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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1450 of 3737 22 February 2011 at 7:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you find this comedy routine way funnier than your friends do:
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| cymrotom Tetraglot Groupie United States cymrympls.blogspot.c Joined 5037 days ago 56 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English*, German, Mandarin, Welsh | Message 1451 of 3737 22 February 2011 at 8:10pm | IP Logged | ||
Spot on!
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| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5186 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1452 of 3737 23 February 2011 at 12:07am | IP Logged | ||
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When you become very upset upon finding out that Japanese-Chinese Cookbook isn't a bilingual text, but rather a compilation of Japanese and Chinese recipes. I should have known since the title is in English.
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| Thatzright Diglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5672 days ago 202 posts - 311 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: French, Swedish, German, Russian | Message 1453 of 3737 23 February 2011 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're on a two day student booze cruise with your buddies to celebrate high school being over, and it brings you great joy to notice upon reading the multilingual texts on the counter of the tax free shop that the Russian preposition без is indeed used with the genitive.
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| yawn Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5426 days ago 141 posts - 209 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, FrenchC2, SpanishC2 Studies: GermanB1 | Message 1454 of 3737 23 February 2011 at 3:51am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when you get just as excited upon receiving new course books in Italian and
Portuguese as other teens get excited over the latest fashion trend, the hottest celebrity, or the newest video game! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| skyr Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5033 days ago 15 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, German, Swedish Studies: Italian, Icelandic, Czech, Slovak, Serbian | Message 1455 of 3737 23 February 2011 at 11:53am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you need to catalogue all the recordings and songs you've downloaded - many of which you haven't got round to looking at - but you know for certain that at some point in time that Hungarian weather forecast from 1993 will come in useful!
...when you spend 19 months searching '401 Czech verbs' in the hope that someone someday will sell it at a reasonable price (it's extortionate in UK bookshops). You eventually find it on ebay for 2.36 euros/$3.23 and you then spend 2 hours composing an email in Czech (a language you don't yet speak) to thank the seller for making your life complete! 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5693 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 1456 of 3737 27 February 2011 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you're so thrilled to find a bilingual kids' book ("Chaucer's First Winter"/"El primer invierno de Chaucer") in your Cheerios box that you have to sit right down and read the whole thing in both languages, despite the fact that
A) you're not studying Spanish and don't plan to anytime soon, and B) you have a cup of tea over-brewing and cereal getting soggy in milk. This has gotta come first. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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