FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6864 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
| Message 2265 of 3737 30 April 2012 at 10:20pm | IP Logged |
When a friend asks you to translate something in an obscure language on the grounds that
you are "goods at languages" so must know it
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 2266 of 3737 01 May 2012 at 4:49pm | IP Logged |
When you watch Italian Serie B just because you're too eager to get started with the Super Challenge :D
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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 2267 of 3737 01 May 2012 at 9:59pm | IP Logged |
I was at the DMV today renewing my driver license, and was doing some Cyrillic writing practice while I waited. When I got to the counter, the employee commented how I was learning Russian. I was impressed she knew. So we talked for a few minutes about languages and language learning while she prepared my new license.
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5206 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 2268 of 3737 02 May 2012 at 11:53am | IP Logged |
When after flirting with some Spanish girls, you feel like flirting with their language.
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Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4612 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish
| Message 2269 of 3737 02 May 2012 at 1:38pm | IP Logged |
When you honestly don't care about an upcoming exam session, yet you're indeed worried by the fact that you should read more Danish for your challenge! :)
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maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5218 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu
| Message 2270 of 3737 02 May 2012 at 3:29pm | IP Logged |
Planning to pack for your next business trip you think "What can I leave behind to let me bring more L2 materials back with me." and the answer is "Basically - everything."
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psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 2271 of 3737 03 May 2012 at 4:44am | IP Logged |
jdmoncada wrote:
I was at the DMV today renewing my driver license, and was doing some Cyrillic writing practice while I waited. When I got to the counter, the employee commented how I was learning Russian. I was impressed she knew. So we talked for a few minutes about languages and language learning while she prepared my new license. |
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when normally you would be very angry and really frustrated by someone holding up the line at the DMV by chatting with the clerk, but if you found out it is because he was practicing his target language you wouldn't mind...as much.
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5555 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 2272 of 3737 03 May 2012 at 1:04pm | IP Logged |
maydayayday wrote:
Planning to pack for your next business trip you think "What can I leave behind to let me bring more L2 materials back with me." and the answer is "Basically - everything." |
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So guilty! :) I recently even heard myself saying to my better half: "if we remove half the clothes on this trip, we'll be able to bring some of my Irish books" (lol - poor girl, look at what she has to live with!).
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