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| Halie Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6108 days ago 80 posts - 106 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 153 of 3737 11 November 2009 at 7:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I talk to my dog in French. "Qui est charment ? C'est toi ! Qui est mingon ? C'est toi ! Qui est mon petit chien favorit ? C'est toi !"
Animals understand anything as long as your tone of voice is there. It's like that classic SNL skit with Will Ferrell, "Dissing Your Dog" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2s8x5XhCGA 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MeshGearFox Senior Member United States Joined 6693 days ago 316 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 154 of 3737 11 November 2009 at 9:17am | IP Logged | ||
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"French for the poodles"
Aren't poodles German? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5589 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 155 of 3737 12 November 2009 at 3:21am | IP Logged | ||
When you feel the need to point out that while the spelling "jujitsu" is more commonly used and understood today (thanks in part to the Gracie family's "Brazilian jujitsu",which, in reality, is neither) the original spellings for this Japanese martial art often were rendered in English as "jiu" or "jyu" jitsu. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5965 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 156 of 3737 12 November 2009 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
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If you enjoy a website like this one below, your status as a language nerd is confirmed beyond all doubt:
International Lyrics Playground Here is a fun talking-to-animals song. (in English, but there are plenty of lyrics at this site in several languages!) IF I COULD TALK TO THE ANIMALS Dr. Doolittle : The Musical (Music / Lyrics : Leslie Bricusse) If we could talk to the animals, just imagine it Chatting to a chimp in chimpanzee Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting to a cheetah What a neat achievement that would be. If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages Maybe take an animal degree. We'd study elephant and eagle, buffalo and beagle, Alligator, guinea pig, and flea. We would converse in polar bear and python, And we could curse in fluent kangaroo. If people asked us, can you speak in rhinoceros, We'd say, "Of courserous, can't you?" If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages Think of all the things we could discuss If we could walk with the animals, talk with the animals, Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals, And they could squeak and squawk and speak and talk to us. Edited by meramarina on 12 November 2009 at 3:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Olympia Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5979 days ago 195 posts - 244 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Old English, French | Message 157 of 3737 12 November 2009 at 4:20am | IP Logged | ||
So, so true... I love pop music in Spanish and Portuguese, but I'm not a fan in English. Same with love songs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rikyu-san Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5526 days ago 213 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, French | Message 158 of 3737 15 November 2009 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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... when, having already mastered 30-something languages, one night you watch the Eurovision Song Contest, and decide to learn the language used in this song because you just have to know what he is singing about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_rNEPIgc8 (Some things we just can't live without!). Edited by Rikyu-san on 16 November 2009 at 12:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 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 159 of 3737 16 November 2009 at 1:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Now that we have entered the blessed realm of music, let me just mention that I started to learn Italian as a child because I was curious about the true meaning of the Italian words in classical scores (e.g. allegro, adagio, con morbidezza, senza emozione). And by the same token I started to learn Latin because I wanted to be able to translate the Latin scientific names of past and present animals and plants (e.g. Tyrannosaurus rex, Passer montanus, Giraffa camelopardis capensis). It had nothing to to with literature (and for all practical purposes still hasn't) Edited by Iversen on 16 November 2009 at 1:36am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jessikt Triglot Groupie Austria ichestudiolangues.co Joined 5832 days ago 98 posts - 102 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: SpanishA2, Swedish | Message 160 of 3737 17 November 2009 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when you take a break from studying German to post on this forum.
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