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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5326 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 913 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 8:12pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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| renegade5005 Triglot Newbie United States xanga.com/philoaleth Joined 5332 days ago 18 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Persian, English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Modern Hebrew, Arabic (Levantine), French, Tzeltal, Arabic (classical), Sanskrit, Ancient Greek | Message 914 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
Great idea!! I should definitely do that with the Latin cases. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6527 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 915 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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... when you can localize any country in the globe and recognize all the 197 flags plus some other.
... when you can name at least one of the languages spoken in every single country. ... when you dream how would it be if you revive, say, Napoleon and you have to teach him (in French, of course) how the world has changed. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5326 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 916 of 3737 28 July 2010 at 8:20am | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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When you have watched almost 45 minutes of Prof. Arguelles videos on languages and language courses in the past hour and want to watch more, but you think you should actually STUDY a language instead.
Anyone else here think he should write his own language course? I think he would make a great language course, given enough free time of course. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
 budonoseito Pro Member United States budobeyondtechnRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5804 days ago 261 posts - 344 votes Studies: French, Japanese Personal Language Map | Message 917 of 3737 28 July 2010 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
Guilty. Then I read a tip about stop studying on how to study and just study. But, being an engineer type, I am all about the planning. Fail to plan, plan to fail. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| astein Pentaglot Groupie Germany Joined 5267 days ago 80 posts - 134 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, French, Mandarin Studies: Russian, Dutch | Message 918 of 3737 28 July 2010 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
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When you try to pronounce unfamiliar German words in your carefully-nursed accent, only to find that they are pronounced exactly the same as in English, and are, in fact, English words...and this makes you really angry.
When you have to alt-tab at work when your boss comes into your office. Not because you are chatting on Facebook, but because you are always logged into Anki online. (That is my reward for when I finish a task at work...I get to work through a hundred cards or so of one of my seven different decks). When you have to read a lot of insurance papers for your job, and it makes your day to see that they are not only published in German (I live in Germany), but also in French, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Italian. This is no longer a chore for me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| theallstar Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5801 days ago 81 posts - 85 votes Studies: Japanese, Esperanto | Message 919 of 3737 28 July 2010 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
Guilty. However, since I finally coughed up the £15 for the iPhone version of Anki I've found that I can review much more discreetly ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5555 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 920 of 3737 28 July 2010 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||||||||
When you get a little present like this:
And you think...great, chocolate, I like chocolate :)...but then you turn the bar around and see this on the back: 
And now you think...wow, ingredients in 6 languages, including Armenian and Georgian, absolutely-flippin-fantastic!...and hug the giver copiously for such an amazing gift! :D Edited by Teango on 12 August 2010 at 9:17pm 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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