Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 1353 of 3737 23 December 2010 at 1:20pm | IP Logged |
ReneeMona wrote:
...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. |
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Where? Where?
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ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French
| Message 1354 of 3737 23 December 2010 at 4:07pm | IP Logged |
Sprachprofi wrote:
ReneeMona wrote:
...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. |
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Where? Where? |
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Not sure if it's entirely legal, but someone uploaded it here.
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clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5178 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 1355 of 3737 23 December 2010 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
zerothinking wrote:
When you spend five minutes reading the books in the displays at Ikea because they're in
Swedish. You don't speak Swedish. You are highly tempted to steal one or two of them.
When you find this table in Ikea and think it was designed for you.
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Polish one is wrong :(
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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 1356 of 3737 23 December 2010 at 7:12pm | IP Logged |
clumsy wrote:
zerothinking wrote:
When you spend five minutes reading the books in the displays at Ikea because they're in
Swedish. You don't speak Swedish. You are highly tempted to steal one or two of them.
When you find this table in Ikea and think it was designed for you.
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Polish one is wrong :( |
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I made my own after the IKEA find......... custom fit to the curves. When the other machines are installed I will post a couple of images.
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Cumquat Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 5525 days ago 4 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Arabic (Written)
| Message 1358 of 3737 24 December 2010 at 11:36am | IP Logged |
When you open a monolingual English dictionary and automatically flip to the front or back half because 'that's the side that's in the language I want'.
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LittleBoy Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5310 days ago 84 posts - 100 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto
| Message 1359 of 3737 26 December 2010 at 9:25pm | IP Logged |
When you catch yourself listening to French podcasts whilst doing Mandarin reps on Anki...
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ratis Hexaglot Newbie Germany Joined 5103 days ago 28 posts - 43 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin Studies: Czech, Japanese Studies: Hindi
| Message 1360 of 3737 27 December 2010 at 1:40am | IP Logged |
Kuikentje wrote:
When your Wii Fit, Sports, dance and all the things are not in your
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Or: When you had to set up a separate user account on your computer for your boyfriend
because you have the habit of changing your operating system's language every other month
- which is still driving him crazy because he needs to figure out again and again which
one of the cryptic start menu items would be for switching users...
Edited by ratis on 27 December 2010 at 1:46am
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