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| muflax Diglot Newbie Germany muflax.com Joined 5562 days ago 11 posts - 17 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 657 of 3737 26 May 2010 at 1:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you play The Witcher with Polish voice-overs (because you always choose the original, even when not speaking the language at all) and your thoughts during the tutorial are, "Wow, Polish really sounds badass! I really need to learn a Slavic language soon." and "Wait, did he just change the ending vocal of a name? Polish has a vocative case? Cool!"
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5336 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 658 of 3737 26 May 2010 at 1:59am | IP Logged | |||||
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-When your check list before you leave your house goes like this:
Wallet? Check. Keys? Check. Pocket sized French-Dutch, Dutch-French dictionary? Check. -When even when you've promised yourself a French-free day to let everything sink in you still find yourself looking up translations of words you come across on Wiktionary. -When you've been talking to yourself in a mixture of Dutch, English and French for hours, occasionally explaining bits of grammar and vocabulary to the walls to check that you've fully understood them. -When you and your best friend have long discussions about the languages you are going to raise your own and the other's children in and have decided on Dutch, English, French, Spanish and Papiamentu...so far. Edited by ReneeMona on 26 May 2010 at 2:00am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 659 of 3737 26 May 2010 at 3:32am | IP Logged | |||||
I could joke and simply say "too many" but in truth I have a lot.And the books, courses, materials are rather long and time consuming if you go at a slow pace,as I like to do, trying to absorb the material. Also, I found a discount book(and CD) seller that carries a variety of courses and reference material in my two target languages.They add new items and discontinue others. I must admit that I get a little paranoid that they might not have the particular items in the future (when I would be ready to use it) so I gobble them up when I can. I must also "blame" this site: I hear good things about a program and I want to try it. I don't jump around but I do like to use several resourses at the same time As an example I am working on Assimil French with Ease, but I also have purchased or received as gifts (and all you fellow language nerds know that these are the gifts we ask for from our friends, family, etc) other materials. These include Berlitz Self-Teacher , Michele Thomas 10 CD Beginners, Cortina Conversation in 20 lessons, Behind the Wheel level 1...well, you get the idea. This does not include all the Spanish books, tapes, CD's,and courses that I have used, am still using, or am planning to use. So I am exaggerating only a little when I said 125 yr. Maybe only 90 years. Edit: I guess it also depends on how old one is when first starting. Edited by psy88 on 26 May 2010 at 3:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 660 of 3737 26 May 2010 at 8:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you are disappointed that nobody you know is familiar with the sentence "I can eat glass, it does not hurt me" or the sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously".
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| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5697 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 661 of 3737 26 May 2010 at 9:05am | IP Logged | |||||
Or how about "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."? 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 662 of 3737 26 May 2010 at 10:55am | IP Logged | |||||
Strangely, I don't think that example ever came up in any of my classes when I was studying linguistics at the University at Buffalo. I read about it on my own. Edited by Levi on 26 May 2010 at 10:46pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| karaipyhare Tetraglot Groupie Paraguay Joined 5586 days ago 74 posts - 150 votes Speaks: Portuguese, Spanish*, English, Guarani Studies: German, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 663 of 3737 26 May 2010 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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this one fascinates me:
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" 7 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6043 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 664 of 3737 27 May 2010 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
^^ Oops I thought she wanted to know how to say Tag your it in Spanish. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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