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| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5064 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 2633 of 3737 27 September 2012 at 6:56pm | IP Logged |
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... when you are on cloud nine when you discover your university has Colloquial Finnish,
Colloquial Russian, Colloquial Icelandic, Colloquial Hungarian, and probably other language resources and you can read them online for FREE because you're a student (too bad the CDs are not included) ... when, on two different dreams, you dream of your Finnish grammar books either being soaked or horribly stained and dream-you starts to cry and hiccup and just ask, "What do I do?!" a couple of million times - Kat 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2634 of 3737 29 September 2012 at 3:26am | IP Logged |
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...when you momentarily feel guilty for having fun instead of studying, then you realize you're having fun in your target language!
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| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4889 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 2635 of 3737 29 September 2012 at 10:43am | IP Logged |
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...When the only app on your phone that you've paid for was a language game.
...When you're waiting for a bus and decide to play this game, only to remember that you've completed all the Swedish-English and English-Swedish sections so you decide to have a go at Icelandic and after only four goes get ten out of ten correct :o) ...When this makes you think you will definitely learn Icelandic one day. ...When you get home you go straight onto Amazon and Ebay to look for Icelandic study material...Then have a strange feeling so you run upstairs only to discover you already have an old copy of Teach Yourself Icelandic :oD ...When this gives you immense amount of joy and happiness knowing that you can learn a language when you feel like it without having to wait :oD ...When you lie awake in bed thinking of posts for this thread. ...When getting shampoo in your eye anc can't see properly will not stop you from reading new stuff on this site or writing this (apologies for any typos). 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5064 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 2636 of 3737 01 October 2012 at 4:07am | IP Logged |
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... when you and your roommate make a "magic"" box of sticky notes filled with Russian
words and resolve to learn five before going to bed every night ... when you feel immensely proud of your roommate for picking up Russian - Kat 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Deerhound Triglot Newbie England Joined 4906 days ago 30 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, German, Toki Pona Studies: French, Mandarin, Esperanto, Greek, Latin, Welsh | Message 2637 of 3737 02 October 2012 at 11:28am | IP Logged |
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When you see a slanted apostrophe in an English word and interpret it as a rising tone.
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| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5064 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 2638 of 3737 02 October 2012 at 10:06pm | IP Logged |
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... when the mere idea of your selling your linguistics textbook is ridiculous
... when, given a sheet on how many languages you are proficient in (information for a psych study you're in), you feel sad that you can only put two at this point ... when said psych study will compensate you around $100, and you can't help but wonder what language-related things you can buy with that, like an all-region DVD player! - Kat Edited by Phantom Kat on 02 October 2012 at 10:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2639 of 3737 03 October 2012 at 1:50am | IP Logged |
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...when a delightful bit of wordplay in your target language brightens up your whole miserable day.
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| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4614 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 2640 of 3737 06 October 2012 at 2:10pm | IP Logged |
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...When you work at a foreign language school and you spend quite some time each day, discussing languages with your colleague, who, by accident, is a die - hard university student of Japanese.
...When you browse through the CV database in order to pick up a new language teacher and notice a candidate with spelling faults in their CV who is, of course, in their mother tongue and that makes you overwhelmingly irritated. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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