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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5923 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 881 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 9:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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When a "languages duel" similar to the one shown in this video seems like a perfect first date.
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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 882 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 9:54am | IP Logged | |||||
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| janalisa Triglot Senior Member France janafadness.com/blog Joined 6889 days ago 284 posts - 466 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese Studies: Russian, Norwegian | Message 883 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 10:16am | IP Logged | |||||
That's awesome!! (Their accents are pretty bad though... haha). If anyone does this with me on a first date, I'm in love. =O 3 persons have 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 884 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 12:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
Go Indy! The scary thing is that the first date with my current girlfriend actually did involve 3 languages...and I could cheekily even count up to 4...because it was in an Italian restaurant where I naturally tried out a few phrases whilst ordering for fun. ;) Edited by Teango on 26 July 2010 at 12:45pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 885 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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That 'language duel' looks fun. Their accents are pretty bad though, especially for the Swedish and Greek. I couldn't even tell that they were speaking those at first until I heard the language/country mentioned ("pratar Svenska"; "στην Ελλάδα"). The German and Italian weren't great either, but at least they were understandable on first hearing. Why no Asian languages in there? ;) Edited by ellasevia on 26 July 2010 at 3:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5608 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 886 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You actually don't mind flying/travelling for 40 hours because it's a good opportunity to practise your languages, especially on the poor unsuspecting German exchange students who are trapped sitting next to you..... They did luckily seem to warm up to me by hour 18 especially when I translated Important Airline Information for them, haha. I really tried not to come across as a freak but I'm afraid my reading in Arabic may have been too much for them!
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| 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 887 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When after years of getting spam in your inbox, you're thrilled to eventually get one completely in Arabic advertising villas (yes, I checked on Google Translate)! :) Edited by Teango on 26 July 2010 at 6:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5480 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 888 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
You know you are a language nerd when you do foreign language stuff IN your English class and get in trouble for it on many different occasions. You know you are a language nerd when you are type "I'll be there" in facebook chat, and it comes out as "Iäll be there". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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