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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3433 of 3737 23 October 2014 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, sometimes people waking up from anesthesia not only speak nonsense, that is quite common for understandable reasons, sometimes they speak a foreign language. I've met such a patient this summer, a normal teenage boy from monolingual family spoke English in the situation. Possibly, not all the areas of the brain are waking up at the same pace.
I wonder how they could tell which area contained Spanish and which Catalonian? I mean, especially as those two languages are close together both in linguistic features (does a very similar word get "saved" once or twice) and the role in the lives of the people. I don't think most people in Catalunya nowadays (except for some old ones) have learnt Spanish differently from Catalonian, are they not native speakers of both since early childhood? They were surrounded by Spanish as well, they heard it in tv programms for children, they began using it at the latest at school. Really, it is more imaginable for me to ask whether one wants to keep the native language or a second one, learnt after immigration as an adult or something like that. And it might be quite a bad luck to make the hard decision patrickwilken speaks of and find out the doctors accidentally did the opposite. 2 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 3434 of 3737 26 October 2014 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you wake up stunned by the ignorant night spent with your friends and suddenly realise that you're thinking
in the wrong language nonetheless. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| showtime17 Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Slovakia gainweightjournal.co Joined 6084 days ago 154 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Russian, English*, Czech*, Slovak*, French, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian, Polish, Dutch | Message 3435 of 3737 26 October 2014 at 10:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You have been a member of this forum from 2008 and keep coming back from time to time :)
Also if you go to a bookstore and come back with a bunch of language learning material and then come home and sit it down on a shelf next to all the other language learning material, thinking that you will use it later. 1 person has 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 3436 of 3737 27 October 2014 at 7:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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YKYALN when you're going to see a French opera and get to choose language for the
subtitles, but you're annoyed you don't get to choose the original language, the only choices being Norwegian and English. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4253 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 3437 of 3737 27 October 2014 at 3:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you find a Hunger Games book in Basque in a London bookstore and you start sweating profusely.
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| caitwn Triglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4295 days ago 7 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Portuguese, German | Message 3438 of 3737 27 October 2014 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
When you are on a business trip in China, read on this forum about Zuckerberg's Chinese, then log into your home computer to watch the video because you can't get facebook, google, or youtube here ---and then concur that his pronunciation is terrible. 5 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 3439 of 3737 03 November 2014 at 9:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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When dad asks you to download a movie and you see that he has folders "Russian" and "Foreign"... and you're very disappointed when you realize this just refers to the country of origin.
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4583 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 3440 of 3737 03 November 2014 at 9:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you write something in Croatian and find that every time you meant to type š you
have ended up with ŝ, because you forgot your computer automatically runs software to type Esperanto characters when it starts up. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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