bryanpeabody Groupie United States Joined 4983 days ago 48 posts - 79 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 3401 of 3737 17 September 2014 at 9:22pm | IP Logged |
When you realize if you get your French to a B1-B2, you will get access to many more
Assimil courses that aren't available with English as the base language :)
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soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3905 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French
| Message 3402 of 3737 20 September 2014 at 9:43pm | IP Logged |
When you just ordered Assimil: Französisch ohne Mühe while you already own the French Assimil in your native language and you are slowly admitting to yourself that part of the reason behind your purchase of this seemingly rare (in the US) book with a retro, older style cover was for the sake of collecting and you realize there is a new dimension to the reasons of purchasing language materials.
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 3403 of 3737 20 September 2014 at 10:18pm | IP Logged |
:-) I brought Assimil El Alemán from Spain.
When you get totally excited about the fact your friend can say "You've got a fly in your beer" in Hungarian! And you almost regret you can't visit Budapest, at least in the next few years, because you don't have time to learn basics of Hungarian. And you just can't go without knowing the language at all! :-D
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Avid Learner Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4660 days ago 100 posts - 156 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German
| Message 3404 of 3737 21 September 2014 at 6:05am | IP Logged |
I kind of feel the same way, but I'm trying to get over it since I don't have as much time to learn as I wish I had. Therefore, I try to tell myself that it's okay if I barely went further than the Assimil passive wave before leaving...
Edited by Avid Learner on 21 September 2014 at 6:13am
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4045 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 3405 of 3737 28 September 2014 at 10:49pm | IP Logged |
when you realise that every girl who can speak another language other her mother tongue, English and Dutch
becomes really interesting to your eyes.
Edited by tristano on 29 September 2014 at 11:58pm
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4045 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 3406 of 3737 02 October 2014 at 11:31pm | IP Logged |
... when you find yourself in absurd situations only because you want to practice a foreign language!
Today I was going to my French course and suddenly a guy addressed me in Spanish asking me if I speak Spanish.
Five minutes later I was praying with him in Spanish (in a street in the city center) and this has been the first time in
my life I ever spoke Spanish :D
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Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4251 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian
| Message 3407 of 3737 15 October 2014 at 12:27pm | IP Logged |
I just spent 80 minutes studying Slovene and I'm not even supposed to be studying Slovene!
Edited by Henkkles on 15 October 2014 at 12:38pm
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chiara-sai Triglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 3706 days ago 54 posts - 146 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French Studies: German, Japanese
| Message 3408 of 3737 15 October 2014 at 1:20pm | IP Logged |
Maybe immortality is too much, but you wish you could live for at least 50,000 years so that you could master
ever living language, and maybe some dead ones too!
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