Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

Original post by EmilyJayne14

Do recordings of random languages! I will if you do :tongue:

Okay!

I'll say the same sentence in different languages... :awesome:

"I can't speak -language- but I want to learn!"

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

Okay!

I'll say the same sentence in different languages... :awesome:

"I can't speak -language- but I want to learn!"

That's a good idea actually, to say the same sentence- I was just going to say something random!

For French and Italian I might say 'I've learnt ___ for ___ years, but I could still improve!'

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Original post by EmilyJayne14

That's a good idea actually, to say the same sentence- I was just going to say something random!

For French and Italian I might say 'I've learnt ___ for ___ years, but I could still improve!'

I can't thing of a random funny sentence I can say in all languages...

My accents are terrible though, seeing as I haven't spoken them to people :hide:

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

I can't thing of a random funny sentence I can say in all languages...

My accents are terrible though, seeing as I haven't spoken them to people :hide:

I know that my Spanish accent will be terrible- the teacher said it was good in Year 9 but at least a year has passed since then!!

For my French and Italian sentences I'm also saying some random words at the end :tongue:

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Original post by EmilyJayne14

Just recorded one... The Italian was terrible! :facepalm:

deleted that :frown:

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

Just recorded one... The Italian was terrible! :facepalm:

deleted that :frown:

Original post by EmilyJayne14

Haha what did/would you guys say?

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

Just recorded one... The Italian was terrible! :facepalm:

deleted that :frown:

Which languages are you doing?

I'm doing Italian, French, Spanish, Esperanto, Mandarin and German, and I would do Welsh but I have no idea how to say 'I can't speak Welsh, but I want to learn'

The Esperanto one is kinda rubbish because there isn't anything in the sentence that sounds particularly Esperanto-y!

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Original post by AquisM

Haha what did/would you guys say?

I was saying how I cant speak said language but wanna learn... I rambled in French saying there was a time when I'd know what to say and knew a lot of words but now... Nothing :emo:

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Original post by L'Evil Fish

I was saying how I cant speak said language but wanna learn... I rambled in French saying there was a time when I'd know what to say and knew a lot of words but now... Nothing :emo:

Lol I started talking to myself in Spanish only to find out the extent of the language I have forgotten... I failed to conjugate the verb ser correctly after 4 attempts :colondollar:

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Original post by AquisM

Haha what did/would you guys say?

I'm planning mine (I can't do things like this spontaneously) and I'm going to say...

Italian and French: 'I've studied ___ for ___ years, but I am not fluent and want to improve' (plus some random words/sentences on the end that I like :tongue:

)

Spanish: 'I studied Spanish for two years, but I want to learn it again'

German, Esperanto and Mandarin: 'I can't speak ___ but I want to learn'

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Original post by AquisM

Lol I started talking to myself in Spanish only to find out the extent of the language I have forgotten... I failed to conjugate the verb ser correctly after 4 attempts :colondollar:

I've forgotten them too! :eek:

my French though :cool:

I haven't forgotten!

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Okay, here's me speaking French:
https://soundcloud.com/emilyj14-1/speaking-french

And me speaking Italian:
https://soundcloud.com/emilyj14-1/speaking-italian

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Original post by EmilyJayne14

Okay, here's me speaking French:
https://soundcloud.com/emilyj14-1/speaking-french

And me speaking Italian:
https://soundcloud.com/emilyj14-1/speaking-italian

Wow! What did you say, that last bit in Italian? Non l'ho capito.

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Original post by AquisM

Wow! What did you say, that last bit in Italian? Non l'ho capito.

Precipitevolissimevolmente :tongue:

The longest Italian word

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Vionar

Original post by L'Evil Fish

I can read it :smug:

I used to be able to say it!

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Here are the rest of my recordings...

Spanish-https://soundcloud.com/emilyj14-1/speaking-spanish
Esperanto- https://soundcloud.com/emilyj14-1/speaking-esperanto
German- https://soundcloud.com/emilyj14-1/speaking-german
Mandarin- https://soundcloud.com/emilyj14-1/speaking-mandarin

I don't think any of them are great, but the German and Mandarin ones are the worst!

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Original post by EmilyJayne14

Precipitevolissimevolmente :tongue:

The longest Italian word

What does it mean?!

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Original post by AquisM

What does it mean?!

Erm, as fast as a very fast thing?? Something like that? We got the gist of what it meant but we never knew for sure :tongue:

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Original post by EmilyJayne14

Actually you have one the best accents for Mandarin I've heard in a foreigner (not kidding at all). Your tones were almost perfect and your pronunciation was very good! :biggrin:

In fact, I probably have a worse accent than you since I haven't spoke a word of Mandarin in a year (but I'm a Southerner so my accent's horrible anyway).

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