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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4521 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 3321 of 3737 17 May 2014 at 9:31pm | IP Logged | ||
This was my point ;) I see German google in Danish because in my browser preferences, Danish is on the top of the preferred languages list. Unfortunately, this also brings Danish wikipedia pages as top results, even though I'm still at the google.de site and not switched to google.dk -.- 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5334 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 3322 of 3737 19 May 2014 at 10:15am | IP Logged | ||
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- when you set your GPS to Russian, and try to hit as many roundabouts as possible just to be able to figure out what the word for 'roundabout' is in Russian :-)
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 3323 of 3737 26 May 2014 at 7:36am | 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 3324 of 3737 26 May 2014 at 1:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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In a similar vein, you know you're a language nerd when you choose software based on the language it's available in, and have difficulties switching to a better option if it's available only in English (or in English, French, Russian, "Chinese").
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3325 of 3737 26 May 2014 at 1:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you go to a language exchange and the organiser suggests "if you have any requests
for native speakers next time, tell Tarvos about it, because next time he will be able to speak them with you!" 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4047 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 3326 of 3737 26 May 2014 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you go in Scotland for a week and you come back pissed off of not having found any
book written in Scottish Gaelic (and you don't know a single word of it); When you are going in Iceland in 40 days and you start studying the language to be able to understand the written language so that you can buy books written in Icelandic and you will be able to choose the book because you can understand the topics on it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| agantik Triglot Senior Member France Joined 4635 days ago 217 posts - 335 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German, Norwegian | Message 3327 of 3737 27 May 2014 at 7:13am | IP Logged | ||
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When you read a novel which takes place in an imaginary country, and when a native lets out an exclamation
in his ( Invented) language you immediately Google it to check which real language the author got his inspiration from. (The exclamation was "Brojas!", which sounds croatian to Google if anyone can confirm...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4047 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 3328 of 3737 30 May 2014 at 6:21am | IP Logged | ||
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when your alarm clock is set for the 6.15 to go to work, and it this is not painful
enough, you wake up at 5.15. Then immediately two choices appear to you - try to sleep the remaining hour - study icelandic and you go without hesitating for the second one. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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