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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6582 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 3425 of 3737 22 October 2014 at 8:01am | IP Logged | ||
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YKYALN when you spend the weekend in Berlin on a company outing and feel intensely
uncomfortable being in a country whose language you don't speak. 3 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 3426 of 3737 22 October 2014 at 12:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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... when you are unable to concentrate because of sickness and you earnestly consider to ask the doctor: "When
will I be able to study Irish again?" 5 persons have 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 3427 of 3737 22 October 2014 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you are upset you cannot find good online pathophysiology resources in French or Spanish. It is so hard to learn a subject you don't enjoy in your native language or English :-(
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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 3428 of 3737 22 October 2014 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | ||
Changing trains for planes, are we? :D When you look at the names on the door plaques during your job as a postman, just to figure out if someone speaks Russian or Romanian... 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 3429 of 3737 23 October 2014 at 12:15am | IP Logged | ||
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When your first reaction to "this person that I met can speak X language" (no matter if as a first o second language)
is "I have to learn X". When the news "I'm studying a new language doesn't surprise anyone. When you end up chatting in Dutch about Spanish. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6582 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 3430 of 3737 23 October 2014 at 11:06am | IP Logged | ||
When your first reaction to hearing Mark Zuckerberg speak Mandarin is "His pronunciation is abysmal." 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4651 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 3431 of 3737 23 October 2014 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | ||
This reminds me... My cousin used to suffer from epilepsy (thankfully it went away after a surgery 3 years back, only leaving him with memory problems). Once he had an attack (nothing major, just zoned out) and after that, he started talking in English, thoroughly mystifying teachers and classmates for the rest of the day. TL;DR epilepsy episodes can also trigger language switching. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4533 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 3432 of 3737 23 October 2014 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | ||
I was once told by a neurolinguist student from Barcelona that when patients have epilepsy surgery they are sometimes asked whether they want to keep Spanish or Catalonian, as the surgery sometimes needs to cut near one of the two language areas. I always thought that would be a really hard difficult question to answer: whether it was better to keep the language of your birth or the language of your country? 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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