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 9 of 17 03 January 2012 at 1:23am | IP Logged |
loool Nagorny Karabach!!! thanks for the link :D
y Shakira no entiende de futbol? o eso foi antes del romanzo con Pique? :DDDDD
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Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5880 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin
| Message 10 of 17 03 January 2012 at 10:06pm | IP Logged |
I've added your name to our members list and the name of German Team to your log name. Hope you don't mind :-)
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kyknos Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5494 days ago 103 posts - 140 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 11 of 17 05 January 2012 at 12:24pm | IP Logged |
The Spanish rolled R is beyond me...
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kyknos Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5494 days ago 103 posts - 140 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 12 of 17 06 January 2012 at 2:20am | IP Logged |
Spanish: lesson 5; German: lesson 10. One of my colleagues was bothered by my constant mumbling in strange languages, so I lent him my CDs. He is now mumbling in Japanese and is looking happy.
Edited by kyknos on 06 January 2012 at 2:21am
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Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5880 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin
| Message 13 of 17 06 January 2012 at 4:38pm | IP Logged |
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I can't believe that a Czech, who speaks all those complex consonants glued together, will fear a simple and fragile "r"!! :-))
Edited by Flarioca on 06 January 2012 at 4:38pm
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kyknos Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5494 days ago 103 posts - 140 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 14 of 17 06 January 2012 at 5:44pm | IP Logged |
Flarioca wrote:
kyknos wrote:
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I can't believe that a Czech, who speaks all those complex consonants glued together, will fear a simple and fragile "r"!! :-)) |
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Well, I have no idea how to do it, I have tried many methods and it just does not work. Speaking of complex Czech consonants, we use them mainly to scare off foreigners :). It is quite common not to pronounce some of them correctly, for example the infamous "ř". I cannot pronounce it in the prescribed way, and, for example, our late president Václav Havel couldn't either. But in Spanish it seem to be an important part of the language's charm.
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Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5880 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin
| Message 15 of 17 06 January 2012 at 7:16pm | IP Logged |
Though most Portuguese speakers do not use the same sound, we have a softer version, adults usually can produce it.
However, it must be said that even our softer version is one of the last sounds a child produces and there are some few adults who are unable to do it.
How do we learn it? I don't remember, but my son is learning it by the imitation of the sound of helicopters. Later on, it will be machine guns, though I'm a peace lover ...
Edited by Flarioca on 06 January 2012 at 7:16pm
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kyknos Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5494 days ago 103 posts - 140 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 16 of 17 10 January 2012 at 2:45am | IP Logged |
:))) I will try the helicopters :)))
I am terribly busy these days. I am falling behind my schedule. Lesson 6 in Spanish, lesson 13 in German + a short relaxed lesson with a native German speaker. I share these lessons with a colleague (there were 3 lessons in December) and Pimsleur already gives me a noticeable advantage over him.
This is a great dictionary! Thanks Flarioca!
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