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| 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 2809 of 3737 31 December 2012 at 11:27am | IP Logged | ||
When I spent five minutes explaining the difference between aspirated, unaspirated and retroflex consonants in Hindi to my mother and she rolled her eyes at me and tried to quickly change the subject. Edited by mick33 on 31 December 2012 at 11:27am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 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 2810 of 3737 07 January 2013 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you visit the website of the European Union and you spend the first ten minutes pondering which language version you should choose, because you could read it in eight of the languages and you are studying three of the others.
When you wish your computer had three or four screens so you could look at the Greek, Romanian, Spanish and German versions of the EU website simultaneously. 2 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 2811 of 3737 08 January 2013 at 7:04am | IP Logged | ||
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When you start off clicking through silly clips on the Internet, and rather than end up chuckling at cute pets or belly-laughing babies, you end up in this dark distant corner of the YouTube galaxy instead: "Voyager: Greetings in 55 languages"... Edited by Teango on 08 January 2013 at 7:05am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5966 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2812 of 3737 09 January 2013 at 2:05am | IP Logged | ||
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When a friend decides to learn Portuguese, and doesn't tell you.
And when you learn about it, you want to yell: "What programs did you use? Which books? TV? Music? Language exchange? WHAT??!!! You took a CLASS? Why? WHY? I just hope it was a good one. Why didn't you tell me, I could have found some really good resources for you, I know a lot of them, a lot, you know that I'm a language learner and super enthuuuuuuuusiast . . . . Then you listen to yourself, and understand your friend's silence about the matter. 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 2813 of 3737 09 January 2013 at 5:17am | IP Logged | ||
when you can no longer consider that person a friend for not telling you 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| sammymcgoff Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4362 days ago 40 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 2814 of 3737 11 January 2013 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when you're playing the Sims 3 and you realise that some of the gibberish that they speak is eerily somilar to your target language
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| mirab3lla Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom lang-8.com/220477Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5442 days ago 161 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Romanian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Spanish, FrenchB1, Mandarin | Message 2815 of 3737 13 January 2013 at 1:06am | IP Logged | ||
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... you watch this video instead of
going to sleep at 2:00 AM and it gives you a totally unexpected amount of energy, making you want to sing along and dance (I'm a beginner in Mandarin, just trying to revise my numbers). Who would've thought learning how to add numbers could be so fun? (at ~5:00 in the video) 1 person has 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 2816 of 3737 13 January 2013 at 2:14am | IP Logged | ||
When you go on YouTube at 2:00 AM to see this video. When you find the part about numbers and spend some time on that to figure out Chinese numbers and learn a couple of them... despite the fact that you don't learn Mandarin. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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