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| rlf1810 Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6342 days ago 122 posts - 173 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Slovak | Message 625 of 3737 15 May 2010 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you start measuring your ability in other skills with the CEF Scale. 'Yeah I play the piano, I'm about C1'.
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| Thaorius Diglot Groupie ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5545 days ago 40 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2 | Message 626 of 3737 15 May 2010 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | ||
When you were just looking for a competence classification system that isn't 1-10 and that sounds like a perfect fit. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5569 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 627 of 3737 16 May 2010 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when the first thing you think of when seeing the number 3 is no longer the number 3, but the Cyrillic letter з.
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| Lucilha Pentaglot Newbie France Joined 6009 days ago 16 posts - 19 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Russian, German | Message 628 of 3737 16 May 2010 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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You know you’re a language nerd when...you have a wonderful collection of dictionaries on your desk, ranked by size and colour.
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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5375 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 629 of 3737 16 May 2010 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
Haha, that's reminded me ... You know you're a language nerd when you've gone through a 40+ DVD collection and seperated the five that have subtitles available in your target languages into a different pile, to be prioritised ahead of the rest. (This includes Spider Man 2 and one of the Harry Potter films. What joys!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5792 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 630 of 3737 16 May 2010 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | ||
Yep, when you're excited about getting a textbook, that's the essence of geekdom right there. And by the way, I got my Italian Sentence Builder in the mail... Evviva! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Wise owl chick Senior Member Ecuador Joined 5320 days ago 122 posts - 137 votes Studies: English | Message 631 of 3737 17 May 2010 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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When some people call you the "languages girl" and ask you if you can translate from a language, which you don't knwo at all, and they are surprised because they assumed that you can understand ALL the languages.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5926 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 632 of 3737 17 May 2010 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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When I visited YouTube this morning, I saw that the site can now be viewed in five more languages, one of which is Finnish. This news has made my day, even if I'm not quite ready to switch my language preference to Finnish just yet.
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