Valicore Hexaglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5345 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Catalan, Italian Studies: Russian, Mandarin
| Message 81 of 124 11 April 2010 at 7:22am | IP Logged |
Преподавательница (Prepodavatselnitsa) Russian for a female school teacher. It will
always stick into my head because I had to learn it as a beginner and it just seems like
an insane word to an English speaker.
I spent some time in Sardinia and their who language amuses me because of the tonality.
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brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5445 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 82 of 124 11 April 2010 at 11:27am | IP Logged |
I love saying ''Здравствуйте!'' in Russian ("Zdrastvoychyah" or ''Hello").
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Skantz Newbie UkraineRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5343 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian
| Message 83 of 124 13 April 2010 at 1:07am | IP Logged |
I can't believe the Russian word давай (davai) hasn't be listed yet. It literally means "give" but is widely used as "let's go" or "come on." It's got some kick to it somehow.
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Kyrie Senior Member United States clandestein.deviantaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5730 days ago 207 posts - 231 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese
| Message 84 of 124 13 April 2010 at 1:54am | IP Logged |
Combo-breaking the Russian. Hehe
The word "dieser" in German. I love this word.
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ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5482 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 85 of 124 13 April 2010 at 2:14am | IP Logged |
I really like the word for hello in Georgian.
GAMARJOBA!!!!
Sakartvelo (Georgia) is also one of my other favorite Georgian words :).
Edited by ruskivyetr on 13 April 2010 at 5:12am
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Valicore Hexaglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5345 days ago 10 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Catalan, Italian Studies: Russian, Mandarin
| Message 86 of 124 13 April 2010 at 3:32am | IP Logged |
Oh, the poster who mentioned давай reminded me of what that I really find funny, just
because of the tone of voice and how it is said: что-ты!/что-вы! (Chto-ty!, chto vy!),
it's like, "What the hell is wrong with you?" or "What are you saying!"
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Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5340 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German
| Message 87 of 124 14 April 2010 at 3:45am | IP Logged |
Spanish: puta
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MLSUSA94 Groupie United States linguisticventures19 Joined 5709 days ago 50 posts - 53 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French
| Message 88 of 124 21 April 2010 at 7:39pm | IP Logged |
German: Maedchen (girl), Kaninchen (bunny) [I like the suffix -chen for some reasons...]
French: Pissenlit, Parasseus (lazy, and I have a good feeling that's way off in spelling)
Afrikkans: Vark (pig, and I have no reason at all for why I like this word)
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