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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5969 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1825 of 3737 24 July 2011 at 5:01am | IP Logged | |||||
I know that pain chart! (I used to work in a hospital - I don't have it here in my house as wall art or anything like that!) I might reconsider my home decor, however, because for some oddball reason I just looked up the pain scale chart online. Check this out: instruction for pain description in 47 languages! Pain is a bad thing and these faces are actually kind of frightening, but this is one hell of a parallel text. Scroll down and take a look at the PDF or Word file. You'll feel better! Feeling just fine, or not, in 47 languages! 8 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5593 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1826 of 3737 25 July 2011 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
when you were thinking of how you could get into a hospital and "walk off" with (sounds nicer than "steal") a pain chart but now, thank you very much, you don't have to risk an arrest in your pursuit of being a full-fledged language nerd. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5052 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 1827 of 3737 26 July 2011 at 2:59am | IP Logged | |||||
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YkYALN when you read about potential crimes that could be committed involving our appreciation for learning languages and you actually contemplate the possible outcomes, secretly hoping you do get caught, because then your love for languages (German, more specifically) would be known...
when you go to an *Italian* resteraunt, where they give you crayons to write on the table, (long sheets of paper for table cloth) the resteraunt is actually a bit upscale, even though it doesn't sound like it, but you end up filling the table cloth with random German, including conjugating German verbs and writing awkward German love phrases... 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5569 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1828 of 3737 26 July 2011 at 4:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you pick up your Chinese character book after a while of not studying any Chinese, so you decide to use an SRS to memorize all the characters in the book over 50 days, trying to add 50 characters a day. And after ten days you're halfway done.
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| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5065 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 1829 of 3737 26 July 2011 at 10:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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... when you feel an odd sense of glee when your brother announces he wants to study Ukrainian just because. The sister-brother bond has just gotten stronger.
- Kat EDIT: The pain chart doesn't have Finnish, but it has six types of Spanish? What has the world come to? Edited by Phantom Kat on 26 July 2011 at 10:54am 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5420 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 1830 of 3737 26 July 2011 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
...the following post about studying Ancient Egyptian makes you howl with laughter:
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| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5188 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1831 of 3737 26 July 2011 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
When something someone says at work(in Spanish) makes you think "ah, so pizza is feminine in Spanish." 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 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1832 of 3737 26 July 2011 at 9:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@meramarina
This pain chart is amazing - a series of faces in various stages of discomfort, progressing from left to right, that uncannily capture my ongoing attempts to understand Russian grammar. 
I also think this important tip in their multilingual instructions is priceless: "This scale is intended to measure how children feel inside, not how their face looks." Большое спасибо! :) Edited by Teango on 26 July 2011 at 9:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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