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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3313 of 3737 03 May 2014 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you try to read the foreign scripts ignorant people tattoo on their bodies (even at the risk of getting beat up!)
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| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3906 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 3314 of 3737 07 May 2014 at 3:46am | IP Logged | ||
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When you get yourself a really nice tablet and you spend the past few days downloading apps and transferring .pdfs and audio files to turn it into a language-learning work station.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5923 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 3315 of 3737 14 May 2014 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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When I switched my Google language setting to Finnish last week. Now I see the following message every time I log on to YouTube: "Olemme määritäneet sinulle kieliasetuksen. Tällä hetkellä käytössä oleva kieli on Suomi. Voit vaihtaa asetuksen alla.". Also when I brag that I was able to make a pretty good guess as to what those Finnish sentences mean without a dictionary. BTW It basically tells me that Google has noticed my language settings, I am currently using Finnish and I can change this below.
Seeing this message is frustating because I can't figure out how to make Google understand that I'm very happy with my user language being set to Finnish because it has helped me learn some new words. Apparently Google only wants people who live in Finland to view their sites in Finnish. NB. I also switched my Twitter to Finnish two days ago and now get all their email notices in Finnish. This shows that I need to use Twitter more since it is clearly better than Google. Edited by mick33 on 15 May 2014 at 3:01am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4252 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 3316 of 3737 14 May 2014 at 11:05pm | IP Logged | ||
In case you wanted to know, you missed a "t" in "määrittäneet". 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5923 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 3317 of 3737 15 May 2014 at 2:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, Henkkles. I'm not surprised that I missed a letter, I'm surprised I didn't make more mistakes.
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| hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5185 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 3318 of 3737 16 May 2014 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | ||
foreign language even though I have it set to English. I also once went to the website of a game I used to play out of curiosity and it was all in French for some reason. I then spent a few hours making a new account and playing in French. The voice acting was still in English, but all the text was in French. Quite strange. Edited by hjordis on 16 May 2014 at 11:48pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4520 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 3319 of 3737 17 May 2014 at 1:16am | IP Logged | ||
You can set your preferred languages in the browser settings, these will be sent to all websites you access. I see google.de displayed in Danish even though I never told google to do so and I do not live in Denmark. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3320 of 3737 17 May 2014 at 11:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Google.de is Germany
What I hate is google constantly switching the broser back to either .cz or .de (after I switched it once in Berlin). Really, the search results are different so I know pretty well which one I wanna use each time :-( 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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