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| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5050 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes  Studies: German | Message 1697 of 3737 03 June 2011 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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5 of 7 what is this all about? I would vote but not sure what's going on, lol I'm oblivious again.
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| GRagazzo Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4961 days ago 115 posts - 168 votes Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, French | Message 1698 of 3737 03 June 2011 at 7:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you think it would be amazing if your whole family took up a foreign language but
know that your the only language nerd in the family and that makes you sad. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5050 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 1699 of 3737 03 June 2011 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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That makes me sad too, apparently my dad had a bad experience with German in high school, but he always fails to tell me what this experience was all about... this makes me sad.
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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5373 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 1700 of 3737 04 June 2011 at 6:11am | IP Logged | ||
Honum gekk það vel að læra málfræðina! I haven't watched that video in a while, but I love the explanations in it. ... when you watch a series on Hungarian just to see if the grammar's similar to Finnish. ... when it actually surprises you, and your girlfriend, when you don't recognise a script. ... when you identify Tibetan writing in the erotic museum in Paris (Pigalle) and realise your browsing of Youtube videos about Tibetan calligraphy a few days before came in handy. ... when you start trying to learn the Inuktitut syllabary, which is ONLY used in Nunavik, not expecting to ever go to Nunavik or learn Inuktitut, just because it looks pretty with all the triangles and is a cleverly designed script. (Here's a table: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Inuktitut.svg) (additional, triggered by this post): ... when you edit your Icelandic because you realise that the past tense of ganga is gekk, not gangaði, despite the unlikelihood of anyone noticing; and when you consider that "honum gekk" might be colloquial, but it's now 5:14am and a bit late to go trawling to check. Edited by PaulLambeth on 04 June 2011 at 6:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6003 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 1701 of 3737 04 June 2011 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you get killed in a video game because you stopped to read the Chinese characters on the side of a building.
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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 1702 of 3737 04 June 2011 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you're tasked with babysitting your five year old niece, and you're constantly analyzing her linguistic errors.
Me (asking about something on TV): Uh-oh, is she being mean again? Niece: Yeah, she always bees mean. Me (thinking): Interesting, she conjugated "be" as a regular verb. Clearly she knows the word "is" by now, but she doesn't realize they're the same verb. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Pablo_V Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Spain Joined 4928 days ago 22 posts - 39 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Galician*, English, Portuguese Studies: French | Message 1703 of 3737 04 June 2011 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you find yourself avoiding a foreign word or expression while speaking your mother tongue and
therefore you have to look for a word or expression in your language, even if you find that the foreign one is more accurate and suitable (and you already have it!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LearningFrench Newbie United States Joined 4922 days ago 16 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1704 of 3737 05 June 2011 at 8:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you are thrilled when people ask for some help on French homework, simply thrilled
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