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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5845 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 1089 of 3737 18 September 2010 at 12:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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... when you don't want to cook without using your foreign languages. For example without using such a recipe you would miss the joy.
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1090 of 3737 18 September 2010 at 1:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
Exactly. Yesterday I made various tapas dishes and paella using, obviously, a Spanish recipe book. To be honest, half of my doing so was because I wanted to prove to myself that my Spanish isn't actually dead. It was a success, amazingly! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5589 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1091 of 3737 18 September 2010 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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when you almost don't mind getting stuck in traffic because it gives you more time to practice with your CD language course.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6580 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 1092 of 3737 19 September 2010 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you're assaulted by five men, beaten on the head with a machete, have (a small) part of your finger cut off and your wallet stolen, and as your holding a tissue to your bleeding head, looking like a serial killer from a horror movie (except the blood is your own), you can't help thinking "Thank god they didn't take my mobile; I've got no backup on that SRS deck!".
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| Jon1991 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5363 days ago 98 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French, Russian | Message 1094 of 3737 19 September 2010 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you hear about your mate's courses at University like Economics, Law, Biology etc and you think it is boring because there isn't learning a language involved.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6580 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 1095 of 3737 20 September 2010 at 1:46am | IP Logged | |||||
Touché. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5965 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1096 of 3737 20 September 2010 at 2:28am | IP Logged | |||||
I forgot, and I have suffered the consequences. I'm still mourning the loss of a favorite Anki deck . . . I don't know what happened (sob) But in other Nerdy News, I know, yet again, that I am a language nerd because I have become just a little bit of a language vigilante. For me, the last two weeks have not been very good for language learning. First, I just had too much other work to take care of and then I was sick all this week, but today I went to the bookstore. Yes, I hear you - if you have read my posts before, you're likely wondering if I do anything BUT go to the bookstore - well, no, not really. So there I was lurking around the language aisle, making my birthday wish list, because I plan to get myself a few gifts soon to celebrate this rapidly accelerating aging nonsense that makes me feel peevish and so I had a look at various books and a few were really very silly. Not my style at all, you know . . . Have you seen the series "Hide This French/Italian/Spanish Book! (there are several versions) The objective here is to learn some very, very naughty foreign words. Hhmmmm . . . well, now! I'm not against learning some nasty new words, myself, but I just can't agree with this as the sole purpose of language learning, so I did just what the book said and I HID IT. I put it behind some other books, that's right, now it's gone, ha, and it was a good deed, yes it was. Um, eh, OK . . . so I did learn a few things. But I've already forgotten them - my memory is not what it was, and I am glad for that. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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