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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6658 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 2201 of 3737 18 March 2012 at 3:42pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I hear you! Horrible that people has not read Allen :c! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| morinkhuur Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4676 days ago 79 posts - 157 votes Speaks: German*, Latin, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi) | Message 2202 of 3737 18 March 2012 at 4:37pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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i don't know if this has been posted yet but...
....when you go to this YouTube channel every time you read something about a language you don't know, because you want to hear what it sounds like. The videos are all about Jesus and Christianity, but they have a lot of different languages, many of which you can't find spoken anywhere else. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 2203 of 3737 19 March 2012 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
When reading these comments has caused you to unwillingly start obsessively analyzing the Latin pronunciation of the characters who read exorcisms on the TV show "Supernatural" and you literally lie awake at night wondering which pronunciation would be more accurate for this particular situation. (Conclusion: Vatican, probably, seeing as it's all about sending demons to hell.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 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 2204 of 3737 19 March 2012 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
That would be better expressed through certain Russian verbs of movement which specify that the movement isn't from point to point, but just a more or less random peripatetic rambling around in the surrounding landscape. There may also be a Finno-Ugrian case reserved for such movement patterns, but I haven't seen it yet. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5049 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 2205 of 3737 20 March 2012 at 2:22am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Perhaps I should learn Russian, just so I have more cases to personify...
When you come back from spring break to find, that your German class is cancelled and when most people are excited about not having class, you are saddened because you actually looked forward to those passive voice worksheets that were planned for today :/ 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6141 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 2206 of 3737 21 March 2012 at 4:00am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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...when you've just had surgery and your head is still spinning from the anesthesia and pain medications that you were given, yet you're still stubbornly trying to go through with your scheduled Croatian lesson for the day.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5033 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 2207 of 3737 21 March 2012 at 6:12am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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...your health care providers are now used to foreign language reading materials with you in the patient rooms. I brought Japanese materials to my medical doctor several times, and I have brought French and Spanish to my dental appointments.
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| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5062 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 2208 of 3737 23 March 2012 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Definitely nice choice! I watch that telenovela religiously. It's actually one of those rare telenovelas that is engaging and not just about passion and sex. The comedy is golden. My turn: ... when you walk into your German class and see a joke in Spanish on the blackboard that the previous class left (a Spanish class, of course). It's a funny joke, but the answer has a mistake. It distracts you all class until, when the class is dismissed, you change the English word of "my" in the answer to the proper Spanish "mi" and add the upside exclamation mark they forgot to add in the beginning. - Kat 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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