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| JS-1 Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6069 days ago 144 posts - 166 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), German, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic (Written) | Message 25 of 33 20 May 2009 at 4:25am | IP Logged | |||||
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I wanted to understand 1970s French Eurovision songs...
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| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6861 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 26 of 33 20 May 2009 at 4:37am | IP Logged | |||||
We have a winner! (Just kidding) I wanted to FORGET English so that I wouldn't understand the 2000s Eurovision songs, though :) Edited by Russianbear on 20 May 2009 at 4:37am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| JS-1 Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6069 days ago 144 posts - 166 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), German, Japanese, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic (Written) | Message 27 of 33 20 May 2009 at 9:01am | IP Logged | |||||
Well I have to agree with you on that, but then I wouldn't be able to appreciate the sublime awfulness of lyrics such as: "Come on and join us, It's a game of girl-and-boyness" Or: "Your breasts are like swallows in nesting" -although the bad lyrics haven't been this funny for years. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5852 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 28 of 33 20 May 2009 at 2:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
我没有 Wo meiyou by Nic Tse 謝霆鋒 was one of the sparks for me, too. (That and the fact that some kid had written something in Chinese on a poster in a bus in my hometown, and I could only read every 7th character or so. It probably wouldn't have pissed me off so much if I hadn't known any of the characters, but knowing a part of them and not the others, neither the way the work together - well.) I also have a liking of Thai since I watched my first Thai horror movie and a liking for Vietnamese since I watched the Vietnamese Trailer for a HK movie. (But that's not strange or embarrassing, only shows how easily influenced I am.) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6234 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 30 of 33 20 May 2009 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My interest in Latin was initally stirred by Japanese video game music and Tolkien. My tastes in entertainment have changed since then, but I'll still credit Final Fantasy VIII (despite my current recognition of the game's weak story and unoriginal gameplay) for featuring a song with Latin lyrics, hence leading me on to Latin (and thence the other old Indo-European languages). Edited by Alkeides on 20 May 2009 at 5:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| chipile Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6668 days ago 21 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 31 of 33 20 May 2009 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think my initial interest in Japanese arose from a sticker I got in some kind of bubblegum when I was around seven. It had Japanese characters on it and a crazy picture of a bird. We had a Japanese van which drove around my town every week selling Japanese goodies. This seemed a bit random for an industrial town in west-central Scotland, but I think a Japanese car manufacturing plant owned several houses in the area and used to base their workers there when they were needed.
I know it is a terrible movie, but I really liked Showdown In Little Tokyo. After seeing this, I became obsessed with all things Japanese and it also sparked my interest in Swedish. Thanks Dolph Lundgren! My reason for liking French isn't really that embarrassing - several of my closest friends in Sweden were French; and I was disappointed with myself for not being able to communicate with them in their native language. I am thankful to them for the opportunity because I hated French in school and doubt I would have ever been interested in it again without them. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6751 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 32 of 33 20 May 2009 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
I strongly disagree, your motives were among the best I can imagine for learning a language. Seriously. I probably wouldn't know any Italian or Portuguese if it wasn't for the nookie. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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