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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4713 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3169 of 3959 29 January 2013 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Is that the "this page is a stub" message in Breton?
edit:, no it's the "this is a disambiguation page" message. hm Edited by tarvos on 29 January 2013 at 3:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6709 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 3170 of 3959 31 January 2013 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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GR: Τελείωσα τελικά την ανάγνωση μου του ελληνικού αλφαβήτου - από το άλφα μέχρι το ωμέγα. Και έχω δοκιμαστεί παθητικό λεξιλόγιο μου από τη μελέτη ενός τμήματος της ελληνικής οδηγός μου στην Αθήνα, και μάλιστα: θα μπορούσα ένα χρόνο μετά την άλλη να θυμάστε ότι η λέξη είχε εμφανιστεί στο λεξιλόγιό μου.
I have finally finished my perousal of the Greek alphabet and I put it to a test by reading a page of my Greek guide to Athens. And while reading I could several times remember that a certain word had occurred in my wordlists. Btw. I can happily throw these away now - because they contain most of the words in the Greek-English part of Swanson's dictionary I can just as well use this for for further studies. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6709 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 3171 of 3959 04 February 2013 at 12:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have been to Copenhagen to a attend a meeting Satyrday in my travel club, but it became slightly more dramatic than anticipated. After the meeting - which took most of the day - we all went to eat in a restaurant in a cellar. The food was fine, but the air there was hot and damp, and I found it more and more difficult to breathe, so when we afterwards left the place and went up into the cold air and I had said goodbye to the others, I actually got an asthma attack while walking along on the street searching for a bus or at least somewhere to sit down. A couple passed by and called 112, and then I actually ended up at a hospital where they kept me the night over. With some appropiate medicine and an oxygen mask I was fast brought back to normal status, but I couldn't fall sleep because of an elderly lady behind a curtain in the same room who apparently had apnoe - a Greek word which means that you forget to breathe while you sleep. Somehow you can't avoid listening and listening until they start breathing again - and then they continue snoring until next apnoe episode. So I only got max. four hours of sleep and spent part of the night in a chair outside the room - but (almost) nothing is so bad it isn't good for something: I used the remaining time on rereading my old blue TY Irish. This was far from being efficient enough because I didn't have anything to write with or on, and the book uses "do" before perfects starting with a consonant, which of course will be seen as a bad omen by any member of the honoured Clann o'Lugus, and its explanations about the use of copula verbs could be clearer - but ok, it is there, and I was reminded about a lot of useful things in Irish. A nurse passed by and asked what I was doing, and I told her that I tried to become sleepy enough to ignore the breathing patterns of my room mate, and when she saw that I was studying Irish grammar she acknowledged that my technique might work - she had never seen anything so boring.
Today at seven o'clock in the morning I was told by a doctor that my lungs were shit, but the rest of me functioned sufficiently well and I didn't have any acute infections or other serious malfunctions, so I was let loose from the hospital with some paper for my own doctor. I went to my hotel to get the rest of my luggage, have a bath and check out, and after that I visited 3 museums and one art exhibition, walked through half the town, ate a Hawaii pizza and during the trip home by train I read a Focus in Italian, which I found in a 7-11 at the Copenhagen Main station. Maybe I'll read some more about this magazine later, but I would like to get more than 4 hours of sleep before going to work tomorrow so.... Edited by Iversen on 04 February 2013 at 1:09am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4713 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3172 of 3959 04 February 2013 at 12:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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Sounds awful, but I'm glad you're okay. And impressed you managed some Irish in the
hospital. By the way, I can't comment on your remark about Irish, because I have only studied some Breton, but I'm sure there's some explanation. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4438 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 3173 of 3959 05 February 2013 at 1:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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Oh Iversen, as always you've shown to be an adamant language learner and a fascinating storyteller. I hope
you recover fully as soon as possible and that you won't have to worry too much about your lungs. Look, you've almost reached page 400! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5215 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 3174 of 3959 05 February 2013 at 6:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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The episode must have been alarming while it was happening, Iversen. - Glad to hear you're better now; and I hope
you'll feel much better after a full night's sleep tomorrow! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6385 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 3175 of 3959 05 February 2013 at 7:23am | IP Logged | |||||
Is it a temporary condition?
Your description gave me a good laugh! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5853 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 3176 of 3959 05 February 2013 at 10:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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Iversen, I hope for you that the asthma is only temporary and does not become chronical, and it's a pity that you didn't get to sleep in that hospital - and even in such a situation you do something with languages, that's amirable.
Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 05 February 2013 at 10:14am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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