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| Katie Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6506 days ago 495 posts - 599 votes  Speaks: English*, Hungarian Studies: French, German | Message 41 of 57 11 June 2009 at 6:25am | IP Logged |
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Oh and I have certainly suffered from "interlingual interference" too.
I remember being in the local supermarket here and I was looking for certain vegetable. Now, I'm not a big cook, but my good Hungarian friend had taught me a few recipes (I actually think it's her goal to make me 'marriable' - win a man by his stomach! LOL). So anyway, I was looking for this vegetable, but I didn't for the life of me have a clue what the English name of the vegetable was! I was trying so hard and I knew that I had known it in English too, but I just couldn't grasp it. (Perhaps because prior to learning it in Hungarian, I had so rarely come across the word/item) So there I was in the supermarket talking this young guy, trying to explain what the vegetable looked like, talking in a noticable native Australian accent and telling him that I couldn't tell him the name because I only knew it in Hungarian. Talk about funny looks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| AeOeUe Tetraglot Newbie Germany Joined 5006 days ago 16 posts - 31 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Dutch Studies: Russian | Message 42 of 57 05 September 2010 at 1:01am | IP Logged |
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I had a dream last night where a friend was talking to me in Yiddish, that is I knew he
was talking Yiddish in my dream, but when I woke up I recalled the sentence and it was simply a mixture of German, Russian and French. My boyfriend is Persian and we talk in English normally, but he says I shouted at him one night in my sleep, first in German, then when he said he didn't understand I switched to Russian... I have only returned to Germany recently and it's still bizarre that everyone around me talks German, so I think my brain is trying to compensate for it at night ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5913 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 43 of 57 05 September 2010 at 7:04am | IP Logged |
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When I was in college, I had a roommate tell me I was speaking Japanese in my sleep. Though in those days I didn't know a word of Japanese. I'm pretty sure I was just mumbling with random sounds, and the roommate assumed it was Japanese.
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| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6447 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 44 of 57 08 September 2010 at 5:23pm | IP Logged |
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I dreamed I was taking a Polish class (I don't speak Polish) and I learned the word "przad." I have no idea what it meant, and it doesn't seem to be a real Polish word.
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| galindo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4995 days ago 142 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Portuguese | Message 45 of 57 11 September 2010 at 5:59am | IP Logged |
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I don't remember most of my dreams, so I'm not sure if I've had an entire dream in Japanese. Various phrases do show up a lot, though.
One thing that happens more often in dreams is that I'll find myself enthusiastically explaining a grammatical principle or how to write a certain kanji, or just explaining how the writing system works. This is usually addressed at a family member. I think it's because most of them know absolutely nothing about any Asian languages and think they're all the same, so in real life I'm always suppressing the urge to say something obnoxious when they ask if I'm still studying Chinese... Anyways, it's pretty useful, because after I've "explained" something to someone in a dream, I never forget it afterward. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4995 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 46 of 57 13 September 2010 at 4:16am | IP Logged |
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I've had several dreams set in Italy and in Italian, which is strange considering my Italian knowledge is very basic, although I do have a few Italian friends so I hear it spoken quite frequently. They happened in the weeks following my real-life trip to Italy, and always involved travelling around cities on public transport, probably because my actual trip involved a lot of that. I don't remember the details of the dreams so I can't say how complicated or correct the language was, but I used a lot of basic phrases (where is x, I have gone to place y, they're going to do Z, etc.) in them.
I've never had a full dream in French even though it's my main language of study, but recently I've had a few dreams in which I've spoken a little bit of French. For example last night I had a dream where I was travelling through Europe and stopped by at a shop in France and asked for some saucisson sec. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| markchapman Diglot Groupie Taiwan tesolzone.com/ Joined 5260 days ago 44 posts - 55 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Portuguese | Message 47 of 57 19 September 2010 at 10:56am | IP Logged |
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I've had dreams of speaking in other languages many times. The one I remember most clearly was speaking in
Chinese and English and then trying to translate into Spanish. The effort woke me up. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| McSensei Newbie United States Joined 5044 days ago 28 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 48 of 57 26 September 2010 at 1:00am | IP Logged |
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I dream of speaking in French sometimes. I don't recall if the French is correct or not in my dreams, but I certainly seem more fluent in them so I don't think so, It's probably just a flurry of random French words that I pretend have some coherent meaning. It's weird to explain. It's like, I'm speaking in what's supposed to be French, but what I'm not entirely sure of is if it actually was.
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