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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 337 of 3737 06 February 2010 at 12:07am | IP Logged | |||||
Sometimes you'll find interesting books in those other sections, but you wouldn't want to waste any money or bookshelf space on them. Or the time! You can't afford to be reading too much in your native language. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5422 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 338 of 3737 06 February 2010 at 6:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when watching Angels and Demons (great movie) some of my favorite parts were when they spoke in Italian, and when the various newsreporters spoke in there languages.
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| Asithassa Tetraglot Newbie Greece Joined 5620 days ago 10 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Greek*, English, Italian, Ancient Greek Studies: Finnish, Icelandic, German, Japanese, Welsh | Message 339 of 3737 06 February 2010 at 10:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you complain of a sore uvula and people around you think you are seriously ill...
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| mrasiteren Newbie TurkeyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5540 days ago 10 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English | Message 340 of 3737 06 February 2010 at 12:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you turn on your computer, first thing you do is to start listening your favorite
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| Margarita Diglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 5575 days ago 19 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 | Message 341 of 3737 06 February 2010 at 12:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
Haha I got my first Swahili studybook because I started sponsoring a girl from Kenya. Yes, I know, they speak English overthere as the official language but how great would it be to be able to write to her in her first language :D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5553 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 342 of 3737 06 February 2010 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you, on a whim out of nowhere, spend about 40 bucks on the !Xóõ dictionary and "Phonetic and phonological studies of ǃXóõ Bushman" and now must wait in eager anticipation for about 2 weeks before you can get your grubby little fingers on them.
Holy crap I'm so excited :DD 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| unityandoutside Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6014 days ago 94 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin, Mandarin | Message 343 of 3737 07 February 2010 at 8:09am | IP Logged | |||||
When, after reading this post, you spend several hours of the evening internalizing as much of the quickscript handbook as possible, bringing you closer to your goal of having everything you write be incomprehensible to everyone around you -- even if it is in English. When your plan before learning some quickscript was to do a side by side comparison of your two editions of "German for Reading Knowledge," even though you have absolutely no intention of learning German in the near future (but sometime in the future, you do). After that, you the plan was to "relax" by adding another 15-20 words to your Russian wordlists via the "Iversen" method. When people accuse you of cheating at scrabble because you keep score with the names in Cyrillic and the numbers in Chinese, and periodically ask throughout the game if you can play a word in such-and-such a language when your hand isn't yielding anything good in English. When while taking notes in American history class in Russian, you realize that you don't know a word, and instead of just writing the word in English, your first priority becomes to discreetly find the word so you can finish your sentence in Russian. Thank heavens for the dictionaries loaded onto my iPod touch! Edited by unityandoutside on 07 February 2010 at 8:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Dainty Newbie United States Joined 5485 days ago 38 posts - 53 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 344 of 3737 07 February 2010 at 9:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you discover, to your delight, that your new dietary supplements are labeled not only in English but also in German and Spanish, and then you eagerly begin to increase your vocabulary by learning new words through comparison of the texts.
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