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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 2953 of 3737 07 June 2013 at 4:37pm | IP Logged |
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When you've only just begun planning your summer vacation and you already know which foreign books you need to buy to take them with you.
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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 2954 of 3737 07 June 2013 at 4:39pm | IP Logged |
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*and which books you hope to buy during your trip
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| freakyaye Senior Member Australia Joined 4838 days ago 107 posts - 152 votes | Message 2955 of 3737 07 June 2013 at 6:27pm | IP Logged |
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and at which foreign bookstores you can get the widest selection of language learning materials while on your trip!
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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 2956 of 3737 08 June 2013 at 1:06pm | IP Logged |
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Maybe you are slightly less nerdish when your tactic is to get that information from the local tourist information in each place, but you can restore your nerdiness score by asking them about those things in the local language. Edited by Iversen on 08 June 2013 at 1:07pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4639 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 2957 of 3737 10 June 2013 at 6:04pm | IP Logged |
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When unexpectedly you are asked to go to Sofia, Bulgaria on a short business trip, and instead of looking up tourist facts about Sofia, the first thing you do is to try to find online resources for learning some Bulgarian.
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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 2958 of 3737 10 June 2013 at 6:18pm | IP Logged |
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When on taking a short cut through a supermarket car-park walking home, you notice a
shopping-list (finished-with, because the SM is closed) attached to a shopping trolley (on one of those little clipboards that some supermarkets provide with their trolleys), and pick it up in order to recycle or compost it, notice it's written in what might be Spanish or Italian, and you look for clues to decide which. Then you remember that "milk" is "leche" and not "latte" in Spanish, so it almost certainly must be Italian. However, my Italian is a lot rustier than my Spanish, and it was not very comprehensive to begin with. The writing is not very clear, and therefore making due allowance for spelling, can anyone help with some of these? liquido pavimal - washing-up liquid? acetone - vinegar? affetalo (affetado?) - ? panini - panini pomodori - tomatoes latte - milk cada pellicula - hmm...that's not cling-film is it? I wonder if the following are trade-names / brandnames - the writing is v. unclear to me: Xotte X Snolt (Snolte?) 2 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 2959 of 3737 12 June 2013 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
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...you unexpectedly speak in a target language even when a person speaks to you in your native language.
This happened to me for the first time a few days ago. Usually I can stop the language stew from getting out of my head, but I was in a bakery at the beginning of the month. One of the workers asked me a question in English, and I answered her in Spanish. Then I realized I'd used Spanish. First time I've ever done that. (i.e. talked first and then realized the language I was using later) 1 person has 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 2960 of 3737 12 June 2013 at 12:25am | IP Logged |
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When you stare at a package of Duck Tape in confusion one morning, wondering what on earth "ЗОуб" could possibly mean in Russian, when the sudden embarrassing realisation dawns that it indicates the length of tape: "30yd" (thirty yards). Edited by Teango on 12 June 2013 at 2:53am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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