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| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5576 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 73 of 3737 25 September 2009 at 3:07am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you go a "French restaurant" order food in your best spoken French...only to be crushed when the waitress tells you she doesn't speak French...
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5767 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 74 of 3737 25 September 2009 at 4:19am | IP Logged | |||||
... I knew that would happen so I decided to get the 120gb from the start. What's worse is that my 144gb partition which is reserved for music and podcasts almost is full. Edited by Bao on 25 September 2009 at 4:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| lachat Triglot Newbie Joined 5564 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch, French Studies: Italian | Message 75 of 3737 25 September 2009 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you refuse to speak English and try to speak a language you have never studied.
If they reply in English you start talking French so they have no other option other than to talk to you in there native tongue. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5576 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 76 of 3737 25 September 2009 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When people assume you speak English , in a target country, you refuse to budge taking advantage of the fact that you have two native languages, by merely responding: Perdon soy hispano, hablo español...je peux parler un peu de français aussi, mais ma longue mere est le espagnol. Porquoi est-ce que vous pense que je peux parler anglais?
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 77 of 3737 25 September 2009 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
A couple corrections, if I may:
I assume you didn't mean to say that your long mother is Spanish. ;) Edited by Levi on 25 September 2009 at 10:38pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7016 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 78 of 3737 25 September 2009 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
Or when your 1TB external hard drive is nearly full with more language-related crap than can ever possibly be learned by anyone in just one lifetime. 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5576 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 79 of 3737 25 September 2009 at 10:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6373 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 80 of 3737 26 September 2009 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When it'd be cheaper to support a crack addiction
When buy a language course for a language that you 'might' learn at 'some time in the future' When you constantly make, update and tweak lists of languages you're going to learn When you think about trying to utilize every moment of idle time to squeeze in just one more word When you can speak 'fake' Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, etc because you've studied these languages a little bit and seen so many movies in these languages that you can imitate the way they sound. 14 persons have voted this message useful |
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