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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 1465 of 3737 03 March 2011 at 1:57am | IP Logged | |||||
Of course! I have this paranoid Luddite conviction that things stored on external HDs are more susceptible to random bouts of vanishing than things stored on a computer HD (although I know there's absolutely no logic to that), and even though it's taken me years to assemble my giant film collection, I'd still much rather lose all of them than my precious language stuff! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5482 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 1466 of 3737 03 March 2011 at 3:30am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you talk to your French friend in Spanish, despite not having spoken it for years, your Georgian friend in
Reorgian (a mixture of Russian and Georgian, mostly Russian), your OTHER French friend in German, your new Ossetian acquaintance in a mixture of Russian and German, your Polish friend in extremely colloquial Polish, and your Czech-American friend in Czech...all within an hour...NO BIG DEAL OR ANYTHING. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5925 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 1467 of 3737 03 March 2011 at 9:42am | IP Logged | |||||
When a few weeks ago at church, some friends of mine were describing a new member of the congegation by saying "He speaks 4 languages and is learning two more in college right now." I was impressed but not in the same way everyone else was. Most of my friends think speaking 4 languages is a nearly impossible feat, but of course I know differently and was simply curious to know what languages he speaks. I also regret that I still haven't had a chance to have a conversation with him. When I went to a nightclub and almost embarrassed myself because I wanted to ask the DJ why he had no Swedish or Spanish language pop music. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5208 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 1468 of 3737 03 March 2011 at 12:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you're moving into a new flat and you find a book in Spanish about how to raise a baby, that the previous occupant must have left behind. Your flatmate asks jokingly if you want to keep it and use it to learn Spanish at some point in the future. For a moment you actually consider it. (This is coming from somebody who has no children and doesn't plan to have children any time soon).
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 1469 of 3737 03 March 2011 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
Secret tip: if you read child-raising tips as relationship-advice tips, you might be amazed at the amount of usefulness you can glean from them! Speaking from experience. ;) 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| skyr Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5034 days ago 15 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, German, Swedish Studies: Italian, Icelandic, Czech, Slovak, Serbian | Message 1470 of 3737 03 March 2011 at 9:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you update your social network status as "is learning Icelandic with Bambi on youtube" and later realise this isn't possibly the best thing to admit to on such a site.
...when this was your Friday-night status 7 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| skyr Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5034 days ago 15 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, German, Swedish Studies: Italian, Icelandic, Czech, Slovak, Serbian | Message 1471 of 3737 03 March 2011 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
I do it too! It keeps one TL 'alive' whilst learning another. It can also increase the accessibilty to study-materials - I study Slovak and Icelandic and there aren't many materials available in English. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5336 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 1472 of 3737 03 March 2011 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
Awesome. If everyone did that I might find those sites a lot more interesting. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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