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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2737 of 3737 24 November 2012 at 9:05am | IP Logged |
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YKYALN when you encounter the word 藺石: "leon6 sek6: (Hist.) Stone used in catapults" and say to yourself "That's a keeper!" and then add it to your flashcard deck without the word "useless" even crossing your mind.
EDIT: And it wasn't even in the first dictionary I looked; I had to go look in a second one to find it … Edited by Ari on 24 November 2012 at 9:07am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| lykkepille Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4388 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 2738 of 3737 25 November 2012 at 8:52am | IP Logged |
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YKYALN when you're supposed to be studying ionic compounds for an upcoming chem test after vacation
but instead you start learning Welsh and Greenlandic ..when you do victory laps around your house after ordering a vintage Polish to French dictionary from 1907 for 5$ ...when you could care less about the story line of that show "Touch" you just watch it to hear the many beautiful languages 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 2739 of 3737 30 November 2012 at 11:00pm | IP Logged |
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Done this when I wasn't active on HTLAL:
when you read your textbook on the way FROM a linguistics exam. when you've already passed and can finally read those tiny font notes that you had no time for. 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 2740 of 3737 01 December 2012 at 12:18am | IP Logged |
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When you spend three and half hours of your Friday afternoon with a friend, going to
four language bookstores one after another... ... complaining why one of them has recently become so anglocentric... ... bringing home four books and dreaming about at least 20 other ones... ... including those for languages you're not learning at the moment... ... and then you and your friend realize the library of the language department at the university is actually on the way, so you spend another hour browsing through the shelves. And then you get home, thinking of this as one of the best Friday afternoons recently... and you sadly realize there's not much time left for language learning today. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| 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 2741 of 3737 01 December 2012 at 5:35am | IP Logged |
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When one of your colleagues, who is packing to leave the country soon, asks if you'd like any of the books on her shelf, and you gleefully grab a book in Thai (even though you know zero Thai and have no plans to learn it anytime in the near future). What can I say, those beautiful squiggly lines were just too enticing! Edited by Teango on 01 December 2012 at 7:25am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5170 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2742 of 3737 01 December 2012 at 6:28pm | IP Logged |
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When you go around singing a version of the Spanish alphabet song (which you think is the most awesome
thing ever) and consequently annoy your family to death. Oh dear, I shouldn't have just written that - now I feel tempted to start singing it again! Edited by Amerykanka on 01 December 2012 at 6:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jsg Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4506 days ago 30 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 2743 of 3737 01 December 2012 at 9:17pm | IP Logged |
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My wife came home with thick, winter socks for everyone in the house. When she produced them before for me I exclaimed in Mandarin, "Please buy these things for us again mext time," and she understood what I said sort of.
She doesn't study mandarin oO 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4872 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 2744 of 3737 01 December 2012 at 9:30pm | IP Logged |
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When you find it hilarious that the on-yomi for 売 (sell) is "bai". :p
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