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deathchibi
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04 Apr 2008, 1:34 am

baka= idiot in japanese



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04 Apr 2008, 3:06 am

Nico wrote:
Wunderbar - 'wonderful' in German
Chaud - 'Hot' in French
Froid - 'Cold' in French
Belle - 'Beautiful' in French

Wunderbar is a good one



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04 Apr 2008, 4:19 am

I don't know why but I love the phrase 'c'est difficile' (it's difficult). It seems to be a phrase which covers everything so I use it all the time in my french lessons.



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04 Apr 2008, 4:47 pm

Spaseba and Da Svedanya . (Thank You and Goodbye in Russian)


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04 Apr 2008, 5:33 pm

English is foreign to me you know, and Danish is foreign to most of you, but of words that are neither danish nor english I like:

Video - Latin: To see
Audio - Latin: To hear
Ni hao - Chinese: You good technically, but used in the sense how are you?
Verdamt - German: Damnit
Bambino - Itallian: Child


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04 Apr 2008, 8:16 pm

Apres moi, le deluge-After me, the flood (French)
Katze (German for cat)
Neko (Japanese for cat)
Kissa (Finnish for cat)
Gato/Gatito (Spanish for cat/kitten)



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04 Apr 2008, 9:56 pm

Voila ! !!


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04 Apr 2008, 10:49 pm

Blitzkrieg
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Stilyagi (basically Soviet greasers)
had a bunch of stuff like this/.

(*chan stuff)
desu
noko
sage


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05 Apr 2008, 3:52 am

AndersTheAspie wrote:
Video - Latin: To see
Audio - Latin: To hear


its "i see" and "i hear".
to see means videre and to hear means audire
;)



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05 Apr 2008, 5:19 am

gekitsu wrote:
AndersTheAspie wrote:
Video - Latin: To see
Audio - Latin: To hear


its "i see" and "i hear".
to see means videre and to hear means audire
;)


Oh right:
Video Audio
Vides Audis
Videt Audit

Videmus Audimus
Videtis Auditis
Vident Audent

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Katze (German for cat)
Neko (Japanese for cat)
Kissa (Finnish for cat)
Gato/Gatito (Spanish for cat/kitten)


Kat is danish fot Cat, Killing is danish for Kitten. (Which I found very strange when I learned what it means in english 8O )


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05 Apr 2008, 6:02 am

The Arabic greeting salaam alaykum. :)



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05 Apr 2008, 9:42 am

Siamkatze-German for Siamese cat
Hund-German for dog
Dachshund-badger dog

Lince (Spanish for "Lynx")



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05 Apr 2008, 12:15 pm

'Yoi Shousa!' - What the Tachikomas say in Ghost in the shell, meaning something like 'affermative Major!' in Japanese.

It's not that foreign, but I do say "aye" quite alot. (Scottish/north England for 'yes' or 'I agree') It's because I talked to a certain northener over MSN alot (I'm in east England), and 'aye' slowly got into my subconscious and then conscious vocabulary. I don't even talk to that person anymore, but I still use it because I'm so used to it now. I've been corrupted! :o



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05 Apr 2008, 12:41 pm

9CatMom wrote:
Siamkatze-German for Siamese cat
Hund-German for dog
Dachshund-badger dog

Lince (Spanish for "Lynx")


In my native language:
Kot syjamski - Siamese cat
Pies - dog
Jamnik - badger dog
Rys (written without a diacritic sign) - lynx
:D

I like the German word wunderkind. In English I like the word virulent.



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05 Apr 2008, 7:20 pm

I like certain phrases in Spanish because they rhyme nicely:


-De colores del los flores en la primavera
-Los ojos rojos
-Paco es flaco y un poco loco
- Yo se, Jose
- Es tu y yo, amigo


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06 Apr 2008, 11:29 am

I like to speak French. I am in French Immersion and mostly outside of school when I speak French noone understands me. Au Revoir.


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