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| fireflies Senior Member Joined 5181 days ago 172 posts - 234 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1121 of 3737 29 September 2010 at 4:13am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I feel that way going to see a generic Hollywood movie. When the credits roll I feel like I have learned nothing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7132 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 1122 of 3737 29 September 2010 at 5:55am | IP Logged | ||||||||
It is the Continental Restaurant in Seattle, Washington. The language groups began with the German Stammtisch which I believe has been going on for more than 30 years. The schedule is as follows: Monday--Dutch Tuesday--German, Czech Wednesday--French, Turkish, Greek? Thursday--Spanish Friday--Can't remember Saturday--Can't remember Sunday--Swedish, Celtic I'm in China right now and didn't bring any of the cards with me. My experience is that 5-12 people for the popular languages show up each night. I don't know about the less popular languages (Gaelic, for example). There used to be a website but its been down for a while 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Hanekawa Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5172 days ago 30 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 1123 of 3737 29 September 2010 at 9:49am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Also, when you go on historical tangents about Kanji. To people who have no clue what
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| janalisa Triglot Senior Member France janafadness.com/blog Joined 6890 days ago 284 posts - 466 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese Studies: Russian, Norwegian | Message 1124 of 3737 29 September 2010 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Anybody want to help me establish something like this in Tokyo? XD (Totally serious!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5766 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1125 of 3737 29 September 2010 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You know you're a language nerd when you go into a class at uni thinking it's the Slovene grammar class you're supposed to be attending. But it's not, it's an introductory class for Polish grammar. You think "oh well, I can always go to the next Slovene class" and stay for Polish :]
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| Liface Triglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Lif Joined 5858 days ago 150 posts - 237 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Dutch, French | Message 1126 of 3737 29 September 2010 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Nice. I go to the Continental for the Dutch Stammtisch. It's only once a month though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 1127 of 3737 29 September 2010 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you wander into websites like this and instantly smile (but for a completely different reason from your friends). :)
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1128 of 3737 30 September 2010 at 5:18am | IP Logged | ||||||||
ellasevia wrote
Excellent work for The Cause, ellasevia! Now we just have to figure out how to hide the Rosetta Stone kiosk displays. That will be difficult; maybe the company anticipated this and made the vivid yellow boxes so bright in order to be nerd-resistant. Another incident. They just keep coming. I had to find a quick lunch for three dollars the other day and so I went to Chik-fil-A, a fine dining establishment with a name every bit as annoying as Weetabix or Big Corny. With so few dollars I could only get a kid's meal. It came in a fun, colorful little bag decorated with puzzles. One of these impressed me a lot at first. I saw a few strange words: EMRBEREM OT MLSIE ! I couldn't identify the language, but course I highly approved of teaching foreign languages to children. Then I realized that it was not a foreign language, but an "unscramble the letters to find a message" word game: REMEMBER TO SMILE ! I was not amused. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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