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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 3281 of 3737 09 April 2014 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. When you are doing some cleaning up around the house, and find a note, in your handwriting, that you made for some reason that you cannot remember. The note says: "Grammar Conjugation Tables !!! "
And that's it. Spontaneous enthusiasm for grammar analysis, I guess, with excessive exclamation points. Happens to everyone. 2. When your handwriting is so bad that you look at your shopping list and wonder why you wrote it with IPA symbols. Then, you think that might actually be an interesting thing to do. Edited by meramarina on 09 April 2014 at 7:36pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 3282 of 3737 10 April 2014 at 12:08am | IP Logged | ||
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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 3283 of 3737 10 April 2014 at 12:57am | IP Logged | ||
When you're ridiculously excited to find the thread in question and to know that this moment happened on HTLAL. Edited by Serpent on 10 April 2014 at 12:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 3284 of 3737 10 April 2014 at 5:55am | IP Logged | ||
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To suddenly feel as if a language has given you a wake up call to actually be able to
learn languages more effectively than you thought you could in the past. 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 3285 of 3737 11 April 2014 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you laugh out loud in a train because the author of the grammar book you're reading is funny and amazing! I got several "look at the weirdo" glances so I apologized. I shouldn't have. :-)
(the grammar book in question is Toute la conjugaison by Gaillard and Colignon, the note that made me laugh is on page 24: "À la 2e personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif et de l’impératif, la forme conjugée est dites (sans accent circonflexe), et non disez, barbarisme trop souvent entendu, voire lu." 3 persons have 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 3286 of 3737 13 April 2014 at 8:17am | IP Logged | ||
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When you set out to learn more about animal intelligence and working memory on the Internet, but somehow end up watching a Japanese tv comedy about a chimpanzee and a bulldog, dubbed into Chinese, with a cheery version of the German children's song "Alle Vögel sind schon da" playing in the background.
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6865 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 3287 of 3737 13 April 2014 at 9:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you watch a movie and try desperately not to look at subtitles if a character
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6909 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3288 of 3737 14 April 2014 at 12:06am | IP Logged | ||
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When you spend a sunny Sunday translating Old Irish (before you even have breakfast), studying Modern Irish grammar until you nearly fall asleep with your head in the books, and talking to a friend over the phone about whether Táin Bó Cúailnge was written in Old Irish or Middle Irish.
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