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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5594 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes  Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1521 of 3737 01 April 2011 at 4:08am | IP Logged |
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When you are driving in your car listening to Michel Thomas French and a large transport truck with the words "Estes express" suddenly pulls in front of you. Rather than being annoyed, you think, "oh, the Spanish subjunctive"
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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 1522 of 3737 01 April 2011 at 10:30am | IP Logged |
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When you read "A SMILE is the same in every language" written on a restaurant wall, and think to yourself, "no, not really". Then you proceed to silently count off all the words you know in your head whilst everyone else thinks you've just fallen into a momentary stupor over your milkshake and huevos rancheros (улыбка, Lächeln, leende, sonrisa...didn't get very far lol)! Edited by Teango on 01 April 2011 at 10:32am 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 1523 of 3737 01 April 2011 at 8:28pm | IP Logged |
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When a Japanese company returns an out of spec product to your firm for re-testing and you keep all of the labels on the boxes as they are in Japanese and you may want to learn it one day.
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| ThisIsGina Groupie United Kingdom languageblogbygina.w Joined 5321 days ago 56 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, French | Message 1524 of 3737 02 April 2011 at 3:33pm | IP Logged |
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When you're at church and you look at the leaflets in the porch to try and find some information about Lourdes. You don't see anything relevant, but you do see a leaflet written all in Polish, so you take one of those instead, despite not knowing Polish and not having any spare time to learn a new language until at least September. Then you spend the journey home looking at the leaflet trying to pronounce the words.
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| BartoG Diglot Senior Member United States confession Joined 5450 days ago 292 posts - 818 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Latin, Uzbek | Message 1525 of 3737 02 April 2011 at 7:40pm | IP Logged |
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When you can watch the evening news without batting an eye, but an April Fool's joke about Assimil going bankrupt causes a wave of anguish to come over you.
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| 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 1526 of 3737 03 April 2011 at 12:25am | IP Logged |
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When you squeal with delight when you find product information in Russian on labels in an accessory shop and squeal again later when you find a film in both French and Vietnamese. I think I pretty much embarrassed my sister today
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| 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 1527 of 3737 03 April 2011 at 4:41am | IP Logged |
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When you almost crash into multiple people head-on while walking on the mall because you're caught up in reading your Japanese grammar book. Oh, and you were reading it aloud to ensure maximum retention so people were probably staring, but I really wouldn't know since I never looked up. My brother was trying desperately to get as far away from me as possible so that he wouldn't be associated with me. :)
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5970 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1528 of 3737 03 April 2011 at 3:22pm | IP Logged |
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When you are very, very sad to find out, too late, that yesterday, April 2, was International Pillow Fight Day. It's a worldwide event, so of course it's multilingual. I consoled myself by reading about pillow fights in my target languages.
But this kind of gives a whole new meaning to "target" language! Make your plans for next year! International Pillow Fight Day 1 person has voted this message useful |
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