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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #60 on: February 20, 2016, 09:41:59 AM »
  Bumped for new posters/new information.  I also have heard some Russian (on TV and at work)
  and I like the sound of it, lots of "shhh"-type sounds as I recall.  Years ago, we had a Russian father and
  daughter at our workplace --- the daughter ahd come to the States as a young child and spoke English
  with barely any accent, but her father's English was basic at best --- and they spoke Russian to each other
  at work, which I loved hearing.  I kind of wish our father had raised us bilingual, as he was raised.  :apondering:
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #61 on: February 20, 2016, 09:44:01 AM »
  My father grew up speaking both English and German with his Austrian immigrant parents.
  I wonder if they would have taught us German, if they had lived long enough to meet us.  :prude: :oldman:
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #62 on: February 20, 2016, 09:46:07 AM »
You know how animal sounds are pronounced differently in different languages?  (Couldn't Adam to figure out how to make that question clearer.)

Do people's farts sound different in different languages?




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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #63 on: February 20, 2016, 01:42:44 PM »
Quote from: Queen Victoria on February 20, 2016, 09:46:07 AM
You know how animal sounds are pronounced differently in different languages?  (Couldn't Adam to figure out how to make that question clearer.)

Do people's farts sound different in different languages?




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:apondering:

Maybe farts really do sound different in different countries, not only in the way the sound is mimicked in the language, because of difference in diet.
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #64 on: February 21, 2016, 03:21:54 AM »
I can fart in a dozen languages. :zoinks:
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #65 on: February 21, 2016, 06:02:23 AM »
Quote from: odeon on February 21, 2016, 03:21:54 AM
I can fart in a dozen languages. :zoinks:

  How many languages do your Moominettes know?  :moomin:
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #66 on: February 21, 2016, 06:43:24 AM »
Quote from: couldbecousin on February 21, 2016, 06:02:23 AM
Quote from: odeon on February 21, 2016, 03:21:54 AM
I can fart in a dozen languages. :zoinks:

  How many languages do your Moominettes know?  :moomin:

The kids? Two each.
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Re: What languages do you speak?
« Reply #67 on: February 21, 2016, 09:20:52 AM »
Scandinavians have an automatic "bonus" of their fellow intelligibles, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish - but we can't necesarily speak these languages. They are too similar, so it would be like an English speaker perfectly mimicking another accent - Australian, Nigerian, Jamaican, something that requires a lot of skill, despite those languages being perfectly understood.

Through Spanish, I can also read Italian and Portuguese, but I can neither talk nor understand them very well when spoken naturally (if they slow down, and over-pronounce word by word, then yes, but nobody does that :D)

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