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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 2025 of 3737 10 November 2011 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
However, I believe that is a generally accepted romanization (along with "shpil") of the Yiddish word. So it's not officially incorrect unless you know you're talking about German and not Yiddish. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kirocb23 Newbie United States Joined 4763 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Serbian, German | Message 2026 of 3737 10 November 2011 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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... when questions you want to ask come in your head as one of your target languages.
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| Mauritz Octoglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5067 days ago 223 posts - 325 votes Speaks: Swedish*, EnglishC2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Esperanto, French Studies: Old English, Yiddish, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Korean, Portuguese, Welsh, Icelandic, Afrikaans | Message 2027 of 3737 11 November 2011 at 6:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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... when you have to vocally tell your brain that it has to stop thinking in Esperanto so you can tell your girlfriend
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5534 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 2028 of 3737 11 November 2011 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
That reminds me. I had heard so many people recommend watching Dora in another language that I was excited to find a few episodes of the Korean version online...only to find that it was nearly entirely in English, because apparently the Korean version of that show is heavily focused on teaching children English (they will occasionally explain something briefly in Korean, but the vast majority of the dialog is in English). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5033 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 2029 of 3737 12 November 2011 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you have dreams in multiple languages.
I just had a dream this morning in English, Japanese and Spanish! I dreamt that I had gone to Japan, and while in a convenience store there I was trying to buy some stamps. At one point, I had some hesitation in what to say and started to think and say something Spanish. The clerk in my dream went right along with it immediately and spoke to me in Spanish, not English. It was very cool! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5049 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 2030 of 3737 13 November 2011 at 7:24am | IP Logged | |||||
That is kind of sad... but cool for them learning English. I bet that would be interesting in Korean though :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| amethyst32 Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5648 days ago 118 posts - 198 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, French | Message 2031 of 3737 13 November 2011 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, a normal person might gatecrash a party but last week I gatecrashed the Spanish class while I was on a break waiting for my own classes to start. A few of the other students looked at me funny but I just sat there taking my notebook and a pen out of my bag like I had every right to be there and the teacher (a Spanish lady) was really cool about it. After a quick "bienvenida" in my direction, she simply continued teaching and even included me in the exercises. I'm so shy normally and I don't know what could have made me do that apart from sheer language nerdery! :-)
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| AlephBey Tetraglot Groupie India Joined 4787 days ago 41 posts - 137 votes Speaks: English, Hindi*, Urdu, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 2032 of 3737 13 November 2011 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When your Dad buys you a copy of 'Breaking into Japanese Literature' as a Diwali gift.
When you spend hours in a row watching 'Doordarshan', an Indian public service broadcaster, in various Indian languages you don't understand. When you buy a collection of Rabindranath Tagore's poetry in Bengali at a local bookstore even though you hardly know the language; because you have Bengali in your 'hit-list'. Edited by AlephBey on 13 November 2011 at 6:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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