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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6397 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 17 of 64 07 December 2011 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| Jarvis1000 Diglot Groupie United States want2speakthai.com Joined 4688 days ago 74 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English*, Thai Studies: Spanish | Message 18 of 64 07 December 2011 at 8:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes Accept that, but being able to read the Thai numerals helped once, because they posted the "Thai" price in Thai numerals so I got them to give it to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jarvis1000 Diglot Groupie United States want2speakthai.com Joined 4688 days ago 74 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English*, Thai Studies: Spanish | Message 19 of 64 07 December 2011 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
I have only seen it work when the farang doesn't say much. The more you say...the more they notice the accent. Thats my experience. My friend, who has vietnamese parents(Australian by birth), walked right into the grand palace for free(it usually costs us farangs money to get in) and didn't say a word to make them think he wasn't Thai. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ljones29 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4597 days ago 35 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Arabic (Written), Greek | Message 20 of 64 07 December 2011 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think that there are a lot of stereotypes about people who learn French, at least here
in the states - that we are all obsessed with film, or art or cinema. People think French is the language of love or that it's "so beautiful" or "so sophisticated". I find this ridiculous and kind of annoying. It's just a language, people!! Edited by ljones29 on 08 December 2011 at 3:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6270 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 21 of 64 08 December 2011 at 12:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You love Rammstein. (Rammstein is a lot more popular with foreigners than with Germans) Apache You read Karl May. Esperanto You're a language geek. Edited by Sprachprofi on 08 December 2011 at 12:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| floydak Tetraglot Groupie Slovakia Joined 4654 days ago 60 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Slovak*, English, German, Spanish Studies: French | Message 22 of 64 08 December 2011 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Polish- it's handy to know the forthcoming official UK language
Slovak- you were actually unpleasantly surprised when you came to slovenia for vacation and realized that you had learnt wrong language (or vice versa) Dutch- hell, there is no reason. Latin- your career endgoal is to become Cabinet Secretary. Hungarian- chalenge accepted! and of course- no offense!! no meant to be rude at all:) Edited by floydak on 08 December 2011 at 4:34pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4834 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 23 of 64 08 December 2011 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Afrikaans--you read that's Charlize Theron's first language, and you think there might be other women like her in South Africa because, let's face it, you have no chance with her...
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| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4781 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 24 of 64 08 December 2011 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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English - You never chose it, it chose you
Welsh - Tom Jones, need I say more? Norwegian - Yes you're an engineer and you're gonna get rich, get over it Spanish - because you think Paella actually is the Spanish national dish 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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