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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Uschi » Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:30 am

Gillthepainter wrote:I use the German word for lingerie ...... undercrackers.

Dodgy thoughts process, is camera a japanese word. I know robot is Russian.


Camera is Latin for a small room, isn't it???

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Stokey Sue » Fri Apr 06, 2018 12:17 pm

The trouble with "French" in English is you get a lot of false friends (faux amis, that does translate exactly)
The French for cul-de-sac is impasse for example.

And in the other direction French OH caused offence once or twice by use of "eventually" which is not the same as eventuellement in French as she is spoke, so someone would say "We could make a trip to that nice pub" and he would say "Yes, eventually" which would be considered rather a cold response, - he really meant " oh, yes, if we can get it to work out" - I suppose more literally "if we can make an event of it"

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby QinNortham » Fri Apr 06, 2018 12:25 pm

In the UK we use the word "en suite" when booking a room with a bathroom. In France it would usually be une chambre avec salle du bain, never an en suite in sight! Sorry I may have my genders wrong!

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Joanbunting » Fri Apr 06, 2018 2:19 pm

Another favourite of mine in French is sensible - meaning sensitive. The thought of me having sensible feet or the cat having food for sensile cats still creases me up.

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Stokey Sue » Fri Apr 06, 2018 2:34 pm

We've drifted haven't we? Sense and Sensibility after all...

My Turkish neighbour told me I was "not respectable" - fortunately she meant "not responsible" for the latest crisis :D

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Uschi » Fri Apr 06, 2018 6:40 pm

Joanbunting wrote:Another favourite of mine in French is sensible - meaning sensitive. The thought of me having sensible feet or the cat having food for sensile cats still creases me up.


Similar here. "Sensibel" is sensitive. I am have a sensible Natur and a sensible skin. :crying1

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Alexandria » Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:42 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Usche,

Thank you for your very animated feedback ..

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Alexandria » Fri Apr 06, 2018 11:49 pm

False Friends in English and Latin rooted languages are quite humorous .. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

A donkey in English and in Spanish: Burro y Asno and in Italian: Burro = Butter

In English, Embarrassed and in Spanish: Embarazada = Pregnant and Italian: Essere Incinta = To be Pregnant



These are just two of the dilemas when studying languages ..

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby karadekoolaid » Sat Apr 07, 2018 4:29 am

Don´t get me started on "simpático" - or sympathetic? Or not?
Or comprometido - as opposed to compromised :thumbsdown

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Badger's Mate » Sat Apr 07, 2018 8:30 am

I don't use my school French very often, although when I have had to it seems to come back. I have dabbled with German, but it wasn't necessary.

I have got by in Spanish in a few countries but find it quite hard work, perhaps because I didn't start learning until I was an adult. I struggle to pick up conversation, so can generally ask for something but not always grasp the answer, or understand announcements.

It would be fair to say I don't know my Asno from el Burro...

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Uschi » Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:00 am

Oh, don't get me started, either. :lol:

German "Muckefuck" has English speakers in stitches. But it's not something erotic, but a word for "mocca faux" - Ersatz-coffee. :wino

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Alexandria » Sat Apr 07, 2018 11:13 am

Badger Mate, :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Donkey butter, perhaps !!

Ha Ha Ha ..

Just had a hearty chuckle !!! :lol: :lol:

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Alexandria » Sat Apr 07, 2018 11:16 am

Sakkarin & Karakoolaide, :thumbsup :thumbsup


Thank you for all your wonderful " Language False Friend " feedback ..

Yes, there are quite an uncountable number of them ..

Here is a cutie Gentlemen: " Slips " in Spanish are Boxer Shorts in English !!!! :lol: :clap :lol: :clap :lol: :clap

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Renée » Sat Apr 07, 2018 11:15 pm

What a hilarious thread this has become! I am still giggling at your comments, Uschi! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Stokey Sue » Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:13 am

[quote="Alexandria"

Here is a cutie Gentlemen: " Slips " in Spanish are Boxer Shorts in English !!!! :lol: :clap :lol: :clap :lol: :clap

Have wonderful weekend ..[/quote]
Slip has quite a few meanings in English, a slip is a small piece of paper, a slip can be a little fall, a slip can also be a little bit of a plant (cutting) from which you grow a new one.
But I guess you mean this one :D (the joke works in French too)

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Alexandria » Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:49 am

Sue, :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


In Spanish the word "slips" has only one meaning: Men´s Boxer Shorts ..

In English, a slip ( the noun, not the verb to slip ) is a piece of clothing women used to wear under their dresses or skirts .. There are " full slips " like in your photograph and " half slips " for skirts ..



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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Renée » Sun Apr 08, 2018 9:20 am

I'm just wondering how on earth we learned to speak English!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Alexandria » Sun Apr 08, 2018 11:08 am

Renée, :lol: :lol:

Quite a humorous thread .. :lol: :lol:

When I originally posted the thread, I had not really thought it would be successful ..

However, it turned out fabulously .. :thumbsup :thumbsup

Have a lovely day .. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Pampy » Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:34 pm

Alexandria wrote:Sue, :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


In Spanish the word "slips" has only one meaning: Men´s Boxer Shorts ..

In English, a slip ( the noun, not the verb to slip ) is a piece of clothing women used to wear under their dresses or skirts .. There are " full slips " like in your photograph and " half slips " for skirts ..




As Sue rightly said, there are several meanings for the noun "slip" in English, not just the underwear.

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Re: Foreign Languages: Daunting for you or Ease ?

Postby Sakkarin » Sun Apr 08, 2018 1:30 pm

Uschi wrote:German "Muckefuck" has English speakers in stitches. But it's not something erotic, but a word for "mocca faux" - Ersatz-coffee. :wino


I used to get clouted round the head regularly in German lessons, as I could not help myself from laughing out loud every time a funny-sounding word was introduced. Even the most innocent of words had me in stitches - I remember "kugelschreiber" and "radiergummi" both getting me a slap, and I think I may even have got a detention the lesson they introduced "art" into our German vocabulary...

Our German teacher was Irish, and his German had a particular Irish twang to it which made the words sound even funnier.

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