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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 81 of 98 23 March 2010 at 4:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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My earliest experience with foreign languages happened after I learned how to count the numbers 1-10 in kindergarten. I came home very proud of myself and told my mother I knew how to count and she decided it was a good time to teach me to how to count in Spanish. She had taken Spanish in college and the numbers were among the few Spanish words she actually remembered. Not too long after this, my grandfather (on my dad's side, who spoke some French) thought I might be interested learning to count from 1-10 in French and so he taught me. After that I was somewhat curious about other countries and what languages they spoke and would ask my parents questions like, "What language do they speak in Japan?" and when I was told "Japanese" I started to think, using the "logic" of a 5-year-old boy, that the name of a country and the name of the language spoken there were very similar, which meant I was a little confused when I asked questions like, "Why do we speak English and not American?".
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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5422 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 82 of 98 23 March 2010 at 5:36am | IP Logged | |||||
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| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 83 of 98 23 March 2010 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There are a lot of Russian Orthodox churches around here that do the entire mass in
Russian, along with a Serbian and a Bosnian translator. It's a pretty interesting event. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 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 84 of 98 23 March 2010 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Our Greek Orthodox church here does most things in Greek and English, but since Greeks are not the only ethnic group here, we have the Lord's Prayer recited in Arabic, Serbian, and Romanian, in addition to English and Greek.
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| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6659 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 85 of 98 24 March 2010 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When I was about four years old, my parents were watching an old movie about World War II on television and some of the actors briefly spoke German. I thought it was the most fascinating thing I had ever heard.
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| JS-1 Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5983 days ago 144 posts - 166 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), German, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic (Written) | Message 86 of 98 25 March 2010 at 1:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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Mine was probably watching the Eurovision Song Contest as a child. I used to think that
hearing the names of the countries and results read out in both English and French sounded so exotic :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 87 of 98 25 March 2010 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
You mean "L'Irlande DOUZE POINTES!" etc... Class... yeah, I remember this too... :-) It's rubbish that most of the countries seem to be singing in English now. I mean, for Ireland and the UK it's right, of course... But it's a shame that the others are doing it. It's much more interesting with the folksy tunes in the original languages. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Impiegato Triglot Senior Member Sweden bsntranslation. Joined 5433 days ago 100 posts - 145 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, Italian Studies: Spanish, French, Russian | Message 88 of 98 25 March 2010 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, it is probably more interesting to most people (including me), but we have to accept that this contest is more about money than culture and national pride. It is easier to create a hit in English than in a small language. If we think about it: how many have won with a song in a language other than English in the past ten years? Edited by Impiegato on 26 March 2010 at 4:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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