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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4160 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 3577 of 3737 22 May 2015 at 6:18am | IP Logged |
When you kick yourself for visiting Wales umpteen times yet having never stopped at this famous location [source: Wikipedia]:
Meaning: Parish [church] of [St.] Mary (Llanfair) [in] Hollow (pwll) of the White Hazel [township] (gwyn gyll) near (go ger) the rapid whirlpool (y chwyrn drobwll) [and] the parish [church] of [St.] Tysilio (Llantysilio) with a red cave ([a]g ogo[f] goch). Pronunciation: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysil iogogogoch. Edited by Teango on 22 May 2015 at 6:39am 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 3448 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 3578 of 3737 22 May 2015 at 3:29pm | IP Logged |
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There's a fun song teaching you how to pronounce the name of this village:
How to say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch It's really catchy and I learned to pronounce the whole name after listening to it for a few times. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Rem Groupie United Kingdom Joined 2361 days ago 66 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Czech, French | Message 3579 of 3737 22 May 2015 at 7:32pm | IP Logged |
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When everyone around you is talking excitedly about Eurovision and you're despairing
because so many of the songs are in English. :( 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5513 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3580 of 3737 22 May 2015 at 11:27pm | IP Logged |
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..when you're watching videos of older Eurovision songs and sing along in languages you don't yet know.
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