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| cmmah Diglot Groupie Ireland Joined 4530 days ago 52 posts - 110 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Irish | Message 2617 of 3737 15 September 2012 at 10:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you whistle to yourself, people ask: "You're not learning bird language, are you?"
When you wonder why Foreign Language Elephant hasn't become a popular meme. When you shadow Japanese radio in public, and get some funny looks for it. 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4843 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2618 of 3737 17 September 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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... when during lunch break you find yourself sitting between a Turkish conversation on your left and a Spanish conversation on your right and don't think it's odd.
... when after hearing that your colleague has worked as an au-pair in Sweden, you immediately ask her: "Talar du svenska?" ... when you're disappointed that she doesn't want to speak Swedish with you and simply keeps talking German instead. ... when after watching this video, you want to learn Japanese immediately. Edited by Josquin on 17 September 2012 at 7:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5923 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 2619 of 3737 18 September 2012 at 8:21am | IP Logged | ||
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When I have a bad case of the flu and my biggest concern last week was that I hadn't learned, or had forgotten, the words for nausea, headache, dizziness and insomnia in any of my target languages.
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| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5854 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 2620 of 3737 18 September 2012 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | ||
... When, in addition to the languages mentioned earlier, you also know where to get Japanese, Korean and Spanish magazines together with publications in the 4 official languages of Singapore (English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil). ... When you know where to meet native speakers of all the languages mentioned in these two posts, because the place where the newspaper and magazine are sold, is the place to encounter them. ... When you feel like introducing these places to meet the native speakers of various languages if a fellow language learner would visit this island.... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cmmah Diglot Groupie Ireland Joined 4530 days ago 52 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Irish | Message 2621 of 3737 18 September 2012 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you hear a song in your native language that you like, and think what a pity it is that it wasn't recorded in a
foreign language - then you just might have bought it. Continuing on with the music theme... When you couldn't name a single song in your native country's charts, but you know who's all the rage in Ecuador. When "what type of music do you listen to?" is an awkward question to answer. "Umm...do you mean in English?" When you have more Skype contacts than close friends. When you know words for things in Spanish that the majority of anglophones wouldn't know in English. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 2622 of 3737 18 September 2012 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you've just bought a new graphical calculator (because your trusty old one got drenched) and you spend a good proportion of your evening reading the various user manuals (in ten languages) and comparing how to carry out various mathematical functions in those languages.
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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 2623 of 3737 19 September 2012 at 10:58am | IP Logged | ||
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When you are in a hotel room in Zagreb and you spend 30 minutes watching a Turkish TV show with Croatian subtitles, although you don't speak either language, but decide to put them on your target list.
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6150 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 2624 of 3737 19 September 2012 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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You flick aound the various EuroNews satellite channels to see if they've added any new languages.
... and it annoys you that EuroNews Russia still doesn't use the Cyrillic alphabet. Edited by DaraghM on 19 September 2012 at 4:56pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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