unusual, isn't it? Languages fascinate me a lot. As an immigrant, I'm forced to use more than one - with the family and polish friends I do speak in Polish, then I commonly use English to communicate with most of my friends in Argentina, and finally, when someone does not know English, I speak Spanish. What I have noticed is that language slightly changes the personality - it can be more or less optimistic, more or less aggressive, more or less calm or toned, or... a lot of tiny things that change us on a limited scale.
I never had a closer experience with the non-European language though. Sure, I was in Oman, but I used exclusively English then. The rest of the countries I have visited were in Europe or Latin America, so all from the same cultural roots. Mapudungun is different and maybe that's why it fascinates me so much
M. Lomonosov said :"In German you have to talk to the enemy, in French - with a woman, in Italian - with God, in English with a friend, in Italian with God. And you can speak Russian with everyone."
Russian, I know very, very little, but obviously, when we would speak slowly, I'd understand 95% of all what's said, so that would confirm "you can speak Russian with everyone" :)
unusual, isn't it? Languages fascinate me a lot. As an immigrant, I'm forced to use more than one - with the family and polish friends I do speak in Polish, then I commonly use English to communicate with most of my friends in Argentina, and finally, when someone does not know English, I speak Spanish. What I have noticed is that language slightly changes the personality - it can be more or less optimistic, more or less aggressive, more or less calm or toned, or... a lot of tiny things that change us on a limited scale.
I never had a closer experience with the non-European language though. Sure, I was in Oman, but I used exclusively English then. The rest of the countries I have visited were in Europe or Latin America, so all from the same cultural roots. Mapudungun is different and maybe that's why it fascinates me so much
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M. Lomonosov said :"In German you have to talk to the enemy, in French - with a woman, in Italian - with God, in English with a friend, in Italian with God. And you can speak Russian with everyone."
Da :D
Russian, I know very, very little, but obviously, when we would speak slowly, I'd understand 95% of all what's said, so that would confirm "you can speak Russian with everyone" :)