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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 3657 of 3737 06 August 2015 at 10:02am | IP Logged |
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I once switched my grandma's phone to Finnish when I wasn't learning it yet. Fortunately I knew kieli at least!
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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 3658 of 3737 06 August 2015 at 1:21pm | IP Logged |
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When you start to doubt whether you remember the conjugation of a Russian verb after
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| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3907 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 3659 of 3737 11 August 2015 at 2:19pm | IP Logged |
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When you can't tell if your getting sick or if you've just been practicing too much
French. Seriously, the French must have calluses an inch thick on the back of their throats. 1 person has 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 3660 of 3737 12 August 2015 at 8:38pm | IP Logged |
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when this post by songlines breaks your heart Edited by Serpent on 12 August 2015 at 8:39pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6105 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 3661 of 3737 16 August 2015 at 11:21pm | IP Logged |
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...when you derive 20 minutes of geeky fun exploring this massive table of colours in different languages.
My favourites include: 'sardine' which is the Manado word for 'yellow'. 'babooboo' is also 'yellow' in Kiribati. And the Qawesqar word for 'black'? Well, I'll let you look at that one in private :) 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 3662 of 3737 20 August 2015 at 5:51am | IP Logged |
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When you kind of miss those arguments with s_allard and are delighted to find one that you missed.
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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 3663 of 3737 20 August 2015 at 11:13am | IP Logged |
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When you find an angered meme about false friends on 9gag and agree wholeheartedly despite realizing the OP probably meant something else a few seconds later... Edited by Cavesa on 20 August 2015 at 11:14am 4 persons have 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 3664 of 3737 20 August 2015 at 11:45am | IP Logged |
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Well, you can agree on both, can't you? :)
_________ When you'd wanna brag on trying to learn yet another language in front of your scientific advisor and only stop because she'd expect you to pick the theme of your thesis instead. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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