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| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6001 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 425 of 3737 12 March 2010 at 5:26am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're so excited about the irregular past tense verb you correctly deduced while watching a movie in your target language and the general progress you made that you accidentally spill your food all over yourself... while eating breakfast the next morning.
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 426 of 3737 12 March 2010 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you are slightly annoyed to be interrupted in the middle of studying, then pleasantly surprised to see it's a group of native speakers of the language you were studying who are interrupting you!
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5589 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 427 of 3737 13 March 2010 at 3:45am | IP Logged | ||
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when this happens: you are driving in your car and listening to the new language course you just purchased. The course has some initial "sound effects" in the form of music representative of the country where the language is spoken.Other than that opening music the course seems to have a straight forward style of presenting an English word or phrase followed by the same in your target language. As you are driving and paying attention to both the road and to the course you suddenly hear a train approaching and you momentarily panic. You then realize the course has introduced a new word,"train", and the sound that frightened you was the sound effect they added to the course. But, being the true language nerd that you are, you are so absorbed in the course that it also scares you the next time you are reviewing the material...and the time after that..and the time after that...
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 428 of 3737 13 March 2010 at 5:20am | IP Logged | ||
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...when your web browser is in French, and you use it to write an e-mail in German complaining that you can't find an interview with a Mandarin teacher on someone's website. Edited by Levi on 13 March 2010 at 5:21am 2 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 429 of 3737 13 March 2010 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you and your Spanish teacher talk about practicing for the National Spanish Exam during the breaks while taking the SAT.
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| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5551 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 430 of 3737 16 March 2010 at 1:37am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're writing a novel and fantasizing, if it happens to get published, about how many different languages it will be translated into and how you will own one copy of every single translation.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5479 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 431 of 3737 16 March 2010 at 3:12am | IP Logged | ||
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When you go through a side tracked explanation, to a group of other high schoolers to
whom you were explaining the origins of the French revolution, of the Georgian language, its structure, it's history, specifically it's oppression in the communist Soviet Union. About halfway through explaining the origins of the script, one of the people to whom you were explaining it, raises their hand and asks what Georgian is. You know that you are truly a language nerd when you chuckle expecting a joke but realize the rest of the group has no idea about what you are talking. Confusion ensues before you disappointedly go back to reviewing the French revolution with your classmates. 3 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 432 of 3737 16 March 2010 at 5:22am | IP Logged | ||
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