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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2937 of 3737 05 May 2013 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
When you can't decide whether you would like the machine to have Tardis-like (or babbelfish-like) effect. It would be awesome to understand all the languages I would meet. But would it be so fun without the path? 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4298 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 2938 of 3737 10 May 2013 at 3:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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I narrowly missed my bus to school this morning and was considering walking for 20 min to a bus stop where there were more buses available, when I was met by an old man from across the street who was referred to by "someone who has two limos and make a business by driving people around". Upon being offered to take to school without a charge, I gladly accepted even though I knew it was a marketing tactic. While in the car I learned that the old man was from Berlin and I immediately asked: "Do you still speak German?" The old man replied that he does and spoke a little phrase in German. I was so exceedingly impressed to hear German spoken by an actual German that the 50-something old man suddenly seemed so much sexier than before. And of course, the thought of "maybe I should learn German" came to my mind and I almost gave in to the thought, until I reminded myself that there's already too much to learn.
I'm not yet a language nerd, but I'm quite sure that pretty soon I will be one. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4298 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 2939 of 3737 10 May 2013 at 7:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When, after posting the last message, I wandered into our school's second-hand bookstore, and discovered two German textbooks on sale for a total of $10 that presumably will take me up to A2. I immediately bought them thinking, as all those in this forum would think, that I'll need them SOMEDAY. AHHH I contracted the language nerd virus......
P.S. I really should stop buying books that are on sale. I already have too many books crammed into my basement room. Edited by cacue23 on 10 May 2013 at 7:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| josh_badgley Newbie United States Joined 4230 days ago 33 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese | Message 2940 of 3737 11 May 2013 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When the first thing you consider in buying a new smartphone is "Which languages come pre-installed?"
When your Netflix queue has absolutely nothing in your native language. When you'd rather play with Google Translate than Angry Birds. When you're excited to get a new Blu-ray player, not because of the improved picture quality, but because you can finally watch Harry Potter in Catalan and Danish! 6 persons have 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 2941 of 3737 18 May 2013 at 9:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you don't notice what's funny here because you're looking at the Chinese characters.
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| Paco Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 4276 days ago 145 posts - 251 votes Speaks: Cantonese* | Message 2942 of 3737 18 May 2013 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When your deadly boring schedule (to others) comprises of: studies, HTLAL, readings,
Textkit, exercises and a Facebook homepage with lots of foreign words you actually don't know.
The trick must be made by another language nerd! I was drawn to that bottle too... Edited by Paco on 18 May 2013 at 5:05pm 1 person has 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 2943 of 3737 19 May 2013 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you inadvertently type " how to learn ant language" instead of "any language" in the Google search bar
and you immediately think how cool it would be to be able to learn the language of ants ... 7 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 2944 of 3737 19 May 2013 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
Laughs out loud. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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