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Did anyone ever lean over and with musty breath whisper softly in your ear "I love you" ? Well maybe they did and you just didn't know what they said. Below are listed ten times that sentence in ten different languages. If you can guess the language five times correctly you will be conjsidered an expert linguist in this crowd I bet. I will list the key in a post below numbered as below. Report honestly and we'll see who the international romancers really are.

1. Szeretlek
2. Tangsinul sarang ha yo
3. Ana b'hibbik
4. Toi yeu em
5. Chan rate khun
6. ninikupenda
7. Ta gra agam ort
8. wo ai ni
9. Tora dust midaram
10. Ayor anosh ni

Since many of those languages do not use the same alphabet that we do the expressions are vocal transliterations only.
Answers in post below: Be honest in your report.

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Here are the answers per "Native Tongues" by Charles Berlitz:

1. Hungarian
2. Korean
3. Arabic
4. Vietnamese
5. Thai
6. Swahili
7. Gaelic
8. Mandarin Chinese
9. Farsi (Persian)
10. Navajo

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8's chinese, my friend says that to me all the time, she rules almost as much as oxsan.

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I don't heare those but I hear 'Ti amo' a lot.

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I guessed #10 correctly. That's it. I don't know dick about the Navajo language, but I think maybe my correct guess was a residual memory from Inky's thread a while back about the windtalkers.

Amen.

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I knew #8.

Didn't have a clue on the others.

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I knew the Chinese one, learned it in a high school Spanish class of all places. I also knew the Swahili one...I have a cool gf.

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ai shiteru

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quote:

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Originally posted by wonderaz
I don't heare those but I hear 'Ti amo' a lot.

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This is what I hear a lot:

gao fouk yers lef

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I knew the Korean one. The "Mandarin Chinese" I had guessed as "Chinese", does that count?

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