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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5261 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 1 of 4 02 April 2013 at 2:05pm | IP Logged |
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This came in on my twitter feed today-El Italiano se habla con las manos the article is in Spanish but there are 14 photos with explanations in Italian and English from this book: Speak Italian: The Fine Art of the Gesture.
In our quest to learn a language, acquire vocabulary, master verb conjugations, get gender agreement right, use prepositions properly, body language tends to be forgotten. It's just as important as a good accent and ease of speaking. Are there any other books or videos out there for body language in other languages. What are some other languages that have hand gestures as an important component? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5206 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 4 02 April 2013 at 2:56pm | IP Logged |
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Assimil have a book about Italian hand gestures, L'italien avec les mains. I've never looked at it so I don't know if it's any good, but I'm curious...
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Yeah, it seems like only Italian has this sort of resources, lol.
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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4771 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 4 of 4 03 April 2013 at 6:31am | IP Logged |
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One of my presents for my birthday before the last one was a pocket-sized book called "Жесты и мимика в общении японцев" ("Gestures and facial expressions in the communication of the Japanese"). Unlike certain other ethnicities, one usually doesn't imagine the Japanese gesticulating profusely while talking, but they do have a wide variety of gestures. Some of them accompany certain things one says or does as part of the etiquette (the proper ways of bowing, handing things to another person, showing someone the way, etc.), while others may replace words that may be too awkward to say (e.g. if you say "It's one of those companies" while sliding your index finger diagonally across your cheek it means that the company you're talking about has ties to the Yakuza). Yet another category of gestures is used to express various emotions, often in an exaggerated way. Even some of the most ordinary gestures are quite different from their equivalents in other countries (e.g. in most Western countries the "come here" gesture is done with the palm facing upwards; the Japanese gesture is done by waving all the fingers with the palm facing downwards, which I initially interpreted as the exact opposite gesture).
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