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| j0nas Triglot Groupie Norway Joined 5541 days ago 46 posts - 70 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German | Message 2033 of 3737 13 November 2011 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you're staying up reading about the Turkish spelling reform when you should have
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| Fabrizio Pentaglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 103 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2, French, SpanishB2, Portuguese | Message 2034 of 3737 14 November 2011 at 12:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you wonder why you've never dreamt in a foreign language when everybody else
does it, but you're still pretty confident one day it will happen to you too :) Edited by Fabrizio on 14 November 2011 at 12:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Rivso Diglot Groupie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4876 days ago 41 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Dutch, Japanese | Message 2035 of 3737 14 November 2011 at 12:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you see on the numberplate of a car in front of yours a sylable followed by a number and immediatly link it to a chinese word.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 2036 of 3737 14 November 2011 at 1:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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when you are in a store buying a jacket. The saleswoman tells you it has a fleece lining. You question her and she says it has an "inner fleece". You laugh aloud and draw a strange look from her. You couldn't tell her why you were laughing because you know she would not have understood. Why were you laughing? Because her "inner fleece" made you think of a word from from your target language that you hear a lot on your favorite telenovela.All you language nerds out there will know what word I thought of, I am sure.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4827 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2037 of 3737 15 November 2011 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
Reminds me, years ago, I was attending a beginner evening class in Italian. A foreign friend was staying at my house, and he also happened to be learning Italian. I didn't want to miss the class, but I didn't want to leave him on his own, so I took him along. Fortunately, the teacher was also cool about it, and even asked him a few questions in Italian later on, which he was able to answer at least we well as the rest of us. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5170 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2038 of 3737 02 December 2011 at 3:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you carry around your Ancient Greek flashcards even though you haven't reviewed them in months, because for some inexplicable reason they make you feel more confident.
When you try to deduce the etymology of pretty much every word you come across based on your knowledge of Latin and Ancient Greek (my favorite was internecine - I was thrilled when I looked in the dictionary and discovered that my etymology was correct). As you write this you are busy dissecting deduce, etymology, and confident. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5765 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 2039 of 3737 02 December 2011 at 7:47am | IP Logged | |||||
I crashed my girlfriend's Russian university classes too, when I was still studying. The Russian department knew perfectly well that I shouldn't have been there as they also taught me, but they allowed it. I also crashed other classes, but since they have nothing to do with languages...
I do this too, although neither my Latin nor my Ancient Greek are at anything like the level they once were. Which is a real shame - I may take one of them up again in January or so just so that I can play this game better than I'm able to play it now :] ... when your knowledge of a script learnt later in life messes with your knowledge of the one you grew up with - I very often read "H" as an "N" sound now... thanks, Cyrillic. Also, when my half-brother was learning to write (Latin script), he often wrote his N's the wrong way round or something, so it would end up being "И" - which is another Cyrillic letter and sometimes confused me :] 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5966 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2040 of 3737 03 December 2011 at 5:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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I recently picked up trash from the street and took it home. It was language travel trash, now, so I'm sure you can all understand why the brochures for Costa del Sol y Córdoba had to be MINE. So what if they were a bit wet and have tire tread marks? One person's trash is a language nerd's treasure. Next, I will revisit the street and wait for my tickets and reservations to fall out of a garbage truck. Travel brochures in other languages and destinations are also acceptable, of course. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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