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 1745 of 3737 15 June 2011 at 6:35pm | IP Logged |
You're trying to sleep and you get angry because people are shouting on the street
outside. Then you realise they're shouting in your target language, and you feel a lot
happier and relax again.
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LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5049 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German
| Message 1746 of 3737 16 June 2011 at 6:47pm | IP Logged |
Around Christmas time, you walk out into the living room where your roommates and their boyfriends are and you notice on the menu guide on the TV says "Elf," and you isntantly think to yourself out loud say "eleven, wonder what that's about" after realizing what you said, you don't even feel an ounce of embarrassment.
Edited by LebensForm on 16 June 2011 at 6:50pm
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Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5062 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish
| Message 1747 of 3737 16 June 2011 at 8:06pm | IP Logged |
- when the first thing you say upon hearing your brother is bored this summer is, "Learn a language." You are puzzled as to why he doesn't follow your advice.
- when you drop everything you do and go on a two-hour hunt when you find out you have no idea where one of your Finnish grammar books are; you still haven't found it and hope your Dad accidenally took it when he was packing.
(I'm still waiting for him to call to see whether he found it or not.)
- Kat
Edited by Phantom Kat on 16 June 2011 at 8:07pm
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LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5049 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German
| Message 1748 of 3737 16 June 2011 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
Phantom Kat wrote:
(I'm still waiting for him to call to see whether he found it or not.)- Kat |
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I hope he finds it, I misplaced one of my German ones, still til this day don't know where it's at... that was 9 months ago :(
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Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5062 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish
| Message 1749 of 3737 16 June 2011 at 9:17pm | IP Logged |
LebensForm wrote:
Phantom Kat wrote:
(I'm still waiting for him to call to see whether he found it or not.)- Kat |
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I hope he finds it, I misplaced one of my German ones, still til this day don't know where it's at... that was 9 months ago :( |
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Thanks, I hope he finds it, too, I mean, I know it only cost me around seven dollars, used (at least it wasn't my other one with the Audio CDs), but I still feel empty without it. *crosses fingers*
Ooh, got another one:
- when you are re-watching the Latin American Version of "Pinocchio" because you recently found out it was dubbed in Argentina, and you want to compare the Mexican and Argentinian accents.
- Kat
Edited by Phantom Kat on 16 June 2011 at 9:18pm
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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 1750 of 3737 17 June 2011 at 1:34am | IP Logged |
...when you þink ðat it would be really cool if we brought ðe letters þorn and eð back into ðe English language.
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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 1751 of 3737 17 June 2011 at 3:01am | IP Logged |
. . . when you have to make some repairs on your computer, and you can't find the user's guide anywhere because the last time you saw it, you were using it as a bilingual text to learn some Spanish IT terminology. But it must be in the pile of language stuff somewhere . . . still searching!
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Kafea Groupie United States Joined 4931 days ago 78 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Sámi
| Message 1752 of 3737 17 June 2011 at 3:49am | IP Logged |
When you print and laminate this chart
http://www.starr.net/is/type/altnum.htm
to keep next to your computer because you need these letters so often and can't keep the keyboards simultaneously open on a shared computer.
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