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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6051 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 1 of 47 11 August 2008 at 10:25am | IP Logged |
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In English, as I'm sure most people here know, the sound "umm..." is used as a speach spaceholder when you are thinking of what to say.
What is "um" in other languages? For instance, I'm pretty sure that in Spanish "um" is "ahhh..". Am I right? Any other languages? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6035 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 2 of 47 11 August 2008 at 10:34am | IP Logged |
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In Bulgarian the placeholder is "ъъъъ...."; It sounds pretty funny.
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| Fat-tony Nonaglot Senior Member United Kingdom jiahubooks.co.uk Joined 6141 days ago 288 posts - 441 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian, Esperanto, Thai, Laotian, Urdu, Swedish, French Studies: Mandarin, Indonesian, Arabic (Written), Armenian, Pali, Burmese | Message 3 of 47 11 August 2008 at 10:36am | IP Logged |
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I always thought the Spanish used "pues"...
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| raeve Diglot Groupie GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6363 days ago 65 posts - 66 votes Speaks: EnglishB2, German* Studies: Swedish, Serbian, Spanish | Message 4 of 47 11 August 2008 at 10:50am | IP Logged |
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In German it's called "Öhm..."
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| Olympia Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5982 days ago 195 posts - 244 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Old English, French | Message 5 of 47 11 August 2008 at 11:18am | IP Logged |
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My Spanish teacher (native speaker from Argentina) always said, "Et em..." instead of "um." Even in English. We
asked her about it once and she said it didn't mean anything, it's just something she's always said. She used it just the same as "um." Oh, and the English translation of "pues" is "well..." 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| joan.carles Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6334 days ago 332 posts - 342 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, French, EnglishC1, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Hungarian, Russian, Georgian | Message 6 of 47 11 August 2008 at 11:29am | IP Logged |
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In Spanish I don't say neither "aahhh", nor "Et em" (are you sure it's like this? "Ejem", maybe?). I say "eeemmm" or "estooo".
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| Felipe Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6031 days ago 451 posts - 501 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Italian, Dutch, Catalan | Message 7 of 47 11 August 2008 at 11:53am | IP Logged |
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I never heard this in Spain, but many Latin Americans say "este".
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| ipanema Newbie United States Joined 6529 days ago 37 posts - 38 votes Studies: French | Message 8 of 47 11 August 2008 at 12:07pm | IP Logged |
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In French, they say "euh" and in Japanese, they say "ano".
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