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| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3905 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 3473 of 3737 25 November 2014 at 3:42am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I recently purchased screen protectors for my tablet. Despite me throwing them out because I could not install them properly, I kept the instruction manual because it has the instructions in German on the back. 3 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 3474 of 3737 09 December 2014 at 2:26am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you look into your backpack and realize that you have been carrying around books in five different languages all day.
(In case anyone is wondering, the books in question were La vida es sueño by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Szatan z siódmej klasy by Kornel Makuszyński, Plato's Ευθυφρων, Horace's Carmina, and a Magnificat (in English).) Edited by Amerykanka on 09 December 2014 at 2:28am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5589 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 3475 of 3737 09 December 2014 at 4:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
When you are sorry that you did not check this sooner because it really has been on your mind since you first read the original post. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity. And, I admire your ability to switch back and forth between the two. I have decided to stay with the ecclesiastical (well,at least for now!). Thanks again for posting and good luck with your studies. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6149 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 3476 of 3737 12 December 2014 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you apartment looks like a language bookshop with a bed in the middle.
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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6103 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 3477 of 3737 12 December 2014 at 6:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When using an online translator to check a sentence in your target language, you can't help also checking how it looks (and sounds) like in Finnish, Portuguese, Greek and .... and ....
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| 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 3478 of 3737 13 December 2014 at 3:26am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When your father says: this must be a rare illness, you're scared of missing a minute of any football match!
When you wonder why your friend isn't watching a match from the beginning and then you remember that she's not doing a super challenge... and she's actually watching in her native language, too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3479 of 3737 13 December 2014 at 6:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you're having a cup of coffee with your folks and the conversation turns into a discussion about the regional dialect's inclination for strong verbs;inchoative verbs, their etymology and which colours apply. On a Saturday afternoon in mid-December.
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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 3480 of 3737 13 December 2014 at 8:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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... when you're all excited because the official 2015 TAC thread is launched !
... and when you can't stop thinking about it :p 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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