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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5845 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 49 of 3737 19 September 2009 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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At work (when I still had my job) I shocked my collegues that in our 30 minutes lunch pause I took out my Turkish textbook and vocabulary book and went to a separate table to learn some Turkish vocabulary there. I think that such action had never happened at that workplace before. Very nerdy, indeed!
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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 50 of 3737 19 September 2009 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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When people ask you why you don't learn Finnish and Hungarian too, now you are at it
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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 51 of 3737 19 September 2009 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | ||
If you're into German bands who sing in Latin, definitely check out Corvus Corax. They're amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QWS1xUkUaA 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hombre gordo Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5581 days ago 184 posts - 247 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Portuguese, Korean | Message 52 of 3737 19 September 2009 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | ||
I used to always use my breaks at work for studying Japanese. Guess what, I was despised for it by some people. I am sorry but my coworkers boring and unstimulating conversation cannot possible compete with 30 minutes of reading a Japanese text or adding a few more Kanji. 4 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 53 of 3737 19 September 2009 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you would never watch a "soap opera" but love telenovelas because you can practice your Spanish..but secretly love the story lines.
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5764 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 54 of 3737 20 September 2009 at 12:14am | IP Logged | ||
When your immediate reply is to smile brightly, tell them "Yes, that's a great idea, I will do that!" and you actually mean it. Edited by Bao on 20 September 2009 at 12:20am 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 55 of 3737 20 September 2009 at 12:40am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you know off the top of your head what language families Estonian, Wolof,
Amharic, Urdu, Burmese, Tagalog and Navajo belong to, can name several language isolates, and have an informed opinion on whether or not Turkish is distantly related to Korean. Edited by Levi on 20 September 2009 at 12:45am 8 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 56 of 3737 20 September 2009 at 1:48am | IP Logged | ||
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I think it'd be pretty impressive, and probably pretty nerdy, to know at least one language from all the main language families. I'd love to do just that one day, although it may well just be a dream :]
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