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 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 2225 of 3737 10 April 2012 at 9:50am | IP Logged | ||
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When you spend 6 days on an Easter Holiday with your sister, and the most enduring experience was the spot in the Roman Museum in Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten in Germany) where you can stand between two Roman soldiers who have a chat in Latin - without any translation so that you can have it totally for yourself.
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5535 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 2226 of 3737 15 April 2012 at 6:47am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you are exploring a new map (for a first-person shooter) in a private match with friends and discover that there is Korean writing on the trucks. While your friends spend the remainder of the round exploring the layout of the map, you spend that time reading every sign and billboard you can find.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2227 of 3737 15 April 2012 at 8:19am | IP Logged | ||
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An addition to my previous bookshop-themed post:
When you get an e-mail and the shop-assistant announces an early arrival of the book you have asked about and that she has already put a copy aside for you. (It is a good strategy, when someone cares that much, I can't just postpone the buy till I have more money :-D ) When you must tell yourself on the way around smaller bookshops: "I must not go inside, it would look stupid to roam around the foreign language shelves so often and not buy." 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4613 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 2228 of 3737 15 April 2012 at 9:47am | IP Logged | ||
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..when you can understand and translate better the meaning of a phrase in Spanish (in my case), than a friend who went to courses in it, while you've never studied it for real.
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| Johnnysd Diglot Newbie Norway johnnysd.deviantart. Joined 5617 days ago 18 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, Italian, Korean, French | Message 2229 of 3737 15 April 2012 at 10:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you see a movie, they speak a language you don't know and it's not subtitled, and
you wanna learn that language just so you can understand that dialogue. Edited by Johnnysd on 15 April 2012 at 10:46pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2230 of 3737 15 April 2012 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you are editing a document and instead of Check in you unthinkingly type Czech in !
I like that much better and was very sad when I had to fix the error. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5068 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans | Message 2231 of 3737 16 April 2012 at 12:32am | IP Logged | ||
I had a similar experience today! I was watching a documentary about NASA and the prelude to the first moon landing. At one point I wasn't paying that much attention when I suddenly one of the crew say "We had to read Czech". Struggling to figure out why they had to do that, I realized that he was talking about rechecking something on the rocket. 3 persons have 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 2232 of 3737 16 April 2012 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | ||
When you go all the way to Russia and somehow manage to return with a collection of classic Russian folk tales...in Japanese!
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