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| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5066 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans | Message 2161 of 3737 24 February 2012 at 9:58am | IP Logged | ||
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When your ultimate goal with Old English is to translate The Lord of the Rings into it.
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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4701 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 2162 of 3737 24 February 2012 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
On that same theme: when the notebook in which you jot down new vocabulary is more valuable to you than the Precious. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2163 of 3737 25 February 2012 at 11:52am | IP Logged | ||
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When you feel lucky when you have found a French textbook you had wanted some time ago in
a second hand bookshop. And then, you flip through the pages and find three four-leafed clovers dried inside. Isn't it some kind of a sign? In the same bookshop, I found the textbook I had been learning from when I was nine or ten years old. It is a bit old (but phrases like "Michel et Monique jouent au cache- cache." don't change that much) and some chapters mention Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union (our teachers had sticked a paper over those and replaced the dialogues with new ones), I still think it is waaaaay better than most modern textbooks aimed at children. I have reserved the book till next week and perhaps, it will serve my sister or brother one day (at least I tell myself it is the reason to buy it. In fact, it is pure nostalgy). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2164 of 3737 25 February 2012 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today I was waiting for a prof, for really long. Fortunately, there was a Spanish class in the next classroom, and the door was open so I could hear everything they said. Fun!!! :D
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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 2165 of 3737 25 February 2012 at 6:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had filled out my sudoku booklet in the plane from Taiwan to Germany, and then I began copying Chinese signs with their Pinyin values and meaning in German into the empty spaces in the booklet just for fun. And I'm not even going to learn Chinese - my Wanderlust is under control.
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| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4866 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 2166 of 3737 25 February 2012 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you suddenly get an unstoppable urge to find and list all available material for studying Samoan even though you live in Europe and there's probably no Samoan to be found anywhere in a radius of 8000 kilometers :)
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| drp9341 Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4910 days ago 115 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Italian, English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French Studies: Japanese | Message 2167 of 3737 02 March 2012 at 2:41am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're a freshman in college sitting in a library, and you recognize the guys sitting in front of you is very
black, and is speaking what sounds like sped up Arabic. So you go on youtube and type in Amharic and listen to him on the phone while you compare his speech to Amharic. You conclude he is from Ethiopia and is speaking Amharic. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4649 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 2168 of 3737 03 March 2012 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||
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When you prefer using English or Spanish Wikipedia to Polish one. Not only 'cause they have more articles. But just for keeping in contact with the language.
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