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To: JRandomFreeper

Speaking of how languages sound, I’ve watched a number of Swedish movies recently. The me Swedish sounds very much like English, if you don’t pay attention to the words.

Certainly much more so than German, French or Spanish.


16 posted on 03/05/2014 7:03:47 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
It gets worse with more glögg. The next morning, you have to explain that you are already married, as they hand you back the passenger door to the boss's Lexus.

Swedes can party.

Yes, I have red hair. No, I'm not related to Loki.

/johnny

17 posted on 03/05/2014 7:06:55 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Sherman Logan
I’ve watched a number of Swedish movies recently. The me Swedish sounds very much like English, if you don’t pay attention to the words.

I noticed that recently myself, but couldn't get my wife to agree to it.

Also, predictably, my wife who speaks Hindi didn't think the Hindi impression in the video sounded anything like Hindi (I assume because she was listening for actual words which the rest of us weren't).

I thought the Spanish and Portuguese and UK English and East Asian were very good.

21 posted on 03/05/2014 9:04:57 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Sherman Logan

Is Liv Ullman still around? If she is, she may be tired of talking about what it was like working under the direction of Ingmar Bergman. I think that really old guy who was in the Seventh Seal is still alive. He had the look of a Prometheus in much of his work. Who knows, the man could have been a total clown off camera.


25 posted on 03/06/2014 12:33:50 AM PST by lee martell
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