ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6141 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 1153 of 3737 14 October 2010 at 1:32am | IP Logged |
koba wrote:
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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Guilty. And when you start substituting this for background music when you're on the computer. This weekend I listened to Czech, on Monday and part of yesterday it was Arabic, yesterday I listened to some Georgian... Hm, today I think I'll listen to some nice Hungarian. :)
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psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 1154 of 3737 14 October 2010 at 3:43am | IP Logged |
Jatk17 wrote:
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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When you go into an upscale Italian restaurant and speak Italian to the waiter and he angrily tells you he is not Italian but Brazilian.
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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 1155 of 3737 14 October 2010 at 6:58pm | IP Logged |
... when I use my English-Dutch Prisma dictionary to look up the words in the recent texts of our English course and my friend who is in the same English course with me asks me the question: "Haven't you got any English - German dictionary?" - I have several, but most of the people just don't understand the idea of L3 via L2 - learning!
Fasulye
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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 1156 of 3737 14 October 2010 at 7:24pm | IP Logged |
When you laugh at language jokes in Dexter such as mistaking "Santa Muerte" for "Santa Mierda".
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psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 1157 of 3737 15 October 2010 at 5:02am | IP Logged |
When you had a day in which almost everything seems to have gone wrong, but as you lay in bed a smile comes to your face because you realize how much you just enjoyed the half-hour of language study you did before going to bed. And you smile even more thinking about how much pleasure you derive from your language studies even when you struggle to see progress.
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sm66 Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 5357 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Greek, German
| Message 1158 of 3737 15 October 2010 at 2:00pm | IP Logged |
When you buy an old school teach yourself Colloquial Russian book, printed in 1973, for $7 AUD and it makes your week! You also struggle to understand why no one shares your enthusiasm for it.
Edited by sm66 on 15 October 2010 at 2:00pm
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WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5350 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese
| Message 1160 of 3737 15 October 2010 at 4:24pm | IP Logged |
...when your friend wants to learn a language you don't want to learn and you still know more about that language than the friend.
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