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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 9 09 May 2014 at 3:27pm | IP Logged |
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I think I'm more or less the same person in every language I speak. But maybe you can't trust your own gut feelings about this.
Of course it is harder to be subtle in a language whose idiomatics you haven't quite mastered yet, so my writings in for instance Russian or Greek may be more straightforward and simple than those I write in for instance German or French or English. And my rudimentary spoken Scots is definitely less highbrow than my English because I learnt much of its 'sound' by watching standup in 'soft' Scots (read: Billy Connally & co.), whereas I get most of my English from documentaries by people like David Attenborough on TV. But that's just the surface, and I can't see why my gesturing or mindset should change. If I watched my own old Youtube videos again (horrible thought!) I would definitely also see exactly the same face staring at me irrespective of the language used. Ramírez-Esparza et al.: “Learn a new language and get a new soul” (Czech proverb) Me (and Mezzofanti) "Learn a new language and get a new pair of glasses" Edited by Iversen on 09 May 2014 at 3:33pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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