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| Alois M. Heptaglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5217 days ago 10 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Dutch Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Hindi, Greek, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Arabic (classical), Swedish, Turkish | Message 1457 of 3737 27 February 2011 at 10:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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.... when language learning-related material occupies 25 GB of your PC's hard-disk.
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| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5069 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes  Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 1458 of 3737 27 February 2011 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you're excited that the metrocard you bought has only Spanish text on the back...
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6706 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 1459 of 3737 27 February 2011 at 11:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have been listening to Latin videos on Youtube for an hour or so, more specifically a series about humanism, spoken by 'Aloisius Miraglia' and uploaded by 'Baeticus' (no.1 here). On my TV there is a program about bluidy murder cases with Danish subtitles - not something I find very interesting. What drove me to this thread was that I suddenly realized that each time I looked at the TV I found myself translating the Danish subtitles into Pig Latin... Edited by Iversen on 27 February 2011 at 11:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alois M. Heptaglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5217 days ago 10 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Dutch Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Hindi, Greek, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Arabic (classical), Swedish, Turkish | Message 1460 of 3737 02 March 2011 at 2:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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- When you have translations of the same book into various languages, and read them simultaneously (in my case, presently with Tony Judt's Post-war, a History of Europe since 1945 - Geschichte Europas von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart - Pós-Guerra: uma História da Europa desde 1945).
- When you keep a notebook perpetually open in front of your PC to write down the new words you come across surfing the Internet, one couple of pages for each of a dozen of languages. - When you study Sanskrit through German, and Japanese through French, Basque through Italian..... at the same time. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Alois M. Heptaglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5217 days ago 10 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, French, English, German, Italian, Dutch Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Hindi, Greek, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Arabic (classical), Swedish, Turkish | Message 1461 of 3737 02 March 2011 at 2:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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....when you try to speak Chinese with yourself, within your head, and replace the words you don't know with French or German ones.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 1462 of 3737 02 March 2011 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | ||
I do this all the time! I have different languages than this example, but I always feel like I'm studying "through" something. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5696 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 1463 of 3737 03 March 2011 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||
Oh yeah? How about... SIXTY gigabytes? I'm not exaggerating! My materials cover 60 languages and eight dialects. I've even had to buy an external hard-drive to keep all my movies on, because my language-learning materials crowded them off my computer. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 1464 of 3737 03 March 2011 at 1:52am | IP Logged | ||
Because naturally the language-learning materials took priority. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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