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safricanluke

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Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 10:26 am

Afrikaans-

wag- wait
wag- guard

lig-light
lig-lift

bilingual
star(eng)-celebrity
staar(afr)-stare

Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 11:59 am

Lithuanian
žiogelis - safety-pin
žiogelis - grasshopper

Sachi G

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chocosamurai

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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:44 am

beeru and beru[japanese] sound quite similar to me. the first means beer and the other one means building. but im sure if you said it wrong in the sentence the interpreter would make out that you meant something that made sense
with the sentence you were saying

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:53 am

Bilingual

Mien (English)
מיאן - Mi'en - (he) refuses (Hebrew)

savta Gretle

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Vajra B. Hairava

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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 7:58 pm

chocosamurai

beeru and beru[japanese] sound quite similar to me. the first means beer and the other one means building. but im sure if you said it wrong in the sentence the interpreter would make out that you meant something that made sense
with the sentence you were saying

The difference is that for beer, the vowel is elongated. Thats how lots of Japanese words distinguish from each other, by vowel length.

And, uuh, I dunno. Another Japanese one; 'yuki' is snow, and 'yuuki' is courage.

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:00 pm

In japanese ie means "house" and iie means "no".

screamo_rocker_chick

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Rika-san -pear blossom-

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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:18 pm

kimasu (to come)
Kimasu (to wear)

Biyoushi (hair dresser)
Byoushi (death by disease)

eiga (movie)
eigo (english)

nai (Japanese-no/ no to own(plain form))
nine (english-9)
nein (german- No)

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:00 am

become (Englsih)
bekommen - to get (German)

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xxblitzgirlxx

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Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:16 pm

chinese

ma-horse
ma-mom
ma-to signify a question

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:24 am

C'est - that's
Ses - his/her/its (p) possesion? (I don't really know how to explain it)
Ces - these

Moi - me
Mois - month

Sur - on
Sûr - sure

Belle - beautiful (f)
Bêle - bleat

Sa - his/her/its (s) possesion?
Ça - that

Lit - (as in "il lit") read
Lit - bed

Lait - milk
L'ai - (as in "je l'ai") have it

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Je Suis Folie

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iMito

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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 6:47 am

French:

Le feu - Fire
fou - Crazy

This one confused me in Beauty and the Beast. Gaston's assistant is Lefou or the fool.

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:43 am

Homonyms you mean? There's almost only that in French X'D

Ver [ worm ] / Verre [ glass ] / Ver [ verse ] / Vert [ green ]

Or Maire [ mayor ] / Mère [ mother ] / Mer [ sea ]

Par [ by ] / Part [ part ] / pars [ as in I leave ] / part [ as in he leaves ]

For [ eeh... Can't find the translation , 'en son for intérieur' kinda means 'to himself' ] / Fort [ strong ] / Fort [ sort of castle ] / Fore [ as in I drill ]

Suis [ am ] / Suit [ follow ] ( there's always a stupid joke on that surprised Je suis [ as in follow ] Anne, mais je ne suis [ as in be ] pas Anne [ I follow Anne but I'm not Anne , but you could as well understand I'm Anne but I'm not Anne -__- ] )

Plaie [ wound ] / plait [ please ]

Faire [ do / make ] / Fer [ iron ]

@ Je suis folie : you forget the "s'est" [ pronomial form ,like in ' il s'est fait mal : he hurt himself ] and 'sais/'sait' [ I or you know / he knows ] with ces / ses / c'est ;]
So that makes sais / sait / s'est/ c'est / ses / ces surprised

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Je Suis Folie

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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:56 pm

Ah merci beaucoup. Toujours content apprendre. :]

I'm not entirely sure - but isn't there a slight difference between fou and feu?

I think feu has more of an 'uh' sounds and fou is 'oo'
I could be mistaken. It's happened before. Haha.

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:41 pm

Dutch

meer - sea
meer - more

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