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 Slacker Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5454 days ago 62 posts - 99 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English Studies: German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic (classical) Personal Language Map | Message 1490 of 3737 12 March 2011 at 12:16am | IP Logged | ||
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When you mock all your friends for buying Blu-Ray players, until you realize that Blu-Ray discs can have many,
many, audio tracks, and almost unlimited subtitles... Then you wonder how you were ever able to live without a copy of "Groundhog Day" with English, French, and Portuguese dubbing, and subtitles in: English, French, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Thai, Indonesian, Dutch, and Arabic! P.S. There is something surreal about watching "Groundhog Day" every day, but in different languages. -Slacker Edited by Slacker on 12 March 2011 at 12:18am 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6004 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 1491 of 3737 12 March 2011 at 10:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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When finding an amazing language mathom, a book of 100 tricks to do with a set of magic items you don't have but written in Dutch, French, German, English, Swedish, Danish, and Italian, at an estate sale is the official beginning of Spring Break in your mind. Even better is that the 4 books we bought cost $2.16 all together.
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| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6041 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 1492 of 3737 12 March 2011 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
Yep guilty of this I do love Cicero's letters when you watch the whole series of Star Trek Deep Space Nine in German even though you can't speak it because you wanted to know if they would speak Klingon in a German accent 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LazyLinguist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5604 days ago 105 posts - 125 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1493 of 3737 13 March 2011 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you just took a test in a different language about a still different country were
this language is not the native language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 1494 of 3737 13 March 2011 at 10:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you stop typing in order to eavesdrop on the guys whispering in Romanian near you in the library, and they notice your sudden silence and move away. Foiled again!
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5482 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 1495 of 3737 13 March 2011 at 10:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when:
your parents talk to you about moving this summer, and you immediately suggest emigrating to Germany, or moving to towns where you know that there are speakers of your target languages. your friend opens your book bag to get your graphing calculator, and your German grammar book, Russian grammar book, Polish coursebook, reading material in German, Persian coursebook, and Swahili phrasebook all come tumbling out. You know you're a huge language nerd if you nearly start crying because your materials are more important to you than anything else you own. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5536 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 1496 of 3737 14 March 2011 at 7:30pm | IP Logged | ||
Not just that, but there are fewer (and thus larger) regions as well. For example, the US, Japan, and South Korea are in separate DVD regions (1, 2, and 3, respectively) but the same Blu-ray Region (A). I must admit that the region differences and language counts have recently tempted me to invest in Blu-ray when I would otherwise have no real interest in doing so. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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