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| karaipyhare Tetraglot Groupie Paraguay Joined 5588 days ago 74 posts - 150 votes  Speaks: Portuguese, Spanish*, English, Guarani Studies: German, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 465 of 3737 25 March 2010 at 5:31am | IP Logged | ||||||||
YES! I always tell that story to everybody expecting an amazed shocked surprise face! Instead I get the question; Where is Madagascar? :( I love the Austronesian Family: from Madagascar to Easter Island (Rapa Nui), from Taiwan to New Zealand (Aotearoa) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5425 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 466 of 3737 25 March 2010 at 6:01am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I think this will affect me from now on. @karaipyhar: How do people not know where Madagascar is? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 467 of 3737 26 March 2010 at 3:04am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I agree completely. As Jared Diamond said in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel:
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5970 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 468 of 3737 26 March 2010 at 3:25am | IP Logged | ||||||||
That is an excellent book. I read it a few years ago, and right now I am reading one very much like it, but entirely focused on languages and the civilizations they came from and spread to throughout recorded history. The name of it is Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World and the author is Nicholas Ostler. His biography states that he is "a scholar with a working knowledge of twenty-six languages" so this is a good reading choice for a Language Nerd! It's long but well worth the time - highly recommended! Edited by meramarina on 26 March 2010 at 3:27am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 469 of 3737 26 March 2010 at 7:10am | IP Logged | ||||||||
...when someone makes a book recommendation on a thread about being a language nerd, and you go right out and order it off Amazon. Thanks for the suggestion. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5473 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 470 of 3737 26 March 2010 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you'd rather take a sucky job that allows you to practice during work hours than actually have a career
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| BlondGirl Groupie United States Joined 5560 days ago 49 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 471 of 3737 26 March 2010 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You are giving directions to someone and after finishing, you return to your own family/coworkers and continue talking to them in the foreign language. Sometimes it is so easy to continue on the same track.
You keep telling someone to wait before coming in the room and when the person comes right in, he tells you, "You know I only speak English." You practice conversations in your head to speed up your word-assembling-abilities and realize you have been doing it out loud from all the weird looks you are getting in the checkout lane. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5594 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 472 of 3737 27 March 2010 at 1:47am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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You have a friend as a passenger in your car for the first time. Without asking, your friend turns on your radio.The first thing that comes on, because it was the last thing you were listening to, is your target language listen and repeat CD. He then hits the button to go to your next CD. This is another listen and repeat CD, but still in the same target language (you like to work with different listen and repeat programs at the same time because it was suggested at this web page). Your friend hits the next two buttons and he hears music your target language. He makes some sarcastic comment then hits the final two buttons , only to hear nore listen and repeat CD's, but these are in your second target language(you like to listen to one language on the way to your destination and the other language on the way back).To his frustration,he then tries the radio stations.Of course, all of the stations are tuned into your target language. He is strangely quite the rest of the trip.
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