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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 1105 of 3737 24 September 2010 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you try to add something original to this thread.
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5219 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 1106 of 3737 25 September 2010 at 4:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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And its your birthday in a month: your partner asks what you want for your birthday and you think of the options ......
a)Colloquial X & MT and a decent dictionary in a language you've never studied before b)An immersion course (without her) in another language, ideally Icelandic c)A watch (nah, thats not going to happen is it?) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 1107 of 3737 26 September 2010 at 1:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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When, a year in advance of a language course you would like to attend but is really far away and would be quite expensive, not to mention that it's in the middle of a family holiday, you start planning on how you're going to approach your wife and hopefully convince her to let you go to said course, thereby leaving her alone with the kids for a couple of days in a foreign country.
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| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5809 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 1108 of 3737 26 September 2010 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | ||
When you do crazy things just for the sake of contributing to this thread. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 1109 of 3737 26 September 2010 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | ||
Inspired by you meramarina, I did just the same thing when I was at the bookstore yesterday! I didn't see any books from the "hide this [...] book" series (maybe someone from this website got there before me), but I did hide a book called "Dirty Japanese." 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5219 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 1110 of 3737 27 September 2010 at 12:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you are playing online scrabble [www.lexulous.com] and you can tell from the typing that your opponent has excellent English, close to native [better than some natives]. Then you persuade said Urdu speaker to join HTLAL . . . because you can never have too many native resources to interact with, right ? Even though Urdu/Hindi is low down on your 'list', at the moment.
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1111 of 3737 28 September 2010 at 6:53am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you feel like you're the only one who consciously avoids confusing idioms when talking to people who don't speak your language very well.
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| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7132 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 1112 of 3737 28 September 2010 at 8:22am | IP Logged | ||
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When you overhear people on the bus talking about language learning and you hand them a
card from the local restuarant that hosts several different language nights. When you actually stock up on these cards every time you go to a French evening (which is also Turkish evening at another table and you long to join the Turkish speakers but don't because you feel you'd be "cheating" on French). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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