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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes  Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1361 of 3737 27 December 2010 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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when you forget how to spell a word in your native language(English) but you do know how to spell it in your target language (Spanish), so you use your bilingual English-Spanish dictionary,looking up the word in Spanish so you can get it's English spelling!
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| Thaorius Diglot Groupie ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 40 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2 | Message 1362 of 3737 27 December 2010 at 5:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
And from there... ...when your English vocabulary is significantly larger than your Spanish (native) one. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dotdotdot Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5218 days ago 24 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Korean, English* Studies: Italian, Russian | Message 1363 of 3737 27 December 2010 at 6:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you keep checking this thread for updates several times a day.
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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 1364 of 3737 28 December 2010 at 5:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when the coolest thing about your new iPod Touch is that it understands voice commands in all your target languages!
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| Qbe Tetraglot Senior Member United States joewright.org/var Joined 7134 days ago 289 posts - 335 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Japanese, German, Mandarin, Aramaic | Message 1366 of 3737 28 December 2010 at 3:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
... or as a good reason to buy an iPod Touch. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5534 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 1367 of 3737 28 December 2010 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
That reminds me of how happy I was to find out that installing the Google Korean IME for Android would allow my phone to accept Korean voice input as well. I don't think that carries over to voice commands, though, sadly. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5966 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1368 of 3737 28 December 2010 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you try to reason with Google.
I just switched from a Mac mini (a creaky old awful thing) to a fresh new Toshiba laptop and I don't yet have everything set up the way I want it to be. I read newspapers in target languages as often as I can, and when I was reading a German page I got a message from the Google Toolbar informing me that "This page is is German. Do you want to translate it?" That made me mad, because I assumed that Google knew everything about everybody and SHOULD HAVE KNOWN why I was there. "No, toolbar, stupid Google toolbar, I'm here to learn and I don't want your help, thanks. I use my mind to translate, toolbar, but actually, toolbar, I try to work directly in the target language when I can without translating, so go away, toolbar. I hate you!" "That'll show you" I thought, but then the toolbar wanted to know why, if I was so smart, was I yelling at it in English? I conceded that maybe Google really does know everything, and changed my settings. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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