genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5467 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 401 of 3737 07 March 2010 at 9:01pm | IP Logged |
Well you wouldn't want to learn how to say the potatoes can't dance very well that would just be silly.
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psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 402 of 3737 08 March 2010 at 1:26am | IP Logged |
A long long time ago (but not in a galaxy far far away), when I was in high school, there was dance called the "mashed potatoes" and a song to go along with it. Now, those potatoes could dance in any language :-)
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MegatronFilm Triglot Senior Member United States peligrosa.tumblr.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5937 days ago 130 posts - 275 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 403 of 3737 08 March 2010 at 6:33am | IP Logged |
When choosing the next language to seriously focus on feels like a life crisis. There are just so many language to
study. I'm split between 6 languages.
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QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5854 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 404 of 3737 08 March 2010 at 9:18am | IP Logged |
When you always have to take a pocket learning material in your target language when you go out........
Edited by QiuJP on 10 March 2010 at 10:52am
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joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5469 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German
| Message 405 of 3737 08 March 2010 at 12:52pm | IP Logged |
When you're speaking to a family member, they look at you strangely and you just can't figure out why.
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 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 406 of 3737 08 March 2010 at 1:12pm | IP Logged |
MegatronFilm wrote:
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When choosing the next language to seriously focus on does NOT feel like a life crisis, but more like buying a new laptop or microwawe oven.
Edited by Iversen on 08 March 2010 at 1:12pm
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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 407 of 3737 08 March 2010 at 2:18pm | IP Logged |
When family start buying you comfy socks embroidered with words in different languages and fancy exotic scripts. And to make matters worse, with all those words under your belt from studying languages so far, you still have no idea what they say at first, only to discover after a little bit of further research on the Internet that they all offer up the same profound piece of wisdom in several languages..."sock" ;)
Edited by Teango on 08 March 2010 at 2:23pm
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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 408 of 3737 10 March 2010 at 5:35am | IP Logged |
Today I took a history quiz on something I didn't read. It asked for the name of some Italian guy, and all of the names looked somewhat Italian. I said them all in my head with an Italian accent, and picked the one that sounded most "Italian." I got it right. Would a non-language nerd have done this? I think not.
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