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 2793 of 3737 17 December 2012 at 12:00pm | IP Logged |
When you've just come home from 苏州 (Sūzhōu) and had a really great time there marvelling
at the beauty of the place. While there, you go into a shop and look at all the DVDs,
which are obviously all copies and you get 15 DVDs for less than 1500元 and they all
work! But that's not what you're happy about. You're happy about the fact that they all
have Simplified and Traditional Chinese subtitles :D
Jack
Edited by LanguageSponge on 17 December 2012 at 12:18pm
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vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4679 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German
| Message 2794 of 3737 17 December 2012 at 12:43pm | IP Logged |
Did you just mean 150rmb instead of 1500?
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beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4623 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian
| Message 2795 of 3737 17 December 2012 at 1:34pm | IP Logged |
It makes your day when you learn how to say "power-assisted steering" in your target language, even though you will probably never need to use this term in real life.
Edited by beano on 17 December 2012 at 1:34pm
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freakyaye Senior Member Australia Joined 4839 days ago 107 posts - 152 votes
| Message 2796 of 3737 17 December 2012 at 4:07pm | IP Logged |
vermillon wrote:
Did you just mean 150rmb instead of 1500? |
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That is what I was thinking too, standard price is 10 kuai a dvd Jack - if you are paying
1500 that is way tooooooo much.
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Kc2012 Diglot Groupie South Africa Joined 4474 days ago 44 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English*, Afrikaans Studies: Dutch, Mandarin, Russian
| Message 2797 of 3737 17 December 2012 at 10:45pm | IP Logged |
You know you're a language nerd when you speak to your dog in 3+ languages day to day..
You know you're a language nerd when you to simultaneously interpret whatever TV program you're watching from English into another language without even noticing
Edited by Kc2012 on 17 December 2012 at 10:47pm
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 2798 of 3737 18 December 2012 at 2:05am | IP Logged |
beano wrote:
It makes your day when you learn how to say "power-assisted steering" in your target language, even though you will probably never need to use this term in real life. |
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Ok, you've peaked my curiosity...how do you say "power-assisted steering" in your target language? (I'm keeping my fingers crossed your target language in this case is Russian or German...)
Edited by Teango on 18 December 2012 at 2:07am
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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 2799 of 3737 18 December 2012 at 2:44am | IP Logged |
freakyaye wrote:
vermillon wrote:
Did you just mean 150rmb instead of 1500? |
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That is what I was thinking too, standard price is 10 kuai a dvd Jack - if you are paying
1500 that is way tooooooo much. |
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Yes of course I meant 150 I was just being an idiot writing the reply too quickly!
Thanks!
Edited by LanguageSponge on 18 December 2012 at 2:44am
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mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5925 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
| Message 2800 of 3737 18 December 2012 at 5:48am | IP Logged |
When I found, by accident, a video about the treatment of women in Afghanistan and it made my day! The video didn't give me any new information, but it was mostly in Pashto with English subtitles.
Edited by mick33 on 18 December 2012 at 5:55am
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