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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6144 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 609 of 3737 13 May 2010 at 1:03am | IP Logged | |||||
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I just remembered the following after reading about ThisIsGina's experience with talking about Russian transliteration in class.
At the beginning of the school year, we were talking about the various uses of the apostrophe in my English class, and someone attempted to say that they sometimes were used to show sounds that don't exist in English. The teacher and other students were confused, but I understood, so I explained that often in transliterations apostrophes are used to signify palatalization in Slavic languages for example (день = den'), and various glottal and ejective sounds in several languages (in Georgian for example, პ = p', ტ = t', წ = ts', ჭ = ch'). This, of course, only confused everyone further, and then the teacher said, "Why don't we just focus on English for now?" 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Rabochnok Diglot Newbie Colombia Joined 5612 days ago 37 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish, Persian | Message 610 of 3737 13 May 2010 at 1:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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When one of the reasons (but certainly not the only one) why you want Antanas Mockus to
win the presidential election in Colombia is because he's a native speaker of Lithuanian, and you like the idea of a Colombian president who can speak anything besides Spanish and English. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5483 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 611 of 3737 13 May 2010 at 1:41am | IP Logged | |||||
It's actually spelled царь. At least you weren't like me, who got up in the middle of class, and wrote the Cyrillic and its transliteration, much to the shock of my teacher and fellow classmates. Edited by ruskivyetr on 13 May 2010 at 1:42am 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5569 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 612 of 3737 13 May 2010 at 4:48am | IP Logged | |||||
...when you were ecstatic to hear Obama speaking Spanish during the 2008 presidential campaign. Supposedly he speaks a little Indonesian too. Edited by Levi on 13 May 2010 at 4:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5811 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 613 of 3737 13 May 2010 at 10:18am | IP Logged | |||||
When you see your mother watching that movie in Italian, find out that it is a British film and immediately go buy the DVD to exercise with the accent. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Temple09 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5318 days ago 12 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* | Message 614 of 3737 13 May 2010 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you find yourself staying up late past bed time in order to learn some extra vocab, and then start to feel guilty because the resulting late start the next morning will mean you will have less time to learn more vocab tomorrow!
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| ThisIsGina Groupie United Kingdom languageblogbygina.w Joined 5320 days ago 56 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, French | Message 615 of 3737 13 May 2010 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
I thought of that, but they both use the majority of the same letters, so it's not like a completely different alphabet. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ThisIsGina Groupie United Kingdom languageblogbygina.w Joined 5320 days ago 56 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, French | Message 616 of 3737 13 May 2010 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
(You're right, I always forget the ь, LOL) I actually almost did that, I'm glad I didn't! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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