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| genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5466 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 345 of 3737 07 February 2010 at 6:18pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Dictionary's on the iPod is one of the most awesome features ever and makes it well worth the price I paid (or maybe I'm just justifying my gadget addiction either way it's awesome) Here's another one for the list, when you write pizza orders in German for the Jordanian cook that moved here from Italy. This one is actually true and it annoys the others in the kitchen since they can't understand anything we write or say. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Hello Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5418 days ago 40 posts - 45 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 346 of 3737 08 February 2010 at 4:42am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You know you're a language nerd when everybody in your Spanish class hates learning
Spanish, except you. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Iris-Way Newbie United States Joined 5574 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 347 of 3737 08 February 2010 at 5:23am | IP Logged | ||||||||
This is definitely me as well! I feel like I'm the only one interested in Spanish! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Aihe Newbie United States Joined 5516 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Japanese, Finnish, Mandarin | Message 348 of 3737 09 February 2010 at 4:56am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When at a theater during previews, you notice there are slides that want you to text your opinion on "Who is best dressed?" to a number, but all you think about is that the choices are A1 and A2, B1 and B2, and C1 and C2! (And you pick the 2nd choice because "it's the higher fluency level")
When you are always excited to see what language comes to mind first when you hear something in your native language. (e.g. When I hear green, do I think of vihreä or みどり first?) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 349 of 3737 09 February 2010 at 7:05am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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...when you discover that about 90% of your last four months' worth of status-updates, comments, and wall-to-wall postings tied to your Facebook profile are in languages other than your native one or those understood by the majority of your friends.
...when you create an auto-reply for your phone's message box in one or more languages that are not understood by the people who usually call you. ...when you answer telemarketers' calls using languages that you're reasonably certain the telemarketers won't understand (so far this trick has always thrown the telemarketers for a loop to the point where they hang up on me within 10 seconds) ...when the calendar posted on your corkboard at work is in languages that no one else in the company would understand (I remember my boss' and one of my co-workers puzzlement when they first saw on my corkboard my calendar which was printed only in Cyrillic. At that time I was studying Ukrainian) ...when you write down the combinations for safes or lockers in full using numbers from obscure languages in order to jog your memory yet minimize the chance of the combinations being compromised (I adopted this trick after having read about the Navaho code-talkers of WWII whose language remained undecipherable to enemy listening posts for the entire war). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 350 of 3737 10 February 2010 at 4:30am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you have a hard time trying to keep yourself from trying to learn several more languages when you are still working on your first...
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| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5853 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 351 of 3737 10 February 2010 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Guilty. I have wanderlust to pickup Malay or Indonesian when I need to spent more time on Russian! Edited by QiuJP on 10 February 2010 at 7:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 352 of 3737 10 February 2010 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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