Thaorius Diglot Groupie ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 40 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2
| Message 993 of 3737 11 August 2010 at 4:55am | IP Logged |
... when you are chatting with one of your best friends, and he says goodbye, so you say
goodbye too, only you make a typographical error (1 letter). Your friend does not assume
it was a typo, nor that you made up the word, nor asks what you meant; he asks what
language that's in!!!
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kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6002 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German
| Message 994 of 3737 13 August 2010 at 9:19pm | IP Logged |
When you get far hornier for languages than members of the opposite sex.
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deej Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5337 days ago 31 posts - 38 votes Speaks: Hindi, English*, Italian, French
| Message 995 of 3737 14 August 2010 at 1:48am | IP Logged |
When you're not happy with the amount of time you're spending in your target language,
despite spending your whole day listening to music, watching films, learning vocab,
watching TV, reading books and speaking to others in that language, so you decide to
maximise your time by constantly thinking in your target language instead of your native
tongue, despite the fact that you've only been learning it for a few days.
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 996 of 3737 14 August 2010 at 6:01am | IP Logged |
...when you not only know lots of countries your friends aren't aware of, you know their names in languages they're also not aware of.
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LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5765 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 997 of 3737 14 August 2010 at 10:52am | IP Logged |
When you're trying to learn to read music and bit more about music theory (wishing you'd paid attention a little more in classes in school) and in an attempt to make this easier for yourself, you try to relate as much as possible to learning a language.
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5534 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 998 of 3737 14 August 2010 at 10:33pm | IP Logged |
When it notably annoyed you that the cardinal directions on your GPS in Korean UI mode simply read N, S, E, W (as it does for Japanese as well, even though Chinese and Taiwanese get actual Chinese characters there instead, so you know that data is part of the language file). So, after a quick tweak to the language data file for Korean, it now shows the appropriate Hangul there instead (like it should have from the start).
And now...you're pondering adding a second Korean language choice to your GPS so you can have a Hangul/Hanja mixed script version.
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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 999 of 3737 15 August 2010 at 12:07am | IP Logged |
LanguageSponge wrote:
When you're trying to learn to read music and bit more about music theory (wishing you'd paid attention a little more in classes in school) and in an attempt to make this easier for yourself, you try to relate as much as possible to learning a language. |
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One of my favourite aspects to learning piano was learning the theory of music, not because I was really into it, but simply because I got to learn lots of musical terminology and directions in different languages like Italian. In fact, even as I type, my fingers are already itching to get back to the keyboard at the very thought of this...fortissimo, con fuoco, fantastico! :)
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nuriayasmin Senior Member Germany Joined 5242 days ago 155 posts - 210 votes
| Message 1000 of 3737 15 August 2010 at 12:13am | IP Logged |
when you hope that it will rain tomorrow so that you have a good reason to stay at home and study languages.
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