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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 1609 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 3:06am | IP Logged | ||||||||
When you get so excited for the 6WC that you simply cheat and start early. I've already done over an hour of Indonesian study today. I've broken pretty much every rule thus far, I might as well keep my streak going. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5185 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1610 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 4:59am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Sorry, nothing to add to the thread. Edited by hjordis on 30 April 2011 at 5:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5062 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 1611 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 9:03am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Is it really geeky if Finnish is your native language, though? xD But thanks for the information. I'll keep that in mind. :D As for one more: ... when you get sheet music for a song called "Arabesque" but you can't help but see "Basque." Also earlier, on an article on premature babies, you read "inflection" instead of "infection." ... when despite the fact that you are exhausted from coming back from a little field trip with your fellow high school Band seniors you recognize the Finnish Genetive in a song being used to denote the direct object of a sentence, exactly what you had made a note about the day before. You proceed to grin like an idiot. :D - Kat EDIT: I was mistaken on something. Edited by Phantom Kat on 30 April 2011 at 9:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| JNetto Groupie United States verbumpopuli.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4981 days ago 43 posts - 60 votes Speaks: EnglishC1 | Message 1612 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
or when you DO everything mentioned above, except study the language for 6WC, and just to make sure that your mind doesn't go on auto pilot and start gluttoning itself on the target language you fill your mind with something simple and soothing like ARABIC! (obs.: my target is Thai!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| JNetto Groupie United States verbumpopuli.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4981 days ago 43 posts - 60 votes Speaks: EnglishC1 | Message 1613 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 12:06pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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when you zone out in a lecture because you are trying to figure out where the heck the
speaker is from based on his accent!! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| JNetto Groupie United States verbumpopuli.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4981 days ago 43 posts - 60 votes Speaks: EnglishC1 | Message 1614 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 12:20pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'm so guilty of that it is not even funny! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| JNetto Groupie United States verbumpopuli.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4981 days ago 43 posts - 60 votes Speaks: EnglishC1 | Message 1615 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 12:32pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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when you spend 2,5 hours reading the "You know you’re a language nerd when..." section
and want more because it makes you laugh more than by reading "Calvin and Hobbes"; worse... when every single comment made sense despite how deep and tangled the joke was in an obscure foreign language! Edited by JNetto on 30 April 2011 at 12:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| JNetto Groupie United States verbumpopuli.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4981 days ago 43 posts - 60 votes Speaks: EnglishC1 | Message 1616 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 12:47pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
or when your language section of the brain feels like the movie "Inception": you gotta go back several level to get back to what you used to call REALITY (aka "your native language)! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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