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Date: 2007/06/05 16:31
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By: Soulfire
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Anyone here speak Spanish? A different language? Anyone have any interesting language experiences?
Here's a spanish experience:
During a conversation with my teacher (in spanish, of course), she asked me how I was feeling. I wanted to say "Embarrassed" and I figured since some words are cognates (similar in english and spanish), embarazzado sounded good. Well, turns out that embarazzado means pregnant. So, my teacher quaintly asked me "You're pregnant?" We had a good laugh.
Hablo español y yo tengo tres años de español. En el proximo año, no puedo sacar la clase de español porque no tengo espacio para la.
Si tu puedes hablar (o escribir) un otro idioma, entonces nos habla.
(Mi español no es perfecto).
Post edited by: Soulfire, at: 2007/06/05 16:32
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/06 00:57
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By: deelishislydark
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Ay! Soulfire que lo está bien. Tengo tomarlo desde que preescolar y yo apenas lo he bajado. Yo no lo puedo hablar realmente. Puedo leer, entender, y para escribirlo realmente bien aunque. ¿"Su embarazada"?
Trans: Soulfire it's okay. I've been taking it since pre-school and I've barely got it down. I can't really speak it. I'm able to read, understand, and write it really well though. " Your pregnant?"
You crack me. You know that.
Usted lo habla realmente bien en mi opinión. Yo le entendí por lo menos.
Hope you understood me.-Dee
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/06 01:05
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By: deelishislydark
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Oh! Experience wise. Once I was trying to say my favorite animal: the blue whale. Which is "ballena azul" in espanol. But it got mixed in translation and she thought I said my favorite animal was "blue balls".
So embarrassing. Dee
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/06 01:05
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By: deelishislydark
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Oh! Experience wise. Once I was trying to say my favorite animal: the blue whale. Which is "ballena azul" in espanol. But it got mixed in translation and she thought I said my favorite animal was "blue balls".
So embarrassing. Dee
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/09 20:13
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By: Kenny16
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If you think saying you're pregnant in class, I can totally top that: a couple weeks ago my teacher asked me if I would enjoy my summer vacation and I answered "voy a disfrutarme" which may sound like "I will enjoy myself" but really means "I will mastrubate." Yo estuve muy "embarazzado."
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/09 21:09
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By: deelishislydark
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Wow. That tops mine you win Kenny. I'm sorry.
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/10 14:08
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By: eversweet
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i speak Indonesian/Malay and a fair bit of French. and i haven't got any fun stories to share 
~Megan~
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/11 21:52
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By: Jet34
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Yo se un poco de espanol (dos anos).
Je parle aussi le francais.
I know American Sign Language.
And there are many more I want to learn.
I just love languages. I must say it is distubingly easy to accidently say one is pregnant, even in French. Saying "I'm full" is slang for "I'm pregnant." Madame was very careful to point that one out.
We should start a non-English chat room for practice. It's fun.
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/12 00:01
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By: deelishislydark
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I know a couple of words and phrases in French.
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/12 08:53
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By: Fiyero
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I speak English and Spanish and can speak a bit of Japanese.
I'm gonna start learning French soon.
Oh, I can read and write in Russian.
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/12 20:55
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By: UnoriginalName
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I'm currently aspiring to be fluent in French. The only time I've ever really used it outside of school was when I bought ice cream in France 
Just saying...
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/13 03:29
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By: barely.conscious
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eversweet wrote:
i speak Indonesian/Malay and a fair bit of French. and i haven't got any fun stories to share
We learn indonesian in year 7+8..i liked it, but had to ditch it for art. Don't remember too much of it. I'd like to learn french one day.
More is never enough
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/13 20:46
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By: daemon muse
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well... i have enough spanish down to thoroughly confuse or humiliate myself should the situation arise
other than that...
im a french/ east asian studies major-
so, im fairly well-versed in french and my japanese is coming along nicely
im adding more during my next term lol... i think i may have a language fetish o_O... makes me feel *unique* LOL
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hmm..funny stories?
well, mygrandfather taught memy french curse words when i was abt 5... that was lovely... brought entertainment for years.. esp. since i thought they were compliments..x_.;...XD;
then there'sthe moment in french class... when you learn that preservative... doesnt mean what you think it does... and that it does not, in fact, make a suitable sandwich topping...
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/14 07:41
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By: theoneandonly
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Well
I speak french and I did this radio interview at this little community radio station in the Eastern Townships in Quebec when I was there with my french class. I got demain (tomorrow) and hier (yesterday) mixed up, then realised it and got flustered. It was so embarassing.
