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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 25 of 44 09 July 2012 at 9:40am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Maybe the university had a teacher in Swedish who also knew Icelandic? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4989 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 26 of 44 09 July 2012 at 10:49am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Thank you both for this lovely video! It was fun watching it!
Cristina, I would have loved to choose Norwegian, but as there was no course available at university, I took Swedish. I wish I could have such a lovely garden too! :-))) Edited by Mae on 09 July 2012 at 10:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5217 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 27 of 44 10 July 2012 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Weird that I was thinking on the plane back to ask for video/sound samples of people speaking their TL.
@Christina; great accent - my friend says you are definitely Scottish. He is Scottish so should know! Edited by maydayayday on 10 July 2012 at 7:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Torbyrne Super Polyglot Senior Member Macedonia SpeakingFluently.com Joined 6093 days ago 126 posts - 721 votes Speaks: French, English*, German, Spanish, Dutch, Macedonian, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Czech, Catalan, Welsh, Serbo-Croatian Studies: Sign Language, Toki Pona, Albanian, Polish, Bulgarian, TurkishA1, Esperanto, Romanian, Danish, Mandarin, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Greek, Latvian, Estonian | Message 28 of 44 10 July 2012 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I am very lucky to be able to tavel and meet other learners around the world. I love using my languages with other people. The main reason for learning them is to communicate, so it naturally follows I guess. Meeting other like-minded people, such as Cristina, Fasulye, Luca, Splog, Tim and others in person is a wonderful experience and I hope to continue meeting other people in the community too.
I had always had a thing for Icelandic as a kid and wanted to study it formally. No real reason behind that, it just sounded cool! :D Yes, I was a teenage language geek once too! :D At The University of Hull (where I did my Combined Languages degree), there was an option to study Old Icelandic for a year. However, the rub was that it was not a stand alone language. So...I had to join the Scandinavian studies department and take Swedish as my major Scandinavian language to be allowed to study Old Icelandic as an option in that department. I ended up enjoying Swedish too! :) Otherwise there was no reason for me to study Swedish before, or at the same time as, Icelandic. ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 29 of 44 11 July 2012 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Lovely location, and nice "actors": a recipe for a great movie, and all the better for
being informal. :-) Interesting points about the difficulty (or lack of) for foreigners of Norwegian dialects. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 30 of 44 11 July 2012 at 11:07pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I don't think dialects are problematic in any of the Germanic languages anyway. I mean,
say you're learning German, and you get exposed to Bavarian or Saxon, or god forbid, Swiss German or something. They're also harder to understand, but because you're a foreigner, people tone their accent and slang use down slightly so it's easier to follow for people. I'll give you a personal example because in Dutch, there are literally tons of dialects (like in all the Germanic languages) and I've firsthand experience with some of them. My grandparents on my mother's side grew up speaking a pure Brabantian dialect. Now, I was not born there (my parents moved away from the south and to the west) and thus I don't really retain a Brabantian accent. My speech is fairly light for a westerner, though. However my grandparents could really only speak dialect (not even standard Dutch, let alone English or another foreign language), although when I was around, because I wasn't used to using the dialect, they tried to tone it down the best they could (which is to say, not a lot). However, I've never had real trouble understanding what my grandfather told me, even though his accent was very strong, very local, and I did recognise the strangeness to his speech compared to my mother's or my father's (who both do not have strong dialectal accents; theirs are much lighter, though you can easily tell they are not from the west). But here comes the kicker: I only got exposed to this dialect because my grandparents lived in a tiny village in the countryside that I would only ever hear because I was related to them. You literally have to go into the countryside, far away from the big cities, to find someone who speaks that dialect so strongly that you cannot understand them; if they are from the big cities they will always tone it down to the extent that any "non-local" (and this includes Dutch people living 50 km away whose accent can be markedly different!) will understand what they're saying. Plus the fact that Dutch is becoming more homogeneous, these really strong dialects are found in the far countryside and you have to really look out for them. Most of the time, they only use these dialects among themselves and you'd have to live in the area for an extended period of time to pick it up. Otherwise, all you'll hear is standard Dutch spoken with the local pronunciation. And of those, Dutch has very many. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 31 of 44 12 July 2012 at 3:51pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I really enjoyed your video, you two! Cristina, don't hesitate to make more!
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| 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 32 of 44 22 July 2012 at 11:31pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm tremendously late in posting my praise, but I thought I'd add it in anyway. Thanks for this marvelous video,
Richard and Cristina! It's so nice seeing members of our forum get together, and it looked like you two had a lot of fun! Moreover, the conversation was quite interesting. Maybe it's because I'm so used to hearing Cristina's voice over Skype, so I wasn't quite so startled by her essentially pristine English. Also, that garden is beautiful! Well done on grooming that! I do hope the rest of the videos will be posted soon! This is going to sound rather odd, but whenever I see videos of our forum members, and especially the more well-known polyglots among us, getting together, I'm reminded of those weekend night cartoon specials I used to watch as a kid wherein characters across shows would get pulled together for some epic crossover extravaganza. I thought those mash-ups were the coolest thing in the world, and I'd have my eyes glued to the TV for the whole while. I love seeing my favorite characters pop up in places outside of their usual territory. This video invokes a similar feeling. Suddenly, the members we knew previously as just lines of text, or perhaps avatars, are before us in pixelated flesh! It's almost surreal, then, to see them in a video, moving about and talking as if they really existed somewhere in the world. The best part is, of course, that they do. Edited by Tecktight on 22 July 2012 at 11:35pm 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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