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Levi
Pentaglot
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United States
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Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian

 
 Message 1585 of 3737
24 April 2011 at 10:26pm | IP Logged 
...when you won't download any fonts that don't have Latin Extended-A and Cyrillic characters because they're useless.
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Phantom Kat
Diglot
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United States
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Speaks: Spanish*, English
Studies: Finnish

 
 Message 1586 of 3737
25 April 2011 at 3:46am | IP Logged 
... when you and your friends, during Spring Break, record the phrase, "My foot is stuck in the oven." in numerous languages; you did Finnish, of course. Other languages were German, Japanese, and Russian. These are now ringtones on your friend's cellphone.

(The whole thing started when your friend admitted that the only phrase she knew in Spanish was, "Mi pie está atascado en el horno." and Google Translate. We sincerely apologize to the natives of the languages we butchered...)

- Kat

Edited by Phantom Kat on 25 April 2011 at 3:47am

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Johnnysd
Diglot
Newbie
Norway
johnnysd.deviantart.
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Speaks: Norwegian*, English
Studies: German, Italian, Korean, French

 
 Message 1587 of 3737
25 April 2011 at 12:31pm | IP Logged 
When you put "My foot is stuck in the oven" into google translate to post it as a
facebook status in a language none will understand, because you find it amusing. When
instead of paying that phone bill, you buy a dictionary for a language you might study
sometime during the next two years.
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psy88
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United States
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469 posts - 882 votes 
Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French

 
 Message 1588 of 3737
26 April 2011 at 3:58am | IP Logged 
Phantom Kat wrote:
... when you and your friends, during Spring Break, record the phrase, "My foot is stuck in the oven." in numerous languages; you did Finnish, of course. Other languages were German, Japanese, and Russian. These are now ringtones on your friend's cellphone.

(The whole thing started when your friend admitted that the only phrase she knew in Spanish was, "Mi pie está atascado en el horno." and Google Translate. We sincerely apologize to the natives of the languages we butchered...)

- Kat



When you read this post about the sentence "my foot is stuck in the oven" and you expect that someone is going to post a sarcastic comment that it must be an expression from RS.
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ellasevia
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Germany
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Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian
Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian

 
 Message 1589 of 3737
26 April 2011 at 4:10am | IP Logged 
When you've decided to drop four of your study languages in order to focus on the others and it feels like you've just killed a friend. Or rather, four friends.
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ellasevia
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Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian
Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian

 
 Message 1591 of 3737
26 April 2011 at 4:49am | IP Logged 
paranday wrote:
ellasevia wrote:
When you've decided to drop four of your study languages in order to focus on the others and it feels like you've just killed a friend. Or rather, four friends.

When you won't sleep well tonight if you don't know which four.

Well that's what we have the profiles for. :) But if you really must know, Swahili, Swedish, Polish, and Romanian. Those are the immediate removals. Within a couple weeks French will be gone too and by July Greek will as well.
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mick33
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Finnish
Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish

 
 Message 1592 of 3737
26 April 2011 at 9:50am | IP Logged 
Kuikentje wrote:
When you've listened all the languages on your dad's GPS / Satellite Navigation, you thought that the speakers' names were incorrect!!

the names must be, for example (not all possible names included):

English:
USA JW, Daristani, Hobbema, Newyorkeric, meramarina, jinx,
GB Languagesponge, teango
AUS leosmith

Spanish:
Zenmonkey, Juan

German:
Fasulye, Meelämchen, doitsuijn

Dutch:
Reneemona

Finnish:
leopejo, hencke

Italian:
leopejo

Afrikaans:
mick33

Danish:
It was "Nils" therefore nearly correct but it must be spelled 'Niels" (Iversen's name)

French:
Arekkusu

Czech:
Vlad

Norwegian:
Solfrid cristin

Polish:
minaaret

All the languages:
Ellasevia
Iversen
After I read this post last night I had a wonderful dream that a GPS like the one you mention actually existed so I could buy it.


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