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| wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5241 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 1289 of 3737 05 December 2010 at 6:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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You return to the car park to find your car is missing and your first thought is, "Oh no! My Champs Elysees CDs
were in there!" Then when the police track the car down, you are surprised, quite pleasantly, to find that they weren't stolen. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ThisIsGina Groupie United Kingdom languageblogbygina.w Joined 5320 days ago 56 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Romanian, Catalan, Greek, German, French | Message 1290 of 3737 05 December 2010 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | ||
I do this, too. My phone is always in Spanish (there is a very disappointing choice of languages on my phone, I can only get English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese and Turkish. That's not really very good considering that's only one of my three target languages), but my iPod has lots of language options so I basically just change it whenever I feel like it. It's in Greek at the moment, but before that it was in Korean, when I can't even read Korean script, so that made navigating it a bit awkward, but that's OK because it's easy enough to find my music and the language list, so I can switch it to a language I understand if I need to do anything more difficult than listening to music. So it's almost always in Spanish, Romanian or Greek if I want to understand what I'm looking at, or if not I'll just have it in some other language just for fun, LOL. 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 1292 of 3737 06 December 2010 at 4:56am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you write poetry about your languages.
De temps en temps, je me sens vide comme si ma vie ne tient à rien. Dans ces moments, je pense à mes langues et le vide disparaît. EDIT: Had to fix my bad French. :-p Edited by Levi on 06 December 2010 at 9:30pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5337 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 1293 of 3737 06 December 2010 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you get the DVD of Inception for Sinterklaas and are ecstatic to find out it has French and Spanish audio so you spent about half an hour watching your favourite scenes in those languages.
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| Préposition Diglot Senior Member France aspectualpairs.wordp Joined 5116 days ago 186 posts - 283 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 1294 of 3737 06 December 2010 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Your whole life switches from being left to right to being right to left because of the language you're studying. My French flag is now red white and blue…
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| 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 1295 of 3737 06 December 2010 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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When several of your supermarket buys are influenced by whether or not they're packaged in another language or have mulitlingual instructions on the back cover.
And when you extend your love of languages to the kitchen by indulging in various "themed nights" throughout the week (secretly just for an excuse to use the language whilst juggling ingredients). :P 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| muflax Diglot Newbie Germany muflax.com Joined 5563 days ago 11 posts - 17 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 1296 of 3737 07 December 2010 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you are thinking about finally getting a Facebook account, but can't decide which language to set your account up in. English, my thinking language? Would alienate some friends. Japanese? Don't know anyone who could even read it. German? Would alienate others. Pali? Not good enough yet. (I should have taken the Sumerian classes when I had the chance...)
Nah, probably better to not spend time on this social stuff and just learn more. Who needs people when you can have books? Edited by muflax on 07 December 2010 at 5:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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