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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5169 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 3609 of 3737 08 June 2015 at 8:26pm | IP Logged |
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When, although YouTube is on silent, you can tell after watching a woman's lips move for 10 seconds that
she speaks English with a British accent. When the "in use" section of your desk currently includes a Greek textbook, a Polish novel, two collections of Spanish short stories, TY Beginner's Arabic Script, and the complete works of Horace (in Latin, of course). And then there are the piles of flashcards. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4232 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 3610 of 3737 09 June 2015 at 7:50am | IP Logged |
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When you wish you'd found HTLAL earlier.
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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 3611 of 3737 09 June 2015 at 10:03am | IP Logged |
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When you photograph and buy a drożdżówka trójsmak in Katowice because you like the word. OK, I also liked the three tastes when I finally ate it in the train to Ostrava...
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| Rem Groupie United Kingdom Joined 3755 days ago 66 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Czech, French | Message 3612 of 3737 10 June 2015 at 4:01pm | IP Logged |
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When you look like your attempting an impression of a mad conductor but you’re actually
trying to practise your Mandarin tones (the arm waving really does seem to help btw). 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3905 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 3613 of 3737 16 June 2015 at 12:42am | IP Logged |
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When you're driving to your boss's house, you're listening to Pimsleur Norwegian with the GPS speech set to German while you're trying to remember how to sing Hotel California in Italian.
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| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3905 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 3614 of 3737 25 June 2015 at 6:58pm | IP Logged |
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Yesterday I was making a call for the owner of the company. They asked what my relation
to him was and I blanked out and could only think "Angestellter" (the conversation was in English, of course), and ended up having to dumb down my English to say "I work for him" just to answer quickly. What makes me a language nerd about this is I was happy afterward, seeing this as a sign of progress. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5980 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 3615 of 3737 25 June 2015 at 10:20pm | IP Logged |
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When someone asks you about the "fabrics" in your home town, and you just know that they meant to say "factories".
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| 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 3616 of 3737 26 June 2015 at 12:30am | IP Logged |
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When you complete Hawaiian translation worksheets in your sleep...and I donʻt mean that figuratively!
Now if I can only train myself to write down the answers and put them under my pillow the next morning... 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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