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| OliSayeed Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4985 days ago 4 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, Latin Studies: German, French, Ancient Greek | Message 1529 of 3737 03 April 2011 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you really ought to spend time doing GCSE revision, but are getting distracted by learning five languages
simultaneously... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 1530 of 3737 03 April 2011 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
My friend linked a German article to me about this. It was very simple, unfortunately, but it was definitely enough to get annoyed at myself for not finding out about it sooner and going to Vienna to join in with her :] 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 1531 of 3737 03 April 2011 at 11:03pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you are less than two weeks into your no-I'm-not-studying-Polish-just-having-a-look-a-look-at-it and you already have started writing your own Polish grammar because you think you could do a better job.
And no, I have not really decided to learn Polish yet - at least not before I find a big fat Polish-something dictionary which doesn't hide the imperfective verbs (try to look up "beißen" in the Pons Kompaktwörterbuch, - it mentions "ugryźć", but not "gryźć"!) 5 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 1532 of 3737 04 April 2011 at 2:34am | IP Logged | ||||||||
When you compare this year's April Fool's joke to last year's, wondering which was better (you got fooled last year but not this year) and begin to wonder what next year's will be..and if you can think of one worthy of posting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 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 1533 of 3737 04 April 2011 at 2:58am | IP Logged | ||||||||
What was last year's? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 1534 of 3737 04 April 2011 at 11:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you are talking to your girlfriend, who already has knowledge of English, French, Dutch, Italian, German and Russian, about Latin, and you're giving her a vague overview of the cases - because she's scared of cases for some reason which is completely nonsensical to you. So you name them... Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive, Vocative, an excuse for half a Locative and Instrumental. Then you get strangely flustered for a second and explain that you've been temporarily mixed up with Russian, and that the last case is called the Ablative, not the Instrumental. And you spend half the day afterward wondering how you could have made such a silly mistake.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1535 of 3737 05 April 2011 at 4:07am | IP Logged | ||||||||
The thread headline was " how to learn Chinese in 10 hours" and then when you clicked on it read "you can't! April's Fool" 3 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 1536 of 3737 05 April 2011 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you took special interest in a recent email from Symantec informing you of an available upgrade for software your company uses. This interest had nothing to do with the software itself but rather the fact that the email started like this:
View this email in: English | Deutsch | Español | Français | Italiano | Português | 繁體中文 | 简体中文 | 한국어 ...which covers both of your current target languages. But, of course, you grabbed copies of a few other versions "just in case". Edited by Warp3 on 05 April 2011 at 4:14pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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