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| Umin Triglot Newbie Germany despairedreading.worRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4336 days ago 37 posts - 52 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Japanese Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 9 of 13 22 July 2012 at 4:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe the "oddest" thing to my standards is a Japanese girl who will sometimes post status updates in Norwegian
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5123 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 13 22 July 2012 at 6:41am | IP Logged | ||
She is one of those quiet people out there, who you could pass on the street and think there was nothing about her, yet her life could have made the most amazing of movies. Her grandad abandoned her grandmother, mother and aunts because her grandma had a baby 10 months after he left for a long sea voyage. The event left an emotional scar on the entire family - and left the family in absolute poverty. She grew up, married a baker and had 30 happy years with him, when in one single year, her husband died, her mom died, and the Faroe Island economy went down the drains. Trying desperately to save her husband's bakery she kept it too long, and incurred some major debts that she is still paying off now, decades later, and therefore she is still working at the age of 82. She could probably have gotten some sort of deal with the banks, but she is too proud not to pay her own debts, so 4 times a week she gets up and cleans houses to earn some extra money since she doesn't have much of a pension. When everything was lost in the Faroe Islands she moved to Denmark (in her early 60ies) both to earn money and to save her son from trouble, since he was gay, and 20 years ago that was not too popular in the Faroe Islands. She then met and married a Scot, who was charming and funny, but who also turned out to be abusive, and who tried to kill her son. She divorced him, and is now living alone in Denmark. She is such a strong woman, who got up at 4 every morning to start making breads and cakes for the bakery for 30 years, and who is still working at 82. If I won the lottery, treating her to some luxuries would have been my first act. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 22 July 2012 at 6:43am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4648 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 11 of 13 22 July 2012 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm speechless now.
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4633 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 12 of 13 22 July 2012 at 3:08pm | IP Logged | ||
On an unrelated note: The Faroe Islands still have problems acknowledging the rights of LGBT people. Unfortunately, my only source is this article from the German Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia doesn't report about this phenomenon. As opposed to other Scandinavian countries which are very open about same-sex marriage, the social climate in the Faroes seems to be a lot more conservative. I don't know whether the provinciality or the island position might contribute to a certain mindset which refuses homosexuality, but in the times of the internet that shouldn't be an argument any longer. I'm not saying Faroese people are homophobic, but at least their legislation is somewhat backward. Well, be that as it may. I know I'm not supposed to discuss politics here, so I'm just saying that was a fascinating story you told, Cristina. Thanks a lot. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5713 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 13 of 13 06 August 2012 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used to spend more time on a Yahoo Afrikaans discussion group. One of the members of this group was an attorney who claimed to be native in Japanese and Russian (I can't really vouch for either one as I don't know these languages, but I did see examples of Cyrillic alphabet and Kanji and Kana in some of his posts) and he sometimes wrote in pretty good Dutch as well.
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