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| drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4710 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 401 of 672 20 April 2012 at 5:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is Sparta? Ja ja ja.
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| drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4710 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 402 of 672 20 April 2012 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Glad we will reassume the skype sessions. I really miss you guys.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 403 of 672 20 April 2012 at 5:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Both are fine with me but 8 o'clock suits me just fine, a little bit better than 5 even :)
(I am thus in, yes...) Edited by tarvos on 20 April 2012 at 5:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4974 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 404 of 672 20 April 2012 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Fantastic, 8 o'clock it is!
I'm excited to hear/see you all again, as well! So I've been using Russian lately as a secret language somewhat, with one of my friends who is studying Russian in school. There is a girl in one of my classes, whom my friend and I have been dying to talk to for a while but have been rather nervous about it. This is because she has the appearance of a rail-thin demon, with wild hair and green eyes that flash us away when we pass by. Well, perhaps we're exaggerating that bit, but she's the most interesting part about the class (that fact there just speaks volumes about the content of the course..). Anyway, the reason I mention it is that we have invented an entire funny background story for her. We know she's from Norway, since she reads funny news stories about celebrities and UFOs and such in Norwegian on her laptop during class. I've also seen her browsing metal detectors online, with the obvious intention of buying. I guess she imagines she'll find some ancient Masonic treasury around the monuments here... Her name is Katarina and she looks sort of Slavic, so we originally attributed her to being Russian/Ukrainian, etc. Now, the pieces are falling together better, and we have a better concept in our heads. We think she is the daughter of refugees from Belarus who fled religious prosecution. Maybe she is also related to Alexander Rybak. When we refer to her, we call her Беларусь-Норвегии. If the <<Беларусь>> part is true, though, we're in trouble, since she's probably been listening to us talk to her this whole time...Then again, if she's Norwegian, she should be nice, right? I thought maybe to introduce ourselves in Norwegian? We'll see how this story of intrigue plays out... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 405 of 672 20 April 2012 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Being Norwegian I am sure she is nice :-)
In Mauritius my sister and I saw this woman we made up a story about. She was always unsmiling, always smoking and always reading, so we decided she was a French publisher. When we finally talked to her it turned out she was a Scottish school teacher who was very shy, and had bad teeth - hence the lack of smiles. But she was really friendly and nice. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4974 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 406 of 672 22 April 2012 at 10:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Как Верблюд стал некрасивым
Говорят, когда-то давно Вербдюд был самым красивым животным. У него были пышный длинный хвост и красивые могучие рога. Все звери завидовали Вербдюду. Многим из них хотелось бы заполучить такой же хвост, какой имел Верблюд, или такие рога, как у него. Верблюд знал об этом и говорил горделиво: --Таких рогов и такого хвоста, как у меня, нет ни у кого в мире! Но лучше бы он не гордился и не хвастался этим. Однажды он подошел напиться к реке и повстречал Марала. Марал сказад Вербдюду: --Я иду на праздник, одолжи мне твои рога, братец! Верблюд согласился. В тот же день встретился ему Конь и попросил: --Я иду на праздник, одолжи мне твой хвост, братец! Я верну. Верблюд опять согласился и остался ждать на берегу. Марал и Конь ускакали. В ожиданим их Верблюд целый день пил воду и глядел на дорогу. Но ни Коня, ни Марала не увидел. Марал обманул Вербдюда, ускакл в тайгу и перестал выходить в степь. Чужие рога навсегда прижились у него. Конь, который обманом взял хвост, пугливо убегает прочь, едва завидит Верблюда. А Верблюд с тех пор стал самым некрасивым и сердитым животным. Edited by Tecktight on 22 April 2012 at 10:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4974 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 407 of 672 22 April 2012 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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How the Camel Lost His Good Looks
They say that long, long ago, the Camel used to be one of the most handsome animals. He had a long fluffy tail and nice and mighty horns. All the animals in the forest and the steppe were envious of the Camel. Many of them wanted to have the kind of tail that the camel had, or the kind of horns he had. The Camel knew of this and said proudly: --"You won't find the kind of tail I have, or the horns, anywhere else in the world!" But it would have been better had he not boasted. Once, he came to the river to have a drink of water and there met a Maral. --"I'm invited to a party. Will you lend me your horns, just for a while?" asked the Maral. The Camel lent him his horns. Later on that very day the Camel met a horse. --"I'm invited to a party," said the Horse. "Will you lend me your tail?" The Camel agreed and stayed on the bank of the river. The Maral and the Horse ran off. All day long the Camel drank water and looked up the road while waiting for them. But there was no sign of either the Maral nor the Horse. The Maral had deceived the Camel and skipped over to the taiga. he stayed there forever and never went out into the open steppe. He got accustomed to the horns as if they were his. The Horse never gave back the borrowed tail and when he comes across the Camel, he gets frightened and runs away. That is how the Camel lost his good looks and sweet temper. 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 408 of 672 23 April 2012 at 12:42am | IP Logged | ||
That story had me chuckling all day :D 1 person has voted this message useful |
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