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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5327 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 769 of 3737 01 July 2010 at 6:02am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6446 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 770 of 3737 01 July 2010 at 1:10pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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... the copy of Teach Yourself Danish arrives, and you can't help but sit down right away and read the preface and general introduction, even though you bought it just in case you might someday want to learn Danish.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 771 of 3737 01 July 2010 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Join the gang...I guess it's the equivalent of reading through the card that tells you all the fillings in a box of chocolates (and perhaps even nibbling on a nougat swirl or two before putting them guiltily back in the box)...but it's just oh so mouth-wateringly tempting! :P Edited by Teango on 01 July 2010 at 3:18pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6446 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 772 of 3737 02 July 2010 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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... you pack your Assimil French course and a dictionary into your bag to work on later in the day, only to find that you accidentally packed the wrong dictionary, as you have Langenscheidt Pocket dictionaries for practically all of your languages.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 773 of 3737 04 July 2010 at 2:55am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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When you are introduced to a woman named "Corey" and you chuckle because it makes you think of the similar sounding word in your target language "corre", which is the imperative of "correr" meaning "run!"
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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5327 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 774 of 3737 04 July 2010 at 5:50am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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| Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5608 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French | Message 775 of 3737 04 July 2010 at 10:38am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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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 776 of 3737 04 July 2010 at 10:42am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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...when you chuckle every time you meet a woman with the name "Andrea", because you know it has its etymological roots in a Greek word meaning "manly".
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