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pbromide Bilingual Triglot Groupie United States Joined 4548 days ago 76 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Swedish
| Message 9 of 11 02 February 2013 at 9:52am | IP Logged |
In Swedish, someone who has a talent for languages is said to have "the language" ear,
språkörat.
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 10 of 11 02 February 2013 at 1:25pm | IP Logged |
I've only heard it being used in its indefinite form, "språköra" ("language ear", no "the").
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| Jennanen Triglot Newbie United States finnishtoenglish.wor Joined 4305 days ago 4 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, FinnishC1, Spanish Studies: Swedish
| Message 11 of 11 13 February 2013 at 2:28am | IP Logged |
pbromide wrote:
In Swedish, someone who has a talent for languages is said to have "the language" ear,
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This is a lot like the best Finnish equivalent I could think of which is "kielipää" or literally "language head".
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