g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5982 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German
| Message 2825 of 3737 19 January 2013 at 1:46pm | IP Logged |
When you dream about practicing the German dative.
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wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5239 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 2826 of 3737 21 January 2013 at 2:02pm | IP Logged |
When you wake up a little after 5AM on your day off because you hear Spanish on TV. Public TV has a program on
getting your GED in Spanish! You stay up listening to it, even though this is your only opportunity to sleep in for
days to come. You are also very excited to hear a little more Spanish on a cartoon that comes on much later. Your
sleepy daughter informs you that the character speaks Spanish sometimes and you are very tempted to continue
watching, but this would interrupt your reading time for the 1/2 super challenge.
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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 2827 of 3737 21 January 2013 at 3:42pm | IP Logged |
When you return from Cuba with something like 3000 Greek words on your wordlists.
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psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 2828 of 3737 22 January 2013 at 3:29am | IP Logged |
when you got all excited watching the Turner Classic Movies channel because they were showing Laurel and Hardy movies from the 1930's followed by their foreign language versions, which included your target languages, French and Spanish. It seemed that in the 1930's dubbing was not perfected and was very costly. Laurel and Hardy would film their (English) movie and then would start in with the foreign language version. Since neither spoke another language, they read their lines from cue cards off screen. They actually also did German versions but only the French and Spanish ones were shown.
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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 2829 of 3737 22 January 2013 at 9:24pm | IP Logged |
When you want to marry a forum member
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Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5063 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish
| Message 2830 of 3737 28 January 2013 at 5:37am | IP Logged |
- when you feel a strange elation that your friend knows someone who knows (perhaps
fluent, if not highly conversational) in Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Basque (!), and
is currently studying Hungarian
- when you feel put out that you can't recite everything you know about Basque to the
friend because said person already did so
- when your strategy for stopping yourself from thinking about some recent devastating
news is by spouting out any and all Finnish words you know off the top of your head
- Kat
Edited by Phantom Kat on 28 January 2013 at 5:38am
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Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4844 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 2831 of 3737 07 February 2013 at 12:03pm | IP Logged |
When you dream about Korean pronunciation, although you have never studied even the tiniest bit of Korean.
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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 2832 of 3737 07 February 2013 at 1:02pm | IP Logged |
When you're around a group of your friends, you receive a phone call and answer it in Italian, and nobody even bats an eyelid.
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