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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 3369 of 3737 16 July 2014 at 8:27am | IP Logged | ||
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When you used to be annoyed at how the AJATT guidelines to "read what you'd read in your native language" don't work for you... and then you realized that your equivalent is "read what you'd read in Finnish".
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3370 of 3737 19 July 2014 at 5:09am | IP Logged | ||
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....you start thinking about spending part of your annual bonus at Dunwoody Press
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3371 of 3737 19 July 2014 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love Dunwoody press! For those who don't know, they make "Instructional materials for less commonly taught languages". Mostly they publish readers, dictionaries and grammars. Here are some interesting samples from their publication list:
-Hindi-English English-Hindi Biotechnology Glossary -North Korean Reader -Maguindanaon Dialogs and Drills -A Comparative Reference Grammar of Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian And here's how to find them: www.dunwoodypress.com 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 3372 of 3737 19 July 2014 at 4:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm tempted to get the stuff for Turkmen. Learning that would be a lark for me.
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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4234 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 3373 of 3737 20 July 2014 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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... after an astonishing F1 race instead of writing a post in a blog you L-R a chapter and lose all the power to write afterwards.
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| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3907 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 3374 of 3737 25 July 2014 at 2:28am | IP Logged | ||
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When you catch yourself spelling words in your native language with consonant/vowel combinations from your L2.
I was writing out a shopping list and started writing "sch---" when I meant to write "shake", again with "drei-" when I meant to write "dried" and I almost wrote "jogurt". 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 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 3375 of 3737 25 July 2014 at 9:41am | IP Logged | ||
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When you get iritated when you can't find a certain word in your dictionary, and then you realize that you are trying to look a Greek word from your guide to Athens up in a Serbian Cyrillic dictionary.
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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 3376 of 3737 03 August 2014 at 12:00pm | IP Logged | ||
When you use the thread about being a language nerd to restore your settings
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