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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 233 of 3737 03 January 2010 at 7:52am | IP Logged | ||
Why don't people find this fun!?!?! I LOVE going to Ikea because they have so many different languages on their instructions. They also have the best Swedish meatballs (THEY ARE SO GOOD!) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5855 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 234 of 3737 03 January 2010 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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.........when your friends tell you to write in alphabet combinations which they can understand.
.........when you go from one bookstore to another bookstore in the main shopping district to see if there are new learning materials for your target languages! 1 person has 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 235 of 3737 03 January 2010 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Spending three evenings in London reading an Irish grammar, even though you know that only 3% or so of the Irish themselves speak it as their first language (the rest have just 'learnt' it in school, and we all know what that means). Actually finding it funny that words in Irish are changed not only at the end, but also at the beginning. Being slightly irritated with myself because I didn't also buy grammars for Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton. Edited by Iversen on 03 January 2010 at 7:38pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5855 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 236 of 3737 04 January 2010 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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And one more from me:
when you realised that you have learnt just 6 languages, but on your bookselves you have learning materials for 20 languages(!!!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Icaria909 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 201 posts - 346 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 237 of 3737 04 January 2010 at 7:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you can choose between two different types of snowboard wax, and you spend ten dollars more on the wax that comes with swedish and French instructions than the generic version.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 238 of 3737 05 January 2010 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
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When you smile (or laugh aloud) at these postings but secretly wish you had thought to do them yourself and you actually begin to implement them because it's never too late to unleash your inner language nerd.
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| Asithassa Tetraglot Newbie Greece Joined 5620 days ago 10 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Greek*, English, Italian, Ancient Greek Studies: Finnish, Icelandic, German, Japanese, Welsh | Message 239 of 3737 05 January 2010 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you grab a product at the supermarket and you read the information at whatever language catches your eye first
- - - and then realize that it is a language that you do not know; you have figured out the meaning through cognates and guesswork. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5495 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 240 of 3737 05 January 2010 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you lose your girlfriend in the bookstore, and after searching for a few minutes you
give up and hope she'll find you. Then when you go to check out the foreign language section, she's there waiting for you. 12 persons have voted this message useful |
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