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| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5855 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes  Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 593 of 3737 07 May 2010 at 8:23am | IP Logged | ||
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When more than 80% of your time in your summer holiday is delicated to languages...........
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| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5499 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 594 of 3737 07 May 2010 at 6:15pm | IP Logged | ||
When, after having a Persian phase (again...), you read the post that ^this^ is a response to (which just happens to be YOUR post) and facepalm yourself for not realizing what 'zaban' meant in the first place. When you think that a 'Persian phase' is a perfectly normal thing to have. When you think that having multiple Persian phases is also perfectly normal. When, in the midst of said Persian phase, you watch 'No One Knows About Persian Cats' just so that you can present to your mom a reason why you want to learn Persian so she'll buy you that Teach Yourself Modern Persian book you've been eyeing up for the past three years. When you take the language books you're currently using on a camping trip. You take along your Czech book too, just in case you get bored with Spanish and you're miles away from your language pile. When you experiance withdrawl symptoms when you've been away from your language books for too long. When 'too long' is a sleepover at your friend's house. When you seperate your langage courses based on 'the books you're currently using' and your 'language pile'. When you have language piles. (I know, this has been posted already) When you use Russian grammar for English (the sentance 'I know, this has been posted already' shouldn't have a comma in it...). When you write Kanji into your Japanese course because it doesn't have any. When you buy Breaking Into Japanese Literature when you're on lesson 3 of you 40 lesson course book. When you buy a Japanese novel before you bought your coursebook because you're 'thinking ahead'. Edited by mashmusic11235 on 07 May 2010 at 6:29pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 595 of 3737 08 May 2010 at 1:12am | IP Logged | ||
When you get depressed when you read this because you know your summer holiday will, unfortunately, (sigh) not be like that. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6003 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 596 of 3737 08 May 2010 at 2:25am | IP Logged | ||
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When this thread is your main source of humour outside of your friends.
When you read this thread not only for pleasure but to get tips on being a better language nerd. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| janalisa Triglot Senior Member France janafadness.com/blog Joined 6890 days ago 284 posts - 466 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese Studies: Russian, Norwegian | Message 597 of 3737 11 May 2010 at 1:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you use new languages to "reward" yourself for working on old ones.
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| nogoodnik Senior Member United States Joined 5569 days ago 372 posts - 461 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, Russian, French | Message 598 of 3737 11 May 2010 at 6:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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When Uz-Translations is your home page.
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| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5340 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 599 of 3737 11 May 2010 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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When your two 16 GB ipods are jam packed with only language lessons from various language textbooks, Assimil and foreign language news podcast, and music that's not from your native language!
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| Kubelek Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland chomikuj.pl/Kuba_wal Joined 6852 days ago 415 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 600 of 3737 11 May 2010 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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It makes you prouder to get a vote for your post in this thread than in serious discussions... and you vote more in this thread than anywhere else.
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