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| mizunooto Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4697 days ago 42 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Mandarin, Japanese, Polish, Kazakh, Malay | Message 2321 of 3737 20 May 2012 at 12:18am | IP Logged | ||
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When you enter the name of someone called "White" into your phone and then you look down and realise you have inadvertently typed "Wang"
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| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5066 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes  Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 2322 of 3737 20 May 2012 at 2:04am | IP Logged | ||
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When you correct people's use of the 'le' as a popular meme.
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| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4582 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2323 of 3737 20 May 2012 at 2:25am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're driving down a street out of town, and you see a lot of political signs. Then
you notice that a person called 'Iversen' is running for Congress, and you get excited...before realizing that it can't be our Iversen because our Iversen lives in Denmark. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4600 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 2324 of 3737 20 May 2012 at 6:01am | IP Logged | ||
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When you can name more languages then Capitols and their corresponding state... at least
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 2325 of 3737 20 May 2012 at 10:36am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're alone in the SPA zone (swimming pool/jacuzzi) and you decide to practice tongue twisters so that these minutes counted for the 6WC.
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| Thomas_DC Triglot Groupie Denmark Joined 5774 days ago 58 posts - 65 votes Speaks: Danish*, English, French Studies: German, Arabic (Written) | Message 2326 of 3737 20 May 2012 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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You're seriously concidering buying a new smartphone only out of the criteria that it
supports arabic. I just installed Anki on my HTC, but the text is all backwards and the letters aren't joining like they should ! Such a shame.. I already pictured myself doing flashcards everywhere i go ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jellyfish Triglot Groupie Japan Joined 4785 days ago 50 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English, German*, Japanese Studies: Thai, Persian, Russian | Message 2327 of 3737 21 May 2012 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | ||
I know exactly what you mean. For the time being, I'm just getting really good at deciphering and producing completely disjointed Persian... You know you're a language nerd when you find this really badass metal song in your target language on youtube, but can't make out half of the lyrics and they're nowhere on the internet either - so you promptly message the band on Facebook asking for the lyrics, and feel like a little girl on Christmas Eve when they actually send them a day later. You then spend the entire day at university almost bouncing up and down in anticipation of finally getting home and picking apart, translating and probably memorising these lyrics. (...I wonder if it was their lead singer who replied. He's well fit.) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 2328 of 3737 21 May 2012 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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