ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6145 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 1321 of 3737 14 December 2010 at 11:40pm | IP Logged |
When you've been telling your friends how excited you are for 2011 for over a month, and when they ask why you say because of your new study strategy that will be implemented. They just shake their heads in confusion and walk away.
Wait, but I thought everybody gets excited about studying...don't they?
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Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5644 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French
| Message 1322 of 3737 15 December 2010 at 10:49am | IP Logged |
When there's Russian clown being interviewed on TV but you're just watching it because you're mesmerised by the Russian-Dutch translator. (She's amazing!)
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 1323 of 3737 15 December 2010 at 1:35pm | IP Logged |
When your mobile broadband arrives in the post, and you spend more time looking at the flyer for discount international calls included in the box (you might may have seen the posters or ads around, e.g. wow, strewth, świetnie, अच्छा है, etc.) than reading the instruction manual.
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languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5103 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai
| Message 1324 of 3737 16 December 2010 at 3:12am | IP Logged |
When you have two iPods - one for English and one for foreign music only.
Edited by languagenerd09 on 16 December 2010 at 3:14am
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Pau20 Triglot Newbie MexicoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5223 days ago 9 posts - 11 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Italian Studies: French, German
| Message 1325 of 3737 16 December 2010 at 4:45am | IP Logged |
When you really wanted Russia to win the 2018 World Cup bid but deep inside it kind of frustrates you because it interferes with your language learning long-term plans! (I was supposed to start Russian by 2018, now I shall start earlier... sorry Dutch :/ )
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 1326 of 3737 16 December 2010 at 12:47pm | IP Logged |
When the first thing you do whilst checking out the new iPad at a local store is to make sure you can log on to this forum (oh blast...I forgot to check if the "Reviewing the Kanji" site and language blogs work ok too! *next time*).
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troglodyte Diglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5283 days ago 53 posts - 69 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian
| Message 1327 of 3737 16 December 2010 at 2:11pm | IP Logged |
Pau20 wrote:
When you really wanted Russia to win the 2018 World Cup bid but deep
inside it kind of frustrates you because it interferes with your language learning long-
term plans! (I was supposed to start Russian by 2018, now I shall start earlier... sorry
Dutch :/ ) |
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When you add Russian to your list because Russia won the 2018 World Cup bid. Or would
that make me a football nerd?
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languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5103 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai
| Message 1328 of 3737 16 December 2010 at 3:14pm | IP Logged |
When everytime you go to a bookstore, you head straight for the language section and could spend a good hour there at least ...
3 times a week ..
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