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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4638 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 3593 of 3737 27 May 2015 at 11:12am | IP Logged | ||
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When you want to send an SMS in English, but to get to the English keyboard on your iPhone you first need to click your way through the Norwegian, German, Spanish, Catalan, French, Greek and Russian keyboards (and you are disappointed that Apple hasn't made the option of a Romansh keyboard).
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3594 of 3737 27 May 2015 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you're watching Eurovision, hoping that next year's show will take place in FYR Macedonia*, with Richard Simcott as the hyperpolyglot Green Room host.
* Seriously, there were songs I liked more, and FYR Macedonia didn't even qualify for the final. But it would still be great fun. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4233 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 3595 of 3737 29 May 2015 at 3:56am | IP Logged | ||
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When in your sleep you start dreaming about watching F1 in Russian and then correct yourself in a way
that you'd watch it in English or even in German, but not in Russian, not anymore. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5981 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 3596 of 3737 02 June 2015 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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You procrastinate one language with another.
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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 3597 of 3737 03 June 2015 at 2:39am | IP Logged | ||
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You procrastinate on everything with languages.
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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 3598 of 3737 03 June 2015 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | ||
When you post this in the vocab thread:
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5206 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3599 of 3737 03 June 2015 at 6:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I admit I'm not enough of a language nerd to go near that vocab thread. I finally got the courage to take a look, saw something about semantic domains of meaning, and ran away screaming again.
When you're all cleaned up and dressed and ready to go out for the night, then you suddenly remember that you have a DuoLingo streak to keep up, so you make your friends wait while you complete a test to get the necessary points. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5555 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 3600 of 3737 04 June 2015 at 12:27am | IP Logged | ||
When you see the following sign:
And want to correct it to: bùxíng (步行)! Edited by Teango on 04 June 2015 at 12:28am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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