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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6016 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 33 of 58 03 May 2010 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Did I ever tell you I speak Pixie? I was taught it under a full moon in a fairy ring in the forest....
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5561 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 34 of 58 03 May 2010 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Now I've heard it all...but are you sure it wasn't Pictish you were learning? ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6016 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 35 of 58 03 May 2010 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Wow, you must be living in a fantasy land -- no-one's spoken Pictish in a thousand years! Now excuse me while I tie this old sock on a rag tree.... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5561 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 36 of 58 04 May 2010 at 2:32am | IP Logged | ||||||||
That's not what the little fellas tell me round the clootie well...I reckon you should try and get it added to your list of languages! Edited by Teango on 05 May 2010 at 3:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| original501 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5644 days ago 23 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Portuguese Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 37 of 58 05 May 2010 at 2:32am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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It would depend on the language. I know a woman who spent a few months in Vietnam and came back practically fluent. Of course, she could not read or write Vietnamese. I wonder if her knowledge of Japanese and Cantonese helped.
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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 38 of 58 05 May 2010 at 3:42am | IP Logged | ||||||||
In my opinion that would be similar to you spending some time in Brazil. You'd pick up Portuguese extremely fast because of your Spanish :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| hypersport Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 216 posts - 307 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 39 of 58 05 May 2010 at 4:23am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I know Mexicans who tell me Portugese is as hard for them as it is for me, in other words...we don't speak it. Spanish and Portugese aren't the same and aren't near as similar to one another as you'd like to believe.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 40 of 58 05 May 2010 at 11:17am | IP Logged | ||||||||
The first time I went to Portugal with a Spanish friend, I was quite confident, believing we would understand almost everything, It came as a shock to me that this was not the case. In fact, to order a regular breakfast, we had to go to the counter and point at what we wanted, and it felt like being on another planet. When I have come back later, I do however find that I understand quite a lot, and I think it is simply about exposure. If you are not mentally prepared for it, or used to it, you will not understand much, but once you get tuned in, it is farly simple. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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