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| SnowManR1 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5481 days ago 53 posts - 95 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 321 of 3737 28 January 2010 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hilarious! When you first begin learning your target language and your immediate goal is to create 3-4 sentences to have recorded as your answering service for your cell phone, even though those who call you have no clue what your saying or become convinced they have dialed the wrong number. When you spend hours in Office Depot in search for new ways to become more efficient and organized in storing and producing flash cards. When you pray that your future significant other is either a native or is just as dedicated and fascinated by learning the same target language. When you become upset, because you can’t change you cell phone settings over to your target language. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Rikyu-san Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5521 days ago 213 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, French | Message 322 of 3737 28 January 2010 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you write "Best wishes/shubhamastu (wishing you well-being)" in your L2 emails to (unsuspecting) recipients...
(Shubhamastu is a Sanskrit greeting). Edited by Rikyu-san on 28 January 2010 at 6:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5634 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French | Message 323 of 3737 28 January 2010 at 6:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you wish your boyfriend didn't speak English so you'd have to speak to him in his language instead.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5917 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 324 of 3737 28 January 2010 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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One Sunday in church I sang two verses of "Nearer My God, To Thee" in Afrikaans before I noticed that I was singing in the wrong language, and I wasn't even slightly embarrassed.
One of my brothers speaks French and I have told him, "If you don't teach my nephew French, I will teach him Spanish instead." I'm very disappointed that my brother neither takes this threat seriously nor has he started teaching his son French. When my Spanish teacher was explaining how to pronounce 'j', I asked her why she was pronouncing it like the Dutch 'g' sound. I once spent almost an hour practicing making a French 'r' sound. Nevermind that I'm not learning French now, I must master that sound! Lastly, I just spent an hour rereading this thread because I wanted to be sure I didn't repeat something that has already been posted. Edited by mick33 on 29 January 2010 at 1:49am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5415 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 325 of 3737 30 January 2010 at 12:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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These happened to me today
We were watching a movie in my AP environmental science class about farming and pesticide use on 3rd world countries. Instead of caring at all, I was interested in the languages they spoke in those countries (It was typically Asian or African countries). Also in the same video, when they were talking about a young Hispanic boy in South America who had a rare form of cancer because of pesticides sprayed on crops, I was pissed because they had dubs when the father was speaking. I was ecstatic today when I learned a friend I haven't known for very long knows 4 languages, English, Taiwanese, Chinese, and some Japanese (and some Spanish from school), and I don't even have an interest in Asian languages except for Korean. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 326 of 3737 30 January 2010 at 12:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you tell your SRS you didn't remember a word, even though you did, just because you really like that word and want to see it again.
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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 327 of 3737 30 January 2010 at 3:30am | IP Logged | |||||
And now my dad's learning French. Mwahahaha! :D 1 person has 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 328 of 3737 30 January 2010 at 5:38am | IP Logged | |||||
Well it's not very difficult, it's just recognizing certain characters etc. I'm learning to write in cursive Cyrillic, but I wrote in block for a while. Just type in "Russian alphabet" on google, and it will bring you to the Russian version of the alphabet (there are variations of it for certain languages that require different sounds). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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