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| 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 3273 of 3737 03 April 2014 at 4:47pm | IP Logged |
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... when your potential new flatmate's chances to be chosen increase dramatically as soon as you hear she speaks your TL (in this case, Russian).
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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 3274 of 3737 04 April 2014 at 12:19am | IP Logged |
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When you to the "frequent sites" page of your web browser and http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/ is the top hit.
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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 3275 of 3737 05 April 2014 at 6:55pm | IP Logged |
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When you fail to find one episode of your favorite mexican telenovela and proceed to watch the dubbed French version instead.
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| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4631 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 3276 of 3737 06 April 2014 at 6:39am | IP Logged |
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When you realize that you haven't watched anything in your mother tongue since the
beginning of the year and that it's been a month that what you do watch is in one TL and the subs in another TL 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6104 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 3277 of 3737 07 April 2014 at 12:21pm | IP Logged |
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When you return from holiday and realise that your photos include a pretty strange collection of language-related images like signs, billboards, menus, directions, warnings, graffiti etc. - all for future reference of course.
This one is of a dog waste disposal bin from my recent trip to Poland - now my friends really think I'm wierd! 
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| 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 3278 of 3737 07 April 2014 at 1:41pm | IP Logged |
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Hehe
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| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4801 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 3279 of 3737 08 April 2014 at 11:30am | IP Logged |
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My German friend living here in the UK almost posted a letter into the red dog bins we
have locally when she came visiting...Managed to stop her with a 'nooooooo!' 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4872 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 3280 of 3737 09 April 2014 at 12:43am | IP Logged |
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...when you feel dirty after watching a film or a TV show episode in English.
I definitely do. :p 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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