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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 873 of 3737 25 July 2010 at 12:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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When you look around at every level surface in the room, and realise that the ceiling is the only place that doesn't have at least one language learning book or poster on it...yet!
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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6446 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 874 of 3737 25 July 2010 at 12:40am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Hey, now there's an idea: taping verb / declension charts to the ceiling. If you get lost, just look up.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 875 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 1:53am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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When you feel really upset that July is almost over because that leaves only one more month before everything goes back to "normal" for you in September and you will have less time to devote to you language studies.
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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5327 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 876 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 3:19am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Sorry, I thought mainly people from Georgia (the state) used that term, it's kind of shocking seeing a European using it. One of my friends immediately identified me as a Georgian when he first heard me say that... I second the polyglots as role models thing. I could care less about who's getting married to who in Hollywood, but I'm interested in Prof. Arguelles language learning methods. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5327 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 877 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 3:23am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Not just because I lose all of the free time I have for languages, but I'll have work for stupid subjects like English (why do I have to take a class about my native language?) and I won't be able to study foreign languages! Edited by johntm93 on 26 July 2010 at 3:23am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Rina Newbie United States Joined 5544 days ago 35 posts - 64 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Korean | Message 878 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 5:10am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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When you've only been in Nürnberg a couple of days and can already locate all the bookstores in the Altstadt and know how good their language sections are. I found one that was almost a whole room. I could have fainted.
When you buy something you had no intention of buying just because the sales lady kept speaking to you in German even when she found out you were from the US. Edited by Rina on 26 July 2010 at 5:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5499 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 879 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 5:23am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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When you can say that you learned more about English from studing foreign languages than you did in your English class at school, things like what a prepostion is, what the direct and indirect objects are, and what the schwa sound is.
I think I'm going to make Chinese vocabulary lists of characters that I can't recognize on sight and tape them to my cieling, so that I can look at them before I fall asleep and when I wake up. I had a teacher who said that right before bed and right when you wake up are the best times to learn things, as you remember them better. When you've actually been called a nerd to your face for telling someone (while in a new-book high, of course) that you just bought A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese: Simplified Character Edition and Integrated Korean: Beginning 1 at a newly-discovered bookstore and they're both really great and on and on. I would call me a nerd too, if I said that to myself... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5327 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 880 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 5:35am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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