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| karaipyhare Tetraglot Groupie Paraguay Joined 5584 days ago 74 posts - 150 votes  Speaks: Portuguese, Spanish*, English, Guarani Studies: German, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 849 of 3737 19 July 2010 at 4:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
Guilty! Only yesterday, I was in a friend's house with all his family having dinner. There was a baby around and everybody was laughing and mentioning her because she learned to make the "Bronx cheer" sound, and you know.. babies... whatever they do seem funny to adults. So I thought it would be very enlightening and interesting for everybody to learn a bit and I couldn't resist sharing my knowledge and so I said: you know that that sound is very similar to the voiceless dental bilabially trilled affricate, that is: bbllrrr! (me reproducing the sound), there's a tribe in the Amazon, the Piraha, that actually uses it as part of they phoneme inventory. It was only discovered in 2004 because the natives didn't utter that sound in front of the white researchers fearing they would sound awkward and be laughed at. Besides them, there is only a handful of laguages that use that sound. They all stared at me like, is that a joke or was it supposed to be cool? Well, I think not everyone possesses the virtue of appreciating the diversity of human languages... 12 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kary Groupie Canada Joined 6148 days ago 85 posts - 113 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish, German | Message 850 of 3737 19 July 2010 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When a trip to the grocery store sends you into a (minor) panic because the translated terms on the labels don't match the terms on your flashcards.
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6141 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 851 of 3737 19 July 2010 at 8:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
I also did exactly this last Thursday, despite being exhausted by a 36-hour trip! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Thaorius Diglot Groupie ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 40 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2 | Message 852 of 3737 19 July 2010 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
As a matter of fact it was. And I wasn't aware of that; would you happen to know some good stores? :) 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 5555 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 853 of 3737 20 July 2010 at 4:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
What an amazing sound, and here's what it actually sounds like (source: UCLA Phonetics Lab Library). 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| karaipyhare Tetraglot Groupie Paraguay Joined 5584 days ago 74 posts - 150 votes Speaks: Portuguese, Spanish*, English, Guarani Studies: German, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 854 of 3737 20 July 2010 at 4:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When realizing one of your posts in this thread got 7 votes really makes your day!
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| B-Tina Tetraglot Senior Member Germany dragonsallaroun Joined 5526 days ago 123 posts - 218 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Polish | Message 855 of 3737 20 July 2010 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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... when people start asking you in buses in slowly, well accentuated German if you "make progress" while you are flipping through your flashcards - thinking you are a foreigner just because you bought the flashcards in the country of your target language.
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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5326 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 856 of 3737 20 July 2010 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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