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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 2897 of 3737 15 April 2013 at 11:35am | IP Logged | ||
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You actively seek out a film because you know there is a language theme running through it.
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 2898 of 3737 15 April 2013 at 9:12pm | IP Logged | ||
That reminds me of this slam poetry piece I found the other day. Commenters say the linguistic aspects of the poem have some inaccuracies – e.g. one person says "both Cho and Chang ARE Chinese words pronounced in the Cantonese dialect and can be used as first and last names" – but I mainly just like it for the comment about 'a Frenchman named García Sanchez'. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4652 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 2899 of 3737 16 April 2013 at 8:38am | IP Logged | ||
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When you start wondering about a possible connection between die Traume (sleep in German) and traumatic...
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2900 of 3737 16 April 2013 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | ||
"Der Traum" (pl. die Träume) means "dream" not "sleep". I don't think it's related to "trauma". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6152 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 2901 of 3737 16 April 2013 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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You notice that most of the language materials are missing from your local bookshop, and you fear it's not just an inventory issue, but the start of the language book Rapture. The LBR when all the good books are taken to heaven, leaving only the bad ones behind, like some Teach Yourself and the Tony Buzan courses.
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| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4737 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2902 of 3737 16 April 2013 at 7:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Or when your local bookshop has only ever carried terrible language materials and you
fear that any day you may end up standing outside with a copy of assimil like a deranged street preacher. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 2903 of 3737 16 April 2013 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Other people: get all flustered when spoken to by someone they have a crush on.
Me: gets all flustered when spoken to in a language I have a crush on. My BCSM teacher asked me yesterday "Da li imaš 'Handy'?" (Do you have a cellphone?) and although I understood the question with no problem, I was so thrilled to have just been asked my first ever question in Serbo-Croatian that I just sat there smiling at him like an idiot. Edited by Jinx on 16 April 2013 at 7:53pm 8 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4300 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 2904 of 3737 16 April 2013 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | ||
And your friends and family have no other choice but to use these books themselves and years later you are totally confused when your friends and family say to you: "You know, if it weren't for you I wouldn't have learned such and such language." I haven't had a chance to make the above-mentioned situation real though. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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