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Can you guess the language?
By: Allie Date: December 9, 2018, 6:45 am
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Yep, another random video... I am shameless!
But it was one of my youtube suggestions and it's entertaining.
Especially as some of the languages chosen were not obvious.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haUAyAaBxYg
(How many did you guess?)
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Re: Can you guess the language?
By: Alharacas Date: December 9, 2018, 7:47 am
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Oh, come on! How are you (am I) supposed to guess it's not
Dutch, its Flemish? And that it was not Mandarin Chinese, but
Shanghaian/Shanghaiese? >:(
Amharic? Who's ever heard anyone speaking Amharic?
I got the Portuguese/Brazilian bit, thought the Ukrainian might
be speaking Russian, got the Filipino bit (as in: where do they
speak bits of Spanish plus something else? Ah!), and the guy
from Rwanda actually said where he was from, so...
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Re: Can you guess the language?
By: Nikola Date: December 9, 2018, 11:25 am
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I got Portuguese and Ukrainian, but they were both guesses. It
didn't sound quite like Russian, for example, but I didn't know
for sure it was Ukrainian. About the other languages, I had no
idea.
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Re: Can you guess the language?
By: Allie Date: December 9, 2018, 12:13 pm
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I felt the same at first, Alharacas, and just like Nikola, I
might have got two right (or less) and they were guesses (what
was that stupid language, the first one, derivated from Spanish
to begin with???)
But then if they had put languages such as Italian, German,
Russian and Spanish, it’d have been too easy and what would be
the fun in that?
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Re: Can you guess the language?
By: Alharacas Date: December 9, 2018, 12:54 pm
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Come on, Elf, there's lots of room between Spanish and Amharic.
How about Farsi, Turkish, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Thai? All
languages with many millions of speakers, but comparatively few
learners.
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Re: Can you guess the language?
By: NealC Date: December 9, 2018, 1:37 pm
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I got most of the families right, but I only really guessed
Portuguese.
I watched "City of God" once, so I am a Portuguese expert now.
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Re: Can you guess the language?
By: Allie Date: December 9, 2018, 3:04 pm
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@Neal
“City of God” is probably the most well known Brazilian film
ever produced (having said that, I never watched it).
“Elite Squad” and “Carandiru” are famous too.
I see them as suggestions to students in every language forum
and it puzzles me.
It’s my native language but I don't get everything they say (at
least, at first). It's not exactly everyday language (but then
again, the girl in the video only swore, and those films are
packed with this kind of language)
@Alharacas
I get what you're saying.
But after some initial reluctance, I started liking the fact
they choose different languages, some of which we wouldn't have
heard of.
There are 6000+ languages in the world. Why limit it?
I understand that to some it may be some kind of game where it's
fun to guess as many languages as possible, but I actually liked
to hear these languages whose existence I didn't know of.
At least TO ME learning about the existence of Amharic and
listening to how it sounds was way more interesting than
guessing Japanese, Korean and Arabic (come on, those languages
have been so trendy recently that they are bordering cliché
already)
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Re: Can you guess the language?
By: Nikola Date: December 9, 2018, 3:27 pm
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I too have seen exactly one Brazilian movie. It was a quirky one
called Conception and I saw it at an LGBT film festival in
Prague.
Here's the description: "A group of bored well-off young adults
come up with anarchic concept of Conceptionism, that promotes
absolute looseness when it comes to sex and drugs, but total
rejection of money and ego. However, their movement won't last
long."
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Re: Can you guess the language?
By: NealC Date: December 9, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Going to obscure film festivals and drinking coffee in the
picturesque city center...
THAT is exactly what we Americans think what everyone in Prague
is doing. :-)
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Re: Can you guess the language?
By: SHL Date: December 9, 2018, 4:18 pm
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[quote author=Nikola link=topic=674.msg10091#msg10091
date=1544390858]
I too have seen exactly one Brazilian movie. It was a quirky one
called Conception and I saw it at an LGBT film festival in
Prague.
Here's the description: "A group of bored well-off young adults
come up with anarchic concept of Conceptionism, that promotes
absolute looseness when it comes to sex and drugs, but total
rejection of money and ego. However, their movement won't last
long."
[/quote]
That sounds like the youth movement of late 1960s in San
Francisco. (But I don`t know what Conceptionism means.)
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