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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5965 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2977 of 3737 25 June 2013 at 2:43am | IP Logged | ||
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When you have a bad dream that you have to take a very important Spanish exam, and you believe that you are doing well and you leave the exam room feeling very good, but then the nightmare takes hold and you realize that all your answers were in German.
. . . and, what's more, in waking life you haven't even taken a language class or exam in almost twenty years! 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 2978 of 3737 25 June 2013 at 3:29am | IP Logged | ||
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When you become angry when your disgruntled co-worker comes over to you on the train to complain about his job for the whole commute, hijacking your precious language-learning time.
EDIT: ... and even doing it in English when he, as a native Japanese speaker, could have done it in Japanese, helping me out a bit! (Granted, he said that he wanted to speak in English, so he wouldn't get in trouble with the boss.) Edited by kujichagulia on 25 June 2013 at 3:30am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4826 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2979 of 3737 27 June 2013 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you go back to the city where you were born (and haven't seen in decades) and among
other things, visit the ancient cathedral where you spent many happy hours as a boy (I was probably an odd boy...), and pick up the visitor leaflet in English and German (although it turned out not to be a translation, but totally rewritten in a different style), and would have taken the Danish one, but there wasn't one, and you are now regretting not having taken the Swedish one (which was there). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5169 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2980 of 3737 29 June 2013 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | ||
This happens to me a lot, too. Once I saw a big warehouse with the word POLISH across the front and for a moment was convinced that I had to dash in and see what it was all about! Then reality slapped me across the cheek. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| anethara Diglot Newbie England Joined 4240 days ago 25 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English*, Sign Language | Message 2981 of 3737 29 June 2013 at 11:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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When drunk or overly tired (or the first thing in the morning), you incoherently switch
between languages. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4486 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 2982 of 3737 30 June 2013 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | ||
Bingo! My favorite one! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| MarlonX19 Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4163 days ago 40 posts - 51 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: French | Message 2983 of 3737 02 July 2013 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||
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...When you stay up all night studying the grammar rules of a language that you don't even speak in your everyday life while you had to be studying for that math test that you're gonna have in the morning.
This has happened to me a lot. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 2984 of 3737 02 July 2013 at 2:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Yep, familiar. My motivation for German is at its highest whenever I need to prepare for an exam in another subject.
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