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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2001 of 3737 27 October 2011 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
Brits will remember the Audi ads with Geoffrey Palmer (a long standing UK comedy actor), featuring the phrase "Vorsprung durch Technik". Couldn't find Geoffrey Palmer's ad on YouTube, but to show how familiar that phrase became, here is its use in a sitcom : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J4gv9uVURw 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5171 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 2002 of 3737 28 October 2011 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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At the restaurant, you eavesdrop on the Latino family next to you to see how much of their
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| Ketutar Triglot Newbie Sweden Joined 4781 days ago 20 posts - 31 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: French, Italian, Maltese | Message 2003 of 3737 30 October 2011 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
You know you're a language nerd when you actually understand that :-D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ketutar Triglot Newbie Sweden Joined 4781 days ago 20 posts - 31 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: French, Italian, Maltese | Message 2004 of 3737 30 October 2011 at 3:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
Or you can, but with it you mean it's crystal clear :-D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ketutar Triglot Newbie Sweden Joined 4781 days ago 20 posts - 31 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: French, Italian, Maltese | Message 2005 of 3737 30 October 2011 at 3:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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after a week's vacation in another country, you get confused in the airport of your home country, because everyone speaks "some weird language" - your native one...
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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 2006 of 3737 31 October 2011 at 4:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you are jealous of your computer's ability to memorize vocabulary, but remind yourself that you're still better since computers suck at understanding grammar and semantics.
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| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5061 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 2007 of 3737 01 November 2011 at 8:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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... when, as you're laying down Spanish-language newspapers for your pets to use, you wonder how many Spanish-learners would love to have these on hand.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6580 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2008 of 3737 01 November 2011 at 8:26am | IP Logged | |||||
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... when the Mandarin-speaking Shanghai station you're listening to switches over to Shanghainese and you just keep listening, not understanding a word, and smiling like a madman.
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