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| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6660 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 2009 of 3737 01 November 2011 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you read Ari's post above and want to know how you can find that station.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6583 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2010 of 3737 02 November 2011 at 6:55am | IP Logged | ||
I listened to it through an iPhone App called "TuneIn Radio". You can find the station by browsing for Location->China->Shanghai and then scroll down to display the category "stories". It's the only Shanghai station in that category. Most programming isn't in Shanghainese, though. Most of it is instead radio theatre in Mandarin, which is pretty sweet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5174 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 2011 of 3737 02 November 2011 at 10:06am | IP Logged | ||
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When you start seeing 2,3,5,6,7,9,3',7' and 9' as letters instead of numbers.
E.g.: As-salaamu 3laykum 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 2012 of 3737 03 November 2011 at 2:48am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you are a language nerd when a freak snow storm on Saturday leaves you without power (so no heat,no lights, no TV or Internet) until Tuesday evening and the greatest hardship for you was not being able to check this forum.
You know you are even a bigger language nerd when the above statement is a lie because the biggest hardships were the freezing cold, no lights, and being really hungry because all your refrigerated food spoiled and was left inedible,but you wish that being without this forum would have been your number one hardship. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6106 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 2013 of 3737 03 November 2011 at 11:21am | IP Logged | ||
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......when you're simultaneously watching a re-run of 'Wallander' (Swedish) on TV and consulting 6 dictionaries while putting new Polish words into Anki.
And also trying to eat supper without spilling it down your front. Edited by Mooby on 03 November 2011 at 11:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mausi15 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4898 days ago 24 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 2014 of 3737 03 November 2011 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love Wallander! Even though I'm not learning Swedish, it's still great to hear Swedish and familiarise myself with it slightly.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 2015 of 3737 04 November 2011 at 6:11am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you've been hitting the kanji too hard when you start seeing the shapes absolutely everywhere. Hey look...that hairline crack in my dinner plate looks just like a power radical...noooo! Any more of these late night sessions, and I could well end up like Neo from the matrix (minus the superpowers). :S
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 2016 of 3737 04 November 2011 at 6:40am | IP Logged | ||
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When a comment from your chemistry teacher about your eyes being red (her guess was drugs :P) leads to a full-blown explanation of the current 6WC and then an impromptu rant about Rosetta Stone when she asks why you aren't using it. And then you compile a list of alternative (ie, not RS) Persian resources for her son off the top of your head. I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm crazy now.
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