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translator2
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 Message 1 of 9
23 April 2012 at 2:18pm | IP Logged 
Why it pays to speak a foreign language - Car commercial with surprise twist ending:

Couple speaking Chinese

Edited by translator2 on 23 April 2012 at 2:19pm

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translator2
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25 April 2012 at 8:51pm | IP Logged 
Be Tough - Study a Foreign Language

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alang
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25 April 2012 at 9:05pm | IP Logged 
I really like the Berlitz commercials.

Poker
Laundromat
Transsexual
Wheelchair
Toupee
Silicon

Edited by alang on 25 April 2012 at 9:07pm

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Heather McNamar
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25 April 2012 at 9:18pm | IP Logged 
I've seen the Honda commercial with the Chinese speakers and it makes me laugh every time. Anyone know what dialect they're speaking?
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dandt
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26 April 2012 at 1:22am | IP Logged 
I hadn't seen that ad before, but we had a similar real life experience when in europe. My dad's first language
was Italian and while it is relatively rusty and he struggles as he never uses it, we had been in europe for
almost 2 weeks at the time and he had gotten a heap of practice in. I was really disappointed though, because
he'd first try to speak English with people. At a post office in Rome the lady seemed all polite, but as she
walked away she said something to someone else working there in Italian. Dad's there listening, trying not to
laugh. She had said something about stupid tourists. When she came back dad continued to try and post our
stuff, but this time used Italian. The look on the lady's face was priceless! Apparently similar things had
happened throughout the trip, and dad was just loving it!
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Wulfgar
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26 April 2012 at 5:30am | IP Logged 
Heather McNamar wrote:
I've seen the Honda commercial with the Chinese speakers and it makes me laugh
every time. Anyone know what dialect they're speaking?

Sounds like standard northern Mandarin to me. I don't think anyone considers it to be a dialect, but I suppose it's
just semantics.
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onurdolar
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26 April 2012 at 9:11pm | IP Logged 
How about this one? Since English is foreign to some of us!

www. youtube. com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY

Edited by onurdolar on 26 April 2012 at 9:12pm

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Spanky
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27 April 2012 at 5:21am | IP Logged 
Or this, illustrating that not the entire world speaks English (oder Deutsch).

Do you speak English


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