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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 3449 of 3737 10 November 2014 at 12:06am | IP Logged | ||
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When every people you meet starts to ask you:
- so how is going with your languages? - and now how many languages do you speak? - aren't you doing too many things? :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4288 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 3450 of 3737 10 November 2014 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I was in the Schiphol Airport clinic (the one on the first floor above the International
Departures, behind the chrome walls) at 08.00 with a long haul connection leg to North America after arriving from a flight that left Manchester Airport at 05.50 and had to fill out the medical form and was more interested that I could complete it although the entire form was in Dutch, despite the precariois situation in which I found myself, with the flight to board at around 09.40, and despite not having slept for a day. Edited by 1e4e6 on 10 November 2014 at 1:25am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5098 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 3451 of 3737 10 November 2014 at 10:56am | IP Logged | ||
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When your hit list is as long as your shopping list.
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| chokofingrz Pentaglot Senior Member England Joined 5187 days ago 241 posts - 430 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Luxembourgish | Message 3452 of 3737 10 November 2014 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you spend half a morning translating an Italian film before realising that these hours aren't going to count towards your Russian progress log. Then shrug because it was too much fun to pass up, and besides, real life is overrated.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5589 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 3453 of 3737 11 November 2014 at 4:13am | IP Logged | ||
You know you are for two reasons: First, when you try for two days not to ask the question that has been nagging at you ever since you read this post but you are such a language nerd that you can no longer resist. I have just started to study Latin again after many, many decades. I studied it in high school very long ago. I studied/learned the Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation. The courses and books I have now begun to use teach the revised classical pronunciation. I personally like the sound of the Ecclesiastical better. So, I need to ask:which pronunciation were you using? And, second:when you look forward to when you have your own 600th post. But, seriously:Congratulations on your big 600! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4620 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 3454 of 3737 11 November 2014 at 10:42am | IP Logged | ||
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You spend hours ranting on a Facebook debate about a Lidl Supermarket in your country which has ordered Polish immigrant workers not to speak to each other in their own language.
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| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4630 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 3455 of 3737 12 November 2014 at 11:28am | IP Logged | ||
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When you find this article (http://rt.com/news/199416-brain-sex-chocolate-language/) and
the first thing that pops into your head is "Am I an addict?" and the second is "hey! I should put on HTLAL!" Edited by yuhakko on 12 November 2014 at 11:31am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3456 of 3737 12 November 2014 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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when you are excidet about a similar article: learning a foreign language can give brain
similar pleasure to sex. when you overhear classmates discussing a Russian class one of them participates in and it costs you lots of eforts not to jump in and get into a lively conversation/interrogation 1 person has voted this message useful |
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