Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5136 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian*
| Message 3689 of 3737 09 October 2015 at 5:51pm | IP Logged |
When you learn Arabic whose sentence pattern is V-S-O and Japanese whose sentence pattern is S-O-V despite your own native language sentence pattern is S-V-O.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 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 3690 of 3737 21 October 2015 at 3:56pm | IP Logged |
When you're travelling in Finland and you go to the kids' room of any hotel you stay in to look for children's books in Swedish 😂
When your patience is rewarded and eventually you find an alphabet book with rhymes/poems in Finnish, Swedish, Danish and Norwegian.
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Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6106 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish
| Message 3691 of 3737 21 October 2015 at 4:23pm | IP Logged |
When visiting the country of your TL, you spend more time photographing the surrounding displays, signs and graffiti than the tourist attraction itself.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 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 3692 of 3737 21 October 2015 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
from Cristina's log:
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Do you know when your interest for a language crosses over from nerdiness to obsession, bordering on actual, clinical insanity? That is when you buy toothpaste, shower gel and deodorant with Russian writings on them, just to have the pleasure of it being the first things you see in the morning. And you then get really mad when you realize that the toothpaste, which had Russian on the outside box, have all the letters that are big enough for you to be able to read, in English on the actual toothpaste. |
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 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 3693 of 3737 22 October 2015 at 7:36pm | IP Logged |
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When you recommend lyricstraining.com to your dentist. |
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More about this :)))
When the dentist offers an option of watching a movie during the treatment, and you always
bring movies in "weird" languages on USB sticks... until the dentist asks you for advice on
learning English, and you recommend lyricstraining and memrise and all that jazz, and next
time you decide to watch a movie in English for your dentist's language learning benefits :)
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Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5136 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian*
| Message 3694 of 3737 23 October 2015 at 7:51pm | IP Logged |
When your boss asked you to do a language-related work, then you happily do it while staying late at home despite not being given additional pay. Happened today.
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 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 3695 of 3737 23 November 2015 at 1:32am | IP Logged |
When mum sees a beer bottle in your room and thinks you were just reading the labels.
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audiophile Groupie United States Joined 5117 days ago 44 posts - 81 votes Studies: French
| Message 3696 of 3737 29 November 2015 at 6:09am | IP Logged |
Now you want to study Arabic and Quran, thinking that if you run into ISIS, this language skill may save your
life!
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