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sophieb 
Francia
Local time: 18:18
inglés al francés
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| a question of music | Mar 3, 2008 |
these are my favourites, only because of their sound, be it funny or just beautiful to me
French : tintinnabuler
German : Eichhörnchen
English : buoyancy
not from my languages
Italian : rinascimento
Portugese : saudade
| | | | Veronica Manole (X)
Rumania
Local time: 19:18
portugués al rumano
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| I like "criança" in Portuguese | Mar 3, 2008 |
I don't know why
| | | | | My favourite words | Mar 3, 2008 |
Catalan
"Ploure a bots i barrals": "To rain cats and dogs"
Spanish
"charnego": A foreigner not linguistically adapted to the Catalan speaking community. It is not a pejorative term and many writers and politicians claim their condition of "charnego". We find the origin of this word in the Spanish word "lucharniego" (a kind of dog that hunts at night).
English
"hiccough": I like the music of its pronunciation.
French... See more Catalan
"Ploure a bots i barrals": "To rain cats and dogs"
Spanish
"charnego": A foreigner not linguistically adapted to the Catalan speaking community. It is not a pejorative term and many writers and politicians claim their condition of "charnego". We find the origin of this word in the Spanish word "lucharniego" (a kind of dog that hunts at night).
English
"hiccough": I like the music of its pronunciation.
French
"mon amour": Very romantic. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Réka Kovács
Rumania
Local time: 19:18
inglés al húngaro
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| favourite name | Mar 3, 2008 |
I have a favourite name in my mothertongue (Hungarian). It is "Kincső". It comes from "kincs" that means treasure, and it sounds like it too. I just love it.
Someone wrote that he/she likes "smooth" in English. I love that word also. And there is another one: "cristal clear"
I think the best sounded Romanian word is "uliţă" which means alley, alleyway.
Thanks for making it possible to sh... See more I have a favourite name in my mothertongue (Hungarian). It is "Kincső". It comes from "kincs" that means treasure, and it sounds like it too. I just love it.
Someone wrote that he/she likes "smooth" in English. I love that word also. And there is another one: "cristal clear"
I think the best sounded Romanian word is "uliţă" which means alley, alleyway.
Thanks for making it possible to share...
[Edited at 2008-03-03 14:37]
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| my favorite words in English and Japanese | Mar 3, 2008 |
I like the word 'collywobbles' in English. It just sounds so silly that you can't help but smile when you say it.
As for Japanese, a lot of their onomatopoeia words are fun to say because the sounds usually repeat themselves, like にこにこ (nikoniko, used to say someone is smiling). I also like the word for 'magnifying glass', 虫眼鏡 (mushimegane) because literally it means "bug glasses".
I also like the word Bär (bear) in German because it looks different from ... See more I like the word 'collywobbles' in English. It just sounds so silly that you can't help but smile when you say it.
As for Japanese, a lot of their onomatopoeia words are fun to say because the sounds usually repeat themselves, like にこにこ (nikoniko, used to say someone is smiling). I also like the word for 'magnifying glass', 虫眼鏡 (mushimegane) because literally it means "bug glasses".
I also like the word Bär (bear) in German because it looks different from the English but sounds very much the same. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Fingerspitzengefühl | Mar 4, 2008 |
German : Fingerspitzengefühl : sure insticnt, flair
French : truc (you can use this word tvery often when you don't know a word and you want to complete your sentence; expression: 'ne bouge pas' if you want to say, wait a second...
Danish : mormor, morfar, farmor, farfar : such a logic way of thinking to express who is your grandmam/-dad from mother's side and father's side!
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