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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 889 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 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 890 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I did that so many times last year... Luckily my teacher didn't care. :) Even better though: sitting front and center in your French class and quite obviously reading and taking notes from an Italian or German book which is lying open on your desk, while also half-listening to the strange (likely off-topic) lecture in French your teacher is giving. And later you hear from another student in a different class that she actually has noticed you doing that--which is good, because she would have to be blind to miss it--and talks about how you do that to other classes, but how she doesn't care because you "already speak French well". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6003 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 891 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When the Wikipedia Language Portal is your homepage.
When the only time of day you feel truly enthusiastic and energetic and can't take yourself away from something on vacation in St. Petersburg is at 11:30 at the bookstore in the giant foreign language section, despite the vast majority of the books there being in Russian, which you don't know at all. Bonus points because that actually increases your desire to buy them. When nothing makes you as giddy as getting a compliment on your language skills. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Kary Groupie Canada Joined 6149 days ago 85 posts - 113 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish, German | Message 892 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You worry about the luggage allowance for your next long trip - but not because of your clothing and toiletries, which can be scrunched into an overnight bag.
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 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 893 of 3737 26 July 2010 at 11:26pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Last year when I was going to Greece for six weeks, my mom told me at first that I would only be allowed to bring four language books. Only four! So I did the only thing that a reasonable language nerd would do--start to discreetly smuggle them into different little pouches and sections of my backpack, leaving only the biggest and heaviest four in the luggage. Then it turned out that I had enough room anyways, so I took nearly all of my (at that time--my collection has probably doubled or tripled in size since then) books. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 894 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 1:02am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You know you're a language nerd when you play games like flipping through a travel book and radomly choosing a
page and then saying something in the language of the country where that place is. You know you're an even bigger language nerd when you just can't find a page for which you can't say anything. I play this game with my friends and a globe, and they get frustrated. Even if I know only a few words they start to get a little annoyed. Then they turn to africa and I'm lost O_O. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 895 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 1:32am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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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 896 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 3:33am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Be lost no more, learn some words from this 1 person has voted this message useful |
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