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| horshod Pentaglot Groupie India Joined 5770 days ago 74 posts - 107 votes  Speaks: Hindi, Marathi*, Bengali, Gujarati, English Studies: German, Spanish, Turkish | Message 1249 of 3737 18 November 2010 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you are at a book fair and buy Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali and Urdu books even if you don't understand some of these languages but can read the script and you think you might learn the languages some time in the future :)
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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 1250 of 3737 18 November 2010 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Very funny language puns, guys, but be sure to remember this: always be careful in your language studies - you could catch an inflection!
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| tornus Diglot GroupieRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5143 days ago 82 posts - 113 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Swedish, Danish | Message 1251 of 3737 18 November 2010 at 6:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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when you have your first driving lesson and you pay more attention at listening to an interview of a Spanish tennis player on radio ( and trying to understand before the translation in french) than looking at the road!
btw i first start to drive at the left of the road like in england whereas in france we drive at the right. in a period my father worked in england all the week long, then whe he returned to france he keep on driving in the English way Edited by tornus on 18 November 2010 at 6:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dickda1 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5130 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch | Message 1252 of 3737 18 November 2010 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am a native English speaker.
I placed a phone call in French from the Zurich airport to a friend in France using a French phone directory. This probably sounds really simple, but it was a major accomplishment for me. It was the first time that I realized I was becoming fluent in the language. 1 person has 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 1254 of 3737 19 November 2010 at 1:08am | IP Logged | |||||
Now that I've most likely ruined a good pun my actual contribution to this thread is: Yesterday I heard a woman sing a song in Hawaiian and instead of just enjoying her lovely singing voice I was thinking to myself "Now why didn't I think to bring a pen and a notebook so I could try to write down the words?" Edited by mick33 on 19 November 2010 at 2:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| horshod Pentaglot Groupie India Joined 5770 days ago 74 posts - 107 votes Speaks: Hindi, Marathi*, Bengali, Gujarati, English Studies: German, Spanish, Turkish | Message 1255 of 3737 19 November 2010 at 4:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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When, on hearing or seeing anything in a different language, your friends immediately turn to you and expect you to know the language.. They're like.. "Oh what does that mean?".. and you're like "I don't know any Chinese". (And then you still try to identify the familiar looking Kanjis in the Chinese text trying to figure out what it might mean.. lol pretty stupid but happens =P)
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| horshod Pentaglot Groupie India Joined 5770 days ago 74 posts - 107 votes Speaks: Hindi, Marathi*, Bengali, Gujarati, English Studies: German, Spanish, Turkish | Message 1256 of 3737 19 November 2010 at 4:29am | IP Logged | |||||
lol guilty 1 person has voted this message useful |
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