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daegga
Tetraglot
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Austria
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Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic

 
 Message 121 of 312
07 March 2014 at 2:37am | IP Logged 
I watched/zapped through a few interviews with Björk, and it got me thinking about
using a foreign accent to your advantage.
Here are the interviews in a chronological order. You can hear the development of
accent between videos 1, 2 and 5. However, in videos 3 and 4 (with quite some
temporal space between these two recordings), it seems like her accent deteriorated
albeit her living in English speaking countries. Quite clever to use an exaggerated
version of her foreign accent to come accross more cute/sympathetic/funny, even though
she would have been able to speak a more native-like accent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjLcelg1Kto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0c5GkAhsT0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VetoYW9s_w (exaggerating Icelandic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCN628VWkEI (exaggerating Icelandic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzFxQjpIE4Y

Edited by daegga on 07 March 2014 at 2:50am

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daegga
Tetraglot
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 Message 122 of 312
07 March 2014 at 7:14pm | IP Logged 
I watched the Norwegian movie 'Kurt Josef Wagle og legenden om Fjordheksa'. Wonderfull
xD
most important words i learned (both in the same context):
et jur - an udder
å beise - to stain

I wondered how the colloquial meaning of 'beise' could develop, but the English
translation nicely illustrates it (German 'beizen' doesn't have this connotation, at
least I'm not aware of it).

Edited by daegga on 07 March 2014 at 7:21pm

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daegga
Tetraglot
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 Message 123 of 312
08 March 2014 at 4:47pm | IP Logged 
Can't resist watching some

Austrian TV

instead of doing something useful :/

Edited by daegga on 08 March 2014 at 4:48pm

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daegga
Tetraglot
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 Message 124 of 312
09 March 2014 at 1:56am | IP Logged 
You can even watch Norwegian
theatre
on youtube :)

Edited by daegga on 09 March 2014 at 1:58am

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daegga
Tetraglot
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 Message 125 of 312
11 March 2014 at 10:44pm | IP Logged 
Now I'm a bit more educated.
200 years of
Norwegian history
by Frank Aarebrot.
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Emme
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 Message 126 of 312
12 March 2014 at 8:00pm | IP Logged 
daegga wrote:
Now I'm a bit more educated.
200 years of
Norwegian history
by Frank Aarebrot.


That sounds interesting! It’s a pity that my Norwegian stinks!

The intelligibility of Nordic languages is “almost” a myth. Sure I’m in a better position to understand Norwegian than your average Italian, but unless I put in the hours and get used to the language (especially the spoken language – reading is always somewhat easier) using Swedish as a bridge to Norwegian is a utopic proposition.

Maybe I should check out the Austrian TV-programme you linked to last Saturday instead: my German would certainly appreciate.

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daegga
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 Message 127 of 312
15 March 2014 at 11:43pm | IP Logged 
I know what you mean. I'm not particularly fond of Swedish, but I decided to put in the
hours because it's popping up every now and then and then I get super annoyed because my
comprehension is relatively low.

------------

I finally finished the 4th audiobook of Jean Auel's Earth's Children in Swedish. Took me
about 2.5 months, but it was almost 35h of listening.

I'll go to Copenhagen end of this month, so I should focus on Danish for the time
being.

Edited by daegga on 15 March 2014 at 11:44pm

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daegga
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 Message 128 of 312
17 March 2014 at 10:42pm | IP Logged 
I finished the passive wave of Assimil Swedish :)


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