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| learnvietnamese Diglot Groupie Singapore yourvietnamese.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4950 days ago 98 posts - 132 votes  Speaks: Vietnamese*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 1953 of 3737 19 September 2011 at 10:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you keep taking out from your bag books and books for learning languages: French, Russian, German, Belarusian, Cantonese, and more and more. And most are rare and excellent books.
This wasn't me (unfortunately) but a buddy I've met recently. And so I have met a language enthusiast. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 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 1954 of 3737 19 September 2011 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When your collegues use Google translate to produce a greeting card in 6 languages for your jubilee even though you actually never use your languages at your job.
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| Magdalene Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 119 posts - 220 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, German, Modern Hebrew, French | Message 1955 of 3737 19 September 2011 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you not only watch media in your target language that you'd never watch in your native one (soap operas? yes yes), but also seek out media in your native language you'd otherwise never watch, as long as it stars your favorite native target language speaking celebrities.
Me, watching the trailer for The Green Hornet: Ugh, another superhero flick? ...with Jay Chou?!? *rushes to video store* 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 1956 of 3737 20 September 2011 at 3:44am | IP Logged | |||||
When you watch the The Green Hornet and they say Kato is from Shanghai but later the captions say he is speaking Mandarin and you think "shouldn't he be speaking Shanghaise?" 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5856 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 1957 of 3737 20 September 2011 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
When you are the buddy that this poster talks about, and would like to add, that on that day, you also have a Czech and Japanese book. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5187 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1958 of 3737 24 September 2011 at 11:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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When it's 2AM and you're so excited you can't sleep because "if I'm going to Guatemala I guess I'd better learn Spanish and I only have 5 months!"
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 1959 of 3737 24 September 2011 at 3:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
:-) When you spot errors or oversimplifications in subtitles, and realise how much more you are getting out of actually understanding than just reading subtitles. When you spot errors or at least questionable translations in official translations of authors you know quite well. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ember Triglot Groupie CyprusRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5404 days ago 63 posts - 101 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, German Studies: Spanish, French, Greek, Polish | Message 1960 of 3737 24 September 2011 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
When you spot errors in translation even when the movie is dubbed and you cannot hear the original. And people around you, who are completely fine with the translation (and who are the reason you are watching it dubbed in the first place), swear not to watch anything with you anymore because of your incessant commenting on the spotted errors. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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