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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4821 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2585 of 3737 01 September 2012 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | ||
Er, I hope you got started with organising the USA branch of the Polyglots meeting while you were there... :-) 1 person has 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 2586 of 3737 01 September 2012 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | ||
Sadly, not enough time. But until yesterday, I kind of believed that you all were little spirits, or presences, living inside my computer, and now, I guess I have to acknowledge that you're all real people! (I myself am a little spirit living inside my computer, however) Edited by meramarina on 01 September 2012 at 4:58pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4984 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 2587 of 3737 02 September 2012 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd, when you find yourself browsing this forum at 4 am, to
lessen excitement about your new language course starting the day after... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5848 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 2588 of 3737 03 September 2012 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you know where to get printed newspapers without going overseas in these
languages: Thai, Burmese, Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Vietnamese, French, German. Sadly no one brings in the Russian newspapers which will interest me a lot! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4837 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2589 of 3737 03 September 2012 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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... when on the first day of your internship you're already known as the "guy with many languages on his CV", although you've only listed your four best living languages.
...when at lunch time you're happy to overhear a conversation between two native Spanish speakers which is immediately much more interesting than the conversation you were having before. Edited by Josquin on 03 September 2012 at 8:50pm 7 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 2590 of 3737 04 September 2012 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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When in foreign city you never forget to visit the local library to see what language textbooks do they have.
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6144 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 2591 of 3737 06 September 2012 at 10:34am | IP Logged | ||
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You keep raising your hand, when the tour guide asks, "And how many people here speak English?", "... Spanish?", "...French?"
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6696 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2592 of 3737 06 September 2012 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | ||
I did exactly that during a conference in Leipzig .. but then they told me that they wanted to form groups for a city walk, and the guide in each group would speak one and only one language so I had to choose. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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