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Excellent answers here ! Let me add a little bit of mine.Look ar this sentence I created for you, as an example (pretty much up to date !) :“Les nombreux Britanniques qui habitent en France, et qui y vivent depuis des années, demeurent inquiets quant à savoir s’ils pourront y rester après le Brexit.”OK, I am not Balzac… but I tried with the constraint of using your four words ! Even if it is usually said that there are no words that are 100% synonyms : in my sentence, you might correctly replace “habitent” by “vivent”, and vice versa, without any significant change in the meaning. Same thing applies with “demeurent” and “restent”. BUT these are the only possible exchanges !…, well, in this very example (although demeurent could be used in the first half, but would not be very common).So, here : habiter = vivre, and demeurer = rester. (Let me add that habiter and vivre, here, could also be replaced by résider, with, according to the context, could add an “administrative” nuance.Did you get it ? All right, one step further…In my example, I used rester and demeurer in the sense of, basically, “to remain”, “to still be”, “to stay”. But demeurer is also used in “French-in-France” (no idea in Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, etc.) to pinpoint the place where you inhabit, although getting a little bit outdated, like the noun demeure.Vivre, as you know, is also the contrary of “being dead”, with almost all the variations of “to live”. J’ai vécu chez mes parents jusqu’ à vingt ans, à l’époque nous vivions heureux, je vivais dans l’insouciance”, etc. Habiter is usually a little more precise when it comes to : where? Vous vivez à Londres ? Ah, je connais bien. Et vous habitez où à Londres ? makes good sense in French.The same applies with : vivre avec quelqu’un and habiter avec quelqu’un : to share one’s life with someone, to live with someone in the same place. It generally means the same, but the second one is a little bit more “factual”.Many apologies for my lack of precision in English (feel free to edit, I will thank you), but I hope I was of some help here for you !

I have a collection of words of exactly that: pseudo-cognates, that is, words with the same pronunciation and the same meaning in different languages which are unrelated. Today I went through my list again and made a blog post out of it, which you can read here:http://n-true.livejournal.com/569966.htmlFeel free to post further suggestions or corrections or comments in my blog or here. Just because people are often too lazy to click links, I'll copy the list here:Awngi: agwo [agʷo] = waterSpanish: agua [agwa] = waterBeria/Zaghawa: áɪ̄ [aɪ̯] = IEnglish: I [aɪ̯] = IAncient Greek: ἀεί [aei̯] = always (Modern Greek pronunciation: [ai])Icelandic: æ [ai̯] = alwaysWelsh: ac [ak] = andWolof: ak [ək] = andAtakapa: ak [ak] = waterProto-North-Omotic: *ak' [akʼ] = waterBole: àmma [amːa] = waterCherokee: ᎠᎹ [ama] = waterArabic: انت [æntæ] = you (sg. m.)Japanese: あんた [anta] = you (sg. m/f)English: bad [bæd] = badPersian: بد [bæd] = badPersian: بله [bæle] = yesSpanish: vale [bale] = okayEnglish: die [dɑɪ̯] = to dieProto-Miao-Yao: *dai [dai̯] = to dieBulgarian: ден [dɛn] = dayChechen: ден- [den-] = day (oblique stem)Dogon: di [di] = waterEastern Magar: ? [di] = waterEnglish: dog [dɔɡ] = dogMbabaram: dog [doɡ] = dogBreton: ha [hʌ] = andGuaraní: ha [ha] = andGerman: habe [haːbə] = to have (IMP form)Latin: habe [habe] = to have (IMP form)English: he [hi] = heCornish: hi [hi] = sheHebrew: היא [hi] = shePirahã: hi [hi] = he, she, itTsez: ило [ilo] = thereWambule: इलो [ilo] = thereHurrian: ? [ini] = thisIndonesian: ini [ini] = thisDargi (Mekegi dialect): ит [it] = he, she, itEnglish: it [ɪt] = itRussian: я [ja] = IMien: ya [ja] = IDumi: ये [je] = also, tooMandarin: 也 [i̯ɤ] = also, tooZuñi: k'a [kˀa] = water|Haasi: ka [ka] = waterEnglish: cock [kʰɒk] = penis (vulg.)Vietnamese: cặc [kɑˀk] = penis (vulg.)German: kann [kʰan] = (I) canMandarin: 堪 [kʰan] = can, to be ableDagaare: koɔ [koɔ̯] = waterGhari: ko [ko] = waterMapudungun: ko [ko] = waterRussian: коси- [kʌsʲi-] = to mow (stem form)Tsez: коси- [kʰɔ̝si] = to mow (stem form)Belhare: लेक्- [lɛk-] = to lick (stem form)German: leck- [lɛk-] = to lick (stem form)Ancient Greek: λίᾱν [liaːn] = too muchFinnish: liian [liːɑn] = too muchHawaiian: like [like] = like, sameMiddle English: like [liːkə] = likeEnglish: long [lɔŋ] = longMandarin (Xi'an dialect): 隆 [loŋ] = big, strong, longKorean: 말 [mal] = language, talkOld Norse: mál [mɑːl] = language, talkBiak: man [man] = manGerman: Mann [man] = manBreton: me [mɛ] = IGeorgian: მე [mɛ] = IFrench: main [mɛ̃] = handXârâcùù: ? [mɛ̃] = handEnglish: mess [mɛs] = mess, chaos, disorderKaqchikel: mes [mes] = chaos, disorder, garbageEleme: mu [mu] = waterJurchen: ? [mu] = waterMiddle Egyptian: mw [mu] = waterSwahili: na [na] = andTok Pisin: na [na] = andGreek: νερό [ne̞ro̞] = waterTelugu: నీరు [neːru] = waterBrahui: ني [niː] = du (sg.)Mandarin: 你 [ni] = you (sg.)Japanese: 人 [niɴ] = human, person, manSomali: nin [nin] = person, manBarbareño: ? [oʔ] = waterFrench: eau [o] = waterEnglish: pay [pʰæi̯] = to payMandarin: 赔 [pʰei̯] = to pay backBelhare: पिक् [pik] = pick (a tool)English: pick [pʰɪk] = pick (a tool)Cantonese: 三 [saːm] = threeGeorgian: სამ(ი) [sam(i)] = three (-i = NOM)Indonesian: sama [sama] = sameSwedish: samma [samːa] = sameBasque: sei [s̺ei̯] = sixItalian: sei [sei̯] = sixCora: si [si] = to seeEnglish: see [si] = to seeIrarutu: si [si] = to seeAkkadian: ? [ʃiː / t͡ɬiː / ɬiː] = sheEnglish: she [ʃiː] = sheIrish: sí [ʃiː] = sheManchu (Xibe dialect): ? [sun] = sunOld English: sun [sʊn] = sunKazakh: тау [tau̯] = mountainMiao (Suyong dialect): tau [tau̯] = hillAncient Greek: θεό(ς) [tʰeó(s)] = God (-s = NOM)Nahuatl: teo(tl) [teo(t͡ɬ)] = God (-tl = NOM)Karen: thi [tʰi] = waterKuna: di [ti] = waterProto-Hadza: *ti [tʰi] = waterSuoy: ? [tɨʔ] = waterAinu: トゥ [tu] = twoEnglish: two [tuː] = twoBezhta: цикIе [ʦɪkʼɛ] = young goatGerman: Zicke [ʦʰɪkə] = she-goatBasque: ur [uɾ] = waterYugh: ? [ur] = waterHebrew: ו [va] = andVietnamese: và [va] = andKomi-Zyrian: ва [va] = waterPuma: व [wa] = waterEnglish: valley [væli] = valleyGeorgian: ველი [vɛli] = valleyGerman: wenn [vɛn] = whenItelmen: вэн [βɛn] = whenAinu: ワㇰカ [wakːa] = waterKaxararí: waka [wɐka] = waterCoahuilteco: wan [wan] = waterNorwegian (Bokmål): vann [ʋɑnː] = water

I can’t speak for others. Let me assign the personalities to languages/dialects ON ME.Mandarin (official version). Yeah ‘official’. It’s the one I speak to coworkers, Chinese strangers, and general Chinese fellows who are not from Beijing. My Shanghai coworkers commented that I sound like a ‘news anchor’ who shows at 7 pm on CCTV-1. And my Japanese coworkers’ comment? ‘You sound authoritative.’Mandarin (Beijing accent). My family/Beijing friends language. My true mother tongue. And thank God this er-er-er endlessly tongue, this casual-to-hell intonation and this Beijing-style content of conversation ruined lots of my dates. Guys laughed all the time and apologized ‘sorry it’s too hard to think about anything romantic. You sound too much like a comedian.’Japanese. By speaking Japanese I transform to somebody polite, humble, gentle, considerate, and ‘feminine’. My voice changes (to my highest-pitched ranges). My smile, posture, gesture change. My behaviors and values change. My Chinese fellows who first time hear me speaking Japanese always get shocked. When I interpret Chinese and Japanese, I have a fame of ‘multiple personality disorder’.English. Well, Quora language. By speaking English I’m the Nell Zhang who blahblah endlessly here. I become the most logical one among the multiple mes. By far it’s the only language which makes me feel no pressure to be a feminist, a liberal and a nudist. When speaking English I use a much deeper voice. I gesture more. I care less. I am, yeah, as the OP mentioned, “blunt, opinionated and direct”, exactly.So yes, I agree that languages have magical expressive strengths. I always feel grateful to languages which give me the magical opportunity to discover diverse cultures and mes.(And thanks for the A2A, my dearest English teacher, J. Leung.)