusek Pentaglot Newbie PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5819 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, German, Russian, Swedish Studies: Italian, Macedonian | Message 42 of 73 05 April 2009 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
Same thing about me - for me it's not only the first letter that is of importance. For example "Pole" is brighter than "poll". As for the homonyms - for me colour-associations are useful while learning German homonyms - "die Leiter" is more blue than "der Leiter". It's because I connect German articles with colours just like I do with letters. "Die" is light blue, "das" is light brown and "der" is dark red. Hence the colour differences between German homonyms. Edited by klusek on 05 April 2009 at 9:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5915 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 43 of 73 05 April 2009 at 10:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thankfully people are open-minded enough here to consider and accept these things. I'm sure there are a lot of synesthetes around but when you start talking about it people tend to think you're nuts or dismiss it so you don't really go into it in too much depth. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5915 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 44 of 73 05 April 2009 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes! German articles for me are somewhat triangular, with die being a yellowy coffee colour, das being yellow and blue and der being a very rich dark red. There's something about German that lends itself well to these representations. I can't quite put my finger on it though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| RazzBearE Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6880 days ago 21 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, French, Catalan, Romanian, Italian | Message 45 of 73 06 April 2009 at 12:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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I also have synesthesia. It applies to every language I learn and all words and numbers. I see colors for letters and numbers. I also experience tastes and smells for certain words, letters, and numbers. I can't imagine not having synesthesia. It's been a part of me since I was born and no amount of trying to stop it ever works. So, I've learned to embrace it.
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5758 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 46 of 73 06 April 2009 at 12:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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My synaesthesia isn't as strong so I only perceive the colours (and some other associations, esp rhythm) when I pay attention, and for me words have an overall colour that's a mixture in wich the vowels and some consonants dominate. Sometimes there is an additionally colour ('tantus .... quantus' has a sickly shade of lilac thanks to my friends' mnemonic of a crossdresser in lilac), others have an overriding 'natural colour' like Japanese aoi (deep orange+hot red+icy blue -> pale yellow, but meaning 'blue, green of living plants') Edited by Bao on 06 April 2009 at 12:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5824 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 47 of 73 06 April 2009 at 1:10am | IP Logged | |||||
I understand completely where you're coming from. I also like to study several languages at once. For half the year I study several, then around April I focus on just one with the aim of visiting the country during the Summer. At the moment I am focusing on Mandarin as I will probably be going to China in June, on an exchange. In August I want to do a course in Polish so will then focus on Polish. Then come September I will continue to dabble in several languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5890 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 48 of 73 06 April 2009 at 1:11am | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow, there are many people here who see the letters and words in colours. For me it's not like this for the words or letters, only the music keys (the individual notes as well but not always: they're the keys have the colours, for exmaple dark red, blue or green like velvet, or pink, ice-blue.)
The keys have shapes as well, and are strong or weak, such as 'D major' is the strongest one: a brown tree. I find D major is the basis key, althouhg it must be 'C' officially. 'C # major' is jagged and silver. 'A flat' is mauve velvet (or red), and E flat is dark green. 'E major' is strong and the green/brown colours of the army's clothes. 'B flat' is empty or like a place with few things etc.... Edit: the keys' names Edited by Jar-ptitsa on 06 April 2009 at 2:03am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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