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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 1425 of 3737 05 February 2011 at 3:20am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're roped into watching a romantic comedy ("The Rebound"), and you just can't understand why the name of the coffee shop has a backward "L" on the window. Then your girlfriend laughs and explains that it's not really "MOLO" but "MOJO"...all this time I just sat there with a furrowed brow and perplexed look on my face, wondering why on earth someone would ever misspell an abbreviation of молоко (Russian: milk). Guess my mind must have started to wander too far during the movie at that point... ;) Edited by Teango on 05 February 2011 at 3:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1426 of 3737 05 February 2011 at 3:58am | IP Logged | ||
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when you and some friends watch the 1948 movie "Johnny Belinda", about a young woman who is a deaf mute and a kind young doctor takes an interest in her and teaches her sign language.The doctor teaches himself from a book and then teaches the girl. He says it is a system developed by a French priest. As soon as it is over, your friends, knowing you as they do, jokingly say "now you will probably want to learn sign language".
Not only are they correct, but throughout the movie you were wondering about the signing the doctor used and if the signing is the same as American Sign Language. You also wonder if the French priest's system would perhaps not be limited to one language, but perhaps be a universal set of signs so that Signers from different countries could communicate with one another,unlike with the American Sign Language. You also decide to add Sign Language to your wish list to be studied but worry about whether it should be American Sign Language or if you could locate the French priest's system. You are also delighted to discover that the signing was accurate in the movie. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5206 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 1427 of 3737 07 February 2011 at 12:22am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're listening to Pimsleur Russian at the same time as having a Facebook conversation in English, Italian, and French, and going on this forum in another tab.
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| Marc94 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5245 days ago 32 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian | Message 1428 of 3737 07 February 2011 at 12:52am | IP Logged | ||
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When you have German in school again for the first time in a year (I have been self-studying a lot, so I certainly didn't lose any knowledge, in fact quite the opposite!) and everyone has no idea what they are reading in the textbook. So after a friend asks you what the article says, you get carried away and end up translating the whole thing and then you realize everyone is staring at you as in a 'how did he just do that?!' kind of way.
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5966 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1429 of 3737 07 February 2011 at 8:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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You are a language nerd if you find this as disturbing as I do: finding a package of imported cookies with the package printed in fourteen languages, yes fourteen! and that's a fantastic and magnificent feeling until you try to open the package, and rip right through English, Italian, French, German, Portuguese and Dutch . . . 
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7155 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 1430 of 3737 07 February 2011 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | ||
"Neeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrd!" (yelled in the same way as Homer Simpson did in that episode where he goes back to college) 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 5555 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1431 of 3737 07 February 2011 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I feel your pain, meramarina. Quickly...get the sellotape, all's not lost! :D
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| 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 1432 of 3737 08 February 2011 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||
Aww, don't be sad meramarina! Here's a nice picture for you which I saved from the last time I was in Greece. Not fourteen languages, but twelve is almost as good. :)
Above we have: English, French, Spanish, German; Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish/Norwegian (I can't tell); Greek, Russian, Japanese, Chinese And I have pictures of other things with languages like Hungarian, Slovak, Czech, and Arabic too! Edited by ellasevia on 08 February 2011 at 11:49pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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