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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 65 of 177 28 June 2009 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Gecko, the living costs in your country are rising thanks to EU subsidies targeted at levelling the differences between EU states. D'oh.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 66 of 177 29 June 2009 at 12:50am | IP Logged | |||||
You mean they're not!!! I can't believe that ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 67 of 177 29 June 2009 at 1:02am | IP Logged | |||||
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In Spain (particularly) a lot of people mix up sweden and Switzerland. It's happened in Asia too and I am not sure why people mix up these countries.
The names sound similar in Spanish though. Personally I have to admit I am not 100% up to speed on a few of the new republics in Easterm Europe which I haven't visited and don't know anybody from... If I was on "Who wants to be a millionaire" right now and could win the jackpot by locating all of these countries on a blind map and listing their capitals...... then I am not sure if I'd risk it... :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6665 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 68 of 177 29 June 2009 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
The living costs in Slovakia rise because of its incredibly fast economic growth. Slovakia is one of the fastest growing economies in Europe, mainly because they undertook very bold reforms (such as a flat tax), that made the country highly attractive to investors. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Alvinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 6234 days ago 828 posts - 832 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish | Message 69 of 177 29 June 2009 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Mine, Brazil, has a fame that is related only to:
* most people think all overt he country is covered with Amazon rainforest and people live on the trees.....snakes on the street.... * Samba is the only musical style found around the country... * all of the women are prostitutes, so a bunch of perverts just land here in groups to get those hookers and some foreign women just hang around with thugs.... * there's a joke that all of Americans think that Brazil's capital is Buenos Aires.... * Only Rio de Janeiro is known all over the world Edited by Alvinho on 29 June 2009 at 10:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 70 of 177 29 June 2009 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
Alright, thanks for the correction. I was - apparently falsely - under the impression that the current economic growth was possible mainly because of EU policies (EU as a whole), like it happened with Spain and Ireland. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| pmiller Account terminated Groupie Canada Joined 5674 days ago 99 posts - 104 votes Speaks: English* | Message 71 of 177 30 June 2009 at 2:23am | IP Logged | |||||
You could call me - geography is one of my strong points (yeah, and I'm American, go figure). But I'd want half of that jackpot! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Le dacquois Diglot Groupie France Joined 5647 days ago 54 posts - 69 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, German | Message 72 of 177 30 June 2009 at 10:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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In Scotland, the 12th of August commences the annual haggis hunt. It's called the Glorius Twelfth and all over Scotland you see hairy-legged men in skirts with no underwear whacking bushes with big sticks to flush out the haggis (or is it haggii in the plural?)
They are chased barefoot and hunted down with sharpened metal objects. Usually, several mighty thrusts of a claymore are required to pierce the leathery hide of the hard-to-catch haggis and a final stab with a sgian-dubh to finish him off. At midday the boys stop for lunch and throw one or two of them into a big pan on a fire somewhere on a heathery hill. They're usually cooked in whisky. On returning from the hunt, 3 haggii are paid in due to the Laird of Auchenshoogle according to the age-old custom. The Laird has been the patron saint of the haggis hunt for many generations and the principal estates which bear the most fruit have been in his family's possession for more than 700 years. At the end of the season there is a big celebration and feast at the foot of the Mel Gibson monument near Stirling. Edited by Le dacquois on 30 June 2009 at 10:46am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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