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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 2657 of 3737 19 October 2012 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
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...you know you are not a polyglot, but may be a polyclot....you made a clot of yourself trying to learn at least 5 languages ....
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2658 of 3737 19 October 2012 at 9:41am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you are woken up by the drunk girlfriend of your flatmate in the middle of the night. You get angry and, as she comes from Scotland and only speaks English, tell her in English that you were terrified by someone entering your bedroom while you were sleeping. After she has left, you realize that you're wide awake and cannot get to sleep again. The first thing you do then: Checking the meaning of 'terrified' in your Oxford dictionary to be sure you chose the correct word in front of a native speaker. Edited by Josquin on 19 October 2012 at 11:11pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4637 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 2659 of 3737 19 October 2012 at 10:31am | IP Logged | ||
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When you are stuck in the cabin of a plane for an hour before take-off due to technical problems, but you are thrilled, because the couple sitting next to you are talking in your target language, and it is a great listening exercise.
Until they suddenly stop talking and stare at you. You then realise that you were actually repeating out loud part of what they were saying to practice your pronunciation. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5048 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 2660 of 3737 20 October 2012 at 1:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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When a girl in your program insults you and another girl about our knowledge of the German language but you cannot help but point out the grammatical error in her insult.
The following was in German: "I think I should present over the material, because I understand more than you" But instead of saying, Ich verstehe mehr als ihr, she said als euch... Just for the record, I placed a level higher the following month...(side point.) I mean I really can't be mad at her, at least she tried. Edited by LebensForm on 20 October 2012 at 1:59pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7013 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 2661 of 3737 20 October 2012 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||
Can't have been Italian then... :) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| aspiringplyglot Triglot Groupie United Kingdom aspiringpolyglot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4575 days ago 40 posts - 62 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB2, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Esperanto, Polish, Scottish Gaelic, French | Message 2662 of 3737 20 October 2012 at 10:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you get annoyed that your friends want to watch the English dub of a movie instead of in it's original
language... What's the point? haha 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4871 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 2663 of 3737 21 October 2012 at 1:56am | IP Logged | ||
Perhaps they're just not used to reading subtitles? At least I am annoyed by subtitles, but I still prefer to watch something in its original language, but I usually avoid subtitles anyway for the sake of listening practice. However, as a language nerd, I feel your pain. :) Edit: ... when you have shortcuts to four different keyboard layouts. Edited by stifa on 21 October 2012 at 3:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2664 of 3737 21 October 2012 at 3:45am | IP Logged | ||
...when you've consolidated all your languages using the Latin alphabet into one customized keyboard layout, in order to not be completely inundated with layouts. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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