Showing posts with label Languages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Languages. Show all posts

Thursday, September 18, 2008

A day in a words collector's life


Sometimes it is hard to be a language junkie.

You try to catch up with all the things you hear in every new place you're visiting, but it is getting harder and harder, when you are still elaborating sentences from your last country.


I want to post here a few snippets from the last couple of months.

Probably that will require a few of googling from you, but I never said it would be easy :-)

There you go!

Ty srdce v srdci mém — ty srdce v srdci všech
Bezbřehý živote, co ve mně máš svůj břeh.

« Reading a poem in translation, » wrote Bialek, « is like kissing a woman through a veil »

Güzele bakmak sevaptır

Plus a random list of words:

  • Mierenneuker (Dutch)

  • Χελιδόνια (Greek)

  • Çiçek (Turkish)

  • Salamati (Farsi)

  • Terviseks (Estonian)

  • НаЗдраве (Bulgarian)

  • Noroc (Rumanian)

  • Megszentségteleníthetetlensegeskedéseitekést (Hungarian)


Have fun :-)

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Oh, I have updated this post, and you can find new photos here.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Language crossing in the Balkans



I've just realised that — so far — I've been in four countries, spanning four language families (Finno-Ugric / Romance / Slavic / Greek) and three different alphabets in a row!

No surprise that I feel so confused …

A note to our fellows western travellers: I'm sorry, but you can't beat the Old Continent!





And now… for something completely different: