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| Marc94 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5244 days ago 32 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian | Message 1273 of 3737 27 November 2010 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When your day just becomes the best ever when you stumble upon an international magazine place in New York City. You just have to love New York! Now I've been reading a 100 page German Newspaper and its 50 page magazine supplement over the past two days. It is a Wochenzeitung, or week-long paper and it's called Die Zeit.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1274 of 3737 28 November 2010 at 6:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you can't believe your luck as you walk out of the cinema, after having watched the latest installment of Harry Potter, and there's a market stall directly opposite advertising "free Spanish with Flamenco, and Italian and French cinema" as part of a local language festival.
Did I pick up a flyer and start chatting away to the woman in broken Spanish? You can bet your bottom dinero I did! :D 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| MegatronFilm Triglot Senior Member United States peligrosa.tumblr.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5936 days ago 130 posts - 275 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 1275 of 3737 02 December 2010 at 12:45am | IP Logged | |||||
Where is this? I'm moving to New York soon! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1276 of 3737 02 December 2010 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you get your replacement for a language course book because you wore it out till its cover fell off then left it on the bus, and you're as excited as the day you got your first copy.
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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 1277 of 3737 02 December 2010 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
I had exactly the same thing with my first copy of the New Penguin Russian Course - it fell apart about a year after I got it, I bought a second and now that's near becoming unuseable again. ...when you don't know which language to greet your girlfriend in in the mornings (as in my case because my girlfriend's half Belgian) - English (bah!) German (now becoming much more usual) or whether to embarrass myself and speak French with her - which I don't ever do. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1278 of 3737 02 December 2010 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
What a coincidence, that's exactly the book I was talking about! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6140 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 1279 of 3737 03 December 2010 at 12:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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Levi and LanguageSponge, how could you possibly allow this much harm to come to your dear books? I barely let people near my books and start screaming when they touch them. I almost had a mental breakdown when my brother tore most of a page out of my favorite Swahili book this summer... Edited by ellasevia on 05 December 2010 at 12:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6001 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 1280 of 3737 03 December 2010 at 7:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you crack under the stress of college applications and school and start very unadvisedly learning German, Swahili and Portuguese without meaning to. Should be an interesting spring semester.
Also, when the few things on your Christmas list are all language-related. Edited by kottoler.ello on 03 December 2010 at 7:11am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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