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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5222 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 1065 of 3737 03 September 2010 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | ||
ibraheem: There is never a FINAL scavenge.... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5471 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 1066 of 3737 03 September 2010 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | ||
That's why I started learning Japanese, if you tell someone you spent 5 hours playing video games your a couch potato, if you spent 5 hours playing video games in Japanese your dedicated and deserve accolades. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5352 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 1067 of 3737 03 September 2010 at 5:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you can go the foreign language lection of Waterstones (often) and browse the coursebooks before realising that 3 hours have passed and you still have so much more you want to look at!
When you ruin a possible few hours foreign language study by reading about languages on this site and on Wikipaedia, a lot of the time re-reading stuff you've already read. When you enjoy visiting your in-laws, even though all they talk about is the weather, dogs and neighbours for several hours, because they are monolingual in one of your foreign languages! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Kary Groupie Canada Joined 6152 days ago 85 posts - 113 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Spanish, German | Message 1068 of 3737 03 September 2010 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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When a phone call wakes you from a dream of searching a glossary of grammatical terms (where you remember seeing at least one word from you Anki study list) and the first thing you do after hanging up is run to your computer to type in the term to see if it really exists and, if so, what language is it.
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| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5502 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 1069 of 3737 04 September 2010 at 6:36am | IP Logged | ||
When you wonder if language nerdery status can be recinded because you weren't aware of either Iverson before reading this. When you ask your mom can you please be stuck in a car with her for four hours on a drive to Pittsburgh, all for the purpose of going to a bookstore there. 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 1070 of 3737 05 September 2010 at 4:44am | IP Logged | ||
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...when much of your time is spent wondering how language arose in the first place. Who strung together the first sentence? Who made the first relative clause? The first pun? What was the first irregular verb? What is the oldest language that has surviving descendents? Why can't there be time machines so we can figure this stuff out?
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5222 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 1071 of 3737 06 September 2010 at 10:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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You've just had a very good interview for a very good position and the interviewer reads on your CV where you talk about your interests outside work says 'Have an interest in various languages'
You then spend 30 minutes examining exactly how many languages you can hold a conversation in..... having correctly identified she speaks Russian with a Ukrainian accent and her German isn't all that sharp. 06 September 2010: I was that guy. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5594 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1072 of 3737 06 September 2010 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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when friends start to save instruction manuals that came with the things they have purchased (most recently a storage box that had to be assembled) because they know you will enjoy reading the directions in the various languages in the manual.
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