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| 5years Diglot Newbie Tokelau Joined 4531 days ago 7 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English, Portuguese* Studies: Italian | Message 9 of 10 07 December 2011 at 6:04pm | IP Logged |
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I love all the stories in here! Ehe.
I think my awkwardest linguistic moment was actually with two languages I know well - Portuguese and English. I was travelling with a friend and we mostly spoke English to each other. At some point, we met a group of travellers who were clearly from abroad as well, and I started listening to their language because I'm creepy/geeky like that. It turned out it was my native language, so of course I had to but in and say hello. My friend was a bit confused but amused. We were all standing there and waiting together, so I got to talk to them a bit. At some point, my friend asked me something and I replied, and then I turned to the other travellers to explain why had suddenly switched to English. Turns out I hadn't switched to English when talking to my friends, just to these strangers who were very confused. What's more, when I realized this and tried to explain, my brain went into linguistic overload and I seemed unable to match the right language to the right people, so I was basically switching the languages around and being unable to stop. My friend was amused, but those girls seemed to think I was strange. Edited by 5years on 07 December 2011 at 6:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mizunooto Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4492 days ago 42 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Mandarin, Japanese, Polish, Kazakh, Malay | Message 10 of 10 20 May 2012 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
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I knew I was going to meet my friend's mother (Koreans) so I wanted to learn how to say "pleased to meet you". Unfortunately it appears that she misunderstood my request for help with this expression because the phrase I practised so well turned out to be basically "pleased to eat you"!! (i.e. "bon appetit", something like 잘 먹겠습니다 ) Edited by mizunooto on 20 May 2012 at 12:15am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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