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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 3233 of 3737 28 January 2014 at 7:46am | IP Logged |
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Your project is awesome but please start a separate thread for it.
I filled it out for Belarusian and Esperanto, does Latin count? What about toki pona? (there are no native speakers but there are fluent ones) I'm quite picky when it comes to resources, btw. Some examples of things I'd use: -GLOSS -lyricstraining -Destinos/French in action* -animated resources about the phonetics -books like "______ for doctors" - I'm not a doctor but I'm interested in medicine, and some books even teach you from scratch -in general, materials that teach you something apart from the language itself (I, however, think that while teaching TL culture seems neat, you need some "junk food" or at least "chocolate" first). *I'm not learning French but based on what I've read here I think I would love the equivalent of "French in action" for a different language. I also need good music, audiobooks, fantasy stories and preferably an opportunity to watch football (soccer) in that language. Despite being more successful, Esperanto failed at all of the above for me. Edited by Serpent on 28 January 2014 at 7:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3234 of 3737 29 January 2014 at 3:01pm | IP Logged |
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When you're exceptionally excited to see a piece of graffiti in the city center (Prague) because it's in Japanese.
If I remember correctly, it was this: 大田 By wictionary, it might mean something like "big field". Is it possible? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| 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 3235 of 3737 29 January 2014 at 3:22pm | IP Logged |
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The single characters mean "big" and "rice field", that's right. As a compound, however, these kanji/hanzi/hanja are the name of the Korean city of Daejeon.
EDIT: Wikipedia tells us that the Japanese town of Ooda is written with the same characters as well. Edited by Josquin on 29 January 2014 at 3:33pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4613 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 3236 of 3737 29 January 2014 at 8:05pm | IP Logged |
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When this game fixes your mood.
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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6105 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 3237 of 3737 30 January 2014 at 12:03am | IP Logged |
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When you play 'The great language game', intending to have 5 minutes of fun, but 30 minutes later you find yourself searching the internet for details about the Javanese language.
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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6061 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 3238 of 3737 02 February 2014 at 7:02pm | IP Logged |
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When one page of your travel pad has scribblings in three different scripts, and you know one is an alphabet, another is an abjad and the third one is an abugida.
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| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5051 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 3239 of 3737 04 February 2014 at 7:08pm | IP Logged |
When you laugh at this, but secretly wish to have one :))))
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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6105 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 3240 of 3737 13 February 2014 at 11:12am | IP Logged |
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When you visit the bathroom at a friend's house and, at the risk of concerning your host at your long absence, find yourself examining noun declensions on a foreign bottle of hand lotion.
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