Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5847 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| Message 57 of 3737 20 September 2009 at 4:13am | IP Logged |
hombre gordo wrote:
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At work (when I still had my job) I shocked my collegues that in our 30 minutes lunch pause I took out my Turkish textbook and vocabulary book and went to a seperate table to learn some Turkish vocabulary there. I think that such action had never happened at that workplace before. Very nerdy, indeed!
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I used to always use my breaks at work for studying Japanese. Guess what, I was despised for it by some people. I am sorry but my coworkers boring and unstimulating conversation cannot possible compete with 30 minutes of reading a Japanese text or adding a few more Kanji. |
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Interesting to know, so I'm not the only nerd like this!
Fasulye
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Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin
| Message 58 of 3737 20 September 2009 at 4:58am | IP Logged |
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Interesting to know, so I'm not the only nerd like this!
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I would more surprised if there aren't many more on here who do that. Of course, to me listening to colleagues talk about last night's TV shows is nothing I would voluntarily do, and using that time to study seems the obvious thing to do. It's refreshing.
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Choscura Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5548 days ago 61 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Thai
| Message 59 of 3737 20 September 2009 at 9:42am | IP Logged |
I don't do this with spoken languages anymore, but certainly with programming languages.
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J-Learner Senior Member Australia Joined 6030 days ago 556 posts - 636 votes Studies: Yiddish, English* Studies: Dutch
| Message 60 of 3737 20 September 2009 at 12:00pm | IP Logged |
Hey that was a really cool conversation E!
I think that our local ones are rather fricative...
When you find yourself nodding to most of the suggestions in this thread! (Guilty)
ExtraLean wrote:
When you are part of a group skype conversation discussing the difference sounds pedestrian crossings can make, and it breaks down to a comparison between voiced and voiceless, or perhaps even fricative sound discussion. When in reality, it's a tinny click...
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janalisa Triglot Senior Member France janafadness.com/blog Joined 6890 days ago 284 posts - 466 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese Studies: Russian, Norwegian
| Message 61 of 3737 20 September 2009 at 2:39pm | IP Logged |
Fasulye wrote:
hombre gordo wrote:
Fasulye wrote:
At work (when I still had my job) I shocked my collegues that in our 30 minutes lunch pause I took out my Turkish textbook and vocabulary book and went to a seperate table to learn some Turkish vocabulary there. I think that such action had never happened at that workplace before. Very nerdy, indeed!
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I used to always use my breaks at work for studying Japanese. Guess what, I was despised for it by some people. I am sorry but my coworkers boring and unstimulating conversation cannot possible compete with 30 minutes of reading a Japanese text or adding a few more Kanji. |
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Interesting to know, so I'm not the only nerd like this!
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I totally do this too. It's good to know I'm not the only one!
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Choscura Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5548 days ago 61 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Thai
| Message 62 of 3737 20 September 2009 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
Ooh, ooh, I have another!
When you pick up the phone and answer, and the person on the other end- who knows you- says "switch languages, please", and you accidentally switch to the wrong one again.
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Gon-no-suke Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6434 days ago 156 posts - 191 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Japanese, EnglishC2 Studies: Korean, Malay, Swahili
| Message 63 of 3737 20 September 2009 at 5:06pm | IP Logged |
Bao wrote:
Iversen wrote:
When people ask you why you don't learn Finnish and Hungarian too, now you are at it |
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When your immediate reply is to smile brightly, tell them "Yes, that's a great idea, I will do that!" and you actually mean it. |
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Or when you answer is, "I did those ten years ago!"
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JoeMcC Pentaglot Newbie United States joe185.wordpress.com Joined 5564 days ago 17 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Irish, Spanish, Mandarin, French Studies: Scottish Gaelic, German, Catalan, Breton
| Message 64 of 3737 20 September 2009 at 10:16pm | IP Logged |
When you rotate your diary weekly among 14 languages (as someone I know does).
When you have all seven Harry Potter books, each in a different language.
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