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| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4886 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 1801 of 3737 10 July 2011 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...When you've read all the 1805 messages before this one.
...and have tears rollng down your cheeks through laughter! (Becuase you recognise many replies) ...When a friend goes to some obscure country on holiday and you offer to lend them a phrase book (which you have yet to read yourself of course!) Love this thread btw :o) x 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5589 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1802 of 3737 10 July 2011 at 9:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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when you are bored (I know, I know, a true language nerd would never be bored because there is always another language to study, but I needed to take a break) and you flip channels on the TV only to find I Love Lucy, an American sit-com from the 50's. It is show you haven't seen in years, nor were you ever a big fan of it, but this time WOW! You hit the jackpot.It is an episode you have not seen before. Lucy is arrested in France.The police are trying to interrogate her. In the finale, Lucy tells Desi in English what has happened, he tells another prisoner(who speaks German and Spanish, but no English or French) in Spanish, this person in turn tells a French policeman(who speaks German and French but no English or Spanish) in German, who in turn tells the French officer in charge in French. They go back and forth several times. You are laughing hysterically because they are using your two target languages and you are understanding everything,. You wish you were there to help. You also think that perhaps German would be a good third target language.
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| janalisa Triglot Senior Member France janafadness.com/blog Joined 6888 days ago 284 posts - 466 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese Studies: Russian, Norwegian | Message 1803 of 3737 11 July 2011 at 12:47am | IP Logged | |||||
Look, I found it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtbbo_lHqAs 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5413 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 1804 of 3737 11 July 2011 at 1:09am | IP Logged | |||||
Gah, that's the best thing I've seen on YouTube all month. ._. I wish that scenario was a regular comedic routine in contemporary TV shows... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| FireViN Diglot Senior Member Brazil missaoitaliano.wordpRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 196 posts - 292 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian | Message 1805 of 3737 11 July 2011 at 2:54am | IP Logged | |||||
You know you're a language nerd when you realize this video has subtitles in Portuguese and that way you can't pay total attention to the spoken languages, and that makes you upset. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5048 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 1806 of 3737 11 July 2011 at 5:38am | IP Logged | |||||
Hahaha, Ich liebe es!! That just made my day, thanks for that! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5184 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1807 of 3737 16 July 2011 at 6:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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When one of the very first things you do when you get your new ipod is figure out how to set up foreign keyboards on it.
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1808 of 3737 16 July 2011 at 8:16am | IP Logged | |||||
And change the language, of course. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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