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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2401 of 3737 16 June 2012 at 10:57am | IP Logged | |||||
That they do :) When you find out you understand some words of spoken Italian in a sentence and almost buy Assimil Italian with Ease because of it 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5534 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2402 of 3737 16 June 2012 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
…when correctly pronouncing the name of a French city will cause you to accidentally switch languages in mid-sentence. :-) …when you've surrounded yourself with people who don't find anything odd about that. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4584 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2403 of 3737 16 June 2012 at 11:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you spend a two-hour car ride just ranting about languages and many variations
there upon. When your mother isn't surprised by this. When you are fascinated by a sauce bottle just because it has the title in a Balkan language(and because it doesn't say which one, but has a bunch of flags on it, you endeavor to figure out which language is being shown.) It is Romanian, and it means 'Monk's hodgepodge.' Cool, isn't it? When the rice interests you simply because it has Arabic writing on the bag. When because the sauce is Balkan and the rice is Middle-Eastern, the fact that you will be eating them together amuses you and makes you want to learn a few basic phrases in each to use at dinner. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 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 2404 of 3737 17 June 2012 at 3:51am | IP Logged | |||||
When you think tyrölf looks like a Scandinavian borrowing. Edited by Serpent on 17 June 2012 at 3:51am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5068 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 2405 of 3737 17 June 2012 at 4:15am | IP Logged | |||||
When the mid-sentence switch between English and French doesn't phase you... When you don't consider yourself as having studied French although you know enough to understand the second half of that sentence completely. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5241 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 2406 of 3737 17 June 2012 at 1:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You know you're a language nerd, and so do your friends, when they bring you back The Welsh Learner's Dictionary
as a souvenir from their trip to England, and you are immediately curious about a language with so many Ws. Edited by wv girl on 17 June 2012 at 7:08pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Mowli Triglot Newbie Norway Joined 4925 days ago 19 posts - 40 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Mandarin | Message 2407 of 3737 17 June 2012 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When someone at your door asks: "Do you speak Norwegian?" and you enthusiastically tell them yes and a bit of German too. Then you realize that they are just wondering if they should speak to you in English or Norwegian when convincing you to follow Jesus.
When people ask you if there are many foreigners in the area you live. Again your answer is enthusiastically yes. Well, at least I can live here cheap AND get to overhear Spanish, German, French and lots of other languages every day. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6661 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 2408 of 3737 17 June 2012 at 8:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
Let's make it ;)? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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