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| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5257 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 2377 of 3737 11 June 2012 at 4:55am | IP Logged | ||
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When you know the Turkish vowel harmony rules even though you only know about 5 words of
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2378 of 3737 12 June 2012 at 12:24am | IP Logged | ||
Reminds me of the episode of Red Dwarf with Ace Rimmer and the crocodile in Germany. And the Japanese dialogues in Heroes (no, I didn't look them up but I felt a sudden urge to start learning Japanese). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zecchino1991 Senior Member United States facebook.com/amyybur Joined 5257 days ago 778 posts - 885 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew, Russian, Arabic (Written), Romanian, Icelandic, Georgian | Message 2379 of 3737 12 June 2012 at 1:56am | IP Logged | ||
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When you go to open the app store on your iPhone and you accidentally open your Hebrew-
English dictionary instead because it's an automatic reaction. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4581 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2380 of 3737 12 June 2012 at 2:08am | IP Logged | ||
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When no matter what you're talking about, the subject always changes to one involving
languages--usually ones that you're not even studying. When your first reaction to hearing people whisper in public places is not, 'Wonder what they're saying' but instead is, 'Wonder what language they're speaking.' 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5049 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 2381 of 3737 12 June 2012 at 4:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you any time now update your facebook status, you automatically use German sentence strcture and even German spellings (hausing instead of housing) even though your updates are in English.
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| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4581 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2382 of 3737 12 June 2012 at 7:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you can no longer pronounce the word 'sociable' the English way, because you're so
used to pronouncing it the Spanish way. When your friends are so used to your little language nerdery quirks that they don't look at you askance when you do things like mispronounce cognates. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 2383 of 3737 12 June 2012 at 7:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you practically pray to have something in your 6WC target language. I sort of did yesterday. "God, please let there be a Euro stream in Polish!" lol...
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 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 2384 of 3737 12 June 2012 at 7:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you seriously consider making a collection of unexpected adjectival forms of town names, after having visited a Musée Bittenois at Beziers and seen a list of 'agathois' fish in Cap d'Agde
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