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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5241 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 17 of 37 18 November 2010 at 12:02am | IP Logged | |||||
At 00:32 he says something that can be interpreted as "God fødselsdag, Alf", i.e. "Happy birthday, Alf" in Danish or Norwegian. But, it really sounds more like Chinese… EDIT: He says this after the "glücklig Geburtstag". Edited by tractor on 19 November 2010 at 1:10am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5344 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 18 of 37 18 November 2010 at 1:15am | IP Logged | |||||
I think he's saying "Glücklich Geburtstag, Aif!" in German at 0:32... AiF is the name of the newspaper interviewing him, Аргументы и факты, which you can see on the wall in the background. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6697 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 37 18 November 2010 at 1:38am | IP Logged | |||||
I had to repeat that 20+ times to figure out what I think he said; something like "glücklig Geburtstag". I'm not convinced that he's even able to "get by" in German. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5344 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 20 of 37 18 November 2010 at 2:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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First prize to anyone who can translate this! :)
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| michau Tetraglot Groupie Norway lang-8.com/member/49 Joined 6014 days ago 86 posts - 135 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, NorwegianC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish, Sign Language Studies: Burmese, Toki Pona, Greenlandic | Message 21 of 37 18 November 2010 at 2:33am | IP Logged | |||||
LOL :) According to the description, it is supposed to be an extinct language from Kerala, India. However, his pronunciation seems to have a lot of clicks that are present only in South African languages. Not that I'm surprised... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5930 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 22 of 37 18 November 2010 at 3:09am | IP Logged | |||||
I do believe that's Squirrel. 8 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5169 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 23 of 37 18 November 2010 at 5:30am | IP Logged | |||||
Actually, 17th century North-Eastern Red Squirrel, to be precise. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6491 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 24 of 37 18 November 2010 at 9:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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OK, we agree that his oral skills in the cases mentioned above are abominable. This video is in a sense a close competitor to the one that destroyed Ziad Fazad's reputation. But he says that he write poems and things like that. If there were any shimmer of hope in this sad story then it would have to be in his written productions which we haven't seen. Maybe for a reason. Edited by Iversen on 18 November 2010 at 2:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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