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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 777 of 3737 04 July 2010 at 11:15am | IP Logged | ||
No way! :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 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 778 of 3737 04 July 2010 at 3:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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... when you never walk around in the city without having any language resources (vocabulary books, MP3 - player with audio-recordings, dictionaries, textbooks) in your backpack.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 779 of 3737 04 July 2010 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you buy a travel to Malaysia and get tempted to have a peek into a Bahasa Malysian language guide to learn a few words and a few set phrases, and then you fall headlong for the silly temptation to try to learn the whole language in a month. Well, I may still come to my senses, and I do NOT believe that Bahasa is as simple as it looks (there must be a catch somewhere!), but it just looks so uncannily possible... even simpler than Esperanto, except that the words don't look as European. Edited by Iversen on 04 July 2010 at 8:36pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 780 of 3737 04 July 2010 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | ||
When you don't care because you just study the language of the dictionary instead of French ... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5697 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 781 of 3737 04 July 2010 at 9:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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When, instead of opening the packet of chocolate, you're looking first the text on the fold, in Arabic ...
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| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5790 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 782 of 3737 04 July 2010 at 9:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you're watching The Hurt Locker in French and you realise that the voice-actor dubbing the badass in the movie is the same guy who dubbed Hurley, a clownish character in LOST. This is like Bruce Willis having the voice of Woody Allen.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 784 of 3737 05 July 2010 at 1:39am | IP Logged | ||
Guilty! Not just for Arabic though, but for all the available languages. This should also be done whilst simultaneously trying to figure out the languages you don't know and deciding that you really should make an effort to learn at least one of them since you might be on holiday in Turkmentistan and it would be really useful when reading the ingredients on boxes of shaving foam. Edited by patuco on 05 July 2010 at 1:41am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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