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| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5498 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 2041 of 3737 04 December 2011 at 5:40am | IP Logged | ||
I almost did this the other day. I was taking a walk at a local park with my mom, and what did I see but a Korean newspaper! I thought about picking it up and taking it home, and I would have if I were learning Korean, and if I didn't think it would've been too... weird (it would've been "look mom! I found a Korean newspaper on the ground!"). Now that I know other people do this, I don't feel so odd about wanting to pick up a random piece of thoughtlessly-discarded language treasure! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 19901 Diglot Newbie Kuwait Joined 4792 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Arabic (Gulf)*, English Studies: Japanese, Irish, French | Message 2042 of 3737 04 December 2011 at 1:32pm | IP Logged | ||
M3arab 7adda 3ajeeb!xD 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kafea Groupie United States Joined 4931 days ago 78 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Sámi | Message 2043 of 3737 04 December 2011 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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YKYALN when you pick up a language program on sale, and when you bring it home your children moan, "Oh, no! We're already doing Saami, German and Korean, Dutch is on hold for now and we tried Mandarin, and now you want us to learn Swedish too?"
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6124 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 2044 of 3737 05 December 2011 at 9:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I catch myself pondering a possible Euro collapse -- maybe a trip to Finland might become a little cheaper. No, no, no. Don't think this...
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| jellyfish Triglot Groupie Japan Joined 4784 days ago 50 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English, German*, Japanese Studies: Thai, Persian, Russian | Message 2045 of 3737 06 December 2011 at 4:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you're studying abroad in Japan, have taken up Russian taught in Japanese just for the hell of it, and just when you should really be studying for your Japanese and Russian exams at the end of the month, you decide to start teaching yourself Farsi NOW, rather than at some point in the future, as you were originally planning. I can't decide if this is procrastination or the opposite. Edited by jellyfish on 06 December 2011 at 4:16pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vikavictoria Pentaglot Groupie United States Joined 5048 days ago 49 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Persian, English*, German, Spanish, Tajik Studies: Russian | Message 2046 of 3737 07 December 2011 at 6:24am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when...you get a bunch of new books and materials and can't fall asleep that night because you can't wait until the next day to start reviewing them!!
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| languageguy13 Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4929 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin, Portuguese | Message 2047 of 3737 09 December 2011 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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when you can't help but get annoyed when English speakers say 'would of' instead of
'would have' and try to explain that the 've abbreviation replaces have even though it sounds like of. 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 2048 of 3737 09 December 2011 at 12:55pm | IP Logged | ||
The annoying thing for me is that I think a lot of people know that, it's just that they're too lazy to write "have". And this is the native speakers I'm talking about! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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