the italian are some random words, and in some words she confuses some italian pronunciation with spanish pronunciation. the british accent, sounds bad for me. but overall good video!
Very impressive. Did you learn all these languages before a certain age? Or at school or just on the streets?
i started learning Italian as a 10yr old after moving to Paris, Spanish at 18 after coming to Houston. I don't remember a time when i couldn't speak the others.
this kid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano_Caratti was a friend of mine @ the International School of Paris, obviously fluent in Italian. He constantly bragged about his father being a millionaire... his parents invited me to spend a long week-end w/them in Italy. The first day in Milan, his mom took us to an arcade where i noticed a game of pac-man required something like $250,000 liras!!!!!!! Cristiano, a homeless dude in Italy is a millionaire....putz!
^ Like I said before, I'm fascinated by languages and the polyglots of the world. This is good stuff. Oddly, HOUSTON teaches you Spanish? :grin: With whom do you practice your Spanish? People at Taco stands?
my uncle speaks english, thai, cambodian, laos, vietnamese, mandarin, cantonese, and french. of course, being a chinese cambodian living near the thai/cambodian border helps.
dated a Chilean & an Argentinian who loved going to all the latin parties that were organized in the late 80s & early 90s. Also, started my own business @ 21 & i employ close to 50 spanish speaking workers. I got tired of hearing "djess" as the answer to all my questions. I found it very easy to p-up... I'm surprised at anglos native to this region who failed to p-up even basic Spanish. It baffles me.... just being courteous to strangers & a little curiousity would greatly advance their grasp of the language.
IMO Greek = the most expressive vocabulary (for vulgarities, expressions of love/anger & the cerebral) & my favourite to speak while f***ed up Arabic = the best for telling jokes (and to my ears, the most lyrical). I love its its cadence. English = the most egalitarian (when i was a kid, speaking to an adult in English was very awkward....i always felt i wasn't being as respectful as i should...the language is very casual comparatively)
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I agree whole-heartedly. I myself am fluent in English (obviously since I was born and raised here), Hindi, Gujarati, and Spanish, and I've found that the English language has the least amount of expressions for titles, and simple terms of endearment. In Hindi and Gujarati alone, there are individual words for each and every member of your family, depending on which side of the family (Mother's or Father's) they came from, AND what kind of age difference they hold with you.
Judging from her "American" and English, she's just stereotyping. It seems like the Spanish speakers are impressed so I'm assuming the different dialects were fairly spot on.
250,000 italian liras, at that time, was around 150 US dollars. If you're looking for the most vulgar language in the world, take up Serbian. All of the languages in the countries of ex-Yugoslavia are known for their imaginative insults.
*#%!@!!! just looked it up..... & you're right. I didn't even smoke weed at that time, wtf?! remind me never to testify as an eye witness.
:grin: I went to Italy countless times, so it seemed strange to me when you labeled your friend as a millionaire. The value of 250,000 italian liras never went over 200 USD lol
