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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4494 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 9 of 19 24 January 2015 at 8:29am | IP Logged | |||||
Now I keep wondering whether we met at the Gathering. We must have crossed paths and I shamefully did not remember whether we did. Edited by tarvos on 24 January 2015 at 8:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6696 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 19 24 January 2015 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
The same guy, and author of "How to Learn Any Language". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Farber 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| glidefloss Senior Member United States Joined 5755 days ago 138 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 11 of 19 24 January 2015 at 5:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6490 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 12 of 19 25 January 2015 at 9:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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If it was Tarvos who asked Hribecek a question in an unidentified flying language in Berlin, then it would be impossible to guess which one. There are too many, and they are too good.
My own first contribution to this discussion is that I have a TV channel from Croatia, one from Serbia and - the latest addition - one from Montenegro, and I still can't hear the difference. Of course there are clues, like beOOOOOgrad (probably Serbian), mlijeko for milk (probably a dicalect from somewhere along the coast) and references to lokal towns, money and institutions, but when you listen to three very closely related and very weak languages almost in parallel then you can't avoid mixing them up, and the individual profiles of the languages get blurry. If I at some point decided that it was time to clean up my ways then I would first study the differences in pronunciation with the help of a comparative phonology (if I can find one) and then reserve some days for organized, intensive listening. My own second contribution is simply to plead guilty: when I read or listen extensively I don't expect to study the language in question, and I may forget which one it was. Edited by Iversen on 25 January 2015 at 9:07am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4438 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 13 of 19 25 January 2015 at 11:36am | IP Logged | |||||
You've reduced me to tears in a fit of laughter. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5136 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 14 of 19 03 February 2015 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
I've wondered about that too. I met several people with some of your languages at least and a few Dutch guys, but obviously HTLAL didn't come up. It's the same with Jeff Lindqvist who I would hopefully recognise thanks to his photo here, but somehow I very much doubt we met. I met some people from here though - Fasulye, Iversen and Lapislazuli, to name the ones where we discussed HTLAL. Edited by hribecek on 03 February 2015 at 4:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gomorritis Tetraglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 4065 days ago 91 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Catalan, French Studies: Greek, German, Dutch | Message 15 of 19 04 February 2015 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This was very common in my youth, when people were speaking to me either in Spanish or in Valencian language. I often wouldn't even notice which language they were using to speak to me. Maybe because Valencian is a variant of Catalan which tends to be closer to Spanish in terms of prosody and phonetics which makes a sudden switch between languages less distinguishable, and also because many people in the region tend to switch back and forth between Spanish and Valencian all the time. Edited by Gomorritis on 04 February 2015 at 12:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3700 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes Speaks: French | Message 16 of 19 07 February 2015 at 7:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Every now and then I will respond to someone's English question in French, though rarely. Someone did something nice to me once, and they only speak English as far as I know, and without thinking my response was: "Merci." I realized what had happened and said I was sorry, though luckily most of us from America seem to know that one French word anyway.
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