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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5212 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 3177 of 3737 19 December 2013 at 10:15am | IP Logged |
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When you are giving a visiting work colleague a ride back to the airport in the car and she flicks the stereo on to find that there are 6 CD's in the in the player and none of them are music: or even in English. The SD cards are all TL too.
And the wants to listen to (and already understands) your Arabic lessons because she did the same course. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5549 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 3178 of 3737 21 December 2013 at 7:14am | IP Logged |
A bit of reverse language nerdery today...I saw this t-shirt from the distance stretched mercilessly over a very big tourist's belly and automatically thought "yep, that's a gut all right".
Then I realised it was actually in German. I guess this is payback for failing to notice the issue with having "BAD" written in big letters on my bath mat (almost four years ago today on this very thread). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6098 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 3179 of 3737 21 December 2013 at 9:43am | IP Logged |
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When you're racking your brains trying to figure out how to slip an hour of language study in, on Christmas Day..... without anyone noticing.
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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 3180 of 3737 21 December 2013 at 2:45pm | IP Logged |
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When you already have made prints of maybe fifty or sixty pages of bi- or monolingual texts for the Christmas days - in the hope (shared with Mooby) that there will be time to study at least some of them.
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7198 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 3181 of 3737 21 December 2013 at 7:33pm | IP Logged |
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When you wonder if "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" is available in your Target Language and get
excited having found it. Then you start to wonder about the truthiness of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and wonder if your self improvement project will only be effective in the Target Language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4606 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 3182 of 3737 21 December 2013 at 8:59pm | IP Logged |
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When a friend of yours chats in you in a ambiguous mixture of German and Russian, without
giving up though you know your German is rubbish. And especially when you try to convince the people around you that involving yourself in studying several languages at a time won't mess them up in your brain, and is absolutely essential in order for you to keep yourself up with your obsession. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5164 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 3183 of 3737 25 December 2013 at 10:35pm | IP Logged |
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When you freak out the first time you notice that it now says "tetraglot" under your name.
When you can't believe that most people are ignorant of the meaning of this fascinating word. In fact, you keep on running into people who don't know what polyglots are. Greek roots, anyone? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4246 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 3184 of 3737 26 December 2013 at 11:20am | IP Logged |
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I just found an almost perfect Finnish verb paradigm (only the base forms but not all possible permutations with endings) and I realized I don't have a clue about the rare optative forms and I didn't even know that you could combine potential with conditional to create the eventive. I'm effectively studying verb tables of my native language here.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/henrihe/tiede/verbikaava.html 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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