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| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4582 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2441 of 3737 30 June 2012 at 3:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you walk into a little Mexican Arts and Crafts shop, not to look around, but to
hear the owner and her daughter conversing in Spanish. When your computer insists on giving you a lovely little internet service advertisement in German, even though you haven't searched for things in German recently. When this makes you giddy. When you're in Costco, and you strike a conversation with a woman speaking Russian to her son. When this makes your day. When you're in an office supply store, and you get a computer program for learning languages because it offers 55 of them, and you think that that is perfect for when wanderlust strikes! Edited by Ismeme Granger on 01 July 2012 at 10:26pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jombo1 Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4568 days ago 3 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 2442 of 3737 03 July 2012 at 10:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you feel self-conscious and nervous when typing in a public place or with friends around before realizing they can't read what you're typing...
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 2443 of 3737 03 July 2012 at 10:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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When your inbox fills up with promotions, not just from amazon.com, but also amazon.fr, amazon.es, and amazon.ru.
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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5532 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2444 of 3737 03 July 2012 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You know your family is into languages when…
…you see a bilingual French / hieroglyphic edition of "Les aventures de Sinouhé : Un fidèle de Pharaon" and your wife encourages you to buy it. Les aventures de Sinouhé Edited by emk on 04 July 2012 at 1:59am 2 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 2445 of 3737 03 July 2012 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you start weighing up the pros and cons of learning French through the Foreign Legion.
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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 2446 of 3737 03 July 2012 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When in your dream the new Tadoku goes up and you're extremely disappointed when you wake up.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4828 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2447 of 3737 04 July 2012 at 1:34am | IP Logged | |||||
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You know you have wandered into a family of language-nerds, when your then girlfriend
invites you back to her flat, and the first thing you see on the wall is a poster in Dutch. Up to that time, the only English person I knew who had studied Dutch was me. In time, more linguistic facts came out, such as: all the family had studied Welsh, and several of them had studied Italian (one to degree level) and 3 had studied French, German and Latin. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5262 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 2448 of 3737 04 July 2012 at 2:03am | IP Logged | |||||
Looks like a more powerful learning technique than Assimil- New French With Pain! Source: Legion of the Lost- An American's Experience in the FFL 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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