garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5207 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 2537 of 3737 14 August 2012 at 1:15pm | IP Logged |
DaraghM wrote:
When you think the most fascinating site in Paris is the two floors of
the language bookshop Gibert Jeune. Forget the tourist crammed into the nearby
Shakespeare and Co. This place is a magical store crammed floor to ceiling with every
Assimil, and millions of other courses as well.
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When you're sad that you didn't find out about this place before going to Paris.
I must've walked right past it as well!
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cmmah Diglot Groupie Ireland Joined 4531 days ago 52 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Irish
| Message 2538 of 3737 14 August 2012 at 10:53pm | IP Logged |
When you've learnt how to read Korean and Greek, but don't know a word of either language.
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mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
| Message 2539 of 3737 15 August 2012 at 1:32am | IP Logged |
When I change my YouTube language settings to Finnish only to find that I am still bombarded with English advertisements before almost every video I watch! Oh well, I can turn down the volume.
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Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4703 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian
| Message 2540 of 3737 15 August 2012 at 3:52am | IP Logged |
When your (housemate's) pet python leaps out of its cage and sinks its fangs into your
finger. It's wrapped so tightly around your arm that the fire department has to pry it
off. In the waiting room of the ER, you finish a book for the Super Challenge.
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meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map
| Message 2541 of 3737 15 August 2012 at 4:25am | IP Logged |
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When learning about this place totally and completely wrecks your life. Ruins it. Gone. Over.
Wait: Check out AirFrance bargains: if the books cannot come to me, I must go to the books! Yes, I know you said they ship overseas, but I'd rather ship myself overseas to see the place. But I can't, no, so I suppose that's it's all done and finished now.
OK, that's maybe a bit extreme, but maybe it's time to seek professional help. And by that of course you know I mean professional help acquiring more books! But I have no place to put any more books.
Despair.
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meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map
| Message 2542 of 3737 15 August 2012 at 4:34am | IP Logged |
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Two posts in a row, only because I have the say that I just saw this and it may be the most bizarre, and the greatest, Language Nerd post of all time. True dedication!
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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 2543 of 3737 15 August 2012 at 12:15pm | IP Logged |
meramarina wrote:
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When your (housemate's) pet python leaps out of its cage and
sinks its fangs into your finger. It's wrapped so tightly around your arm that the fire
department has to pry it off. In the waiting room of the ER, you finish a book for the
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Two posts in a row, only because I have the say that I just saw this and it may be the
most bizarre, and the greatest, Language Nerd post of all time. True dedication!
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And I was going to say, I nominate it for the "post of the month" (if not year)!
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Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4703 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian
| Message 2544 of 3737 15 August 2012 at 3:21pm | IP Logged |
@meramarina: Haha, only seemed logical! This all happened right after work, so I still had my backpack on and it
ended up going with me all the way. It was a definite comfort to have those materials with me.
@montmorency: I'm very glad my experience can amuse. :-)
@all: For any curious, this was a picture I took after calling 911.
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