CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5127 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German
| Message 41 of 45 16 January 2011 at 12:36am | IP Logged |
I don't think learning English to impress a girl or guy will have any effect... I'm sure that many native English speakers (myself included) are jaded towards English learners. There's just so many of them! I wouldn't learn a language to impress anyone, guy or girl. I don't see the point in pursuing an activity such as this (learning a language) unless you're doing it for yourself.
Edited by CheeseInsider on 16 January 2011 at 12:37am
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Raye Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5159 days ago 37 posts - 51 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: DutchB1
| Message 42 of 45 16 January 2011 at 1:49am | IP Logged |
I thought there was only one answer to this question, and that it was "Italian". Another mind-expanding thread.
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 43 of 45 16 January 2011 at 1:49am | IP Logged |
I don't think is an accent which is usually learned by foreigners, but in this house, all girls, aged 48, 14 and 11 agree that the one accent that absolutely make us all melt is the Irish one.
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Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5105 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German
| Message 44 of 45 16 January 2011 at 3:07am | IP Logged |
Jinx wrote:
I absolutely melt when Khaled goes into Arabic at the end of "Aicha" – it sounds so exotic and expressive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIyyPsqRweE
Although, frankly, he's so adorable in the whole video that I don't really care what language he's singing... ;) |
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It's like nails on a blackboard to me.
To each her own.
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zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6377 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 45 of 45 16 January 2011 at 12:18pm | IP Logged |
Any language will impress people in Australia. But it doesn't mean anything. It won't
make them like you any more than a curiosity. Impressing girls doesn't mean a thing other
than a temporary ego boost before going back to your dank lonely room to memorize Kanji.
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