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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5171 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 3489 of 3737 27 December 2014 at 7:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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When, at the end of each year, you feel an irresistible urge to sign up for the TAC again, even though you
know that you won't have time to write about your progress. It just doesn't feel right to begin a new year without a new log and a new list of goals. *heads off to create a new log* 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4082 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 3490 of 3737 02 January 2015 at 7:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you are checking in your bag, you want to ask how heavy the bag is, so you start
"May I ask how heavy" and then you stop because you get flummoxed on the verb position "May I ask how heavy the bag is?" or "May I ask how heavy is the bag?" You want to say option 1 as that is how it goes in German, but you genuinely are confused what the right way is in English (anyone know?). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 3491 of 3737 02 January 2015 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you've spent a lot of traffic on Twitter (mostly not in Russian, therefore interesting), Duolingo (I have to
keep the strike!) and tries to get to HTLAL (yes, wasn't loading most of the time) during 31.12-2.01 (around 150 mb if to sum up). Like I haven't New Year to distract me Edited by Via Diva on 02 January 2015 at 7:39pm 2 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 3492 of 3737 02 January 2015 at 8:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
"May I ask how heavy the bag is?" Indirect questions use a normal word order. Also in statements like: "I couldn't believe how heavy the bag was". 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4622 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 3493 of 3737 03 January 2015 at 12:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You start talking to somebody who comes from an area where a minority / indigenous language is spoken
and it immediately becomes a priority to find out to what extent the person knows this language. 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5535 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 3494 of 3737 03 January 2015 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
Agreed. As a native speaker having the verb at the end sounds much more natural in that sentence. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4632 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 3495 of 3737 14 January 2015 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...When you realize you've been on this forum for more than 1000 days and feel proud of
it! (and especially knowing that a long time ago you used to be laughing at people who were on forums :p) 3 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 3496 of 3737 15 January 2015 at 12:59am | IP Logged | |||||
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when you're born monolingual and suddenly you realize that conversing in three different languages everyday is
nothing but a normal situation for you 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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