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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2841 of 3737 11 February 2013 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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When those people, who call bad pronunciation "bad accent", drive you crazy! :-D
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 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5209 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 2842 of 3737 12 February 2013 at 3:02am | IP Logged | ||
And when - worse yet - they are in the wrong target language. "What? You could get subtitles and captions in all these Asian languages, but not in both national languages of the country you're selling this DVD in..?" 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4873 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 2843 of 3737 12 February 2013 at 8:24am | IP Logged | ||
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When you hate netflix simply because it hardsubs foreign movies. :(
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| Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5243 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish | Message 2844 of 3737 12 February 2013 at 8:25am | IP Logged | ||
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When you get very annoyed that a major internet retailer doesn't display all the language options on DVDs, forcing you to attempt to find a copy in a physical shop to check before buying. [Something that's becoming more and more difficult in the UK.]
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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5100 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 2845 of 3737 12 February 2013 at 2:15pm | IP Logged | ||
I know the feeling. Amazon is usually pretty good about that, though. You can check their website before you buy elsewhere. How about when: you refuse to watch purchase or even watch a movie unless it is dubbed or at least subtitled in your target language. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| AlexUnited Trilingual Tetraglot Newbie Canada language-united.com/ Joined 4308 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, German*, Swiss-German*, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 2846 of 3737 12 February 2013 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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You are a language geek when you need to pick up a book or find some kind of way to improve your language skill either after, during or before work/school. Nothing can beat the feeling of having learned another few phrases today.
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| Carisma Diglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 5622 days ago 104 posts - 161 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 2847 of 3737 12 February 2013 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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When it's election time in your country, you don't vote (because you have a huge language
exam the day after); but when the consulate of Italy sends you a letter giving you the chance to vote for the parliament of a nation you're only citizen of because you have an Italian great great grandfather, you get really enthusiastic and Google each and every of the candidates before submitting your vote. And then you keep the documents you can keep as if they were golden, not because they are all that important but because they are in ITALIAN, people. Edited by Carisma on 12 February 2013 at 11:48pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 2848 of 3737 13 February 2013 at 12:55am | IP Logged | ||
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...thanks to the polyglot community, you're familiar with many more languages and their scripts than you'd actually study.
I stumbled on Veps as a Wikipedia language about 2 weeks ago, and it was close enough to Finnish that I had a great time looking through it. A different time, I was looking at something in Georgian--not because I understand it but because I think the script is pretty. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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