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| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 3513 of 3737 08 February 2015 at 11:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
I had that happen to me a while back. I was trying to get the washer replaced, and the company in charge had this name, Azuma, which looked totally Japanese to me. And no, the company wasn't Japanese. So I pronounced it the Japanese way even the the pronunciation was more along the lines of "Azoooma." Unfortunately for me, the rep noticed. It was an awkward moment, lol. Edited by Woodsei on 08 February 2015 at 11:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 3514 of 3737 08 February 2015 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you start to automatically read words pronounced differently in your native language
the same way as you would pronounce them in your target language, because to you, it seems more logical that way. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3905 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 3515 of 3737 12 February 2015 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you've been spending more time on French than on German (your first) and you feel guilty, almost as if you're cheating...
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 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 3516 of 3737 13 February 2015 at 10:40am | IP Logged | |||||
I mostly come over the word "albeit" when I have written it myself. 7 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 3517 of 3737 13 February 2015 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
And what would be the Japanese pronunciation? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 3518 of 3737 14 February 2015 at 2:47am | IP Logged | |||||
Type あずま up in Google Translate, and click on the speaker button. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 3519 of 3737 07 March 2015 at 4:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you give detailed advice for a programme you've never used.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3520 of 3737 16 March 2015 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you overhear a (very loud) conversation in a train and feel compelled to explain the
people what is wrong with their language learning methods and give them a list of sources that might solve at least half the troubles they've been complaining about for twenty minutes (and disturbing me from reading in Spanish). 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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