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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5846 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 1145 of 3737 12 October 2010 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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... when you go to the low-price booksale of your urban library and you find and buy a textbook of modern Greek, a textbook of Spanish and a Kauderwelsch booklet of Brasilian Portuguese - without having concete plans to study them yet - but just in case they may once be useful.
Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 12 October 2010 at 1:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 1146 of 3737 12 October 2010 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
When you read the above post and, even though you have enough to be getting on with in Modern Greek already, you want to know what the textbook Fasulye found is called anyway? :] 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5846 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 1147 of 3737 12 October 2010 at 7:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
So my post has made you curious. :) My modern Greek textbook: "Schnellkurs Griechisch by Elmar Winters-Ohle", Intensivkurs für Anfänger, Hueber Verlag, 3. Auflage 2005. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 12 October 2010 at 7:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 1148 of 3737 12 October 2010 at 8:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Danke schön, Fasulye :]
I have been curious about Modern Greek for quite a few years, since doing Ancient Greek in school - it is about time I at least looked into Modern Greek too. Jack 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6469 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1149 of 3737 13 October 2010 at 6:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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By the way, there's now a "language geekiness" test on okcupid, if you have an account
there. http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-language-geekiness-test By contrast their "language geek" test doesn't test for this forum's level of interest in languages, just if you know a few words in Italian and so on. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jatk17 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5207 days ago 19 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese Studies: Esperanto | Message 1150 of 3737 13 October 2010 at 8:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you go to a Brazilian restaurant and speak Portuguese to the waiters, and everyone looks at you like you are speaking a foreign language (No PUN intended).
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| Johnnysd Diglot Newbie Norway johnnysd.deviantart. Joined 5616 days ago 18 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, Italian, Korean, French | Message 1151 of 3737 13 October 2010 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When, upon entering a bookstore, the clerk informs you that they have ordered a few books in the languages you happen to study, without asking you whether you need them or not..
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| koba Heptaglot Senior Member AustriaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5867 days ago 118 posts - 201 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, French | Message 1152 of 3737 14 October 2010 at 12:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you can listen to a language you don't understand for hours, delighting yourself with the new sounds you hear.
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