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| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5048 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes  Studies: German | Message 2369 of 3737 07 June 2012 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you wake up one morning with a fullness in your throat, perhaps tonsils are swollen, and the first thing you compain about is, not being able to do the proper "ach" sound in German, so every morning since then, the first thing you do when you wake up is see if you can "ach" right again, which by the way is getting there, but not yet there fully.
When you just had the realization when writing "swollen" that it would be like it you combined the modal verbs "wollen" and "sollen" together, it would be "swollen" hahaha. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jombo1 Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4566 days ago 3 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 2370 of 3737 09 June 2012 at 10:19am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you spend time on Wikipedia searching about whatever comes to your head just so
you can change the article's language to your TL and learn it. ...when you've been reading this thread for the past week and you're sad that it finally ended. ...when this is your first post. 6 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 2371 of 3737 09 June 2012 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you list the languages of all four countries in Group B at Euro as "studying". And if English counts for Ireland, also all the languages in Group C.
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| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4611 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 2372 of 3737 09 June 2012 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you had to get a super duper important book from the university library for an even more super duper course project that virtually relies on it, but of course you end up with a huge book on Danish (just because you're so close to the Nordic library - helooo), that is obviously written for academic scholars of the language - and now reading it instead is the super duper important task for you.
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| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4580 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2373 of 3737 09 June 2012 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you are not surprised, shocked, or amazed at the sheer number of languages that many
of the people on this forum are studying or speak, knowing that it just takes dedication, time, enjoyment, and hard work, whereas your classmates would just think that everyone on this forum must be a sheer genius who can soak up languages without even an ounce of effort and so they should never strive to learn even one language properly because they'll never be as good. When you are shocked and dismayed at your classmates' attitudes regarding languages and language learning. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4886 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 2374 of 3737 09 June 2012 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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When at a funeral your first reaction in trying not to cry is to silently count in another language as it takes more concentration and focus.
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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 2375 of 3737 09 June 2012 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||
:-) I can remember once getting a head cold, when I was actively studying French, and being thrilled to find I could make those nasal French noises in a much more authentic- sounding way :-) Edited by montmorency on 13 June 2012 at 12:58am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4580 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2376 of 3737 10 June 2012 at 12:56am | IP Logged | ||
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When you are watching Doctor Who(Season 4 Episode 14: Journey's End) and your favorite
part is when Martha teleports to Germany and the Daleks are speaking German. When you stop the video and immediately look up what they're saying. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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