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| Rina Newbie United States Joined 5544 days ago 35 posts - 64 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Korean | Message 97 of 3737 12 October 2009 at 4:13am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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When people who don't know you very well were/are under the impression that you're German. Or Russian. Or Japanese, even though I'm obviously not Asian... >.<
This happens to me a lot. When you avoid having to accept movie invitations, or anything else that costs money, because your broke, nerdy, 15 year old self needs every bit of chore/birthday/Christmas money for language material... ...I need a job. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 98 of 3737 12 October 2009 at 5:23am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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I have a growing collection of language books, as I try to make progress in learning, and I've been putting them all together on one shelf. I like to keep them nearby, as I use the books frequently and I add to the shelf regularly. And now, I've finally had a real language breakthrough. The shelf collapsed.
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| niemia Tetraglot Newbie United States Joined 5681 days ago 19 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Polish, Georgian, Welsh, Arabic (Written), Japanese, Finnish | Message 99 of 3737 12 October 2009 at 7:22am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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When you constantly have to justify the awesomeness of Welsh to your friends and explain why studying it at the
same time as French, Spanish, German, Russian and Arabic is actually a good idea. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6294 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 100 of 3737 12 October 2009 at 2:21pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
When you then switch to whatever obscure language she DOES speak! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5994 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 101 of 3737 12 October 2009 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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When you are incredibly happy to notice that the pile of books, that some fool has put by the bin next to the photocopier in another department to be thrown out, are technical translation dictionaries which have been replaced with more recent versions. Even more so when you realise that several of them are in five different languages, four of which you're studying.
And when you then have to figure out how to smuggle them out of the building without arousing too much suspicion. :D Edited by ExtraLean on 12 October 2009 at 5:34pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| PastaVodka Newbie United States Joined 5523 days ago 1 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English* | Message 102 of 3737 13 October 2009 at 12:58am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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- When you mispronounce something in your native tongue because it has a similar spelling to a word in your target language.
- When you study every language your ancestors supposedly spoke and then some. Edited by PastaVodka on 13 October 2009 at 1:09am 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5535 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 103 of 3737 13 October 2009 at 1:56am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
{raises hand} Pop is not my normal music preference, but pretty much all the Korean music I've acquired thus far is K-pop. I need to work on fixing that.
I didn't even own an MP3 player until very recently. Now that I do, it's got nothing but Pimsleur lessons loaded on it.
I actually just verified over the weekend that my cell phone doesn't have Korean (which is my primary focus right now) as an option. It does have Spanish, though...hmmm. I've considering changing the language on my primary home computer, but haven't actually gone through with that yet.
I completely quit watching TV a year or so ago (including canceling my Dish Network service) because I didn't have time for it and I had really lost interest in watching TV anyway. Then about a week ago, I ordered a K-drama series on DVD. I've also briefly considered getting Dish Network again only because I found out they have 5 Korean channels available. Here is one of my own: - When, back in high school, you got bored enough in English class one day that you translated Hamlet's "To Be or Not To Be" speech into Spanish...for fun. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 104 of 3737 15 October 2009 at 3:27am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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When, in response to the thread "your favorite language program" you want to post "all of them",(because it is true!!) but you don't for fear of sounding too much like a former vice-presidential candidate.
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