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| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6003 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 1737 of 3737 09 June 2011 at 7:17am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When, walking out of a movie theater, a woman working there starts speaking to you in Russian, from which you manage to gather that your dad told her to talk to you.
Now she's your Russian tutor. And the fact that she probably doesn't really know how to teach a language only makes it more interesting of a puzzle for you. As a final touch, she says her last name's very strange. In fact, it begins with the consonant cluster "mkrt." "I'm Armenian." Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Edited by kottoler.ello on 09 June 2011 at 7:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 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 1738 of 3737 09 June 2011 at 9:11am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Probably not. My first thought was that such consonant clusters are more typical of Georgian and other Caucasian languages than of Armenian. The initial m- in particular is very common in Kartuli. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6003 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 1739 of 3737 09 June 2011 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Haha, no, I was just thinking of learning some Armenian from her as well. When she told me her last name it did sound kind of Georgian to me, but I'm no expert on Caucasian languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 1740 of 3737 09 June 2011 at 9:51pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I suppose that it's also very nerdy to have downloaded both of them to watch whenever I want. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1741 of 3737 09 June 2011 at 10:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
That is extremely nerdy, but the best and nerdiest thing ever would be to get us all together, the HTLAL Language Nerds, into one room and sing our own version, "We Are the Nerds" or something like that. Yeah, it's impossible, but just think how much fun it would be for us, and how confusing for the rest of the world. We could sway back and forth, too, just like the linguist singers, and have a solo in every language we study! EDIT: oh, yes, I'll make the name tags! Autotagger not invited! Edited by meramarina on 09 June 2011 at 10:21pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5553 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 1742 of 3737 09 June 2011 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Armenian has one of the neatest alphabets in the universe. I say go for it! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5050 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 1743 of 3737 10 June 2011 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Hahaha, that would just be awsome!! I would pay a pretty penny to see this... ya just one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5766 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1744 of 3737 15 June 2011 at 10:20am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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...when you're packing your suitcase to go to Wales for a family reunion and you just
can't bring yourself to leave your French dictionary behind. A week of no French vocabulary learning just messes with your plans too much. Jack 1 person has voted this message useful |
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