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| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5567 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 1225 of 3737 06 November 2010 at 8:14am | IP Logged | ||
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...You're standing amongst all the people at the local Polish deli for far longer than if you were just buying
something, simply because you enjoy listening to the customers and shop owners talk life and food in their wonderful Polish tongue. And also because you like to look at all the beautifully intriguing Polish words for all the sausages, cured meats, jams and cakes that they make. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Johnnysd Diglot Newbie Norway johnnysd.deviantart. Joined 5618 days ago 18 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, Italian, Korean, French | Message 1226 of 3737 06 November 2010 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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WHen, while having a photography presentation, you show a picture where you have stacked
some Korean course books and an Arabic dictionary, and they ask you "Do you speak Korean and Arabic", to which you reply "I speak some Korean, but not Arabic" and then give a quick korean language lesson! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 1227 of 3737 06 November 2010 at 3:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when the most widely spoken European languages you lack a dictionary for are Belarusian and Albanian.
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| Marc94 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5247 days ago 32 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian | Message 1229 of 3737 07 November 2010 at 12:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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...you get into an argument over the origins of several words in English with another student in a class. Then your friend proceeds to tell the other person, 'shut up, he knows way more about languages than you do.' Edited by Marc94 on 07 November 2010 at 12:53pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1230 of 3737 08 November 2010 at 2:48am | IP Logged | ||
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When you are returning from a lesson with your Spanish tutor and are wondering if you are really progressing. Then you pass a new store in front of which is a sign "Tacos and Tortas" (tacos-obviously, and "cakes")and below it a smaller sign advertising ,in English, "lunch specials $5.95". On impulse you stop in and decide to place a take out order.Also on impulse, you order in Spanish. The owner smiles a lot and you get into a twenty minute conversation in Spanish. You realize he is speaking quite fast, as are you, and you are understanding everything. You walk out with your food knowing that, even if the food is terrible, you will be returning!
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| hablaconella Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5131 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1231 of 3737 08 November 2010 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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when you share 'grammatical banter' with fellow language learning students. Probably one of the most cringe-worthy moments ever when we realised what we were doing!
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1232 of 3737 08 November 2010 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | ||
When you read this and don't think anything of the "cringe-worthy grammatical banter" because it happens in your house all the time. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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