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| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4615 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes  Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 3145 of 3737 15 November 2013 at 6:35pm | IP Logged |
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When you find this cute little bookstore in the medieval streets of the city and get the
beefiest example of Oxfords's Russian dictionary for only £3.99, and your heartbeat goes crazy. Then it gets even worse when you see entire courses in Chinese, books in Norwegian, and other rare languages at the bookstores here, all of them in the same price range. Edited by Einarr on 15 November 2013 at 6:36pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| agantik Triglot Senior Member France Joined 4637 days ago 217 posts - 335 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German, Norwegian | Message 3146 of 3737 16 November 2013 at 8:10am | IP Logged |
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When you wish you had the address of the afore mentioned little bookshop...
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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4255 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 3147 of 3737 16 November 2013 at 10:17am | IP Logged |
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When you scour all used books' shops in your town and you buy anything related to language learning because you just might learn, say, Hungarian one day!
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5036 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 3148 of 3737 16 November 2013 at 5:20pm | IP Logged |
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...you're reading a magazine that has text in alternating paragraphs (Hiragana Times has a paragraph in English followed by the same paragraph in Japanese), and when you get done, you can't remember which language you were just reading. You just know you understood it.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 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 3149 of 3737 21 November 2013 at 12:31am | IP Logged |
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When you read strike rate for German grammar as stroke order, although you're not even learning a language that uses the Chinese characters.
And then you look up stroke order in wiktionary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7207 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 3150 of 3737 21 November 2013 at 12:59am | IP Logged |
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When you want to tell your Anglophone wife you're "always hopeful" but you say "toujours optimiste" because it seems to fit better. Edited by luke on 21 November 2013 at 1:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6107 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 3151 of 3737 21 November 2013 at 2:10pm | IP Logged |
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...when you receive a book ordered from the country of your TL, and treat the 4 sheets of newspaper it's wrapped in like precious relics (and to be read before the book itself).
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6153 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 3152 of 3737 21 November 2013 at 5:08pm | IP Logged |
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When you visit a bookshop and can’t find a language book you don’t already own.
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