Brazilian Language and Some Others

[tigrenok]

Shortly before we had moved here, my "owl" (i.e.   Ça va ,  i.e. my cellphone :) brought me an ad.

Ads can be different. For example, I really like coffee ads. Mood rings ads are also quite interesting. The most amazing ad I have recently seen was the ad with a kitten, but I saw it only once. I don't remember that it was about, but the Kitten itself could get the highest grade even chez Federico Fellini.

However, the ad mentioned above impress me in the very heart: first of all, it was in German. The second... they decided to engage me with the best five brides of canton Schwyz.

Just don’t ask me how they had found it - who are the best five: was it a beauty contest or something else... I didn't even immediately realize that they were advertising. I thought at first that they were talking about a local singing school. Well, I was looking for a dance school, so why not offer me to sing a little? I even remembered singer Rita, who tried to enter a dance school when she was young but failed her dance exam. And all this why, as the poor donkey Eeyore used to ask...


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You don't need to learn German to know that German words and titles can be terribly long. It's pretty different from other languages, but I used to read picking up the beginnings of words. I understood it a lot of time ago, when some of my classmates didn't believe me that I read so fast as I did:- You surely read books by diagonal! - They told me.

No, it was the famous "diagonal" method, but I didn't read word after word either. Instead of it I read the beginning of a word and then move on to the next one.

That time my eyes caught the syllable "sing",  so I decided that they encourage to sing, why not :)


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Once upon a time, then your young Tiger was invited to visit a home of one couple from Brazil. The conversation easily moved from one subject to another, until the hostess of the house was suddenly asked:
- But at home you with your son do speak Brazilian?

Then, as I have already noticed, your Tiger was very young and still did not know how to use "Selensio" on herself.  Therefore she had already spread her mustache to find out from the questioner where she had got this very "Brazilian language". However, your Tiger was saved by the hostess, who politely remarked that yes, she did speak Portuguese with her son.


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Many years later, after moving to Geneva, I strolled up into a Swiss forum, where the "Swiss language" was mentioned. Your Tiger chuckled a little bit, but said nothing (at the forum itself, I meant). And it was really good: now I know for sure that it exists! Although there is one mistake in the previous sentence: not "it", but "they". I have already been told that even in Zurich they speak a different language!

And what about the Brazilian one...
Once upon a time I began to learn French using Duolingo (with Professor Duo  - Without in-dem-ni-ty. In other words, gratis, free of charge). In those days, Professor Duo taught five languages through English, and each of the five languages went with its own flag: German came with the flag of Germany, French was titled by the flag of France, Italian was taught under the flag of Italy, to get to Spanish part you had to push on the flag of Spain, and, finally, Portuguese... Portuguese language was hidden under the flag of Brazil.
Maybe it hinted that the Brazilian language did exist. After all, when we lived in Belmont, one proud-of-herself Spanish signora-dove told me that Americans speak incorrect Spanish in the US, and therefore they give the wrong honey do not understand each other.