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| Marc94 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5249 days ago 32 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian | Message 833 of 3737 15 July 2010 at 6:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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When every so often in the shower, you try to form as many sounds as you can in order to practice for any future languages that might contain those sounds!
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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5330 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 834 of 3737 15 July 2010 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you listen to language programs to go to sleep...seriously who does that?
I couldn't fall asleep last night, so I listened to FSI Spanish, then decided to try Pimsleur German and Michel Thomas German before deciding I'd rather be fully awake for those, so I go back to FSI to realize that I need to listen to German to get my ears used to the language. So I listened to Assimil German tapes. I woke up today and realized I could have counted sheep in Spanish :( 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Andrew~ Groupie United States howlearnspanish.com Joined 5271 days ago 42 posts - 67 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 835 of 3737 16 July 2010 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Going to use or pick up an object around the house you try to think of the word for it in a language you're learning. It's on the tip of your tongue but you just can't think of it for some reason. You should know this, you've learned it before.
You will stand there, staring at the thing in question (refrigerator, car keys, milk, chair, whatever), refusing to allow yourself to pick it up or do whatever it is you were going to do with it until you can think of the correct word for it in the language that you're trying to think in. You will stand there for however long this takes, perhaps finally giving in and going to look it up in the dictionary before coming back and proceeding as you were until it happens again :D I have stood in the shower staring at the soap, refusing to pick it up, getting angry at myself, while trying to think of the word for "soap" in Spanish for about 5 minutes before I finally gave up (I looked it up immediately after getting out of the shower, still wet, dripping water all over my bedroom floor as I went to fetch my Spanish dictionary). Splish-splash, splish-splash... Cursing... Papers rustling, flipping of pages... "Jabón!!! I knew it! Damnit, why couldn't I remember that?!" Splish-splash, splish-splash back to the bathroom... Edited by Andrew~ on 18 July 2010 at 11:32pm 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 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 836 of 3737 16 July 2010 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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... when you have good quality ENG - GER, GER - ENG and FRA - GER, GER - FRA bilingual dictionaries in your bookshelves BUT you desperately want to buy similar dictionaries based on Dutch = L2 for your L3 - L2 learning method.... and can't wait until you get the chance to use them!
Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 16 July 2010 at 4:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 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 837 of 3737 16 July 2010 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | ||
That's a good one! When I attended driving school I was a teenager, but at that very young age I wasn't a language freak, so at that time I wouldn't have got the idea to ask for driving mock exams in a foreign language. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Thaorius Diglot Groupie ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5546 days ago 40 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2 | Message 838 of 3737 16 July 2010 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when, on the way to a Japanese only bookstore, you find a used books bookshop, you
enter curiously, and ask for material in Japanese, or otherwise a foreign language that isn't English. The store clerk shows you a few things, nothing very convincing... and then, just as you are leaving the store, you see a kanji across the room. You take the book off the shelf, and oh boy... jackpot. A 1965, perfectly preserved, color illustrated book in German about Japanese history. Annnnddd it comes with a lot of kanji! I mean, what more could you possibly ask for, right? (I am not, nor will I be studying German for the next 2 years or so. I am, however, learning Japanese.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 839 of 3737 17 July 2010 at 1:58am | IP Logged | ||
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...when, for the first time in your life, you find yourself having trouble switching back to your native language.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5594 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 840 of 3737 17 July 2010 at 2:41am | IP Logged | ||
When you do have many good quality Spanish-English and French-English dictionaries (your target languages) but continue to buy more "just in case",as if the ones with 80,000 or 120,000 words will not be sufficient.And you can't sleep wondering how you would be able to buy some French-Spanish and Spanish-French dictionaries. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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