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| Asal Bilingual Heptaglot Newbie YugoslaviaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4418 days ago 25 posts - 35 votes Speaks: Croatian*, Serbian*, SpanishC2, Latin, English, Persian, Macedonian Studies: Norwegian | Message 2745 of 3737 03 December 2012 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When in the middle of speaking to somebody, you stop to analyze the word you've just said...and then you start translating it in your mind into all the languages you speak Edited by Asal on 03 December 2012 at 2:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7158 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2746 of 3737 03 December 2012 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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... you had a phase where your favourite software was the combat flight simulator Su-25 Stormovik (fly a Russian ground-attack aircraft) so that you could see an instrument panel and HUD with Cyrillic characters, and the multilingual shareware/freeware word processor for DOS, INTEXT (how I loved typing in Cyrillic and Arabic characters).
Once I discovered Sid Meier's Civilization a couple of years later, I reverted to being a typical consumer of computer games but never quite purged the bug for languages. It turned up again when I overwrote the files of the default radio communications and voices (English and German) for European Air War with unofficial modifications in (enhanced) German, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Slovak. Hearing my computer-controlled wingman yell out in Polish Uważaj! Messerschmitt sto dziewięć! ("Watch out! Messerschmitt 109!" [a German fighter plane]) was a nice change from hearing him yell something similar in the Queen's English. 2 persons have 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 2747 of 3737 03 December 2012 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you sell your soul because you wanna watch football in Danish.
(that is, you're a Kaspersky employee and you fuсking download some suspicious shit. and when you lose your add-on settings for abcTajpu you come to this thread because you quoted them here:D) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| langslav Newbie United States slav.freemessageboar Joined 4381 days ago 24 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Albanian, German, Spanish | Message 2748 of 3737 04 December 2012 at 4:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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for idle amusement i downloaded 117,000 language files off of the internet over a 3 day time frame when my family was away. i just wanted to do something useful, that i could use for myself. (categorized by language family into etc folders)
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5209 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 2749 of 3737 04 December 2012 at 10:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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When the Spanish girl that you're dating keeps trying to teach you bits of her language, but you resist because, according to your long-term language learning plan that you've already thought long and hard about, it's not time to start Spanish just yet.
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| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4680 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 2750 of 3737 04 December 2012 at 11:18am | IP Logged | |||||
Sorry, that's precisely "not" being a language nerd. A language nerd would never miss such an opportunity. 10 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5209 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 2751 of 3737 04 December 2012 at 5:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hah, good point: if I were a true language nerd then I'd probably have the time and capacity to actively study three or more languages at once, as many here seem to, and so I'd take advantage of the opportunity. I was just going for the idea of being language-nerdy enough to have an established plan for learning several languages and insisting on sticking to it. I know it's a slippery slope - it would start with me learning a few words from her, and before I know it I'd be halfway through Spanish With Ease and be progressing even more slowly in my languages than I already am because I'd be dividing my time between three of them. Two is already a massive commitment and compromise. I also rationalise that since my city is so full of Spanish speakers and I already tend to meet a lot of them socially, I'll have plenty more opportunities when the time does come... If she spoke a language that I was planning to learn but was hard to find speakers of, then it would perhaps be a different story :P. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tupiniquim Senior Member Brazil Joined 6085 days ago 184 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Russian | Message 2752 of 3737 04 December 2012 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
Could you link me to it? 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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