Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4612 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish
| Message 3129 of 3737 03 November 2013 at 1:54am | IP Logged |
When you spend some extra time in the shower, just because you can't resist reading the back of the new shampoo label in the languages provided.
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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 3130 of 3737 03 November 2013 at 10:52am | IP Logged |
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When you don't even visit the version in your native language. |
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That's me. I use either the English or the Spanish one and I'm increasingly tempted to visit German or Arabic versions, too.
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maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5218 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu
| Message 3131 of 3737 03 November 2013 at 11:48am | IP Logged |
Serpent wrote:
When you don't even visit the version in your native language. |
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You mean it comes in English too......... .... ......?
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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 3132 of 3737 03 November 2013 at 9:05pm | IP Logged |
When you can read lips of the actors in a movie someone else watches with earphones and you know nearly perfectly all that is being said in the original language.
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Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4252 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian
| Message 3133 of 3737 03 November 2013 at 9:33pm | IP Logged |
When I found myself teaching French to my sister who has studied it for years, even though I have never in my life studied it.
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luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7204 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 3134 of 3737 04 November 2013 at 6:12am | IP Logged |
When you see the word "discouraged" and know its relation to "disheartened" because the French word for heart is "cœur".
Edited by luke on 05 November 2013 at 9:08am
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Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 3135 of 3737 04 November 2013 at 6:46am | IP Logged |
You know you're a language nerd when you're doing 1000 Anki reps a day and loving it.
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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 3136 of 3737 04 November 2013 at 10:51am | IP Logged |
When you almost panick because you have done a Romanian vocabulary check based upon random pages from a fat old dictionary from Ceaucescu's time and ended up with a paltry 9000 words. OK, upon closer inspection I can see why I got this ignominous result (I accidentally hit upon several pages without any loanwords), but I still don't like it.
Edited by Iversen on 04 November 2013 at 10:54am
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