This is AMAZING Tanya. And the essence of what I think the project we discussed should be about--life and language, can't tell where one begins and the other ends...xo
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, Tanya. I understand what you meant by the tones.
When I was in Chiang Mai, the locals were so friendly they taught me and my partner how to say certain words. I realized that some of the tones were similar to the ones we use in Cantonese, so it was relatively easy for me to pick them up. Some of the words were hilarious to me because they sounded exactly the same as certain swear words in Cantonese. For example, "egg" in Thai sounds like "bastard" in Cantonese; "understand" in Thai sounds like "flirting with a guy," LOL!
That's hilarious :) So many words in so many different languages sound like Russian swear words (maybe because Russian has too many swear words). When I was teaching at the university I had trouble pronouncing the names of some of my Chinese students because they sounded like Russian swear words.
Brilliant!
This is AMAZING Tanya. And the essence of what I think the project we discussed should be about--life and language, can't tell where one begins and the other ends...xo
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, Tanya. I understand what you meant by the tones.
When I was in Chiang Mai, the locals were so friendly they taught me and my partner how to say certain words. I realized that some of the tones were similar to the ones we use in Cantonese, so it was relatively easy for me to pick them up. Some of the words were hilarious to me because they sounded exactly the same as certain swear words in Cantonese. For example, "egg" in Thai sounds like "bastard" in Cantonese; "understand" in Thai sounds like "flirting with a guy," LOL!
That's hilarious :) So many words in so many different languages sound like Russian swear words (maybe because Russian has too many swear words). When I was teaching at the university I had trouble pronouncing the names of some of my Chinese students because they sounded like Russian swear words.
LOL! That's hilarious!!!