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| mirab3lla Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom lang-8.com/220477Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5436 days ago 161 posts - 229 votes  Speaks: Romanian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Spanish, FrenchB1, Mandarin | Message 1553 of 3737 10 April 2011 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | ||
That's why I don't like online/electronic dictionaries. They just give me the definiton of the word I asked for, without letting me browse those big pages, searching for unknown words just like a gold seeker would look for a treasure! ... when you watch cheesy teen movies like Eurotrip just because it offers you the possibility to listen to American and British English, German, French, Italian, dutchy-accented English and Slovak in just one movie! However, the plot is horribly foolish. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5474 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 1554 of 3737 10 April 2011 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you start singing random things you've learned in Icelandic (introductions, greetings, etc.) while walking
around your house. You're even more of a nerd when you get so into it you jump up onto the counter and belt out your 'lyrics', the scene of which your sister and her friends are somewhat scared by as they arrive home. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6575 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 1555 of 3737 10 April 2011 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
That's because you're using the wrong electronic dictionaries. I see you're studying French. Try out Le Robert for the iPhone if you have the opportunity. It has a "discovery mode" that's absolutely wonderful, with unusual and interesting words floating around which you can grab and look at. Unfortunately it's only for the iPhone and it's a monolingual dictionary. The UltraLingua dictionary is also for the iPhone, but it's French-English. It takes you to the page where the word you searched for is located and you see the words preceding and following. I have yet to find anything that a paper dictionary can do that a good electronic dictionary can't do as well, except maybe fuel a fire. And considering the massive amount of things electronic dicts can do, well, I stopped using paperdicts a long time ago. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5171 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 1556 of 3737 10 April 2011 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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When it comes to driver.
I have it packed with language learning stuff. Not so many movies, I don't download it (I can watch it online). Most of it consists of comic and language learning books over 1 giga of books! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5179 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1557 of 3737 10 April 2011 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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My online dictionaries are useful, but I love my paper dictionaries too. I have way too many though. About 10 once you take out the native language dictionaries, in various languages that I am and am not studying.
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5328 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 1558 of 3737 11 April 2011 at 11:35am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you’re a language nerd when you’re listening to a song about a certain she who means everything to the singer and it reminds you of your target language.
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| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5056 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 1559 of 3737 12 April 2011 at 1:10am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language geek when you dream you have a passive knowledge of Romanian despite the fact that the language don't really interest you. You can understand most of it due to being native in Spanish, sort of like Portuguese, and you think excitedly, "Since I can already understand most of it I'll be talking and writing it with some months of studying!"
When you wake up, two things hit you: 1) You couldn't possible have understood Romanian because though it's a Romance language, its vocabulary has many Slavic influences. 2) You DO NOT have a passive knowledge of Romanian, and you STILL only know two languages. ;_; - Kat Edited by Phantom Kat on 12 April 2011 at 1:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mandalore Newbie United States Joined 5453 days ago 4 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1560 of 3737 12 April 2011 at 4:45am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language geek when you print out a text in Maltese to see if any of the local Arabic speakers had any idea what it said.
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