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| Raчraч Ŋuɲa Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 5819 days ago 154 posts - 233 votes  Speaks: Bikol languages*, Tagalog, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, Russian, Japanese | Message 1905 of 3737 26 August 2011 at 8:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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You resign from your Finance/Strategy job to study computer programming for 9 months just
so you can create language learning & translation apps. Just graduated and now spending a lot of time playing around with such! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6660 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 1906 of 3737 26 August 2011 at 11:25am | IP Logged | |||||
Are there other reasons to learn how to program? 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 1907 of 3737 26 August 2011 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You know you're a language nerd when you do the following to pass your time, and
consider it "fun": When I first began to learn German, after I had begun to understand that adding prefixes onto the beginning of a base verb would perhaps give it a new meaning, I used to spend my lunch breaks, or study breaks after school, going through dictionaries (because I hadn't heard of the wonderful wordreference) and adding prefixes onto random verbs, expanding my vocabulary that way - stehen, aufstehen, verstehen, bestehen, beistehen, entstehen, erstehen, durchstehen, gestehen, abstehen, vorstehen,ausstehen, überstehen, widerstehen... I used to be embarrassed to mention that way of doing things to anyone. But not here - I wonder why :] 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 1908 of 3737 27 August 2011 at 11:01am | IP Logged | |||||
That's an excellent method to expand your vocabulary of a foreign language! Fasulye 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 1909 of 3737 27 August 2011 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks! It's a shame that doesn't work quite as well with some other languages, though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5051 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 1910 of 3737 29 August 2011 at 5:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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Oh wow, I do that too for German!! It's fun to play with the verbs like that.
YKYALN when you not just count steps everytime you use the stairs but you do this in German, that you're able to say German numbers really fast, so maybe you will just quit school and become a German auctioneer. 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 1911 of 3737 31 August 2011 at 2:55am | IP Logged | |||||
Just a post-Irene follow up. Are you okay? I hope you survived Irene without too much damage to your books , home, or to you. 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 1912 of 3737 01 September 2011 at 7:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...When you know what YKYALNW means.
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