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Have you had dreams in other languages

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Jar-ptitsa
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 Message 25 of 57
31 March 2009 at 1:06am | IP Logged 
betaquarx wrote:
i've had dreams in English, french and sign language.


Can you "speak" sign language??? How must you call it, not "speak' I suppose? Since some months or years I want to learn it, but I havne't had the opportunity. I know that there exist many different ones, like the many different spoken ones, but maybe fewer. I want to meet some people who are deaf.
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betaquarx
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 Message 26 of 57
31 March 2009 at 1:29am | IP Logged 
I can only say (maybe "express" fits better here) some things in sign language:

"Hello, my name is ****"

"I am hearing" (as in "not deaf")

"How are you?"

"I love you" (used very often as a sign of sympathy amongst deaf people)

And so on, I can do some more, but all very basic stuff. I can finger spell too, of course. And read finger spelling if not done extremely speedy.

I used to live in Essen, which happens to be a center of deaf culture in north rhine-westphalia. So i often saw deaf people communicating.

It's such a beautiful language.

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What I dreamt:

I met a deaf girl and I signed to her "I speak sign language".
She then rapidly signed stuff I could barely keep up reading.
Then I signed "Sorry, please slow down".
And she replied "Do you want to sleep with me?".
And i was like O_O

It most certainly was one of the weirdest dreams that I had, and this after only two weeks of studying sign language :-P
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Jar-ptitsa
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 Message 27 of 57
03 April 2009 at 1:22pm | IP Logged 
betaquarx wrote:


I used to live in Essen, which happens to be a center of deaf culture in north rhine-westphalia. So i often saw deaf people communicating.

It's such a beautiful language.


yes, I find it beautiful as well. I didn't know that there are centers of deaf culture.


Quote:
What I dreamt:

I met a deaf girl and I signed to her "I speak sign language".
She then rapidly signed stuff I could barely keep up reading.
Then I signed "Sorry, please slow down".
And she replied "Do you want to sleep with me?".
And i was like O_O

It most certainly was one of the weirdest dreams that I had, and this after only two weeks of studying sign language :-P


wow!!! hahaha!!
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Ninja Bunny
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 Message 28 of 57
21 April 2009 at 8:54pm | IP Logged 
Wow, very cool, and haha!

It appears you're really absorbing the sign language you've learned, good for you. (Trust me, if you can sign you'll be able to pick up chicks. Heh.)
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qklilx
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 Message 29 of 57
22 April 2009 at 1:29am | IP Logged 
I had a dream a few weeks ago in Korean. I didn't understand much of what was being said, if that even makes sense, but luckily I had subtitles to help me out.
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sprachefin
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 Message 30 of 57
23 April 2009 at 4:23am | IP Logged 
I had a dream in a bit of French a few weeks ago. These people were talking to me about my hands and how I
would lose them. They told me that if I didn't do something then my hands would be taken away from me so I
couldn't use them. There was more, but I can't remember. The only reason I remember this fragment was because I
was so excited. It is probably because I was doing my French before sleeping.
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Russianbear
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 Message 31 of 57
01 May 2009 at 12:44am | IP Logged 
I don't have dreams often - at least I never seem to remember them. And when I do remember something, it is usually silent dreams. They tend to be visual and action based. Very little communication takes place, and when it does, I don't think I communicate in actual languages - it is more like telepathic signals that bypass speech, or so it seems afterwards, as I never seem to be aware of the language I used in a dream.

Edited by Russianbear on 01 May 2009 at 12:48am

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Louis
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 Message 32 of 57
03 May 2009 at 7:01pm | IP Logged 
Well, it was a Sunday night and I would be taking a Spanish Destinos test the next day. I decided to watch an episode I didn't fully understand before I went to bed. After the episode ended, I basically collapsed on the living room couch and got some much-needed rest, but I still remember the dream I had! Basically, I was re-living the episode I just watched but instead, I watched everything occur from a third-person perspective. I watched the events occur as a bystander and, better yet, everything was in Spanish! I guess it's somewhat cheating because the dialogue was not at a native-speaker's speed, but I still understood everything! Needless to say, I did very well on the test.


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