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| Carlucio Triglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4659 days ago 70 posts - 113 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC1, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 57 of 64 11 December 2011 at 4:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh god, now i am curious about lutefisk... In Brazil what terrorize foreigns is that chicken heart is very
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6398 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 58 of 64 11 December 2011 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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LOL true about everyone sounding angry... I was in Finland recently and mum and I had a somewhat heated discussion in a taxi as we tried to plan the following day. The driver thought we were arguing and switched on Russian radio to cool us down!
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5135 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 59 of 64 11 December 2011 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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When I first went to Spain, I was terrified for the first month. I was used to very soft spoken people, and the Andalusians I was staying with sounded and acted like they wanted to kill each other. As soon as I learned the language, I realized that they were discussing anything from the prize of oranges to a news story, and they were not even angry. Just enthusiastic.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6383 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 60 of 64 11 December 2011 at 5:47pm | IP Logged | ||
Ha, that's funny. The general feeling amongst Swedes is that Norwegians all sound happy all the time. "It's impossible to be angry in Norwegian" is a phrase I've heard several times. It goes so far that people from Gothenburg, where the local dialect is influenced by Norwegian, are often considered the friendliest people in Sweden, much because of their "happy" dialect. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4835 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 61 of 64 12 December 2011 at 5:45am | IP Logged | ||
I had originally written a different longer response, but I decided to edit it shorter. You misunderstood me. You took a personal offense where there was none to be had and certainly none intended. This is the Internet. It happens. Edited by jdmoncada on 12 December 2011 at 6:41am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| HMS Senior Member England Joined 4908 days ago 143 posts - 256 votes Speaks: English* | Message 62 of 64 14 December 2011 at 9:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had had a few beers when I made those comments. In hindsight I now realise what I had written was an absolute load of bollocks, and for that I offer my sincere apologies to you, and indeed anybody else who was riled by them.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6504 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 63 of 64 15 December 2011 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Referring to nway's message with the big picture of a raving mad Finnish citizen I saw a TV program yesterday about a sauna competition in Finland which went totally out of control: One participant died and another got third degree burns and had to have skin transplants to his back. The competition took place in Heinola in a new sauna, which even the Finns apparently find more brutal than other saunas. First, the temperature is 120 degrees C, and it is that high all the tinme. Second, there is water poured over hot stones as in other saunas, but the system that blows the steam towards the competitors is unusually efficient.
Sauna sitting is apparently an offical sport in Finland, though it has participants from other countries. Actually the man who died after 7 minutter in Hell was Russian, but the other one was Finnish - and the sport is definitely a Finnish invention, where those Finns really can demonstrate the notion of 'sisu'. And give up when your opponent is Russian? Nope, never - not even while your back is turning into cracklings! Btw. the whole program was in Finnish with Danish subtitles. Edited by Iversen on 15 December 2011 at 12:36am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6398 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 64 of 64 15 December 2011 at 1:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow.
and i sometimes *outsit* Finns in hotel/waterpark saunas :D 1 person has voted this message useful |
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