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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 9 of 16 21 May 2007 at 5:06pm | IP Logged |
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Great :)
does it prove that even birds pick Finnish easily? ;)))) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JokePro Groupie United States animalsites.com Joined 6403 days ago 58 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 10 of 16 21 May 2007 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
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Although Finnish is a very hard language to learn, "moi" is very easy to say. She had a much harder time with "dzien dobry." Mandarin is also considered to be a difficult language, but "ni hao" isn't hard at all.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 11 of 16 23 May 2007 at 8:12am | IP Logged |
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Does she get the tones correctly, btw? :D
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| JokePro Groupie United States animalsites.com Joined 6403 days ago 58 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 12 of 16 23 May 2007 at 10:42am | IP Logged |
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The tones are tough, but I think her "ni hao" sounds pretty good...for a bird. Of course everything she says has a strong gravelly parrot accent.
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Awesome... I'd love to have a parrot like that ;)
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| JokePro Groupie United States animalsites.com Joined 6403 days ago 58 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 14 of 16 13 June 2007 at 6:31pm | IP Logged |
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Bibi is now up to 16 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, Finnish, French, German, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili.
Parrot Speaks 16 Languages Edited by JokePro on 13 June 2007 at 6:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sumabeast Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6929 days ago 212 posts - 220 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 15 of 16 14 June 2007 at 3:59pm | IP Logged |
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This is very interesting.
Especially since parrots don't produce speech as we humans do. with them is all done with the vocal chords, I believe, they dont have lips and mouths and teeth and tongue to shape sounds as we do. so it's neat that a parrot can get tones correctly and the rich consonantal sounds of say Polish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JokePro Groupie United States animalsites.com Joined 6403 days ago 58 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 16 of 16 16 June 2007 at 11:56am | IP Logged |
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sumabeast
In parrots, the vocal organs are called a syrinx. It is a distended portion of the trachea with two thin oval membranes that vibrate to produce sounds. Parrots do have tonques, but I don't think they play as important a role as in human speech. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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