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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5207 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 1601 of 3737 28 April 2011 at 12:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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You receive a relatively technical phonetics book in the post, and for the rest of the day you're looking forward to getting home so you can read it. However, you have no time to read beyond the preface because you have a language meetup to attend that evening. During the quieter periods at the meetup, the book again enters your thoughts and you wonder if you'd have been better off staying home and reading it (probably not of course). The next day you're sitting at work and hoping that this evening you'll finally have time to make a proper start on it. You have a long weekend coming up so you look forward to spending a good portion of it getting stuck into the book.
EDIT: And you also have the full intention of going outside to read it and practice the sounds if the weather's nice during this long weekend. Probably sitting at reasonable distance away from other people. Edited by garyb on 28 April 2011 at 1:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Alexander86 Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom alanguagediary.blogs Joined 4981 days ago 224 posts - 323 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, Catalan Studies: Swedish | Message 1602 of 3737 28 April 2011 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you're in the language section of your local bookshop and you overhear the assistant doing a stock take: 'get
by in German', after they've been looking for a while you show them where it is... (happened today!) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 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 1603 of 3737 28 April 2011 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you write a long long essay about something as speculative as the origin of language(s) instead of taking a bus to town to fetch your holiday photos.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 1604 of 3737 29 April 2011 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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.. when you celebrate it as a real success that now your family is informed about which languages you are are currently studying, so you can now talk openly about what you are doing so often a week. Perhaps I could have informed them earlier, but I didn't dare to do so.
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| Haukilahti Triglot Groupie Finland Joined 4964 days ago 94 posts - 126 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Polish | Message 1605 of 3737 29 April 2011 at 1:24pm | IP Logged | ||
... when you point out the following:
Though it tends to be viewed more and more as 14 cases only, the accusative being considered more as a "function" of genetive and nominative than a "case". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 1606 of 3737 29 April 2011 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | ||
And you know that so many people don't understand your first version you also write a version in your own language and versions in your other languages.... but still sitting on a tram and reading the [Polish] version of your essay out loud gets you a date with the passenger next to you..... [insert language of choice here] to be continued ..... Edited by maydayayday on 29 April 2011 at 8:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1607 of 3737 29 April 2011 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you go out for a curry and say спасибо for the hot towel and mints.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1608 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 3:02am | IP Logged | ||
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When you are excited about tomorrow being the eve of the 6 Week May Challenge.After a lot of internal debate and indecision about which of your two target languages(Spanish or French) to use, you feel good that you settled, finally, on Spanish(and you hope that you don't change your mind again!)
Your first instinct was Spanish, but you had some doubts. You had thought that since May 1 is considered "May Day" and "may day" sounds like the French for "help me" that perhaps you should pick French. And then you thought that it would benefit you more to do Spanish. But then you thought, "I will do both". Then you thought "that's silly and defeats the whole purpose of the challenge." And you realize how much time you wasted trying to decide, so you finally go with your first choice, Spanish. You plan to organize all your study materials tomorrow so as to get off to a good start on May 1. You almost fear that you will be unable to sleep as you anticipate the start of the 6 weeks. And, you do all this without "officially" entering the Challenge. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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