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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6904 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes  5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 2769 of 3737 10 December 2012 at 12:15am | IP Logged | ||
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... when you join HTLAL on New Year's Eve, instead of drinking, dancing or whatever ;).
But seriously, I have no idea what I was doing on December 31st, 2005 but for some reason that's when I signed up here :). 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 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 2770 of 3737 11 December 2012 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you change the language of your computer whenever you're pissed off at having to restart it for no good reason... although the change means the restart lasts a bit longer!
(Polish now:))) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2771 of 3737 11 December 2012 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you have fun selling Spanish/Portuguese books on eBay because you see it as an opportunity to ramble on in your TLs about the books' condition, content, and the quality of the translation (where applicable). All my buyers so far seem to be English-speaking Americans, if I can assume that much from names like John Smith, but that doesn't stop me. :P
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| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2772 of 3737 11 December 2012 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | ||
:)) It think the person who wrote that was also responsible for this video. My only remaining hope is that it might get some people to start learning Ukrainian or something... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2773 of 3737 11 December 2012 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I got another one. When you change your friend's ipod's language from Swedish to Bokmål and think it's oh so clever... (but he got the last laugh when when he changed the language of my computer to Swedish, and I immediately got some horrible virus, which made things much more difficult.)
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| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2774 of 3737 12 December 2012 at 12:00am | IP Logged | ||
When you buy soap at your local pharmacy just because it has not a word of English and looks like this:
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 2775 of 3737 12 December 2012 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when you're teaching English in China and you still
manage to find semi-legitimate ways to sneak a little of one of your target languages into your lessons. With the little kids I teach (I'm talking about anywhere between 3 and 8 years old), when we play competitive games, they like to be in teams. One day I decided to pick who played next for their team by using "eenie meanie miney mo" or however you spell it. They loved it - so today I used the German version and they loved that too - "ene mene Miste, es rappelt in der Kiste, ene mene Meck und du bist weg!". I know it's got a slightly different meaning to what I actually need, but the repetitive sounds make the kids laugh. If anyone could tell me the French version, or if there is one in Russian, please let me know. Serpent? Is there a Russian version of that? Also when when I play hangman with the youngest ones who have just learnt to read, I divide them into teams. Having one word to guess at per team is much more interesting, but I often forget which words I've chosen for which team - so I write the word in one of my target languages at the top. They might be small things I think it's a little nerdy. Jack PS - I forgot, but I'm reasonably sure "ene mene Miste" is specific to Bavaria, or at least, I've only ever heard it sung there - I think the one for Niedersachsen goes something like - Ene mene Mopel, wer frisst Popel, süß und saftig,bläh bläh bläh I've forgotten the rest. Is there a Hochdeutsch version? Sorry for the diversion. Edited by LanguageSponge on 12 December 2012 at 12:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2776 of 3737 12 December 2012 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Two well-known ones are:
Вышел месяц из тумана, Вынул ножик из кармана, Буду резать, буду бить, Всё равно тебе водить. and Эники, бэники ели вареники, Эники, бэники съели вареники, Эники, бэники, хоп! Вышел зелёный сироп. There are many more. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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