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Cainntear
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 Message 33 of 58
03 May 2010 at 6:28pm | IP Logged 
Did I ever tell you I speak Pixie? I was taught it under a full moon in a fairy ring in the forest....
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Teango
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 Message 34 of 58
03 May 2010 at 6:32pm | IP Logged 
Cainntear wrote:
Did I ever tell you I speak Pixie? I was taught it under a full moon in a fairy ring in the forest....

Now I've heard it all...but are you sure it wasn't Pictish you were learning? ;)
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Cainntear
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 Message 35 of 58
03 May 2010 at 9:01pm | IP Logged 
Teango wrote:
Cainntear wrote:
Did I ever tell you I speak Pixie? I was taught it under a full moon in a fairy ring in the forest....

Now I've heard it all...but are you sure it wasn't Pictish you were learning? ;)

Wow, you must be living in a fantasy land -- no-one's spoken Pictish in a thousand years!

Now excuse me while I tie this old sock on a rag tree....
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Teango
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 Message 36 of 58
04 May 2010 at 2:32am | IP Logged 
Cainntear wrote:
Teango wrote:
Cainntear wrote:
Did I ever tell you I speak Pixie? I was taught it under a full moon in a fairy ring in the forest....

Now I've heard it all...but are you sure it wasn't Pictish you were learning? ;)

Wow, you must be living in a fantasy land -- no-one's spoken Pictish in a thousand years!
Now excuse me while I tie this old sock on a rag tree....

That's not what the little fellas tell me round the clootie well...I reckon you should try and get it added to your list of languages!

Edited by Teango on 05 May 2010 at 3:14am

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 Message 37 of 58
05 May 2010 at 2:32am | IP Logged 
It would depend on the language. I know a woman who spent a few months in Vietnam and came back practically fluent. Of course, she could not read or write Vietnamese. I wonder if her knowledge of Japanese and Cantonese helped.
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 Message 38 of 58
05 May 2010 at 3:42am | IP Logged 
original501 wrote:
It would depend on the language. I know a woman who spent a few months in Vietnam and came back practically fluent. Of course, she could not read or write Vietnamese. I wonder if her knowledge of Japanese and Cantonese helped.


In my opinion that would be similar to you spending some time in Brazil. You'd pick up Portuguese extremely fast because of your Spanish :D
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 Message 39 of 58
05 May 2010 at 4:23am | IP Logged 
I know Mexicans who tell me Portugese is as hard for them as it is for me, in other words...we don't speak it.    Spanish and Portugese aren't the same and aren't near as similar to one another as you'd like to believe.
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 Message 40 of 58
05 May 2010 at 11:17am | IP Logged 
hypersport wrote:
I know Mexicans who tell me Portugese is as hard for them as it is for me, in other words...we don't speak it.    Spanish and Portugese aren't the same and aren't near as similar to one another as you'd like to believe.


The first time I went to Portugal with a Spanish friend, I was quite confident, believing we would understand almost everything, It came as a shock to me that this was not the case. In fact, to order a regular breakfast, we had to go to the counter and point at what we wanted, and it felt like being on another planet.

When I have come back later, I do however find that I understand quite a lot, and I think it is simply about exposure. If you are not mentally prepared for it, or used to it, you will not understand much, but once you get tuned in, it is farly simple.


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