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| GRagazzo Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4960 days ago 115 posts - 168 votes  Speaks: Italian, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish, French | Message 1761 of 3737 18 June 2011 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you read your "Italian Step by Step" book by Charles Berlitz in between games of
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| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5049 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 1762 of 3737 18 June 2011 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am using a German keyboard atm... I like the fact I can do ü ö ä or ß with just one finger and not the alt and a bunch of numbers...
YKYALN when you find speaking German with an Italian accent incredibally entertaining and your not even drunk... When you're at dinner with your family and your mom notices your quiet and asks what are you thinking about, and without hesitation, you blirt out, "the past tense of haben" When you say you are too tired to go out tonight with your boyfriend because you have been staying up late chatting with a guy from Germany to which you feel like your "cheating" on your boyfriend Edited by LebensForm on 18 June 2011 at 11:23pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5765 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 1763 of 3737 18 June 2011 at 11:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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It probably has come up before, but every time I see this thread I want to make a survey asking for every member's definition of nerd and geek.
(Words do matter to me. I never go out without at least one pocket dictionary.) ... when you happily supply your language teacher with vocabulary. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6658 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 1764 of 3737 19 June 2011 at 1:14am | IP Logged | ||
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When you go to Slavic Fest downtown where they have Slavic food, alcohol and dancers and you just go there to try to snag some language material in case you maybe decide to probably study a Slavic language possibly in the future.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1765 of 3737 19 June 2011 at 2:38am | IP Logged | ||
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when, no matter when you first began, you wish you had started studying languages sooner than you did
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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 1766 of 3737 19 June 2011 at 6:22am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you ace this quiz in about two minutes.
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5692 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 1767 of 3737 19 June 2011 at 7:22am | IP Logged | ||
I'll just say this, it took a looong time. ;) (I have a Mac and I use an international keyboard layout which allows me to type all those accents – and more! – quite rapidly and easily. For instance, for the cedilla I type "alt+c" and then hit any of the following letters – ertsdhklzcn – and produce ȩŗţşḑḩķļz̧çņ.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5695 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 1768 of 3737 19 June 2011 at 8:53am | IP Logged | ||
I use something similar called the compose key (e.g. compose + , + e = ȩ). The day I discovered it, I spent a solid half hour playing with it to the bewilderment of my roommate. I also discovered I had an IPA input mode and there went another half hour. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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