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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6863 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 3089 of 3737 24 September 2013 at 10:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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When your book shelf is full of materials from languages you 'plan' to study
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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6103 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 3090 of 3737 24 September 2013 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you check the time and realise that:
- You've been reading about Albanian online, and you can't remember what brought you there. - It's nearly midnight - You go to bed trying to justify the reasons to learn Albanian. And... - You do the same thing another night with Lithuanian (etc.!) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 3091 of 3737 24 September 2013 at 11:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you buy a health bar simply because it had Arabic on it, and then a sudden gust of wind blows the wrapper out of your hand. With a mouthful of coconut, windmilling like a crazed lunatic down the street, you pursue the abducted wrapper whilst pedestrians stop and stare...and then you stop too...to think...what the hell am I doing?!!
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 3092 of 3737 25 September 2013 at 12:29am | IP Logged | ||
When you actually get back to those materials and start studying the languages in question - in some cases 20-30 years after you bought the books. 9 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 3093 of 3737 29 September 2013 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you are heartbroken that, due to your busy schedule, you lost track of time and didn't log on yesterday
. . . which was your third-year anniversary of joining this forum. Edited by Amerykanka on 29 September 2013 at 6:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 3094 of 3737 29 September 2013 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | ||
Happy belated Forumday, Amerykanka!
Time to blow out those candles and wish for 3 more languages... ;) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4649 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 3095 of 3737 29 September 2013 at 9:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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When an Arabic-Polish dictionary is your wished-for birthday present...
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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 3096 of 3737 29 September 2013 at 10:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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When your (grown up) daughter comes back from three weeks in Peru, and tells you that
several taxi drivers complimented her on her Spanish, that she understood most of the Spanish speaking guides on various trips she took to historic sites, etc, even though she has barely "studied" any Spanish since her last trip to Peru several years ago. And on getting back to her flat and idly picking up a Russian book from her shelves, you start to read the alphabet, find it harder than you remembered when you very casually studied it years ago, and she says "no, the alphabet isn't hard.....I learned it easily....it's the other stuff that's hard....". Not that she claims to be any kind of linguist, but you feel proud anyway. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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