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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 3409 of 3737 15 October 2014 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you want to be immortal but are scared by the thought of watching all languages change and in many cases die out.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3410 of 3737 17 October 2014 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You're happy to get up early in the morning to drive your son to Comic Con in London because you know you can spend the day reading in cafes and browsing bookshops. Foyle's, here I come!
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5206 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3411 of 3737 17 October 2014 at 2:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You're in a restaurant with some colleagues, and as soon as a song starts playing from the speakers you comment that you recognise it. Then it turns out that it's an Italian pop song.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3412 of 3737 17 October 2014 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
That happens to me all the time with Bollywood songs in Indian restaurants. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| chiara-sai Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 3707 days ago 54 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French Studies: German, Japanese | Message 3413 of 3737 17 October 2014 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
This reminds me, I’m a language nerd because I’m disgusted by Italian pop music (Italian is my native language) but I used to listen to a lot of Bollywood songs when you were studying Hindi, to the horror of my Indian metalhead friend who hated it! I’m sure if I had to learn Italian as a foreign language I’d suddenly find Italian pop music very appealing! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5206 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3414 of 3737 17 October 2014 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
It's probably better than most of the current British and American pop music, although that's really not saying much. But let's face it, I'd never listen to most of it if I weren't learning the language. I have discovered a few Italian rock bands whose music I really like and would choose to listen to, but they're the minority. My pop music knowledge mostly comes from listening to Italian radio while I'm working. Those same colleagues probably think I'm just listening to metal all the time... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4098 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 3415 of 3737 17 October 2014 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Spoken as someone who used to hate the sound of her own native language once upon a time and who proclaimed a distaste for all native media (music, books, TV, cinema)... ...doesn't that simply make one a language snob, rather than a nerd? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| chiara-sai Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 3707 days ago 54 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French Studies: German, Japanese | Message 3416 of 3737 17 October 2014 at 6:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Personally, I don’t dislike the Italian language and indeed I do listen to Italian music, so I wouldn’t call it language snobbery. It’s simply that music in a foreign language has an automatic value to me because even if I don’t like the music itself I still enjoy the language learning experience. If the music is bad, the learning is nonetheless exciting. Music in languages I’m fluent in don’t have the same advantage, but it’s nothing to do with the languages themselves, just with the fact that I have mastered them. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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