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 3225 of 3737 25 January 2014 at 11:33pm | IP Logged |
When you actually have spent your time on learning 10 languages instead of getting a wife and dog and a house full of screaming kids.
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tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4047 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch
| Message 3226 of 3737 26 January 2014 at 1:19am | IP Logged |
when for an entire week you do bilingual dreams - once even trilingual - and none of the spoken languages in the
dream are your native one.
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languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5100 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai
| Message 3227 of 3737 26 January 2014 at 4:02am | IP Logged |
You intentionally start learning some basic Arabic words knowing that you'll fly on board
Emirates and that you have 3 hours connection time at Dubai airport to your 2nd Emirates
flight then remembering with such great happiness of that book store in the airport that
had a lovely languages section in the corner ...
(Bit of a personal one today)
Edited by languagenerd09 on 26 January 2014 at 4:03am
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yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4632 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin
| Message 3228 of 3737 26 January 2014 at 7:28pm | IP Logged |
When you were busy with birthdays for the whole weekend and the first thing you do when
you're finally alone is come to HTLAL
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Indíritheach Senior Member United States Joined 4045 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French
| Message 3229 of 3737 26 January 2014 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
FuroraCeltica wrote:
You plan a vacation somewhere, then postpone it until you can speak the local language "to basic fluency" |
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Phew...I thought I was the only person who did this! Even my daughter says "Daddy, you don't have to speak perfect X to travel there..."
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Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4253 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian
| Message 3230 of 3737 26 January 2014 at 10:01pm | IP Logged |
When suddenly you feel odd for people talking about not even wanting to learn ten languages when your own goal is to get there before your 30th birthday...
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Indíritheach Senior Member United States Joined 4045 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French
| Message 3231 of 3737 26 January 2014 at 10:16pm | IP Logged |
Henkkles wrote:
When suddenly you feel odd for people talking about not even wanting to learn ten languages when your own goal is to get there before your 30th birthday... |
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Hmm...my own 30th is coming up in 8 months, and my goal is to have at least Spanish, French, and Irish up to a decent level.
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Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4121 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian
| Message 3232 of 3737 27 January 2014 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
When your wife is looking at a shoes store and you are looking to the otherside at a
bookstore wondering if they sell russian dictionaries
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