unityandoutside Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6014 days ago 94 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin, Mandarin
| Message 9 of 54 08 March 2010 at 5:32pm | IP Logged |
ember wrote:
"Whatever the Russians are saying it sounds like they are arguing/angry with each other" |
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I hear this one all the time.
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Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6011 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh
| Message 10 of 54 08 March 2010 at 6:25pm | IP Logged |
"Why would you want to learn Welsh/Gaelic/Irish? They all speak English anyway!"
Of course, that would get beaten by:
"Why would you want to learn Basque? They all speak French anyway!"
Nul points, monsieur!
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elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5469 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German
| Message 11 of 54 08 March 2010 at 6:42pm | IP Logged |
Cainntear wrote:
"Why would you want to learn Welsh/Gaelic/Irish? They all speak English anyway!" |
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How do you then answer that?
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QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5855 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 12 of 54 08 March 2010 at 6:44pm | IP Logged |
"English is the most superior language in the world and only the elites use it. So you must master it!" - heard it when a Singaporean parent speaks to a child on what to learn.
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Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5677 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish
| Message 13 of 54 08 March 2010 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
unityandoutside wrote:
ember wrote:
"Whatever the Russians are saying it sounds like
they are arguing/angry with each other" |
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I hear this one all the time. |
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A friend of mine concluded the following about others' languages:
Urdu - Angry
Arabic - Pretentious
Mandarin - Whiny
Spanish - Conniving
I suspect he projected ethnic stereotypes onto languages.
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The Blaz Senior Member Canada theblazblog.blogspotRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5600 days ago 120 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Swahili, French, Sign Language, Esperanto
| Message 14 of 54 08 March 2010 at 8:25pm | IP Logged |
Swahili - "does it have many words?"
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horshod Pentaglot Groupie India Joined 5770 days ago 74 posts - 107 votes Speaks: Hindi, Marathi*, Bengali, Gujarati, English Studies: German, Spanish, Turkish
| Message 15 of 54 08 March 2010 at 10:20pm | IP Logged |
The Blaz wrote:
Swahili - "does it have many words?" |
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LOL!! :D
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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 16 of 54 09 March 2010 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
ManicGenius wrote:
Also when studying German I've been called a Nazi. yeah... that's fun...
And a terrorist when studying Arabic.
And a commie when studying Russian.
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I joke around saying things like that. But I am not a commie, terrorist, or Nazi, and I plan on learning all of those :P
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