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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4638 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 2593 of 3737 06 September 2012 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you wake up in the morning, the first thing that comes to your mind is to check who has posted what on HTLAL during the night.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4827 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2594 of 3737 06 September 2012 at 9:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| cmmah Diglot Groupie Ireland Joined 4530 days ago 52 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Irish | Message 2595 of 3737 09 September 2012 at 12:07am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you feel guilty doing homework, because you could have spent that time studying languages.
When everything you do ends up making you want to take up a particular language, even if languages had nothing to do with what you were doing. Example: In RE lesson, talking about Bible and Qur'an "I might learn Greek/Hebrew/Aramaic/Arabic!". In History lesson, learning about Nazi Germany "There's lots of propaganda posters in German in the textbook. Maybe I'll learn German so I can read them!". There's a Pole in your new class "Maybe I'll learn Polish so I can talk to him!" (As a matter of fact, Polish, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic have since been added to my hit-list). 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6902 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 2596 of 3737 09 September 2012 at 1:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you win a language book in a little Facebook contest just to find out with
disappointment that it is an English grammar book for A1-B2 or so. You write to the organizers to ask if there's any way to replace the prize with any French, Spanish, or Russian books... (and this list could be so much longer but you know the prizes where in these languages + German only ;)). 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6124 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 2597 of 3737 09 September 2012 at 1:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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You set your iPhone to tell the date in 'Japanese Emperor years'.
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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6902 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 2598 of 3737 09 September 2012 at 1:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you take a shower 15 minutes longer than usually because you've just realized there
is a Dutch description on your shower gel you'd bought in Germany. Oh, and a French one. So much better than Czech and Hungarian (or, alternatively, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian) you usually get on your shower products you buy in Poland (and precisely at the moment when you're writing this you start to think if learning one of these languages could be a nice idea after all). But back to the shower... after you've read all descriptions you start to compare language versions, trying to figure out which is the original one. Edited by Julie on 09 September 2012 at 1:56am 7 persons have 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 2599 of 3737 09 September 2012 at 3:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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Haha I do that too!
We usually get Ukrainian and Romanian (bc of Moldova), also one or more of Kazakh/Uzbek/Azerbaijani. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4487 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 2600 of 3737 09 September 2012 at 6:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you alternate between studying Mandarin Chinese vocabulary, and browsing HTLAL to break the
monotony. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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