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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 2017 of 3737 05 November 2011 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Me again. I don't know if this makes me a language nerd or just weird, but here it goes...
When you make a habit of singing a song in three different languages each morning, and then at the end of the day you determine whether it was a good or bad day. Then you chart the language combination which you used that morning in a comprehensive list, and create a long-term graph of the languages' overall success rates for yielding good days. And I've been doing this for the past couple months... (In case you're wondering, Italian has the highest success rate, followed by Swedish and French. Norwegian has the lowest success rate. The other nine languages I use fall somewhere in the middle.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2018 of 3737 06 November 2011 at 12:44am | IP Logged | ||
Yes, my wife and I play a sort of game where we look for the words or phrases we can recognise either from English or German. One more Wallander to go next Saturday, then it's "Vorbrydelsen II" ("The Killing II") from Denmark. But no more Troels; no more Rie; no more Jan Meyer. It's just Sarah Lund and her Faroe jumper! :-) Edited by montmorency on 09 November 2011 at 6:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5051 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 2019 of 3737 07 November 2011 at 4:51am | IP Logged | ||
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When you start to wonder if you actually have a language fetish...
When you prefer to write the German titles of Shakespeare plays on your white board. When you get so annoyed when people say "Spiel" without the H sound in it, so that you always correct them, therefore missing the point of their "Spiel" to begin with. When you prefer to watch Dora the Explorer in German. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rivere123 Senior Member United States Joined 4831 days ago 129 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 2020 of 3737 08 November 2011 at 9:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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....when you are worried you might destroy your ears with loud French news broadcasts, not music.
....when you build your schedule around your favorite shows on the only international French channel. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5051 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 2021 of 3737 08 November 2011 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I really do miss the German channel here... sehr sehr traurig :(
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5968 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2022 of 3737 09 November 2011 at 12:01am | IP Logged | ||
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When you enlarge the font size of your screen for easier reading, and are then alarmed when you check the weather report and it says TOD (death!)
But then you realize that the word is really TODAY and not all the larger-size words fit the screen, so it got chopped in half . . . relief! That was a close call there! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4829 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2023 of 3737 09 November 2011 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | ||
...or with people who spell it "Shpiel" :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5925 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 2024 of 3737 09 November 2011 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I watched a rerun the American sitcom "The Golden Girls" on Monday night because the episode featured a character who was supposed to be from Sicily and seemed to be speaking Italian. I never liked the show and there was maybe 3 minutes worth of spoken Italian in the half hour show but I was still happy to hear Italian on TV.
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