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| Zgarbas Triglot Newbie Romania goblinjapanese.wordp Joined 4712 days ago 12 posts - 15 votes Speaks: Romanian*, EnglishC2, Japanese Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 2081 of 3737 04 January 2012 at 4:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you get dragged to a cult-like ceremony which involved weird faux-tibetan prayers but it's cool since you get a parallel text which is repetitive enough to be able to learn the basics of Tibetan from.
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| yawn Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5427 days ago 141 posts - 209 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 2082 of 3737 04 January 2012 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you watched Toy Story 3 and completely understood Spanish Buzz. :D
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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5259 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 2083 of 3737 05 January 2012 at 1:29am | IP Logged | ||
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When you decide what music to listen to based on what language it's in. Or more
specifically, what family of languages. So if you've just listened to Arabic music, you can't listen to German music. But if you were listening to Swedish music then German is ok. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2084 of 3737 05 January 2012 at 1:37am | IP Logged | ||
Somewhat related: I mostly watch football (soccer) online and I choose the stream depending on the language. Well not only, but it's more important than the quality. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5259 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 2085 of 3737 05 January 2012 at 3:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Um, because I'm a language nerd of course! To me the language is like a genre. If you are listening to
quiet, calm music, you might not want to suddenly switch to hard rock. For me, switching to music in a completely unrelated language feels just like that. I can't stand it...Especially since I hardly even listen to music in my native language, so this happens to me a lot. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5051 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 2086 of 3737 05 January 2012 at 6:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I understand that, but then again I primarily listen to German music and whenever I turn on the radio here, I am reminded why that is the case :/ Todays top 40 is just plain annoying...
When you and your friend identify specific "personalities" to each of the cases in German... for example, since Genitiv is mainly for posessives, it has been named the "demon" case, so whenever we are at a restrauant and children are misbehaving, which is obviously a common occurance, we label the child Genitiv... ya I know I am wierd, btw the Nominitiv is the "nom nom" case, the akkusitiv is the, don't know if I can say this here, "the B word" case, I'll just go with that and the dativ is the "slut" case... don't ask, I am sure I lost my marbles a while ago xD Can't believe I just admited that to everyone.... Edited by LebensForm on 05 January 2012 at 6:09am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2087 of 3737 05 January 2012 at 6:45am | IP Logged | ||
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aw but that's amazing! I'll remember this during boring classes!!! XD
makes perfect sense too! @Zecchino, interesting. i do switch between calm and heavy music hehe. and i specifically try to switch between languages a lot, just to be used to switching. right now the dictionaries i have within reach are Portuguese-English, Indonesian-Russian, Spanish-Italian and Finnish-German. no repeats, lol. Edited by Serpent on 05 January 2012 at 6:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 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 2088 of 3737 05 January 2012 at 10:44am | IP Logged | ||
You should learn Finnish: it has a "go away" case and a "come now" case. And for getting things done maybe adopt the Russian "Instrumental" case. Edited by Iversen on 05 January 2012 at 10:45am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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