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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6867 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 1849 of 3737 08 August 2011 at 9:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you buy a book in a language you aren't studying because you "eventually" plan to study it
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| pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5255 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian | Message 1850 of 3737 13 August 2011 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
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...When you're fourteen years old, at the grocery store, and your mother asks you what languages are on the back of a bottle of juice....and you automatically know they are Hindi and Thai.
...When you're sister asks you how to pronounce a word in Tagalog, and you not only tell her, but also give her an impromptu lesson on phonetics ... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5483 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 1851 of 3737 13 August 2011 at 10:11am | IP Logged | ||
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...when the first thing you scream when you hit the ice cold water while cliff jumping is a Polish swearword.
(KURWA!) ...when you're tutoring and you slowly drone on and on, while slowly spacing out, and you come to only to find the child you are tutoring to have a confused look on his face due to the fact that you switched to German as you spaced out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5337 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 1852 of 3737 13 August 2011 at 10:17am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when you´re lying in bed with a high fever, sore throat and headache and you´re pissed off, not because you feel awful but because you´re missing out on an entire day of studying and will surely lose your good ranking on Twitter.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5483 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 1853 of 3737 13 August 2011 at 10:59am | IP Logged | ||
When you dread getting sick like this (sore throat), because it hurts to pronounce guttural sounds, although god forbid pain stop me from studying! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5052 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 1854 of 3737 13 August 2011 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you find a grammar mistake in your German phrase book, and correct me if I'm wrong, but in the book it says "ich *hab* gefallen, und ich kann nicht aufstehen" but in my opinion, it should be "ich *bin* gefallen, und ich kann nicht aufstehen" because afterall, fallen is a sein verb, therefore it should've been conjugated as such.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 1855 of 3737 13 August 2011 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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... when you have to concentrate on job applications, but you rather want to think in your foreign languages than in this boring German in which the applications have to be written. :(
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 1856 of 3737 13 August 2011 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you read through Chung's profile for the Germanic languages, read some pages about Gothic, see the word "ingwäonisch", read the pages about this language group in the High German, the Low German, the Dutch and finally the Frisian Wikipedy and ... then you find a TV station that speaks Frisian and you just sit there with big blank eyes and wish you could find something similar for Low German and Swiss German.
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