In another thread, I wondered whether learning English through comics would make you talk like a weird amalgam of Tharg and Stan Lee.
I am doing a bit of reading Tintin in French and German, and have a couple of other continental comics lying around that I aspire to reading in the original language. Will this lead to me picking up strange language quirks?
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 16 June 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I always figured that comics would be an awesome way to learn a new language. Words and pictures together, often aimed at younger audiences, fun to read. Comics played a big part in teaching me to read English, so I imagine that it works across the board.
That said, I thought this was gonna be a whole different thread. Bozhe moi, tovarich!
― Deric W. Haircare, Monday, 16 June 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
My Dad used to try and teach me french via Les Schtroumpfs and Tintin. I was better at French than any other foreign language so maybe it helped.
Also I agree w/Deric - thanks to comics I now know many exciting foreign words i.e. "Caramba", "Effendi", "Unglaubich!" etc.
― Groke, Monday, 16 June 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
What's German for 'billions of blue blistering barnacles'?
― chap, Monday, 16 June 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"merde"
― M.V., Monday, 16 June 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
There are loads of strange words I have learned through British war comics that I suspect no one has ever actually said:
Lumme!
Sapristi!
Sacre Bleu!
and so on. They were all expletives of the "Drokk!" variety.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 16 June 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
We read Tintin in our Jr. High French class. I'm not sure if it helped me learn French; I think I was too distracted by the fact that Snowy was now named Milou and Thompson and Thomson were now Dupond et Dupont.
― arango, Monday, 16 June 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
mille millions de mille sabords!
― permanent resolution, Monday, 16 June 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I picked up a comic hoping to learn Spanish once, but it turns out it was in Portugese.
― Abbott, Monday, 16 June 2008 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link
ha ha
― energy flash gordon, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks to comics I now know many exciting foreign words i.e. "Caramba", "Effendi", "Unglaubich!" etc
In Rich Koslowski's 'Three Geeks', one of them shows the worth of comics to a German guy he works with by showing him he has learned foreign words such as unglaubich.
― aldo, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 08:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Donner und Blitzen!
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 09:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Any Interlac readers out there? Any interlac SPEAKERS out there?
― Chelvis, Saturday, 21 June 2008 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I can read Interlac, it's just English with SPACE-AGE letterforms.
― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 21 June 2008 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link