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| christian Senior Member United States Joined 5248 days ago 111 posts - 135 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, German | Message 1785 of 3737 25 June 2011 at 7:07am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you visit this site
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5922 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 1786 of 3737 25 June 2011 at 10:07am | IP Logged | ||
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5589 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1787 of 3737 29 June 2011 at 3:35am | IP Logged | ||
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when you are speaking to a woman in English and she says that she did something "solo" and, although you don't say it, your first thought is "you mean 'sola'"
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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 1788 of 3737 29 June 2011 at 11:33am | IP Logged | ||
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... when you begin to think of reading in your native language as a waste of valuable
time. ... when you start keeping a list of the new words you learn in your native language and consider putting them into an Anki deck. ... when you are horrified, looking at your list of words, at the amount of words you're learning in your native language. Then you realise that actually, it's natural to learn new words in any language, whether it's a foreign one or not. But it still takes you a while to even remember that. 5 persons have 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 1789 of 3737 01 July 2011 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you take personal offense to hearing an announcement at the airport in Spanish pronounced so
badly that you thought it was English at first. And then when you proceed to rant about it aloud for several minutes in the middle of a hallway full of people. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| AndyMeg Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 4924 days ago 48 posts - 62 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 1790 of 3737 05 July 2011 at 4:29am | IP Logged | ||
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When you discovered this fantastic website by reading a blog about learning languages,
and then you registered here so you could post a reply in this thread. XD! Edited by AndyMeg on 05 July 2011 at 4:44am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 1791 of 3737 05 July 2011 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | ||
When you receive yet another boring utilities pamphlet through your door telling you they're going to raise their rates again, entitled "Important legal changes to the ownership of your sewers", and are about to throw it in the bin when you happen to notice the back pages...
 
And on closer inspection, an exotic script you've never seen before jumps out from the page and grabs your attention, one that even manages to transcend the dull topic of plumbing ownership and soothe a tenant's misgivings with it's beautiful swirls and intricate lettering: 
No bin for you, Mr pamphlet, you're going straight into my bookshelf (next to the chocolate bar wrapper in Georgian)! :) Edited by Teango on 05 July 2011 at 6:04pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5343 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 1792 of 3737 05 July 2011 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | ||
When upon seeing those thumbnails you first get excited by the prospect of reading about someone's sewer contract half a world away, and then become upset, bordering on angry, when you click on the links and the full-sized images turn out to be so damn small that you can't make out the individual texts. Edited by Juаn on 05 July 2011 at 5:30pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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