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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5002 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2473 of 3737 09 July 2012 at 1:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you hear/think/feel/whatever people are speaking in a foreign language even though in fact they must be speaking your native language. (really. it is unlikely the women in the train was switching fast between Czech and some strange romance language and the other had no trouble understanding her. Or why would two security employees in a supermarket speak German to each other?) Either I'm becoming even more of a language nerd or I am going crazy... Hopefully the first option is correct (and quite makes sense, Spanish and German are my main languages for the summer). 2. When you are happy to find out a friend of yours is learning Russian and at the same time you feel guilty because your message drove him from his learning session. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jmike129 Newbie United States Joined 4537 days ago 5 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin Studies: Old English | Message 2474 of 3737 09 July 2012 at 4:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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....When you get pissed that your local book store does not have a copy of comentarii De
Bello Gallico in the original latin. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Avid Learner Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4655 days ago 100 posts - 156 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German | Message 2475 of 3737 09 July 2012 at 4:18am | IP Logged | |||||
I must admit that I had never procrastinated in such a useful manner before I started studying a language. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4821 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2476 of 3737 11 July 2012 at 7:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
I wrote my thesis on procrastination. Well, that's not quite true. The truth is, people aways say to me: "When it comes to procrastination, you could write the book!" :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5232 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 2477 of 3737 11 July 2012 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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... when you're hanging out at an airport restaurant & get really excited when you glance up at the TV & think
you've spotted a Spanish station ... ESPN2. From a distance, I thought it was ESPANA! Sports isn't everyone's thing! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4696 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 2478 of 3737 12 July 2012 at 12:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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When the customs official laughs at you because you've just returned from the Netherlands
and this is your entire list of declarations, verbatim: BOOK BY H. BRUSSELMANS $8.00 SECONDHAND BOOK $10.00 ANOTHER 2ND HAND BOOK $10.00 3 persons have 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 2479 of 3737 12 July 2012 at 1:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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| Wm. Alexander Newbie United States thefrenchblog.com Joined 4527 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Studies: French | Message 2480 of 3737 13 July 2012 at 3:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...you're kitchen wall is covered with post-it notes with the French names of objects (see photo at //http://williamalexander.com/neversaymort/images/pict0009we b.jpg ) Edited by Wm. Alexander on 13 July 2012 at 3:46pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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