Derrick!
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/14 13:36
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By: eversweet
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Jet34 wrote:
I must say it is distubingly easy to accidently say one is pregnant, even in French. Saying "I'm full" is slang for "I'm pregnant." . .
Actually, that's the same in Indonesian. Also, Indonesian is a fairly new language, so everyone pretty much speaks their local tongue as well. Because of this some words have different meanings in different places. i'm pretty sure that saying the equivalent of 'delicious' in Indo is the same word for 'orgasming' in Bali or somewhere.. i don't actually remember where or what the word is, i just remember my teacher telling me about his daughter saying that once at the dinner table..
~Megan~
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/15 11:07
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By: Joyce1989
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The only foreign language I can speak fluently is English but that isn't very special here But I can speak Dutch and I am even better in Limburg, it's a dialect that's spoken in the South of Holland. Trust me, it's so much better than Dutch, it's kind of a mixture between Dutch, German and French. I can also understand German pretty well but please don't ask me to say anything back In the Netherlands you get Dutch, English, French and German in High school but no Spanish so most of what you're talking about here doesn't make that much sense. so, to get you back.
Something in Dutch:
Mag ik even uitleggen dat ik niet nederlandse genoemd wil noemen, ik ben een limburgse. het geweldige aan limburger zijn is dat nederlanders je niet verstaan maar jij wel en dat je carnaval mag vieren wat betekent dat je vier dagen van het jaar als een gek rond mag lopen. Polonaises, bier en rare kostuums is alles wat de klok slaat.
And now in Limburg, just to prove my point:
Vasteloavend is ut beste waat ut um guuft. Zoepe, zaate hermeniekes and gekken in rare pekskes loape in de eine polonaise noa de angere. Eeder joar weer vruusse dich dien teen aaf om te kenne kieke noa aafgezaegde optochten en toch geisse. Mer Limburgers stoan neet allein doa om bekent, weer zeen auch heel vrundjelijk en hubbe de stront kort op ut hert ligge (we zegge waat we meine).
What I just said there makes absolutely no sense so don't try to figure out what it says.
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/15 11:07
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By: Joyce1989
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The only foreign language I can speak fluently is English but that isn't very special here But I can speak Dutch and I am even better in Limburg, it's a dialect that's spoken in the South of Holland. Trust me, it's so much better than Dutch, it's kind of a mixture between Dutch, German and French. I can also understand German pretty well but please don't ask me to say anything back In the Netherlands you get Dutch, English, French and German in High school but no Spanish so most of what you're talking about here doesn't make that much sense. so, to get you back.
Something in Dutch:
Mag ik even uitleggen dat ik niet nederlandse genoemd wil noemen, ik ben een limburgse. het geweldige aan limburger zijn is dat nederlanders je niet verstaan maar jij wel en dat je carnaval mag vieren wat betekent dat je vier dagen van het jaar als een gek rond mag lopen. Polonaises, bier en rare kostuums is alles wat de klok slaat.
And now in Limburg, just to prove my point:
Vasteloavend is ut beste waat ut um guuft. Zoepe, zaate hermeniekes and gekken in rare pekskes loape in de eine polonaise noa de angere. Eeder joar weer vruusse dich dien teen aaf om te kenne kieke noa aafgezaegde optochten en toch geisse. Mer Limburgers stoan neet allein doa om bekent, weer zeen auch heel vrundjelijk en hubbe de stront kort op ut hert ligge (we zegge waat we meine).
What I just said there makes absolutely no sense so don't try to figure out what it says.
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/20 18:24
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By: Soulfire
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Yo disfruto leyendo tus cuentas de tus experiencias de otros idiomas. Especialmente la cuenta sobre "voy a disfrutarme" ... Debo usar esa en mi clase de espanol. Necesito aprender mas. Me encanta espanol.
Te amo,
Soulfire
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/20 23:09
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By: my_guilds_rule2
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i lived in saudi arabia for a few years, so I know pieces and fragments of Arabic. I'm through French I, going into French II Honors.
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Re:Foreign Language?
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Date: 2007/06/21 15:15
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By: mjcwas545
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j'adore le francais... je veux voir la france, particulierement paris, et j'espere que j'y etudierai pour une annee scolaire... mon objectif principal est de parler la langue courrament.... j'aimerais essayer d'apprendre l'italien aussi
if you can't read it, don't worry about it, t'is not anything special
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