Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5645 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French
| Message 9 of 124 11 December 2009 at 8:39pm | IP Logged |
Dutch: goochelaar (magician)
hombre gordo wrote:
Back in the old country
(know that I am living abroad, I used this immigrantesque expression when talking to my parents by phone)
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lol I say 'the land of my forefathers' :D
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MegatronFilm Triglot Senior Member United States peligrosa.tumblr.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5942 days ago 130 posts - 275 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 11 of 124 11 December 2009 at 10:41pm | IP Logged |
ANDIAMO!- This is my catch phrase with my friends. Italian for let's go
SPRIGATI!- Italian for hurry. I say this a lot, too. Sometimes I'll say Ragazzi, Sprigati!
Italian is a fun language to shout in.
I love the word Ojala in Spanish because of its arabic sound.
J'espere in french sounds very sexy to me. Then again, the whole language is sexy.
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joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5474 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German
| Message 12 of 124 11 December 2009 at 10:51pm | IP Logged |
You know what that sounds like to me? Balls-naked:
cojonas: balls
nudo: well, nude
I like it!
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7160 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 13 of 124 11 December 2009 at 11:08pm | IP Logged |
I always feel great saying the equivalent of "cheers" in whichever language I need. I especially like how it sounds when speaking Hungarian or Polish.
Egészségedre! / Egészségére! / Egészségetekre! / Egészségünkre! / Egészségükre! (Hungarian - in all of its forms depending on formality and/or number of people present)
Na zdrowie! (Polish)
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Aquedita Triglot Senior Member Poland myspace.com/aqueda_v Joined 6018 days ago 154 posts - 164 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin
| Message 14 of 124 12 December 2009 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
I guess my favorites in English category would have to be: "atrocity" and directly delivered from that one "atrocious".
I'd have to think about my picks in other languages.
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5571 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 15 of 124 12 December 2009 at 1:05am | IP Logged |
I like to use the German interjection "Gott im Himmel!" ...even though I'm an atheist. :)
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Sprachjunge Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 7169 days ago 368 posts - 548 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Spanish, Russian
| Message 16 of 124 12 December 2009 at 3:14am | IP Logged |
Precisely, Levi! I pepper my speech with "Gott sei Dank" when I'm not in the least bit religious. I have no idea where it comes from.
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