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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5421 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 393 of 3737 05 March 2010 at 5:06am | IP Logged | ||
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When you have an urge to reread this whole thread for a laugh.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5480 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 394 of 3737 05 March 2010 at 2:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you have more pages of written grammar drills in your language pile than you have in your schoolbooks.
When you have such things as language piles ^^ which is where you stack the books of the languages you are learning AT THE MOMENT. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6445 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 395 of 3737 05 March 2010 at 3:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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... you have a bit of time to study your languages, and have a hard time deciding which one to study.
... family members regularly tell you to "please stop muttering in that foreign language," or to at least reassure them that you're not saying mean things to them. ... a family member hands you a package addressed to you, and you exclaim, "Ooooh, a dictionary!" (This actually happened to me, and it has become a running joke in my family. I was excited, okay?) ... the number of language learning books - grammars, dictionaries, textbooks - that you possess rivals or outnumbers what your public libary has. ... people regularly ask you why you're studying such and such language, and you look at them like they have a second head. Why not study it? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5494 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 396 of 3737 05 March 2010 at 11:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you forget your password for the forum and have to reset it, but no email arrives
with your new password. You refresh your inbox periodically for twenty minutes to no avail, then look at your watch and realize your cramming time before your midterm exam was just wasted on this and you rush off to write it. Later that day the email hasn't arrived yet, so you try to reset it a few more times. Then by midnight, a new password still hasn't arrived, you begin to panic, and reset it again and again. Then you are relieved the next day when all the emails arrive at once with new passwords... all 25 of them. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 397 of 3737 06 March 2010 at 4:43am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you study in public somewhere you think it's likely there will be native speakers of your target language, in the hopes that one of them will notice what you're doing and talk to you.
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| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5494 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 398 of 3737 06 March 2010 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | ||
I like that idea! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrhenrik Triglot Moderator Norway Joined 6078 days ago 482 posts - 658 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, French Personal Language Map | Message 399 of 3737 06 March 2010 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you know "the potatoes dance very well" in 16 languages. ;p
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 400 of 3737 07 March 2010 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
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when you are not at all surprised by the "16" languages, but what wonder more about the "dancing potatoes".
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