mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5762 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 1 of 17 09 February 2011 at 12:55am | IP Logged |
I just watched a programme about cheese in Italian with English subtitles.
What's the weirdest thing you've done in the name of advancing your language learning?
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Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5071 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
| Message 2 of 17 09 February 2011 at 1:10am | IP Logged |
I watched "Shallow Hal" in Spanish...
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hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5191 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 3 of 17 09 February 2011 at 5:44am | IP Logged |
I once watched a program about rice in Japanese. It didn't even have subs so I have no idea what they were saying.
Playing children's games in another language is a pretty surreal experience. It can be fun for a while though.
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Sanghee Groupie United States Joined 5073 days ago 60 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Korean
| Message 4 of 17 09 February 2011 at 7:05am | IP Logged |
I put a Korean little kid's game on my iphone. It consists of feeding a monster an item depending on what the audio says. It was kind of amusing and I learned a few words from it. My mom also enjoyed it, and I was a little proud that I was able to tell her what the audio said without looking at the screen. :D
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jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6299 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin
| Message 5 of 17 09 February 2011 at 7:40am | IP Logged |
mr_chinnery wrote:
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Oh, you were actually talking about cheese. I thought you were talking about cheesy, Vegas something or other.
RE: Language learning through cheese
Well, the Elvis impersonator singing old Elvis songs I saw in Thailand had pretty good English. Surly that counts as going the distance for language learning / making a living. Or perhaps he was just having fun.
I'm hoping to learn both the Mandarin and Cantonese versions of some pop songs and try them out in a karaoke sometime. All in the spirit of language learning... (I'm a REALLY bad singer though so I suspect I'll have tomatoes thrown at me.)
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98789 Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 5048 days ago 48 posts - 55 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English
| Message 6 of 17 09 February 2011 at 3:15pm | IP Logged |
I've watched Deutsche Welle in English... programmes about Germany and I loved it.
also I've played videogames in Italian and in Svenska (the last one was almost instintive, because I couldn't understand most of the words xD)
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CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5127 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German
| Message 7 of 17 09 February 2011 at 8:47pm | IP Logged |
I roleplay... By myself...
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ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6147 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 8 of 17 10 February 2011 at 1:49am | IP Logged |
Not related to the actual question at all, but for some odd reason I get really excited when I learn the word for "cheese" in a new language. Just a moment ago I learned پنير in Persian and I was ecstatic. I remember the same reaction when I learned сыр and brânză in Russian and Romanian respectively.
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