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| 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 1665 of 3737 25 May 2011 at 10:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when an English song comes on your iPod, so you go to the next song on the list, and wonder why they recorded that one silly English song for their album anyhow.
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| Kafea Groupie United States Joined 4933 days ago 78 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Sámi | Message 1666 of 3737 25 May 2011 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...when your aunt wants your Russian Bible and you send it to her, then kick yourself because you have to replace it and she hasn't used it yet.
...when your MP3 player has more songs in Saami than it has in English. And many of them are raps, and you never listen to raps in English. ...when you can hear the lyrics, and spell them correctly, in throat-singing. ...when your singing in the shower is all done in throat-singing. 1 person has 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 1667 of 3737 25 May 2011 at 3:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
When I rip a Korean album I immediately remove any "instrumental" and "English version" tracks before I load them on my MP3 player as I know I'll just skip them each time anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5416 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 1668 of 3737 25 May 2011 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
Amoc?
Ah, so true. Edited by nway on 25 May 2011 at 7:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kafea Groupie United States Joined 4933 days ago 78 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Sámi | Message 1669 of 3737 25 May 2011 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
Amoc? Guerre Norte! And high time they made another album. But Intrigue of Karasjok is releasing new albums, available on Amazon.com, including "Heavy Joik", "Cappa Nieida", and soon a new one. Most of the songs are in Davvisamigiella. Alit Boazu is another group with some good songs. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| RogerK Triglot Groupie Austria Joined 5076 days ago 92 posts - 181 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian Studies: Portuguese | Message 1670 of 3737 25 May 2011 at 9:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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... you are reading a book written in English, circle the words you can't translate into your chosen language, look them up and note them in your English language book.
Perhaps I'm nuts or something, but I do this on a regular basis. Now that I'm working on a couple of languages sometimes I have more than one translation for the English word in the English language book. Weird! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1671 of 3737 26 May 2011 at 3:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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when you are watching the Casey Anthony murder trial, live, on TV and a witness is asked if he knew "if Casey worked or used to work" and your first thought is "oh, pretérito" or "imperfecto".
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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 1672 of 3737 26 May 2011 at 9:54am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you meet your tutor at uni to get some feedback on the recent exam you've done. You also gave her your notes to be looked at by the external examiners if needed. She explains that there was very little point in anyone looking at your notes for any of your modules as she doesn't understand German.
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