I hope the Corsican accent is not that kind of accent people can't take seriously or make fun of?
I'm sure she's talking more in her "old" accent now she's back home, even if I'm also sure that she'll go on hiding it in public... I never really noticed a difference between now and then but I never really paid attention either, I should rewatch some old Lili videos...
Sometimes when you move you just start to adopt a new way of talking even if you don't realise it... I had this for example when I moved away for a bit less than 3 years to do my training... when it was nearly over I already sometimes caught myself thinking differently... sounds odd but when it comes to the time of the day we have two ways in Germany to say "quarter past ..." and "quarter to..." which always causes endless discussions and all my collegues and classmates who didn't know this version from home just couldn't get it! On the other hand... I could always understand perfectly (and their version was new to me either!) what they meant but they never understood me! (and it isn't so hard!) And at the end of my training I caught myself thinking in the "wrong" way and I was like "noooooo how can you?" and when I went back it took a while to erase this info from my brain.
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Originally Posted by lapinschous
Must agree! I remember when I was 8 I had my first german class and they gave us audio cassettes and the voice of the girl sounded so pure and smooth when she was saying "I liebe dich" for the pronuntiation practice that I kept replaying the same sentence for days! ^^
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it's actutally "
Ich liebe dich" but nevermind
but I'm glad to hear that at least some people think that German isn't ugly
In my ears "Ich liebe dich" sounds a bit more beautiful than "I love you" (while je t'aime is the most beautiful out of those three), perhaps it's because that there is one more syllable and it takes a moment longer to say it or something.. but the "ich" might sound not so nice to foreign ears
anyway, talking about ways to say "I love you"... when I was in Paris in January my friend and I we went to Sacre-Coeur and accidentally ran into a very beautiful wall. It's a wall full of ways so say "I love you" in different languages... I took a photo of it but it's not that great... also I concentrated more on the German bits...
I kinda regret now that I didn't take a picture of the whole wall....
http://www.lesjetaime.com/english/index.html
(I also found two German versions of "I love you" there and funnily it weren't even the standard versions of saying it... the first was "Ick liebe dir" (which is a version in a dialect people for example in Berlin would use... so not totally incorrect) and the other was "Ich ha di lieb" which was firstly spelled wrong (it's "Ich hab dich lieb") and secondly - a quick German lesson sorry - even if it means "I love you" when you translate it back to English it doesn't mean the same as the "real" I love you (Ich liebe dich) in German... it's more the way to say "I love you" to your mum or dad, to your brother/sister or to your best friend... it's more than "I like you" but it doesn't mean the same as when you say "I love you" to your boyfriend (well you can say it to your partner too)... but you say it to a person that is very dear to you and that love and means a lot to you, that you would miss a lot.. I think it's mostly said by kids to their parents (or vice versa) and for example by girls to their best friends because if a guy would say that to his best friend it would sound really weird... anyway, I thought this wall was really really lovely
ok this was a long post with a lot of not interesting and totally not necessary babbling about myself but it took ages to type it so it can stay here until someone complains about it.