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| Marc94 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5248 days ago 32 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian | Message 3457 of 3737 13 November 2014 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
When you are reminded that a professor asked you to help translate a few letters from Russian to English and that they would be sent via e-mail by today. You then proceed to excitedly open up your e-mail. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6867 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 3458 of 3737 14 November 2014 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you see a scene in a movie where a character says something in your target language
and you feel the need to tell everyone watching it with you what was said 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 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 3459 of 3737 15 November 2014 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you watch German TV, and there is a program where some people in the Aran valley cook food. A lady in a kitchen says that in her family they mostly speak Aranese at home (mixed with Spanish and Catalan), but they only speak boring old Spanish in the program, and even that is covered by the usual nerve racking Germanese dubbing. I actually thought about writing an indignant protest in Catalan in my log (my Aranese is lousy), but then I wrote this instead. Now I have to find something else to write about.
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4049 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 3460 of 3737 16 November 2014 at 12:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you dream that you find the most amazing language centre of the universe where they have courses of a lot of
different languages and you subscribe to a Turkish course saying "but the next time I will subscribe for Icelandic" <3 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4049 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 3461 of 3737 18 November 2014 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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when you have in the same office a native speaker of Xhosa and you would like to have a
better Dutch and to know Xhosa to eavesdrop her phone calls where she speaks a lethal mix of Xhosa, Dutch and English :D Edited by tristano on 18 November 2014 at 2:44pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4641 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 3462 of 3737 18 November 2014 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you spend two hours between flights at Schiphol airport and walk around eavesdropping on other people's conversations to see how many languages you can identify. I ended up with the following list:
Dutch (obviously) English French German Mandarin Chinese?? (Not 100% sure about that one) Japanese Spanish Croatian (most likely, could be another Balkan Slavic language) Italian Portuguese An African language, probably Swahili Swedish And two languages I could not at all place - it kept me awake for the whole duration of my flight back home! 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 3463 of 3737 19 November 2014 at 3:32am | IP Logged | |||||
We were using classical pronunciation. I understand your fondness for ecclesiastical though - I learned it first when I was little and I hear it frequently at mass. But since I mostly translate classical authors, classical has become my default pronunciation, and I have grown to like it better. I do bring out ecclesiastical occasionally if I'm translating St. Augustine or something of that sort though! And thank you! I am proud of my 600 posts. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| vixsta Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4817 days ago 11 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Czech, Georgian | Message 3464 of 3737 19 November 2014 at 7:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you're eternally grateful that you are able to work in a place that:
a) Has native speakers of Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Greek (she can also speak Spanish and German), Polish (with whom you spent a good 15 mins comparing and contrasting Czech to Polish), German, Portuguese and that their English is top notch! b) Adjusted a part of your work because of your language learning choice (Czech) <3 When you you felt very Czech a couple of days ago and then put on the Czech news to find out it was the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution (17 listopad) and decided to watch the coverage of that despite not knowing what was being said.... Edited by vixsta on 19 November 2014 at 8:23am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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