Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5535 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 497 of 3737 31 March 2010 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
whisk wrote:
Haha..believe me, I enjoy all the Spanish music I listen to and I do prefer listening to it. On top of that I have a Spanish tutor so my I have some external help when it comes to motivation.
But yes, I do understand where you're coming from.It was just something that happened in the early stages of language learning. |
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Ok...I was just making sure you weren't forcing yourself to listen to music you didn't like simply for the sake of learning. I do agree that it is tricky at first until you find some groups/singers to get "hooked on" in the target language and until you get a decent selection of material so you don't burn out on the few songs you've found that you like.
Edited by Warp3 on 31 March 2010 at 4:38pm
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psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 498 of 3737 01 April 2010 at 3:29am | IP Logged |
Johntm wrote:
Levi wrote:
Rina wrote:
When one of the reasons your boyfriend broke up with you was because you spend so much time on languages. *ahem*;;
...And then when your new boyfriend is a native speaker of one of the languages you're learning :D
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...if you wish there were some place you could go to to hook up with single language nerds. It would be nice to have a girlfriend without having to worry about her taking too much of your time away from your languages. |
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Me-"Hey babe, guess what we're doing tonight!"
Her-"What?"
Me-"Studying Russian!"
Her-"Awesome!"
That'd be an awesome conversation to have with a girlfriend. |
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It would certainly change the meaning of the usual conversation when one asked the other "do you feel like Italian tonight?"
"oh, no, not Italian again"
"well,how about Japanese?"
" I had Japanese already today. How about French?"
" I know, let's try Spanish"
Well, you get the idea.
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Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5422 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 499 of 3737 01 April 2010 at 5:17am | IP Logged |
psy88 wrote:
Johntm wrote:
Levi wrote:
Rina wrote:
When one of the reasons your boyfriend broke up with you was because you spend so much time on languages. *ahem*;;
...And then when your new boyfriend is a native speaker of one of the languages you're learning :D
Life is grand, yeah? |
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...if you wish there were some place you could go to to hook up with single language nerds. It would be nice to have a girlfriend without having to worry about her taking too much of your time away from your languages. |
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Me-"Hey babe, guess what we're doing tonight!"
Her-"What?"
Me-"Studying Russian!"
Her-"Awesome!"
That'd be an awesome conversation to have with a girlfriend. |
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It would certainly change the meaning of the usual conversation when one asked the other "do you feel like Italian tonight?"
"oh, no, not Italian again"
"well,how about Japanese?"
" I had Japanese already today. How about French?"
" I know, let's try Spanish"
Well, you get the idea. |
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"No, lets go with Parahã"
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ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 500 of 3737 01 April 2010 at 6:40am | IP Logged |
You know you're a language nerd when you get excited about learning the Georgian alphabet, and you start crying
and bawling when you forget half of it the next day :(. But then you dedicate about two hours, probably contributing
to your future carpal tunnel, in order to relearn the Georgian alphabet, while listen to Bulgarian music.
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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 501 of 3737 01 April 2010 at 8:35am | IP Logged |
...when you stubbornly keep on practicing your French sentences out loud, despite having a cold which severely impedes your ability to pronounce the nasal vowels.
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Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5422 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 502 of 3737 01 April 2010 at 8:54am | IP Logged |
Levi wrote:
...when you stubbornly keep on practicing your French sentences out loud, despite having a cold which severely impedes your ability to pronounce the nasal vowels. |
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I'm laughing right now thinking of someone pronouncing French words with a cold.
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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 503 of 3737 02 April 2010 at 12:58am | IP Logged |
...when you long for the "good old days" (before you were born) when academic journals published articles in English, French and German without translation, as the educated person was expected to understand all three.
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elysandler Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5404 days ago 22 posts - 25 votes Speaks: Modern Hebrew, English*, French Studies: Latin, Spanish, Russian
| Message 504 of 3737 02 April 2010 at 1:40am | IP Logged |
When going on this forum is a "break" between your Russian studies, and your French studies, and you think that,
regardless of content, time spent on an English-language-board is time wasted.
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