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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4706 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes  Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 2257 of 3737 26 April 2012 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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When finding a cheap copy of a grammar book on Amazon produces a surge of joy exceeding anything you felt last
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| markdtmj Newbie United States neprenezpasmonj Joined 4666 days ago 15 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 2258 of 3737 26 April 2012 at 9:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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... When you go to a mandatory "diversity training" and the
presenter asks the class "now, who here thinks English is a hard language?" And your immediate gut-reaction is "oh hell no, you did NOT just ask that question!" Much less, to a group of monolingual anglophones... It's possible that I spend too much time on this forum... (disclaimer: I'm not knocking diversity. Or training. I love diversity. I'm a language nerd.) Nearly everyone raised their hand. I harumphed. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2259 of 3737 26 April 2012 at 10:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you double check your foreign tweets even during an epic match (Real-Bayern yesterday), because it would be too embarrassing to make a mistake.
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 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4994 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 2260 of 3737 27 April 2012 at 12:45am | IP Logged | ||
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You're a language nerd when you buy this expensive clock featuring 5 preloaded and 18 additional languages: Verbarius Digitless Clock
(I'm not related to that website. I just found the clock to be a cool gadget for a language nerd!) :-) Edited by Mae on 27 April 2012 at 12:46am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2261 of 3737 27 April 2012 at 1:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh I love their products! Pity some are ridiculously expensive.
I just use FuzzyTime add-on instead :D I look at it more than at any other "clock" because I switched the default one off. 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 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 2262 of 3737 27 April 2012 at 10:25am | IP Logged | ||
Cool find! Although sadly it looks like I'll never be able to afford one. This sentence in particular made my eyes light up: "It comes preloaded with English, German, Spanish, French, and Russian, but if you connect your Verbarius to the manufacturer's website, you can download over a dozen other languages from Esperanto to Welsh." (I imagine there must be some apps out there for Mac and PC that do pretty much the same thing. ;) ) Edited by Teango on 27 April 2012 at 10:47am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2263 of 3737 27 April 2012 at 12:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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As I said, there's FuzzyTime.
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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 2264 of 3737 27 April 2012 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Serpent! I've added this now to my browser and switched to Russian for the time being. :)
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