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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5560 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 105 of 3737 17 October 2009 at 2:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you're the only one around here with more votes than days since joining. :-þ
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| Thatzright Diglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5665 days ago 202 posts - 311 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: French, Swedish, German, Russian | Message 106 of 3737 17 October 2009 at 1:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
I wouldn't say mine has nothing but Pimsleur (and I use Michel Thomas too), but there are certainly more Pimsleur and MT tracks in total on my iPod than tracks of any single artist or band. This can create some rather annoying situations when I walk to school for example and put shuffle on. *A song plays* *"This is unit fifteen of Pimsleur's speak and read essential Russian"*... skip *A song* *"I would like to talk about a word in Spanish tha..."* skip "This is unit nine of Pimsleur's speak and read esse..." *skip *A song* *"So how would you say I'd like to help you but I don't have the time to do it right now"* SKIP Add to this the fact that I don't even like all of the music on my iPod and so sometimes stuff like this can lead to a situation where I just spend an entire minute skipping tracks until a good song comes on. Since I keep my iPod in my pocket, all of this means that I can spend up to a minute just staring down at my iPod's screen while walking, and of course people kind of give me weird looks because of it :( 8 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5902 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 107 of 3737 17 October 2009 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
I have the same problem with audiobooks. What you need is a playlist for each - that'll solve the problem perfectly. Easy peasy to make in iTunes too. I have a playlist called 'Music only', another called 'Italiano' for Italian music only, and so on. Shuffle is pretty much useless otherwise - but I can still shuffle within each playlist, and it keeps the audiobooks separated from the rest. Maybe you need a 'Music I actually like' list :-) 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5960 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 108 of 3737 17 October 2009 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I thought of another one. I'm only kidding a little, it's true:
DER POWER-RIEGEL! When traveling through Europe, you purchase an energy bar, a "Big Corny," not really because you want to eat it, but because the wrapper is printed in eleven languages. You take it home and examine all of them, with a magnification device, of course. You have a great big laugh, wondering why the manufacturer, with access to so many languages, gave it such a silly name. Later, you learn that it's actually called a "Corny Big." This disturbs you: now, not only does it have a ridiculous English name, but it's not a strictly correct ridiculous English name. And, more unsettling, you actually did some RESEARCH to understand why. "Why, why, oh, why do you not put the adjective where it belongs! I will NOT eat a wacky, ungrammatical snack!" you cry, throw the thing away, and consider seeking mental help. P.S. If I am wrong about this, don't tell me. I have suffered enough and I need to dedicate my remaining brainpower to reading the five languages on my ThermaCare wrapper. 15 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5759 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 109 of 3737 17 October 2009 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Lizzern, Thatzright - itunes, select all files you want to exclude from shuffle, right mouse click -> get info -> options -> 'skip when shuffling'. I also tend to set my language course files to audiobook to not have them crowd my musical artists. Edited by Bao on 17 October 2009 at 8:49pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English* | Message 110 of 3737 17 October 2009 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you engage in a debate as to whether Chinese will become the next lingua franca.
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| Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5814 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic | Message 111 of 3737 18 October 2009 at 8:09am | IP Logged | |||||
I remember my host family in Germany had some of those in their house and I always had to laugh at the name x) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| ilcommunication Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6685 days ago 115 posts - 162 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 112 of 3737 19 October 2009 at 1:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you wander around a neighborhood and ask for directions you don't need just to get more experience with a certain language
...when you've read through this entire thread and enjoyed it 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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