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| lewevanhoop Newbie United States Joined 5012 days ago 13 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Afrikaans, Modern Hebrew | Message 2857 of 3737 24 February 2013 at 8:17pm | IP Logged |
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When you annoy your Spanish instructor by complaining about her not including the gender
of the nouns in her vocabulary lists and catching her spelling errors. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| agantik Triglot Senior Member France Joined 4634 days ago 217 posts - 335 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German, Norwegian | Message 2858 of 3737 26 February 2013 at 10:05am | IP Logged |
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When your 18-month-old son's first attempts at saying thank you sound like " ta ta" in your French ears and
you immediately try to figure out which language it might be, finally deciding on English! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2859 of 3737 26 February 2013 at 2:41pm | IP Logged |
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Tata? That's táta, the Czech word for dad. As it is the first word of a lot of kids, I
guess most children are native Czech speakers before their parents spoil them by another language :-D The annoying of teachers brought me a memory on the course in Berlin: when you are annoyed that the German teacher is making up some complicated explanations of the grammar instead of just confirming it works nearly the same way as in French. :-) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2860 of 3737 26 February 2013 at 4:14pm | IP Logged |
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WHen you decide to add to your collection of bilingual texts for closer inspection,and when you get to a text from the Russian Wikipedia you decide to see what other Slavic languages have to say about the same theme, and you end up with a motley collection of texts in Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Russian, Esperanto AND Danish (the latter represented by translations provided by Google translate). Apart from Danish, Esperanto and to some extent Russian (plus rudiments of Polish and Serbian) those languages are not even on my current study plan, but I just wanted to see how much they have in common.
PS I forgot to mention my parallel versions of texts in Afrikaans with a Dutch and a Swedish translation. Unfortunately Google Translate can't translate into Low German or Frisian yet. And then I somehow just settled for Swedish... Edited by Iversen on 26 February 2013 at 5:26pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| jsg Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4506 days ago 30 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 2861 of 3737 27 February 2013 at 4:58am | IP Logged |
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…despite a long-term hatred for French, you decide to force yourself to learn it anyway to be able to access
a wider range of Assimil courses, and fall in love with French against your will. Edited by jsg on 27 February 2013 at 5:03am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5062 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 2862 of 3737 02 March 2013 at 7:34pm | IP Logged |
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... when you create an original character who is hard-of-hearing just as an excuse to
dabble into ASL. - Kat 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4650 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 2863 of 3737 02 March 2013 at 9:05pm | IP Logged |
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1) When you look up stuff on Spanish wikipedia just to use the language.
2) When you spend more time looking up new words in Arabic than doing your homework for university. 3) When you hope you'll be able to read Arabic wikipedia soon... 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 2864 of 3737 02 March 2013 at 10:04pm | IP Logged |
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When someone asks on HTLAL about producing a certain sound, and you attempt to pronounce it as described although you're not learning the language in question.
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