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| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6122 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes  22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 2 of 8 17 May 2008 at 8:54am | IP Logged | ||
Yes, that was interesting. I actually did fairly well but how could they include Azeri and not Luxembourgish!! 
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| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6122 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 4 of 8 17 May 2008 at 10:10am | IP Logged | ||
Yes, Exotic is a funny word. On the one hand it has a positive connotation when it means unusual but interesting and attractive. That is how the quiz is using it. On the other hand it also has a sleazy connotation as in "Exotic Dancers" who are strippers. It also has a meaning that is just "Foreign" which is actually the etymology of the word from the Greek: Exotic 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 6 of 8 17 May 2008 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I couldn't guess 7 languages first try (guessed all of them after more attempts though) and ironically 3 of them are Slavic (Slovenian, Bulgarian and Macedonian) and another is Latvian which I mistook for Lithuanian, even though I've dabbled in the latter a while ago. The others are Catalan, Romanian and Azeri and here I don't think I should be ashamed of not guessing.
Does the order of questions depend on the ones you've set in your browser as preferable? The first three ones I got were English, Russian and Finnish (they're in reversed order in my list though). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6775 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 8 19 May 2008 at 9:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I think the order is the same for everyone.
This is an interesting quiz. Thanks, Pauline. I got about 10 wrong, including two Slavic ones. I guessed Bulgarian when it was Macedonian, and Sebian instead of Slovenian, I think. But mostly I had trouble with Germanic languages. Ironically, I was wrong about most languages that ProfArguelles did his video entries on, even though I watched all of them. It kept saying "this language is very close to English", and I kept guessing Frisian - I did that at least 3 times. So if this quiz were a part of ProfArguelles' polyglot academy curriculum, I'd be failing miserably right now :) Edited by Russianbear on 19 May 2008 at 9:05am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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