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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2233 of 3737 16 April 2012 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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When, for the first time in your life, you feel a slight temptation to steal in a shop
when you go to IKEA and see all the books in Swedish lying on the shelves and serving just as a decoration. (I suppose they originally brought the Swedish books in order to not tempt people...) P.S. For the curious ones among you: of course I didn't and don't steal. But I keep thinking of asking the staff whether it is possible to buy a book from their collection. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Rivso Diglot Groupie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4875 days ago 41 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Dutch, Japanese | Message 2234 of 3737 16 April 2012 at 10:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you're really happy for Solfrid Cristin and ReneeMona because it's their language
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| 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 2235 of 3737 17 April 2012 at 1:18am | IP Logged | ||
When you say:
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| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4770 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 2236 of 3737 17 April 2012 at 1:38am | IP Logged | ||
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When you troll your friends by posting cryptic Facebook statuses in languages that aren't supported by Google Translate.
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6140 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 2237 of 3737 18 April 2012 at 4:41am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you follow up on a credit card fraud alert that you received, only to learn that it was a rather large purchase from a mysterious website called "Assimil".
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| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 2238 of 3737 18 April 2012 at 5:04am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're taking 5 classes your last year at school and decide to add an elective called Intercultural Communications. You do this because the instructor is Italian, moved to the States when he was 8 and he's going to teach you what it's like to assimilate to a culture with a new language.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5032 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 2239 of 3737 18 April 2012 at 5:29am | IP Logged | ||
I had something similar happen to me! My credit card's fraud department called me repeatedly to suss out if my subscription to Hiragana Times was real or not. While I appreciated their quick acting in case it had been fraud, it took many exchanges to finally make them understand that it was a legitimate purchase. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5049 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2240 of 3737 19 April 2012 at 5:28am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you feel inspired by Shakira because she speaks perfect Portuguese (and you would be hard pressed to name two songs by her).
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