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The Foreign Language Thread
25 April 2014
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I think that in Dutch, we can use both kinds of quotation marks. I’ve seen both of them being used anyway

25 April 2014
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@ScrambledEggs 

Danke schoen, du auch :) (Es tut mir leid, aber mein Computer hat keine Umlaute, und ich bin so faul um sie zu finden a-hard-days-night-george-10 Ich studiere in Aschaffenburg (rund 30 Minuten von Frankfurt. Leider, habe ich kein Freizeit nach andere Staedte zu fahren. 🙁 

George hat einen sehr netten Akzent. 

 

 

Paul….well….ja…

 

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I’m only fluent in English, but I know a little Italian and a little German.  Don’t expect me to ever speak either.

 

Well, I’m out of this thread forever.

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25 April 2014
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I know no other languages so this thread is like one of Justin Beiber for me ie unreadable.

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26 April 2014
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AppleScruffJunior said
@ScrambledEggs 

Danke schoen, du auch :) (Es tut mir leid, aber mein Computer hat keine Umlaute, und die Muehe ist zu grosse a-hard-days-night-george-10 Ich studiere in Aschaffenburg (rund 30 Minuten von Frankfurt. Leidir nicht, habe ich kein Freizeit fuer fahren zum anderen Staedten 🙁 

George hat einen sehr netten Akzent. 

Danke, aber mein Deutsch ist eigentlich schlecht. Ich kann nur ein bisschen sprechen. Ich habe auch keine Freizeit, aber vielleicht konnen wir uns durch Zufall in Hamburg treffen! Keiser Keller muss besucht werden!

Magst du wirklich George’s Akzent? Ich muss sagen, dass es sehr lustig ist. Aber Paul…. ahaha!

26 April 2014
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@ScrambledEggs 

Eigentlich schlecht? Nein! Viele Leuten sprechen keine andere Lange. Naechsten Jahr werde ich vielleicht im Juli mit Freunden nach Hamburg fahren.Vielleicht dann? Hamburg hat auch ein Beatles-Museum. Joe hat er besucht! 

Georges Akzent ist zu suess! Und ja Paul ist ammmm….ya(Ich verstehe ihn nicht!!!)

 

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27 April 2014
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AppleScruffJunior said
@ScrambledEggs 

Eigentlich schlecht? Nein! Vielen Leuten sprechen keine andere Lange (nachschlagen Sie a-hard-days-night-george-10 ) Naechsten Jahr werde ich vielleicht nach Hamburg fahren mit Freunden im Juli wahrscheinlich.Vielleicht dann? Hamburg hat auch ein Beatles-Museum. Joe hat er besucht! 

Georges Akzent ist zu suess! Und ja Paul ist ammmm….ya(Ich verstehe ihn nicht!!!)

Beatles-Museum = Traumwelt. 

Ich wünsche dir viel glück in Uni. Wirst du die DSH-Prüfung oder den TestDaF nehmen?

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@ScrambledEggs 

Ah Danke schoen, dich auch. Zuerst muss ich mein ‘Abitur’ machen. Ich weiss nicht welche Pruefung dass ich in der Uni machen werde. 

Und ja Beatles-Museum ist auch mein Traumwelt. 

 

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27 April 2014
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here is a German Beatles movie about Paul is dead in this place

 

https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..man-movie/

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28 April 2014
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Necko said

I’m only fluent in English, but I know a little Italian and a little German.  Don’t expect me to ever speak either.

 

Well, I’m out of this thread forever.

Come on, the least you could do is completely FAKE IT like I did!

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5 May 2014
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Itsehän olen Suomesta ja puhun suomea. Mauri Kunnaksen Piitles -sarjakuva (tai graafinen novelli) on todella hyvä ja hauska! http://maurikunnas.net/teokset…..t/piitles/ Se on saatavina suomeksi ja englanniksi.

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5 May 2014
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@Ahhh Girl, should this be merged with this thread?

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5 May 2014
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I was doing some prepositions exercise (aka a pain in the arse) in German a few days back and I stumbled upon the word ‘Linde’, I thought “oh cool @Linde ‘s name is mentioned on my sheet. Then I looked up ‘Linde’ in the dictionary it means…

‘Lime tree’

What a random word

 

Also an embarrassing moment, I was in German (again) and the teacher said “Name a country that starts with ‘Die”, now I thought she said “D” as they sound phonetically the same, so of course me being me said (quite loudly and very confidently) “Deutschland” and my teacher said “Ah no AppleScruff, I meant Die as in Die Schweiz”

I got laughed at (by about 3 people who understood what I did), I still found it funny thougha-hard-days-night-john-6a-hard-days-night-george-4

 

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5 May 2014
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die Linde also means “linden tree”:

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— of which perhaps the lime tree is a small variety:

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Faded flowers, wait in a jar, till the evening is complete... complete... complete... complete...

5 May 2014
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^^^ Well you learn something new everyday

Although the amount of times that I have said “linden tree” or “lime tree” is surprisingly quite few (I know it’s astonishing!)

 

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6 May 2014
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Yeah I knew that. In Dutch it’s just called ”een Linde” so I’ve heard about every tree joke there is to make in my life. Linde is originally a German name.

My mom was thinking of calling me ”Lynde” instead of Linde, but she didn’t, because that wasn’t common and then people would make mistakes. Lynde is an English name, apparently. I think Linde with an Y instead of an I looks cool though.

It all means the same though. Just like Linda, Lindy and all those names. It’s all the same. 

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Linde said
Yeah I knew that. In Dutch it’s just called ”een Linde” so I’ve heard about every tree joke there is to make in my life. Linde is originally a German name.

My mom was thinking of calling me ”Lynde” instead of Linde, but she didn’t, because that wasn’t common and then people would make mistakes. Lynde is an English name, apparently. I think Linde with an Y instead of an I looks cool though.

It all means the same though. Just like Linda, Lindy and all those names. It’s all the same. 

Wow what beeches make jokes about trees, poor yew.

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Haec ego, resurrecturos (Romanes eunt domus)

Pardon my Latin but the thread shall be resurrected (par la puissance de Greyskull) 

 

I have an idea to help all of us who aren’t fluent in another language and that is through the magic idea of:

Code-switching

Basically switching between deux ou trois/quatre languages in the hope that we can better improve our languages. If we can just put des mots that we are writing in another  language in italics then maybe we can learn something (or not).

Let’s see if this will work seeing as (if I remember correctly, I’m too lazy to read the last two pages), our main forum languages are French and Spanish if we type in only them for a bit until we see how it goes.

 

Beatle-word of the day in French

 

The Beatles= Les Beatles (pronunciation ‘lay Beatles’)

 

Bonus: ‘A Hard Day’s Night ‘ (the film) in French is called ‘Quatre garcons dans le vent’ literally ‘four boys in the wind’…yeah I don’t understand it either.

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I speak Croatian. Betcha didn’t expect that did ya a-hard-days-night-george-10

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I speak English (obviously), French, a little Spanish, a little Russian, and a little German. I can only really converse in English or French though.

Look its a thingy! A fiendish thingy!

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