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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5357 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 25 of 61 03 January 2010 at 6:18am | IP Logged | ||
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I was just leafing through the book Mastering Spanish Vocabulary, and found this example sentence under "a plazos" (in installments):
Pablo pagó el piso a plazos porque no pudo pagarlo al contado. "Pablo paid for the apartment in installments because he couldn't pay for it in cash." Try saying that ten times fast! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TixhiiDon Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5254 days ago 772 posts - 1474 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, German, Russian Studies: Georgian | Message 26 of 61 03 January 2010 at 8:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Here's some Japanese ones for you.
生麦生米生卵 Nama mugi nama gome nama tamago "Raw wheat, raw rice, raw eggs" 青巻紙赤巻紙黄巻紙 Ao maki gami aka maki gami ki maki gami "Blue rolled paper, red rolled paper, yellow rolled paper" (this one is almost a tongue-twister in translation too) 東京特許許可局 Tokyo tokkyo kyoka kyoku "Tokyo Patent Permission Office" (which doesn't really exist). Edited by TixhiiDon on 03 January 2010 at 8:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Morgan89 Newbie United States Joined 5311 days ago 7 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 27 of 61 08 January 2010 at 2:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Spanish: Mimo a mi mamá, mi mamá me mima. (I spoil my mom, my mom spoils me.)
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| Hello Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5210 days ago 40 posts - 45 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 28 of 61 09 February 2010 at 4:01am | IP Logged | ||
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One I know in English:
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Try pronouncing it many times quickly :P. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ember Triglot Groupie CyprusRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5193 days ago 63 posts - 101 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, German Studies: Spanish, French, Greek, Polish | Message 29 of 61 09 February 2010 at 4:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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One I remember from German lessons:
Ich spreche Ich-Laut nicht richtig aus. Es ist aber für mich wichtig, den Ich-Laut richtig auszusprechen. >> I can't pronounce Ich-sound correctly. But it's important for me to pronounce Ich-sound correctly And a few Russian: От топота копыт пыль по полю летит [ot topota kopyt pyl' po poliu letit] >>Clatter of hoofs sends dust flying over a field Шла Саша по шоссе и сосала сушку [shla Sasha po shosse i sosala soushkou] >>Sasha was walking along a road and sucking on a bread ring На дворе трава, на траве дрова [na dvore trava, na trave drova] >>Grass is in the yard, timber is on the grass And a fun one: Сиреневенькая зубовыковыривательница [sireneven'kaya zubovykovyrivatel'nitsa] >>A purplish toothpick - not a regular word for toothpick, though 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rostocpj Pentaglot Newbie United States Joined 5281 days ago 21 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Toki Pona Studies: Esperanto, Indonesian, Shanghainese, Cantonese | Message 30 of 61 10 February 2010 at 3:14am | IP Logged | ||
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One of my favorite French ones is:
-Monsieur Sanssouci, combien coutent ces six saucissons-ci? -Ces six saucissons-ci sont six sous. -Si ces six saucissons-ci sont six sous, ces six saucissons-ci sont trop chers. Trans: -Monsieur Sanssouci, how much are these six sausages here? -These six sausages here are six bucks. -If these six sausages here are six bucks, then these six sausages are too expensive. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cameroncrc Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6307 days ago 195 posts - 185 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Ukrainian | Message 31 of 61 17 February 2010 at 10:50am | IP Logged | ||
A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5637 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 61 27 February 2010 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||
Très bien choisi! Excellent choice! I like this one very much. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful |
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