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StoveBolts said:
Claudya and Maja Maria
I love the old architecture back there! I would so love to go to Prague just to see the old buildings and churches.
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I've been to Prague once when I was like 16. It was a school trip (I'm originally from Chemnitz in Germany, so Prague isn't very far). The tourist guide rushed us through Prague in a short time we did barely have a chance to actually see (let alone enjoy) any of Prague's beauty, and after the guided tour we had like 3 hours of free time to spend in the city but I was stuck with my friends who were more interested in shopping for sun glasses and looking at guys. :lol

If you ever travel to Prague let me know. I'll meet you there.
 
Claudya said:
I've been to Prague once when I was like 16. It was a school trip (I'm originally from Chemnitz in Germany, so Prague isn't very far). The tourist guide rushed us through Prague in a short time we did barely have a chance to actually see (let alone enjoy) any of Prague's beauty, and after the guided tour we had like 3 hours of free time to spend in the city but I was stuck with my friends who were more interested in shopping for sun glasses and looking at guys. :lol

If you ever travel to Prague let me know. I'll meet you there.
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I think there was a writer that wrote: Boehmen am Meer.

I think you guys write it 'Prag', right?
 
farouk said:
I think in English it would be written 'Woodge', right? :)
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Haha I'd pronounce it like "Ootch". I bet any Polish can tell a native speaker from a foreigner by how they pronounce Łódź.

Never been to Luxembourg, but that would be good for practising my French. I had a pen friend from Luxembourg when I was very young. That was a few years before email got popular.
 
Claudya said:
Haha I'd pronounce it like "Ootch". I bet any Polish can tell a native speaker from a foreigner by how they pronounce Łódź.

Never been to Luxembourg, but that would be good for practising my French. I had a pen friend from Luxembourg when I was very young. That was a few years before email got popular.
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Really? do you remember where in Luxembourg that she came from?

Luxembourg is the country; it's also the capital city; it's also the name of a Belgian province to which the country was joined, until the British decided to split it in 1839.

(A bit like the history of the partition of Poland...)
 
farouk said:
I think there was a writer that wrote: Boehmen am Meer.

I think you guys write it 'Prag', right?
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Yo, it' Prag in German. The letter g is almost always pronounced like in "Prague" and almost never like in "huge" (except for foreign words that we use), so there's no need to add the ue part in German.
 
farouk said:
Really? do you remember where in Luxembourg that she came from?

Luxembourg is the country; it's also the capital city; it's also the name of a Belgian province to which the country was joined, until the British decided to split it in 1839.
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I really don't remember; it's very long ago. Sorry. :-(
 
Claudya said:
Yo, it' Prag in German. The letter g is almost always pronounced like in "Prague" and almost never like in "huge" (except for foreign words that we use), so there's no need to add the ue part in German.
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I guess 'Karl Marx Stadt' went out with the Berlin Wall...when it reverted to Chemnitz... (a bit like Leningrad/St Petersburg).

The Czechs did one even better: when Slovaks complained about how Czechs supposedly treated them, the Czechs replied: "You want independence? okay, bye bye!"
 
A city-wide poll was held in 89 or 90 about whether we should return to the city'S old name or keep the socialist one. I was too young to vote on that issue, but I totally wanted to stick with Karl-Marx-Stadt, because that was the way I knew my home town, Chemnitz just sounded backward and outdated to me. Also I thought it was cool to live in a town which's name contains a cool letter like X.
But the vote turned like 80% for returning to Chemnitz, and I was really sad about that.
 
Claudya said:
A city-wide poll was held in 89 or 90 about whether we should return to the city'S old name or keep the socialist one. I was too young to vote on that issue, but I totally wanted to stick with Karl-Marx-Stadt, because that was the way I knew my home town, Chemnitz just sounded backward and outdated to me. Also I thought it was cool to live in a town which's name contains a cool letter like X.
But the vote turned like 80% for returning to Chemnitz, and I was really sad about that.
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Well, I guess it wasn't a choice between Communist and Nazi associations; it was between Communist and long historical associations; I guess it was Chemnitz long before Adolf and his crowd...
 
Claudya said:
Yeah we wrote in German. That was before I learned English and French.
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I guess you and your friend lost touch? because it would be interesting to know how many languages she now speaks... In Luxembourg, there are the three local ones, plus English, plus the fact the there are huge Portuguese and Italian populations...
 
@Maya Maria: I guess you speak German also? (ein Bisschen?)
 
My relationship with German language is a very long and sad story :D My mom is a German teacher and she's really passionate about it. However, since I was a kid I was forced to learn German and I became really discouraged. I understand a lot, nevertheless, I don't use it very often :(
 
Maja Maria said:
My relationship with German language is a very long and sad story :biggrin My mom is a German teacher and she's really passionate about it. However, since I was a kid I was forced to learn German and I became really discouraged. I understand a lot, nevertheless, I don't use it very often :sad
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Would you have preferred it if she taught po russkiy yazyk? :)

BTW, in your blog photos, is Klaudia your sister? you and she look alike, anyway...
 
Моя бабушка русская! I used to learn Russian for almost 2 years! No, Klaudia is not my sister. She's my very good friend, though!
 
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