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In A Previous Life, What Did You Speak?
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farrioth
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New Zealand
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese

Message 25 of 27

23 March 2008 at 5:13pm | IP Logged

Journeyer wrote:

Drachlande? What do you mean by "otherworldly" language?

Not from Earth, but from a different world. And before anyone asks, no, I'm not an alien.
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Alfonso
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Mexico
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Speaks: Biblical Hebrew, Spanish*, French, English, Tzotzil, Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Greek
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Message 26 of 27

23 March 2008 at 5:24pm | IP Logged

I don't know until what point I'm taking seriously this topic. But one thing is true:

According to my religion, I'm not supposed to believe in other lives, but when I was a child -perhaps just kidding- I used to say that I spoke Italian and lived in Italy in my former life. That's not without reason, because some of my mother's ancestors come from that country.

I always found myself attracted somehow to that country. Now I've changed, I feel more Mexican.

Edited by Alfonso on 23 March 2008 at 5:32pm
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uliuliuli
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Finland
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Speaks: German*, English, French
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Message 27 of 27

24 March 2008 at 7:05am | IP Logged

raeve wrote:

Jugding by how horrible my articulation in my native language sometimes is, I must have spoken Danish, or a slavic language in a previous life.

Hahaha, brilliant! In fact it occurred to me several times that I heard some tourists talking from a little distance and thought they were talking German, so I tried to listen. Then I'd think "Huh, but I don't understand a word? Must be some badly articulated dialect... Ohh no wait, it's Danish!" (No offense, Danes are funny people ;) )

@topic: I took that as one of my reasons for learning Finnish, too. Don't know how serious I'm about it, I'm agnostic. Maybe there's some truth in it, maybe it's just silly, anyway I find it very interesting and fun to phantasize about...
I started this related topic some time ago.

(Edit: clickable link)

Edited by uliuliuli on 24 March 2008 at 7:09am

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