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| Mistermark21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4611 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Studies: Swedish* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Polish | Message 2873 of 3737 15 March 2013 at 12:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me its:
You go into a bookshop, you head straight for the language section and get excited when you find an obscure one. You go on eBay and seach LINGUAPHONE and filter out German, Spanish, French and Italian. When charity workers try to stop you in the street you say "Sorry, i dont speak English" in Polish. In an Indian resturaunt you ask the staff if they speak Hindi in Hindi. When you're approached by Chinese people selling copied DVDs in a pub you ask them if they speak Mandarin in Mandarin, then end up talking to them for ages in Mandarin. 2 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 2874 of 3737 15 March 2013 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you watch a really funny video on Youtube, and want to show people so they can enjoy it too, but then you
realise it's in a language which they don't speak. 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| marrubizko Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5523 days ago 21 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Italian | Message 2875 of 3737 16 March 2013 at 3:06am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you go out for pizza with some people on the first night of spring break, and one of them asks you what
you've been doing all day. You say that you've been studying Italian, which leads to an awkward silence as everyone tries to figure out how to respond to that. ...when you're staying with your aunt and uncle and take advantage of the free time provided by your younger cousins playing a game in order to read something in French. They finish the game and bother you to pay attention to them. You are lying on your stomach with one cousin sitting on your back and the other sticking her face in your book, but you keep reading anyways. ...when your 9 year-old cousin texts you in your target languages to wake you up in the morning. ...when you're on the phone with your mother, rambling about how awesome Assimil is. She tries to change the subject, and you say "Aw, but I want to keep talking about languages!" ...when you spend an entire semester of college taking nothing but language courses, and you aren't even majoring in a language and have already completed your language requirement. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4487 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 2876 of 3737 16 March 2013 at 5:05am | IP Logged | ||
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When your day is not complete without completing one unit of Pimsleur's.
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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5170 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2877 of 3737 17 March 2013 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you try to teach your 5-year-old sister, who is still learning to read in English, how to read in Polish.
(Several years have gone by since this experiment, but you still remember the day you tried to teach her the pronunciation of "c", "ć/ci", and "cz". She didn't quite catch on to it, although she did have a lot of fun trying.) When your family thinks it's perfectly normal to hear you talk all about the books you are reading in three different languages (your native language + two others). When your 8-year-old sister goes around saying she wants to learn Swedish just because you showed her some Rosetta Stone demos a few months ago. (Can language nerdery run in the family? It would be awesome if it could!) 1 person has 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 2878 of 3737 18 March 2013 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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... when you're really annoyed about having to watch your favourite American series with German dubbing, because you can't find an English version.
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| 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 2879 of 3737 18 March 2013 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||
*laughs* I'm a language nerd 'cause I'm not only learning Arabic, I'm also trying to revive my German. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mausi15 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4896 days ago 24 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 2880 of 3737 20 March 2013 at 11:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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The fact that anyone speaking a language other than English on the news is instantly dubbed annoys you.
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