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| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6890 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 1 of 5 24 August 2008 at 6:04pm | IP Logged |
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My plans for a 2-week vacation in Greece fell through so my partner and I are now taking a bus tour of Corsica and Sardinia. I was wondering if anyone knew what the language situation in Corsica is. I know that French is the official language but also know that the Corsicans are quite nationalistic and prefer to speak Corsican amongst themselves.
Should I concentrate on brushing up on my French or should I try and learn some Corsican before I go? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6665 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 2 of 5 25 August 2008 at 7:24am | IP Logged |
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Don't worry about learning Corsican, you will get by perfectly with French. Many (but far from all Corsicans) speak Corsican amongst themselves, but they would probably find it strange for a tourist to try to learn it.
Actually, you can also get by with only speaking Italian (Corsican is linguistically very close to Italian and most people speak it since there are so many Italian tourists), not to forget that you'll be going to Sardinia as well. So maybe brush up your Italian instead... And of course, you could simply speak English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5808 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 3 of 5 08 February 2009 at 9:39pm | IP Logged |
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I love l'Italiano
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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 4 of 5 09 February 2009 at 6:14am | IP Logged |
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I have never been to Corsica, but I read somewhere that the dialect there is only a slight variation on Tuscan, which is the dialect that is the basis for standard Italian. So I think either French or Italian will do for a visitor. It is Sardinian that deviates far from standard Italian.
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| lady_skywalker Triglot Senior Member Netherlands aspiringpolyglotblog Joined 6890 days ago 909 posts - 942 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, French, Dutch, Italian | Message 5 of 5 09 February 2009 at 4:32pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the advice but I went to Corsica and Sardinia months ago. :)
Turns out that French and Italian were infinitely more useful than Corsican or Sardinian. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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