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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5338 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 1345 of 3737 22 December 2010 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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...while studying for your linguistics final, just about everything in the entire book sounds familiar to you, not because of the lectures but because you've read about them on this forum. Edited by ReneeMona on 22 December 2010 at 2:48pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Qbe Tetraglot Senior Member United States joewright.org/var Joined 7138 days ago 289 posts - 335 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Japanese, German, Mandarin, Aramaic | Message 1346 of 3737 22 December 2010 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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... when you can identify the languages on most of ellasevia's Christmas cookies (without looking at the answers).
--- when you enjoy doing so. 4 persons have 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 1347 of 3737 22 December 2010 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when, because of Internet radio, you always know more about the weather where your target language is spoken than you do about the weather where you live.
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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 1349 of 3737 22 December 2010 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | ||
and this has just become your PC wallpaper, but above all your daughter who isn't a linguist knows the Finnish and Swahili biscuits too..... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6043 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 1350 of 3737 23 December 2010 at 12:50am | IP Logged | ||
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you know what's in the music charts in another country but can't name a single group or song currently in your own country's chart.
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5338 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 1351 of 3737 23 December 2010 at 1:53am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you dance around the room for a full ten minutes because you just found a French dubbed version of your all time favourite BBC mini-series.
...when you just watched the first three hours of it and only stopped because it's two in the morning and you have an important exam the next day. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5538 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 1352 of 3737 23 December 2010 at 5:07am | IP Logged | ||
Guilty. I haven't a clue who is near the top on the US charts currently since I haven't really listened to English music for over a year now; the South Korean charts are another story, though. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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