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 561 of 3737 24 April 2010 at 3:00am | IP Logged |
When your minimum wage job becomes worthwhile because you give language advice to the customers and refer
them to various resources. It's nice when they return the next week smiling, telling you confidently that they're on
their way to learn another language. Another satisfied customer! :D
I work at a gym :)
I guess I've become their personal trainer in exercising their language muscles, haha.
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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 562 of 3737 24 April 2010 at 9:36pm | IP Logged |
When you pass up a Friday night of boozin and fun adventures with the fellas to instead
watch a movie in a foreign language on your own.
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Thaorius Diglot Groupie ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5542 days ago 40 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2
| Message 563 of 3737 24 April 2010 at 10:14pm | IP Logged |
...your "TOREAD" list of books has books on at least 5 different languages, some of which
you don't speak [yet].
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ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6141 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 564 of 3737 24 April 2010 at 10:37pm | IP Logged |
...when your father begins to wonder why you've suddenly received seven books in the mail in the past three days, and when he finds out they're all Teach Yourself [X language] courses, he is left wondering why he wondered in the first place...
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Rabochnok Diglot Newbie Colombia Joined 5609 days ago 37 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish, Persian
| Message 565 of 3737 25 April 2010 at 5:46am | IP Logged |
When you enable keyboard layouts for languages you don't even want to study, just to see
what it's like to type in such different scripts.
When you wish your family good night in other languages.
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Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5827 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French
| Message 566 of 3737 26 April 2010 at 12:57am | IP Logged |
When you are playing a ball game in the pool with your family, and you arrange yourself so that when you miss the
ball it will land near a pair of women speaking an unidentified language so you have an excuse to go over and
listen in on them.
(I did this today. It turned out to be Mandarin)
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Olympia Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5980 days ago 195 posts - 244 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Old English, French
| Message 567 of 3737 26 April 2010 at 1:06am | IP Logged |
...The guy who has a crush on you gets Rosetta Stone for Portuguese so he can have something in common with
you.
True story.
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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 568 of 3737 27 April 2010 at 6:27am | IP Logged |
You know you're a language nerd when your friend goes to get something from your notebook for a class, but
instead finds pages covered in Russian! They frantically search through it while you watch, amused. You then tell
them that they are in the wrong notebook, and that what they were going through was your Russian notebook. They
go into the next notebook labeled for the correct class. They find the sheet, but it's filled out... in German.
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