MySpace: A Place to Learn New Languages


October 15th, 2007

My brother has a hobby of teaching himself to speak different languages. When we lived at home, if he was bored, he would go buy a book about speaking Polish or Chinese or German… Now that he’s a student at an Ivy League university, he’s taking time each semester to take classes on a new language. This semester he’s learning Portuguese. If he wanted to, I think my brother could have more MySpace friends than Tila Tequila.

I have a question, though. Does friendship mean the same thing in every language and culture represented in the MySpace community? If not, is MySpace really just a collection of smaller social, more culture-specific networks, or can we truly continue look at it as the social behemoth it seems to be? I’ll ask my brother- in English…

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MySpace Speaking Portuguese, Russian, Polish and More

October 14, 2007 — 06:06 PM PDT — by Kristen Nicole — Share This

MySpace is expanding its global reach by launching localized language-specific versions in Brazil, India, Poland and Russia. These are scheduled to be rolled out over the next four months. With 24 versions in 20 countries already, MySpace is the leader of the pack when it comes to localized versions of its social network. Its largest global presence can be seen in the UK an Germany, after its domination in the US, of course.

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3 Responses to “MySpace: A Place to Learn New Languages”

  1. Warzabidul on October 17, 2007 12:45 pm

    French words for friends:

    Ami, a friend, someone you get along with.

    Copain, also means friend but made up of two words. Co taken as “with” and “pain” as bread. Literally it means someone you share bread with but can be taken to mean someone you share many more things with.

    It’s from medieval times when everyone sitting at the table would use bread as a plate rather than other materials. It would soak up the juices and then you eat it.

    That’s it for now. Can’t help with other languages.

  2. Tila Nguyen on December 5, 2007 9:02 pm

    Hey!…I Googled for tila tequila video, but found your page about ce: A Place to Learn New Languages at Social Honeycomb…and have to say thanks. nice read. Tila Nguyen

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