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wow, funny technique Andy! thanks for adding more tempux.edax.rerum, as Mr. Zhang said we are really creative pepole when it comes to language! :D
Evil Eye, you got a point there! I do think some swearing can add meaning to our feelings, but I also know too many people who just swear the whole time without giving it a real meaning.
Emily, haha, swearing in sleep? Ge have to study that! And Joshua Nelsen, swearing in Korean sounds fun, I still remember those days back in South Korea, *cries*
Wanda Schrijivers-E, I know exactly what you mean! That might be what I feel too in my native language!
0 votedAugust 20, 20170Michael, haha, trying to catch me, huh! I never do it though I have done it a couple of times but not because of anger but making fun of a situation :D (I could count those situations with 1 hand though). Interesting how you mention it can be something emotional swearing. I think it's an interesting topic. A friend of mine told me he doesn't trust people who don't swear, but as charlescuy said, sometimes you end up swearing over different situations instead of using specific words. I like that point too, it's like when you end up saying: "Oh, I'll take that thing" instead of using the proper name.
Personally, whenever I swear in other languages I use neutral words such as the s word in German and the f in English or stuff like that. I never use words that could be offensive to a particular person. There are a lot of swearing femenine words in Spanish while their masculine version means something positive, which is crazy in terms of genre and linguistics. As Paul said before, Spanish people use "coño" a lot, which makes reference to a female part and you also have "coñazo" which means "extremely boring" in Spanish while the masculine version means cool.
Michael Chambers, do you mean things such as "shut the front door" or "what the heck", "mothertruckers", "motherlovers"? Haha I'm actually having a lot of fun looking for these words!
0 votedAugust 19, 20170- Swearing and languages: Do you swear in one language but not in the other one?
Hey italki community!
As a Spanish native speaker I hardly ever swear (almost never, I would say) but when learning other languages I realize I tend to swear. This happens particularly with English, although with German, for example, I would say something considered really light when frustrated. I'm quite amazed by this and I was wondering If other people experience this too since, you know, as they say, "a different language, a different personality". Could it be that the people I speak with in English, they swear a lot? (but Spanish people swear a lot too!) or maybe because certain swearings in this language aren't considered as hard as their literal equivalents in Spanish? or maybe I just acquire a new personality every language I learn!
What about you? Random thoughs welcome!
August 19, 2017264 - About videogames for learning languages and a proposition for a hilarious German/Spanish practice session.
Hey italki community!
I've read a lot about movies and books for learning languages but what about videogames? Have you ever tried playing videogames in another language? If so, could you share your experience? Do you have any game recommendation? do you prefer solo adventures or cooperative / competitive games?
I think I've played a lot of adventure games in English and some in French so far. Currently, I'm playing a graphic adventure in German. At the beginning it was strange 'cause I was pretty lost, but I'm starting to get used to it. Graphic adventures contain a lot of text so I wouldn't recommend it for beginners.
I believe this method is not really used when it comes to learning languages since a lot of people stop playing videogames at a certain point, but those who still play, I'm sure it's a powerful tool: you have text (reading), dialogues / voice (listening), sometimes you have to make decisions (understanding) or you can cooperate with other players by voice (speaking).I want to speak today about "Keep talking and nobody explodes" a game where one person is using a computer and the other has a written manual full of instructions and symbols. The person in front of the screen will find herself/himself in a room with a bomb. The bomb will have a timer and lots of things such as wires, colors, numbers... The person in front of the screen has to describe the bomb and the other person has to look on the manual for the correct way of deactivating each part. It's a hilarious game based on communication.
I've played that game so much with a friend up to a point where we became super efficient and finished all levels and even created harder bombs. We used to play in English but I can't stop thinking how cool of a language practice this would be since you need to describe a lot of things and communicate things properly under some stressful but funny conditions --nobody wants the timer to go 0! If you want to know more about this game you can look on youtube, there are a lot of funny videos about this game.I encourage everybody to try videogames or even this videogame (which is more like a boardgame actually) and I would be up for deactivating some bombs with you in Spanish or German any time! Just let me know. I think it can be a really fun experience (at least we'll learn the colors and numbers by heart and how to say "wires", believe me :D)
August 16, 201724 For me, there is no such a thing as "the most beautiful language". I think every language is amazing, not just pronunciation but also the specific vocabulary you can find in some languages and might not exist in others, how grammar works, etc. If we talk about how a language sounds, I've always been quite attracted to Japanese and German (yeah, that language a lot of people call aggressive). Also, spoken Korean sounds great to me but I can't really stand when it's singing. But like, it's crazy, when you get into linguistics and you read so much about how different languages are... every single one becomes so special!
/romanticmode{off} :D0 votedAugust 16, 20170¡Hola Susan!
Me encantaría tener tiempo para ponerte todas las que hay por mi mente, pero te escribo una de mis favoritas que usamos en España:
Picarse
Me he picado contigo porque no me has contestado.
¿Ya estás picado otra vez?
¡Eres una picona/ un picón!
En verdad el grado de ira suele ser bastante bajo cuando decimos que estamos picados y normalmente suele ser un "calentón". Al principio estamos muy enfadados pero se pasa rápido.
¡Un saludo picones!
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