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| MarlonX19 Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4165 days ago 40 posts - 51 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: French | Message 3001 of 3737 10 July 2013 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | ||
Hahaha I always do that even though I don't understand a thing in Arabic (only a few words actually) plus, in my family's car there is something written in several languages and I always TRY to read the sentences in a language I have never seen before, I'm always trying to figure out how those words are pronounced. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5063 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 3002 of 3737 12 July 2013 at 2:29am | IP Logged | ||
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- when you decide to dabble in a language that your friends are studying in order to make
quicker progress than them and help them with grammar (because it seems everybody that you know has a high aversion to grammar and tend to ignore it) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5207 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3003 of 3737 12 July 2013 at 11:06am | IP Logged | ||
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You are given an Amazon.co.uk gift certificate, and as much as you appreciate the gesture, you're really not sure what to buy with it and you're a bit sad that it's not redeemable on Amazon.fr or Amazon.it, on which you'd have no problem finding things to spend it on.
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| MarlonX19 Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4165 days ago 40 posts - 51 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: French | Message 3004 of 3737 13 July 2013 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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When someone pronounces a word in your native language that sounds like a word in another language and you laugh while no one else understands the reason why you're laughing. For exemple, I have a classmate whose name is Kauane but every body calls her ''Kau''. Kau is pronounced the same way as ''cow'' lol and I'm not sure about English but in Portuguese ''cow'' is also a bad word like ''bitch'' or something, so when I hear someone calling her ''cow'' I laugh. There's also a word the is pronounced like ''cock'' and so on but now these are the only one that came to my mind.
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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4651 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 3005 of 3737 13 July 2013 at 9:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, 'cow' can be seen as offensive ('you daft/ugly cow') in English, too!
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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5373 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 3006 of 3737 14 July 2013 at 5:00am | IP Logged | ||
Of course it can! A few years ago I was dabbling a little in Finnish, and when walking with my 9-year-old cousin, I found a Finnish vocabulary list in my pocket and showed it to her. Then she asked me how to say 'oak tree' in Finnish. I had no clue. I still don't. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4613 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 3007 of 3737 14 July 2013 at 9:31am | IP Logged | ||
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When you, once again, listen to a song in Portuguese you've long time forgotten,your heart skips a beat, and the next moment you end up having like a dozen of manuals in the language.
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| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4622 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 3008 of 3737 14 July 2013 at 10:55am | IP Logged | ||
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You are stopping over in a country where you don't speak the language. Yet you flick through a few TV
channels in your hotel room in order to hear it being spoken. You are genuinely surprised to find out that many people turn the volume down when watching sports broadcasts in a language they don't understand. Edited by beano on 14 July 2013 at 10:58am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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