JNetto Groupie United States verbumpopuli.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4980 days ago 43 posts - 60 votes Speaks: EnglishC1
| Message 1921 of 3737 04 September 2011 at 7:56am | IP Logged |
...when you are taking 18 college credits, but firmly believe that auditing Ancient Greek (Attic), Biblical
Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, and Navajo is actually not going to add much to your load. Even if you already
have Persian representing 4 of the 18 credits you have!
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JNetto Groupie United States verbumpopuli.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4980 days ago 43 posts - 60 votes Speaks: EnglishC1
| Message 1922 of 3737 05 September 2011 at 2:11am | IP Logged |
...when you go to church and during the hymns you sing AND try to figure out the possible casing for each
element in the hymn lyrics and how it would be written in ancient Greek .
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LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5048 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German
| Message 1923 of 3737 05 September 2011 at 4:24am | IP Logged |
When your TV is set to your college's German channel (there's a Spanish and French channel too) and you watch shows on that, that you wouldn't watch in English. In fact, you haven't watched TV in English in over a week, now that you think about it.
When you're actually considering using your German as a means to make a guy like you in your class, after he asks you to help him with his German.
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 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 1924 of 3737 05 September 2011 at 10:43am | IP Logged |
mikonai wrote:
When your teacher reads the first eight lines of the Iliad in Ancient Greek, and ... |
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Then you know that your teacher is language nerd too
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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 1925 of 3737 05 September 2011 at 12:34pm | IP Logged |
When you are playing word association in a mixture of French, German and Russian with
your girlfriend at 2 in the morning and both fall asleep on the sofa in the process. And
directly we wake up at 10 in the morning we start it again.
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7013 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 1926 of 3737 05 September 2011 at 4:37pm | IP Logged |
LanguageSponge wrote:
When you are playing word association in a mixture of French, German and Russian with your girlfriend at 2 in the morning... |
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Definitely a language nerd considering the other things that you could be doing at 2 am.
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maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5217 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu
| Message 1927 of 3737 05 September 2011 at 4:51pm | IP Logged |
When at your local Thai restaurant you realise from the body language that your waitress doesn't actually understand ANY Thai ..... as she's Mongolian and then you can swap a few sentences in Mongolian AND write them down in your rusty Cyrillic.
I like to think it brightened her Sunday afternoon, after all languages are not just about me are they ?
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JNetto Groupie United States verbumpopuli.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4980 days ago 43 posts - 60 votes Speaks: EnglishC1
| Message 1928 of 3737 05 September 2011 at 6:13pm | IP Logged |
LebensForm wrote:
When your TV is set to your college's German channel (there's a Spanish and
French channel too) and you watch shows on that, that you wouldn't watch in English. In fact, you haven't
watched TV in English in over a week...
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Are you attending BYU?
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