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Ex-Languages: reasons for divorce? | ||
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5219 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 41 of 75 04 March 2011 at 9:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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My first affair, like many of my generation was with that sophisticated French lady, the mere sound of her voice caused my heart to beat faster, colours seemed brighter, until she introduced me to her Latin grandmother. I was a dutiful lover to both of them, sharing my affections.
I was introduced to a distant German cousin but we really didn't get on with each other, she just couldn't set me alight like the Gallic lady. Then to my chagrin I bumped into a Japanese lady and courted her with the energy of youth but in a haphazard way. We went all the way but I had no technique. At college I dated Italian on the side before I moved in with an Arabic lady and her Russian housekeeper. I found the Semitic lady devastatingly attractive but the Slavic lady was a little coarse for my tongue. As someone once said, a little bit of rough is fine now and again. I had plenty of energy to keep them both on the boil. Once the relationship with those two had settled down I was forced into an arranged marriage with that German. I never did love her but achieved what I would call a level of friendship where we were comfortable with each other and we could do all the functional things that a couple need to do. We even had some kinky weekends with her Germanic relatives. I then took my two wives to see my Italian pen friend who I adored from afar. We dated off and on. The other two didn't mind, they are both very open minded. Things finally broke up with Arabic and Russian and I dated willy-nilly, a little French here a little Italian there though I occasionally communicate with the Arabic and Russian ladies but just as good friends now. Recently I started seeing a Spanish girl, who is cheeky, sometimes a little fussy but I can't help that she reminds me of my Italian friend. At the moment we are going at it hammer and tongs but I do keep seeing the French woman on TV and in the newspapers which tugs at my heart strings. My roving eye has caused me to examine a few others but it is mainly the shapes that I am admiring, those pointed Runes and curvaceous Devanagari. When the Spanish one and I have gone all the way I will open my little black book and give one of the others a call. In my dreams I will meet a stranger and have an intense and passionate fling. Though I am older now and my energy levels have dropped I learned so much from the others that my technique has improved a great deal and I can be persuasive enough to get to third base quickly, even if we don't go all the way every time. Edit for Spelling Edited by maydayayday on 04 March 2011 at 9:44am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Romanist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5282 days ago 261 posts - 366 votes Studies: Italian | Message 42 of 75 04 March 2011 at 11:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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Ah well, in order to be linguists we have to use our tongues in exciting and different ways. It's what we do! :-D
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| Rowena Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6579 days ago 21 posts - 26 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 43 of 75 07 March 2011 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I was never married to Italian, but studying it formally, I found myself thinking, "What is the point of this freaking language?!" University killed it for me.
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| crafedog Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5818 days ago 166 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean, Tok Pisin, French | Message 44 of 75 13 March 2011 at 6:44am | IP Logged | |||||
I have to say that everytime I read the sentence "she even adores my dog", I honestly can't stop laughing.
It's a shame but studying a language formally can really be what puts you off it. Gods forbid you have to do tests or grades or anything like that with a language. That can be a monstrous demoraliser. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| portunhol Triglot Senior Member United States thelinguistblogger.w Joined 6252 days ago 198 posts - 299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (classical) | Message 45 of 75 13 March 2011 at 7:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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My first fling was with French but my arranged marriage to Spanish complicated things and I have hardly revisited the language since 2000. I have found almost no compelling reason to come back to French but daydream about it from time to time. My studies of other Latin languages have made it so I can actually read French better now than I could at university when I was taking classes in it.
My next affair was with Italian. With no real outlet to use it, and not feeling like it was much of a challenge, I left Italian to weep with French. Chinese was an ungrateful mistress but I tried to court her only with podcasts of Chinesepod, totally insufficient. Chinese is actually a language I could see myself using and I have bought quite a few materials. I would like to go back and conqueror her when the time is right. I would actually like to go back to French and Italian some day, after Chinese and probably Afrikaans/Dutch, but I am determined not to stop with German until I am moderately fluent which will probably be another six months to a year. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ilperugino Pentaglot Groupie Portugal Joined 5174 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 46 of 75 13 March 2011 at 11:03am | IP Logged | |||||
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Some days (or weeks) went by, me and Italian are feeling born to be together, my ex russian hasn´t come by ever since, her books are lying the way we left it when breaking up. Life goes on and for me cosi va bene. Edited by ilperugino on 13 March 2011 at 11:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Metamucil Groupie United States Joined 5875 days ago 43 posts - 51 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 47 of 75 14 March 2011 at 4:03am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've never laughed so hard readig a thread here in my entire life!
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| PonyGirl Groupie United States Joined 5019 days ago 54 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 48 of 75 14 March 2011 at 6:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
Now that's just gross :D :D 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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