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MäcØSŸ
Diglot
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United Kingdom
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Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2
Studies: German

 
 Message 57 of 124
02 March 2010 at 7:40am | IP Logged 
I feel awesome to say.... AWESOME! Another English word I really like is “(un)fortunate”.
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irrationale
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China
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Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog
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 Message 58 of 124
02 March 2010 at 7:53am | IP Logged 
"Sin embargo" (Spanish, never-the-less)

It sounds really intelligent to my ears for some reason, very important things will come after this conjunction.


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vusalgustav
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Azerbaijan
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 Message 59 of 124
02 March 2010 at 8:06am | IP Logged 
zmrzlina - ice cream in Czech language
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Diglot
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Canada
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Studies: Spanish

 
 Message 60 of 124
07 March 2010 at 10:15pm | IP Logged 
Sprachprofi wrote:
German: Tohuvabohu (chaos), zerfleddert (what happens to a notebook if you use it a lot and take bad care of it)

Esperanto: tohuvabohuo (chaos), homarano (member of mankind)
...


The French word ' Tohubohu' sounds similar and means the same thing. There are words like that who are amazing just by the fact they are very similar in many not-so-related languages!
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Sayumi
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Japan
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 Message 61 of 124
07 March 2010 at 10:25pm | IP Logged 
虎穴に入らずんば虎児を得ず - Nothing ventured, nothing gained, in Japanese.
It's interesting, because I hate "Quem não arrisca não petisca", which means the exact same thing, only in (European only?) Portuguese.

Edited by Sayumi on 07 March 2010 at 10:28pm

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Paskwc
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Canada
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 Message 62 of 124
07 March 2010 at 11:19pm | IP Logged 
English: unequivocal, immutable, ice, and spice.

French: meridien

Edited by Paskwc on 07 March 2010 at 11:21pm

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QiuJP
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Singapore
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 Message 63 of 124
08 March 2010 at 5:00am | IP Logged 
Russian : достопримечательность - "sights" (especially when speaking fast and remembering where the stress accent is!)


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QiuJP
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 Message 64 of 124
08 March 2010 at 9:17am | IP Logged 
For many Asian this Russian word may be difficult to pronounce and awesome to say:

встречаться : to meet

Many people cannot pronounce the group of cluster, since most(non- Indian) Asian languages are vowel dominated (ie must pronounce a vowel between consonants)


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