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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 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 689 of 3737 09 June 2010 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you hope that the people who installed your mother's cable TV never discover that they accidentally put Russian subtitles on TV5 (a French channel) instead of Danish ones.
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| Rina Newbie United States Joined 5545 days ago 35 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Korean | Message 690 of 3737 11 June 2010 at 7:02am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When your entire theatre class is relieved when you walk in late because no one wanted to struggle to pronounce the Japanese parts of the play the class was reading that period.
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| Olympia Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5982 days ago 195 posts - 244 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Old English, French | Message 691 of 3737 11 June 2010 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Haha... I would LOVE that. Another one: The cable company keeps taking channels off of your basic cable package, and you secretly like it because it means that eventually your parents will give in and get digital cable...thereby giving you access to channels in foreign languages. And I'm particularly devastated because one of the first channels to go was Univsion--our only Spanish-language channel. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5524 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 692 of 3737 12 June 2010 at 12:24am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Our digital cable only gives a bunch of Spanish channels and you have to pay ten billion dollars an month to watch any other foreign languages Edited by GREGORG4000 on 12 June 2010 at 12:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 693 of 3737 12 June 2010 at 12:57am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Where I live there are a bunch of Spanish TV channels, and then one channel that rotates about every hour for a bunch of other languages. It actually has a really good selection: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, German, Dutch, Flemish, Icelandic, Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Armenian, Ossetian, Georgian, Hungarian, Arabic, Mandarin...
Sometimes I just go watch that channel just to be entertained by listening to the sounds of the language and trying to figure out what they are talking about. My grandmother always would get up at 5 in the morning to watch the Greek program. EDIT: Out of curiosity I just turned on that channel to see what was on now and it was just the end of the Lithuanian program and then it switched to Hungarian. Edited by ellasevia on 12 June 2010 at 1:01am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5346 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 694 of 3737 12 June 2010 at 1:49am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I've never seen anything like it. It would be a dream come true. What is it called? What kind of programs does it feature? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 695 of 3737 12 June 2010 at 3:59am | IP Logged | ||||||||
The station is called SCOLA. For most of the languages it is just the news broadcast from the country, but for some of them there are also game shows, children's shows, educational documentaries, and other entertainment programs. I just now noticed that (I think) you can also watch the programs live on the website which I linked to. Edited by ellasevia on 12 June 2010 at 4:01am 5 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 696 of 3737 12 June 2010 at 4:49am | IP Logged | ||||||||
That is a dream come true! You know you're not a language nerd if you don't bookmark that link ASAP! 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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