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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5538 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 2993 of 3737 05 July 2013 at 12:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'm right with you on this one. I've actually learned several new English words (and some French and German words from loan words in Korean that came from those languages) while learning Korean. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5174 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2994 of 3737 07 July 2013 at 12:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you are watching a television show, the characters suddenly start speaking Latin, and you can
understand almost everything (with a bit of help from the subtitles). Furthermore, you're pretty sure that you caught some grammatical errors!
My English vocabulary has also expanded due to my language learning! 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6154 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 2995 of 3737 08 July 2013 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Even though the performance is very poor, you wait patiently for the forum to come back, to see the new posts.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 2996 of 3737 08 July 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you crane your neck and shuffle closer and closer to overhear a conversation in Bulgarian in a noisy bar, and almost end up toppling into the neighbouring booth.
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5970 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2997 of 3737 09 July 2013 at 3:33am | IP Logged | |||||
When, if this happened to you the other way around, with a non-native English learner falling into YOUR bar booth because he wanted to hear English, you would really be totally OK with it. In fact, you'd want to start up a little language exchange session right away! OK I have one too: When a relative confesses to you that, a few years ago, he stole a few books from your shelf. He didn't look very carefully though, and says that when he got them home, he realized that one was German and one in Spanish. And you're not angry at all, because you can't remember noticing any language books missing, and when he comes to visit, you can look forward to getting two "new" ones! Then he arrives. He forgot the books. NOW you are angry. Edited by meramarina on 09 July 2013 at 3:35am 9 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6662 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 2998 of 3737 09 July 2013 at 6:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you are in the library's computer lab listening to one of your target languages using headphones, and the guy next to you complains thathe can hear you and gives you a particuarly strange look.
And to make matters worse, he is talking on his cell phone and making far more noise. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| MarlonX19 Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4168 days ago 40 posts - 51 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: French | Message 2999 of 3737 09 July 2013 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When one of your classmates/friend tell you that he's gonnna start learning English and you act like the happiest person in the world 'cause now you're not the only one who speaks English.
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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5174 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 3000 of 3737 10 July 2013 at 2:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you're watching live coverage of the emergency session of the OAS (Organization of American States)
in Spanish and you are thrilled when they translate the EU's representative's speech into Spanish (from English). When you aren't sure whether to be irritated or delighted when they don't translate the Brazilian representative's speech into Spanish. You're irritated because you were having fun following all the speeches and now it's harder for you to keep up, plus you're losing valuable Spanish listening time - but you're delighted because you understand a lot of the Portuguese and you are now having fun comparing the Portuguese words with their Spanish equivalents! When you think that, some day when you have a lot of free time, it might be fun to study the difference between Portuguese and Spanish sound patterns and then listen to a lot of Portuguese - relying on your knowledge of Spanish to help you understand. Edited by Amerykanka on 10 July 2013 at 3:01am 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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