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| Rina Newbie United States Joined 5546 days ago 35 posts - 64 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Korean | Message 1049 of 3737 31 August 2010 at 12:17am | IP Logged | ||
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When you start to cover up your new Korean textbooks when you leave the car as if they were a GPS or ipod, only to remember that no one else would want them badly enough to break your windows.
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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6448 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 1050 of 3737 31 August 2010 at 3:24am | IP Logged | ||
I've actually gone so far as to shove my books under the car seat. I had never actually considered the fact that most passersby wouldn't value a thick Russian-English dictionary or a rare Assimil course. Now I feel rather silly. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5569 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1052 of 3737 31 August 2010 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you often explain to people that you don't speak their language at all, but you know a lot about their language, such as what languages it's closely related to, how the language's syntax works, and what phonemes it uses. Edited by Levi on 31 August 2010 at 7:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5501 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 1053 of 3737 01 September 2010 at 5:06am | IP Logged | ||
This happens to me all the time. 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 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1054 of 3737 01 September 2010 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Language terrorism: ...when you hover dangerously around the immigration control cabins at an airport for a little while longer, once you've safely gone through of course, to see if you can "help" in any way at all (without getting arrested)... Edited by Teango on 01 September 2010 at 1:07pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5221 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 1055 of 3737 01 September 2010 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you try to work out the grammar of a language you don't know based on the mistakes people make when using a language you do know.... even if you only know a little ?
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5768 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1056 of 3737 01 September 2010 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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When your friend talks about Kindergarten in a conversation on skype and it kills the German part of your brain to see it not written with a capital letter.
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